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@@ -1,49 +0,0 @@ -TODO list for busybox in no particular order. Just because something -is listed here doesn't mean that it is going to be added to busybox, -or that doing so is even a good idea. It just means that we _might_ get -around to it some time. If you have any good ideas, please send them -on in... - - -Erik - ------------ - -Possible apps to include some time: - -* group/commonize strings, remove dups (for i18n, l10n) - ------------ - -With sysvinit, reboot, poweroff and halt all used a named pipe, -/dev/initctl, to communicate with the init process. Busybox -currently uses signals to communicate with init. This makes -busybox incompatible with sysvinit. We should probably use -a named pipe as well so we can be compatible. - ------------------------ - -Run the following: - - rm -f busybox && make LDFLAGS+=-nostdlib 2>&1 | \ - sed -ne 's/.*undefined reference to `\(.*\)..*/\1/gp' | sort | uniq - -reveals the list of all external (i.e., libc) things that BusyBox depends on. -It would be a very nice thing to reduce this list to an absolute minimum, to -reduce the footprint of busybox, especially when staticly linking with -libraries such as uClibc. - ------------------------ - -Compile with debugging on, run 'nm --size-sort ./busybox' -and then start with the biggest things and make them smaller... - ------------------------ - -xargs could use a -l option - ------------------------------------------------------------------- - -libbb/unzip.c and archival/gzip.c have common constant static arrays and -code for initializing the CRC array. Both use CRC-32 and could use -common code for CRC calculation. Within archival/gzip.c, the CRC -array should be malloc-ed as it is in libbb/unzip.c . |