[BusyBox] Getting started on 1.0.1-rc2

Paul Fox pgf at brightstareng.com
Thu Aug 11 15:08:55 UTC 2005


rob -- i looked at the ones i know anything about, and agree with
your sorting overall.  just a few comments...

....
 > 
 > More info (need to look at patch, scratch head a bit):
 > 10917 something to do with stat.c?
 > 10923 big makefile change.  Nervous.
 > 10974: is this a bugfix, or a follow-up to 10887?
mike told me it's a followup, for warning suppression.  so leave
for 1.1.

 > 10975: what?
 > 10977: how much ipv6 support is in 1.0?  This needed?
 > 11002 ether-wake and uclibc?
 > 11007 init is still horked...
this is really a new feature, not a bugfix.  i'd leave it for 1.1.

 > 11010 remove uclibc #ifdef from inetd.
also a new feature -- exposes the leave-in-foreground 
option for non-uclibc builds.  leave for 1.1.

 > 11011 whitespace changes to makefile?
 > 11012 bbconfigopts.h dependency?
this is a followon fixup to 11006.  leave for 1.1.

 > 11043: modprobe not needing /bin/sh
 > 
 > Probably not:
 > 
 > 10863,10901,10933,10976,11099 The mount rewrite is 1.1 material.
 > 10878 implement "ip route flush cache" - new feature.
 > 10879 bugfix for new sort: 1.0 doesn't have new sort.
 > 10883 nc -e
 > 10886 scriptable telnet (new feature, why not nc???)
the bug title and log message were misleading.  it's really a
bugfix, to make bb telnet act the same as other telnets when
stdin isn't a terminal.  it happens to be useful for simple
scripts.  as you say, nc may be better, but telnet has been
useful for this for longer than nc has existed.

 > 10887 The zip rewrite is a new feature.
unfortunately, i agree.  unfortunately, because bb unzip isn't complete
enough to be very useful in its 1.00 form.

 > 10922 #ifdef newlib is not an improvement.
 > 10929, 10944, 11023 ENABLED_STUFF is 1.1 material.
 > 10973, 10984 mke2fs
 > 10978, 10980: NO!  Evil evil evil evil...
 > 10992: docs directory not relevant in 1.0
 > 10995: I don't care about devfs.
 > 11006, 11008, 11015 new applets.
 > 11009 ls new option (--color).
 > 11044, 11083: ash new features (vi editing mode, builtin echo)
 > 

paul
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