[Toybox] [toybox] Asking advice for contribution

[Elie De Brauwer]

Hi Rob,

Some corrections,

insmod, rmmod and lsmod are present and working.

And switch_root probably has the design issue of dealing with name with 
an _ in them, bumped into this with pivot_root as well.

On the other hand, it might be useful to have a priority ordered list at 
hand of which commands are pending implementation, if something is in 
progress. Because now there's for example this e-mail, there's a TODO on 
the website and there's a roadmap on the website. The current situation 
makes cherrypicking a bit difficult (at least for me), especially the 
interpretation of 'near' and 'partial' imposes potential issues to 
person who are *not yourself* :-).

my 2 cents
E.


On 05/21/2012 03:52 AM, Rob Landley wrote:
> Another user sent me a list of commands his use case needs, and here's
> my triage of how that affects the roadmap.
>
> My categories are "done", "partial", "near todo list", "far todo list",
> "pending design issues", and "not started yet".
>
> Done means it's in and it works for my use cases, "default y".
>
> Partial means there's some code checked in but it defaults to "n" (I.E.
> not enabled in defconfig) because it needs more review or has known issues.
>
> The "near" todo list is low-hanging-fruit to me, it generally means I've
> already opened a file here and started writing code into it, and could
> probably finish that command if I had a weekend to devote to it.
> Somebody else writing one of these doesn't necessarily save me much
> time. (Note: some of these are "this command is so similar to this other
> command that I may try to modify the other one and factor stuff out into
> lib/*.c.)
>
> The "far" todo list means I have a reasonably clear idea of what design
> I want, but haven't started coding it yet. If somebody else wants to
> take that one I'll be a little more criticial about the code, and it
> would probably be good to ask what I had in mind (often this means I
> wrote shared infrastructure for this already), but somebody else writing
> it would still save me time.
>
> The other category is "not started yet". Open season on these, go nuts.
>
> "Pending design issue" means I'm not yet sure how to proceed, I need to
> work out _what_ we should do before figuring out how to implement it.
>
> ----------------------------------
>
> Ok, the new commands are:
>
> On 05/18/2012 02:18 AM, Kyungwan Han wrote:
>> cttyhack eject fdisk fsck awk grep killall swapoff
>
> I believe "oneit" can replace cttyhack? (They do very similar things.)
>
> eject is new, and useful. I'll add it to the roadmap. (Actually it's
> tiny, I may just write one this weekend.  I did a busybox version way
> back when.)
>
> fdisk: roadmap has sfdisk but not fdisk. Easy to add (alias to same
> functionality).  sfdisk is on the "far" todo list.
>
> fsck: pending design issues. The real meat of this program is in
> mkfs.vfat (far todo list), mkfs.ext2 (not started yet), and other
> filesystem-specific programs.  This command is just a wrapper to
> determine filesystem time and call the appropriate other command.  (If
> you'd like it in the roadmap by itself we can do that, but by itself it
> isn't very useful.)
>
> awk is in roadmap, nobody working on it yet.
>
> grep is in roadmap and on "near" todo list.
>
> killall is in and working
>
> swapoff is in and working
>
>> swapon    usleep    init    ping
>
> swapon: in and working
>
> usleep: our sleep supports fractional seconds (sleep 0.1). We can easily
> implement a different interface to that (an alias command
>
> init: there's a design issue here, do we do sysvinit or systemd or
> upstart or something else?
>
> ping: in the roadmap, but nobody's working on it yet.
>
>> sh    dd    insmod    mkdir    netstat    chmod    ifconfig    kill
>
> sh: in the roadmap, but it's big. (Lots of design work already done.)
>
> dd: in the roadmap, on the "far" todo list.
>
> insmod: in the roadmap, on the "far" todo list.
>
> mkdir: in and working.
>
> netstat: in roadmap, nobody working on it yet.
>
> chmod: partially completed.
>
> ifconfig: in roadmap, nobody working on it yet.
>
> kill: in and working. (Note: further work requires shell integration.)
>
>> ln    ls    mount    mv    rm    umount
>
> ln: in and working
>
> ls: in progress
>
> mount: in roadmap, on "near" todo list.
>
> mv: in progress
>
> rm: in roadmap, on "near" todo list.
>
> umount: in roadmap, on "near" todo list.
>
>> echo    nice    cp    sleep    sync    cat    ash    envdir
>
> echo: in and working.
>
> nice: in and working.
>
> cp: in progress.
>
> sleep: in and working
>
> sync: in and working
>
> cat: in and working
>
> ash: substitute "toysh", on "far" todo list. Special case command, very
> large scope.
>
> envdir: no idea, what is that?
>
>
>> linuxrc    udhcpc    env    mkfifo    pidof
>
> linuxrc: do you mean init? (That's an obsolete pre-initramfs alias for
> init.)
>
> udhcpc: in roadmap, nobody working on it yet. (sort of on "far" todo
> list, but lots of the research phase still left.)
>
> env: in and working
>
> mkfifo: in and working
>
> pidof: in and working
>
>
>> rmmod    tty    uname    dmesg    depmod    [    tftp    chown  cut
>
> rmmod: in roadmap, nobody working on it yet.
>
> tty: in and working
>
> uname: in and working
>
> dmesg: in and working
>
> depmod: in roadmap, nobody working on it yet.
>
> [: alias for test, in progress
>
> tftp: in roadmap, nobody working on it yet.
>
> chown: in progress
>
> cut: in roadmap, on "far" todo lsit.
>
>> date    du    egrep    fgrep    gzip
>
> date: in roadmap, on near todo list
>
> du: in roadmap, on near todo lsit
>
> egrep, fgrep: aliases for grep
>
> gzip: in roadmap, on far near todo list.
>
>> halt    hostname    klogd    logger    losetup    lsmod    mknod
>
> halt: in roadmap, design issues pending (it signals init, which one?)
>
> hostname: in and working.
>
> klogd: in roadmap, nobody working on it yet.
>
> logger: in roadmap, on "near" todo list.
>
> losetup: in roadmap, on 'near" todo list.
>
> lsmod: in roadmap, on "far" todo list.
>
> mknod: in and working.
>
>> modprobe    printf    reboot    route
>
> modprobe: in roadmap, on "far" todo list.
>
> printf: in roadmap, on "far" todo list.
>
> reboot: in roadmap, pending design issues (same as halt).
>
> route: in roadmap, nobody working on it yet.
>
>> sed    switch_root    syslogd    tail    tar    touch    false  pwd
>
> sed: in roadmap, on "near" todo list. (I wrote the busybox one long ago.)
>
> switch_root: in roadmap, on "near" todo list (ditto).
>
> syslogd: in roadmap, nobody working on it yet.
>
> stail: in and working.
>
> tar: in roadmap, on "far" todo list.
>
> touch: in and working.
>
> false: in and working.
>
> pwd: in and working.
>
> More later...
>
> Rob


-- 
Elie De Brauwer


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