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List:       busybox
Subject:    Re: Busybox current tasks
From:       Denis Vlasenko <vda.linux () googlemail ! com>
Date:       2006-10-27 6:38:22
Message-ID: 200610270838.22168.vda.linux () googlemail ! com
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On Friday 27 October 2006 06:30, Rich Felker wrote:
> > Networking: we mostly believe in ipv4 world,
> > even in places where it is nearly trivial to do ipv6 too.
> > Heavy usage of scanf/printf("%d.%d.%d.%d") must go.
> > See docs/ipv4_ipv6.txt and nslookup.c for examples how to do better.
> 
> Basically just using inet_ntop, inet_pton, getaddrinfo, and
> getnameinfo will solve the problem, right?

I hope so. Probably a few helper functions will make it simpler
to use.

> > Shell: we still BADLY need a decent, bash-like shell.
> 
> Why is bash-like so important? From my experience ash is great aside
> from unnecessarily large size and the crappy 'readline' code.

Because bash is standard for virtually all Linux distros.
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