| 0.61.pre |
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| Development Version |
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| |
| New Applets: |
| * Erik Andersen -- Merged several applets from tinylogin, |
| namely adduser, addgroup, deluser, delgroup, getty. |
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| Other Changes: |
| |
| * Vladimir Oleynik, Manuel Novoa III, Aaron Lehmann |
| -- a whole bunch of ash size optimizations |
| -- Fix for ash leading redirections (i.e. '2>/dev/null ls rubbish') |
| * Rodney Brown <RDBrown@mira.net> |
| -- Optimized gzip.c, shrinking it be ~1.5k |
| * Matt Kraai |
| -- Fix sed s/[/]// handling (closes: #1208). |
| -- Fix `-/bin/sh' invocation (closes: #1209). |
| -- Fix ash exec (noted by Arne Bernin). |
| -- Fix tar segfault when include list is empty and exclude list is |
| not. |
| * Magick |
| -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up |
| in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO). |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, --not yet released-- |
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| 0.60.1 |
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| Stable Release |
| |
| |
| New Applets & New Features: |
| none. :) |
| |
| Known Problems (to be fixed in 0.60.2) |
| * msh can segfault on constructs such as |
| for i in `ls *.c` ; do echo $i ; done |
| due to a memory allocation problem. This only seems to cause |
| problems when the backtick expands to be several k in size. |
| |
| |
| Bugfixes: |
| * Matt Kraai |
| -- Fixed msh to support underscores in variable names. |
| -- Fixed a sed problem with unsatisfied backrefs (the problem was |
| noted by Martin Bene). |
| -- Removed BB_SH define entirely. Now one simply picks the shell |
| or shells they want as BB_<foo> in Config.h |
| -- Fixed head to use ferror(3) to check for errors, not errno. |
| * Shu-Hao Chang <shuhao_chang@trend.com.tw> |
| -- Fixed sed handling of multiple -e commands |
| * Magick <magick@linux-fan.com> |
| -- Fixed an init bug with AskFirst and /dev/null |
| * Jaspreet Singh <jsingh@somanetworks.com> |
| -- Fixed both a segfault and cosmetic bug in route |
| * Erik Andersen |
| -- Made the insmod options BB_FEATURE_NEW_MODULE_INTERFACE and |
| BB_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE mutually exclusive |
| -- xgetcwd.c now includes sys/param.h to ensure PATH_MAX is defined |
| -- Fixed a potential segfault with lash + BB_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP |
| -- Removed uint64_t from dos2unix, avoiding C lib compat. problems. |
| * Glenn McGrath |
| -- Rewrite of tftp (commands match atftp, accepts -b, can use |
| non-standard ports, and is smaller). |
| -- Fixed unarchive exclude list handling |
| * Manuel Novoa III |
| -- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some |
| problems with mount and other applets). |
| -- Fixed ifconfig 'broadcast +' handling and disabled it by default |
| * Matthias ? <matthias@corelatus.com> |
| -- Fixed syslogd to log all messages from a single connection, not |
| just the first. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, 23 August 2001 |
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| 0.60.0 |
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| Note: |
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| For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0. This |
| reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable |
| BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a stable version of |
| BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series. If bugs |
| show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc... This is also |
| intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be |
| getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to |
| break products that people are shipping. To avoid that, the new build |
| system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series |
| that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things |
| stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I |
| will release that as a new stable release series. |
| |
| Critical Bugfixes: |
| * Matt Kraai |
| -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52). |
| -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery). |
| * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen |
| -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign |
| any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash |
| had several compile errors (depending on selected options) |
| and variable assignment problems as well. |
| |
| New Applets: |
| * David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe |
| * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute |
| * Erik Andersen -- pidof |
| |
| New Scripts: |
| * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl |
| This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils |
| package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on |
| your host system (not on the target). |
| |
| Other Changes: |
| * Erik Andersen |
| -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems |
| -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again |
| -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox |
| should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source |
| code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are |
| now automagicaly disabled). |
| -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc) |
| * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> |
| -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the |
| line was previously altered when running a subst command. |
| * Matt Kraai |
| -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar) |
| -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands. |
| -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names. |
| -- Better devfs support |
| -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only. |
| -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller). |
| -- Size reduction in ping |
| -- Always write dd counts to stderr |
| -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled |
| * Aaron Lehmann |
| -- slimmed down md5sum |
| -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math |
| support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell. |
| * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox |
| work with dietlibc. |
| * David McCullough |
| -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly |
| * Glenn McGrath |
| -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout |
| -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg, |
| but needs more testing. |
| -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc) |
| -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget |
| * Vladimir Oleynik |
| -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax, |
| -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups. |
| -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping |
| -- cmdedit updates and API change |
| -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls) |
| -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit |
| * Adam Slattery |
| -- Fixed ping compile problem |
| * Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com> |
| -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001 |
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| 0.52 |
| |
| Critical Bugfixes: |
| * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin |
| * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init |
| problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels. |
| |
| New Applets: |
| * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack |
| which has now been removed from BusyBox |
| * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently |
| only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format. |
| * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct |
| busybox shell. |
| * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically |
| for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress. |
| * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell |
| that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems. |
| |
| Other Changes: |
| * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet. |
| * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code |
| common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets. |
| tar applet has not yet been assimilated... |
| * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm. |
| * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness |
| bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken) |
| * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed. |
| * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always |
| work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems). |
| * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim |
| added uClinux/m68k insmod support. |
| * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df |
| should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats. |
| * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c |
| * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot |
| bug breaking gunzip checksum checking. |
| * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C' |
| * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support. |
| * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support |
| * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator |
| * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. |
| |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001 |
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| |
| 0.51 |
| Critical Bugfixes: |
| * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50 |
| when pressing <Enter> on an empty line. |
| * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50 |
| when performing an 'export' in the shell. |
| * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause |
| the init process to block (which can break systems badly). |
| |
| New Applets: |
| * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very |
| functional vi implementation in Only 22k. |
| * Erik Andersen -- added env applet |
| |
| Other changes: |
| * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a |
| much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality. |
| * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes |
| syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the |
| busybox work on ia64 systems. |
| * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface. |
| * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc. |
| * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable |
| output from ls, du, and df. |
| * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1 |
| support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant. |
| * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically |
| generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler. |
| Now to update the docs, just update the usage message... |
| * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod |
| support a bit for Mips RS3. |
| * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50! |
| * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed |
| variables |
| * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print' |
| * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code |
| * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow |
| bugs, and similar problems. |
| * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now |
| you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now |
| pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing). |
| * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging |
| kernel command line environment variables into child environment |
| for init.c |
| * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets |
| * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs |
| * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c |
| * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed |
| locale support in several other places |
| * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c |
| * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate |
| * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling |
| * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates |
| * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running |
| after permission errors. |
| * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action() |
| * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made |
| find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes. |
| * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting |
| D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected. |
| * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with |
| sed address range handling |
| * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates |
| to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling |
| of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download |
| but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in |
| write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't |
| download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to |
| restarting an aborted download. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001 |
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| |
| 0.50 |
| * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting |
| * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates |
| * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten, |
| with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle. |
| * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib |
| * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals |
| * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available |
| * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes |
| * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd |
| * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512 |
| * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it |
| overrides the system pwd/grp |
| * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep. |
| * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support. |
| * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it |
| behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when |
| given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd). |
| * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet |
| * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod. |
| * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when |
| BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled |
| * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto- |
| generate the documentation from the source code, making life |
| much simpler for all. |
| * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var |
| masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented |
| the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed. |
| * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller |
| * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source |
| * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing |
| * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd |
| * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking |
| * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod. |
| * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups |
| * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables). |
| * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the |
| kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children. |
| * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed. |
| * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone |
| * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION |
| depending on what kernel is being used. |
| * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod. |
| * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet |
| * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups |
| * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos |
| * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages |
| are stored to save several k of space. |
| * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails |
| * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories. |
| * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support |
| * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type, |
| -perm, -mtime, and other improvements. |
| * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby |
| * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere |
| * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages. |
| * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod. |
| * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs. |
| * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb. |
| * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode, |
| process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision. |
| * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still |
| * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir, |
| mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion |
| is now working and general editing is much improved, and to |
| improve complex prompt handling. |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting. |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors. |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking |
| for several my_* functions into utility.c |
| * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from |
| work done by Axis Communications). |
| * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc |
| and updated the style guide. |
| * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C |
| * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001 |
| |
| 0.49 |
| |
| * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c |
| * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c |
| * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet |
| * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code |
| * spoon -- new watchdog applet |
| * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now |
| scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several |
| byte saving optimizations. |
| * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default |
| * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage |
| * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging |
| * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh |
| * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine |
| * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt |
| * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet |
| to BusyBox" |
| * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug |
| * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels |
| * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made |
| util-linux compatible |
| * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to |
| avoid namespace pollution |
| * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support |
| * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters |
| * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now |
| handles regexp file exclusion |
| * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule |
| checking |
| * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init |
| * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide, |
| better if-then-else-fi handling |
| * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c |
| * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets |
| in read, exec, and piped builtins |
| * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't |
| use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it). |
| * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling |
| * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide |
| * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance, |
| de-macro-ifying some variables and functions |
| * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find |
| the width and height of the console. |
| * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option. |
| * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile |
| whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions. |
| Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to |
| install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required |
| libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this, |
| causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001 |
| |
| 0.48 |
| |
| * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files, |
| define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option. |
| * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now |
| return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system. |
| Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1. |
| * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be |
| mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init, |
| and other things). |
| * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and |
| Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM |
| and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels. |
| * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use |
| an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's |
| also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages. |
| * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR |
| * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap |
| from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message. |
| * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing, |
| (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also |
| updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added |
| conv=sync feature. |
| * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a |
| pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are |
| not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry! |
| * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h |
| to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes. |
| * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and |
| fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude. |
| * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible |
| * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made |
| GNU-date compatible |
| * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget |
| * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take |
| precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN |
| * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a |
| binary search instead of linear search. Much faster! |
| * new applets: cmp readlink |
| * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license |
| according to decision by the Regents of the University of |
| California; included reference |
| * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed; |
| people should use -n instead |
| * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr |
| * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq |
| * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs |
| * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks |
| hard links. |
| * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first |
| * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled |
| for remote logging... |
| * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d' |
| * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000 |
| |
| 0.47 |
| |
| * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb |
| your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade. |
| * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h" |
| * Improved portability between different libcs. |
| * Many apps ported to use getopt() |
| * Common handling of '--help' |
| * All usage messages centralized. |
| * Added a bunch of new commands: |
| * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com> |
| * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, |
| <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications |
| * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> |
| * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help |
| debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>. |
| * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> |
| * 'xargs' (written by me) |
| * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based |
| on GNY expr |
| * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me) |
| * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks |
| to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com> |
| * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> |
| * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new |
| 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks. |
| * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust. |
| It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is |
| cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net> |
| * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from |
| Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com> |
| * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file' |
| now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh! |
| * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout |
| * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h" |
| * Preliminary support for GNU HURD. |
| * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x |
| kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less. |
| * Tons of other bugfixes. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000 |
| |
| |
| 0.46 |
| |
| * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5, |
| GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including |
| 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels |
| to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir). |
| * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink |
| local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks |
| to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de> |
| * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks. |
| * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ') |
| thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com> |
| * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the |
| "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo |
| work with both old and new kernels). |
| * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='. |
| Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com> |
| * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport. |
| Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org> |
| * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de> |
| - Added support for "sh -c command args..." |
| - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work. |
| - Added shell environment variable substitution |
| - Added the "read" shell builtin. |
| * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence |
| used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down. |
| * Added support for being a login shell, so things like |
| '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always |
| invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell. |
| * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort |
| of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk> |
| * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that |
| it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs |
| * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu> |
| - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences. |
| Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c. |
| - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the |
| new SGML based docs into shape. |
| - cleanup of ar.c |
| - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so. |
| - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly. |
| * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support |
| -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net> |
| * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45, |
| it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This |
| was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed. |
| * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really |
| couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really |
| very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to |
| grab a copy from util-linux. |
| * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can |
| then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by |
| Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org> |
| * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3. |
| * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines, |
| thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled |
| "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from |
| Matt Kraai as well. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000 |
| |
| |
| 0.45 |
| * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for |
| embedded systems). |
| * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the |
| help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile. |
| * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change, |
| we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k. |
| * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a |
| staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev |
| entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller |
| then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-). |
| Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off! |
| * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by |
| Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au> |
| * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> |
| * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons. |
| * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt |
| <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these. |
| * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated |
| docs accordingly. -beppu |
| * Wrote which |
| * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by |
| Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k. |
| * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When |
| BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may |
| be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly |
| (i.e. DOSTATIC=true) |
| * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes |
| and redirects. |
| * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de> |
| * Fixed update segfault |
| * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0 |
| * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and |
| "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options) |
| (this was very broken in 0.43). |
| * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. |
| * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag |
| * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better |
| compatibility with the standard tail command |
| * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet |
| * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't. |
| * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves. |
| * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount. |
| * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2. |
| * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device". |
| * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks |
| to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu> |
| * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before) |
| * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken) |
| * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat). |
| * Makefile intelligence updates |
| * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems |
| with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to |
| Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> |
| * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC, |
| Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> |
| * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it |
| cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> |
| * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks |
| to Pavel Roskin. |
| * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin. |
| * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin. |
| * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin. |
| * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c" |
| * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f" |
| * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes |
| and "--" support from Pavel Roskin. |
| * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses. |
| * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin. |
| * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability |
| with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin. |
| * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount |
| if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin |
| * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin |
| * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken. |
| * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected. |
| * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE) |
| * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing - |
| Pavel Roskin |
| * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help |
| and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin |
| * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages |
| and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases |
| of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com> |
| for helping track this one down. |
| * More doc updates |
| * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu |
| * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works |
| * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu |
| * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour, |
| this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000 |
| |
| |
| 0.44 |
| Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to |
| avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling |
| it good. |
| |
| -Erik Andersen |
| |
| |
| 0.43 |
| * Major update to the provided documentation. |
| * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an |
| additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles |
| job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything |
| except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...) |
| * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby |
| saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This |
| is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to |
| support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually |
| provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and |
| patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/ |
| directory. |
| * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime. |
| * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and |
| extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional |
| tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support. |
| * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated |
| with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it> |
| and then adjusted a bit by me. |
| * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com> |
| * Added echo and test (from me). |
| * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> |
| * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740). |
| * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>: |
| - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits. |
| - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use |
| fork() for running klogd. |
| * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t) |
| changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com> |
| * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used |
| to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to |
| Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix. |
| * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining |
| exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel |
| space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs. |
| * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg |
| free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in |
| /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init. |
| * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd. |
| * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org> |
| - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11 |
| - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make |
| it a common resource that can be used by other apps. |
| - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are |
| the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping). |
| - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing |
| a copy only if the rename fails. |
| - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections |
| * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>: |
| - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r" |
| - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip" |
| * An initial telnet implementation was added by |
| Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. |
| * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e") |
| * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width |
| to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off). |
| * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which |
| as would be expected displays help). |
| * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not |
| specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try. |
| * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and |
| the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to |
| Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch. |
| * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>. |
| * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends. |
| * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar' |
| * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]' |
| no longer segfaults. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen |
| |
| |
| 0.42 |
| |
| * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting |
| busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is |
| optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT |
| * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the |
| {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do |
| not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with |
| the way umount was originally written. |
| * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot |
| to be more consistent with sysvinit |
| * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased |
| the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent |
| |
| - Randolph Chung |
| |
| |
| * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been |
| extensively rewritten from the original cp.c. |
| * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the |
| same directory it will print an error and continue. |
| * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that |
| this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks |
| hard links. |
| * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks. |
| * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File |
| * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes. |
| - Always check exit status. |
| - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'. |
| * utility.c |
| - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus |
| ignoring it. |
| - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers |
| - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed. |
| * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in |
| one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little. |
| |
| -Karl M. Hegbloom |
| |
| |
| * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly |
| -beppu -piptigger |
| * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer |
| * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently |
| * change permissions and ownership on |
| certain directories pointed to by symlinks. |
| * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing |
| the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases). |
| * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the |
| symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was |
| built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed. |
| * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to |
| Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp> |
| * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it |
| behave itself a bit better. |
| * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> |
| for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which |
| allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one. |
| * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would |
| always dereference before. -beppu |
| * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory. |
| Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp> |
| * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> |
| * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head |
| * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also |
| contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> |
| * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the |
| end of line if there are no more application names). |
| * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n" |
| would segfault). |
| * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()" |
| to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's). |
| * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making |
| tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to |
| 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling |
| BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h |
| * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols |
| turns up missing. |
| * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device |
| allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount |
| by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me. |
| * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by |
| Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. |
| * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the |
| files pointed to by the symlinks. |
| * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>: |
| - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly |
| - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments |
| - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv |
| - added "skip" and "seek" to dd. |
| - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and |
| directories on the command line |
| * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is. |
| * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does. |
| * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't. |
| Now both work. |
| * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could |
| not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints. |
| * Began converting error handling to use some common routines |
| in utility.c |
| * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP. |
| * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified |
| target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com> |
| * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change |
| also from Gilbert Coville. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen |
| |
| 0.41 |
| * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed |
| by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> |
| * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar' |
| type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from |
| working. |
| * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog |
| (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to |
| Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix. |
| * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run. |
| Now fixed. |
| * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir |
| with no interveining subdirectories. |
| * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount, |
| * and support in umount for loop |
| devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins |
| <bcollins@debian.org> |
| * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in |
| * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also |
| if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile()) |
| * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size |
| (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated |
| by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with |
| -O2 -m386 ...) |
| * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines |
| BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be |
| referenced, but not compiled) |
| * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now |
| defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles. |
| * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial |
| * consoles. |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000 |
| |
| 0.40 |
| * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps: |
| * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App:: |
| * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru> |
| for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts. |
| * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different |
| but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of |
| init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab |
| being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can |
| now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result. |
| * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik |
| * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing |
| * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu |
| * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7 |
| with the 2.0.x Linux kernel. |
| * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev" |
| <konst@voshod.com>. |
| * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly |
| regexp implementation bug that is now fixed. |
| * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits. |
| * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device |
| special files. |
| * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a |
| * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership |
| of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....) |
| Ouch!!! |
| * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten |
| them so they should now work as expected. |
| * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and |
| has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> |
| * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly. |
| * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more |
| like GNU ls. |
| * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder |
| * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>: |
| - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code, |
| - fixed several typos |
| - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes |
| * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000 |
| |
| 0.39 |
| * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung |
| <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list! |
| * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on |
| * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted |
| to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller |
| sometime. |
| * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors |
| when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does |
| the right thing. |
| * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy |
| integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.) |
| * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls |
| * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking |
| one file descriptor per file. Oops. |
| * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code |
| * in |
| which blocked reboots. |
| * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when |
| init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd). |
| * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing |
| stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu |
| <beppu@lineo.com>) |
| * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999 |
| |
| 0.38 |
| * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab |
| file existed. |
| * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems. |
| * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be |
| correct. |
| * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns |
| (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which |
| was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior. |
| * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and |
| kernel messages. |
| * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and |
| is actually a socket with the right permissions. |
| * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc |
| filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it, |
| will complain if you enable them when you disable |
| BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS. |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999 |
| |
| 0.37 |
| * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog |
| from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k. |
| * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper |
| * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can |
| * now be enabled |
| or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to |
| compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file |
| exists). |
| * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm |
| * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from |
| * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories. |
| * Moved some code |
| from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar |
| work properly. |
| * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat |
| * out the |
| last file in the list. |
| * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed |
| * 'ls -l' |
| so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid |
| are presented properly. |
| * Also added a TODO. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999 |
| |
| 0.36 |
| * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no |
| if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay). |
| * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also |
| * from |
| Eric Delaunay). |
| * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If |
| * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever |
| command you define it as will be run if the init script exits. |
| * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo) |
| * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when |
| * compiled |
| in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS. |
| * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric |
| * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle |
| * of least surprise |
| and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer |
| --help and obey the '-c' flag. |
| * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the |
| * destination |
| was a directory. |
| * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make |
| * directories |
| with very wrong permissions. |
| * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them. |
| Now it properly modifies permissions. |
| * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to |
| * ensure |
| they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise |
| important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were |
| not seen when switched to a different VT. |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999 |
| |
| 0.35 |
| * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god |
| * intended |
| (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c' |
| flag and only then outputs to stdout). |
| * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize |
| to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric |
| Delaunay. |
| * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards) |
| * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works |
| * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses |
| * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device |
| * special files, |
| sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt |
| Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the |
| interested student. |
| * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens. |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999 |
| |
| 0.34 |
| * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory, |
| Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay |
| * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a |
| better job of finding the real console device rather than using |
| /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks |
| to Eric Delaunay. |
| * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and |
| options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay). |
| * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on. |
| * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was |
| a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things |
| should now work correctly. |
| * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now |
| * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with |
| * replacements. |
| Now it doesn't do that. |
| * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names. |
| Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid. |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999 |
| |
| 0.33 |
| * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting. |
| * Removed some debugging noise from init.c |
| * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken). |
| * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab, |
| * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab |
| is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to |
| state the real root device name) |
| * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999 |
| |
| 0.32 |
| * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on |
| busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at |
| andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org |
| * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks |
| realize that they are not in Kansas anymore. |
| * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any |
| * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting |
| * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I |
| * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now |
| * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k |
| * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync |
| * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed |
| * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>) |
| * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the |
| * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc) |
| folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to |
| /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df |
| will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined. |
| * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely |
| hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it |
| followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now |
| lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links |
| as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter |
| <porter@debian.org>. |
| |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999 |
| |
| 0.31 |
| * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to |
| * make it smaller, and removed |
| some redundancy. |
| * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group |
| are absent. Now will warn you and carry on. |
| * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be |
| the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds |
| 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable. |
| * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly |
| it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc |
| 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest. |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999 |
| |
| 0.30 |
| Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for |
| paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox, |
| or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These |
| changes include: |
| |
| Core Changes: |
| * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the |
| busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...' |
| * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in |
| functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has |
| to be there anyway to map invocation name to function). |
| * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their |
| usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for |
| itself. |
| * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and |
| postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs |
| cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much |
| more granular. |
| * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly |
| ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it. |
| * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc) |
| so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern |
| int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration |
| of new apps. |
| * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to |
| {en|dis}able debugging. |
| * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os |
| (optimize for smaller binaries). |
| |
| App Changes: |
| * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of |
| monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written: |
| * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown - |
| * rewrite. Combined into a single |
| source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi |
| <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on |
| libc6 libnss* libraries. |
| * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices, |
| pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive |
| dir copies. |
| * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct |
| * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching |
| which will be the basic of a future mini-sed. |
| * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to |
| * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to |
| * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon, |
| * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer |
| uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab |
| instead. |
| * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch |
| * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz> |
| to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU |
| getopt. |
| * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make |
| >128Meg swaps. |
| * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar |
| implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it |
| to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work). |
| * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the |
| * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies |
| * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro |
| * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches |
| * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all, |
| * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but |
| * I ripped out |
| internationalization and such to make them smaller. |
| * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus |
| * internationalization and such). Probably some other |
| * changes that I forgot to document... |
| |
| -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999 |
| |
| 0.29 |
| This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you. |
| -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999 |
| |
| 0.28 |
| mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten. |
| |
| 0.27 |
| Mount now supports -a, and -t auto. |
| Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'. |
| More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage. |
| Printf added as module. |
| 0.26 |
| Touch now creates files. -c option for no create. |
| |