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40
41 <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
42 <hr>
43
44 <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
45 <br>
46 Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
47 For example, with the following test app:
48<pre>
49 #include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
50
51 int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
52 {
53 openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
54 while(1) {
55 syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
56 sleep(delay);
57 }
58 closelog();
59 return(0);
60 };
61
62 int main(void)
63 {
64 if (fork()==0)
65 do_log("A", 2);
66 do_log("B", 3);
67 }
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69 it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
70 from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
71 while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
72 <p>
73 Karl M. Hegbloom has created a
74 <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>.
75 Thanks Karl!
76
77
78 <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
79 <br>
80 I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
81 good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
82 so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
83 have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
84 freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
85 rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
86 More details are available in the
87 <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
88 Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
89 <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
90
91 <p>
92 Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
93 and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
94 Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
95 Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
96 There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
97 <p>
98
99 You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
100
101 <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
102 <br>
103 Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
104 do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
105 to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
106 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
107 tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
108 at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
109 the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
110 of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
111 enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
112 changes I still want to make.
113 <p>
114 The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
115 Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
116
117 <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
118 <br>
119 I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
120 lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
121 He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
122 it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
123 fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
124 and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
125 (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
126 down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
127 (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
128 contrary).
129 <p>
130 Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
131 labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
132 <p>
133 So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
134 Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
135 to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
136 include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
137 re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
138 accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
139 problems.
140
141
142 <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
143 <br>
144
145 This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
146 bugs have been fixed. See the
147<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
148
149 Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
150 filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
151 behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
152 loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
153 Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
154 their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
155 on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
156
157 <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
158 <br>
159
160 This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
161 mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
162 logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
163 support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
164 The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
165
166 <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
167 <br>
168
169 This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
170 syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
171 New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
172 In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
173 in some cases produced serious security problems.
174 As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
175
176 <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
177 <br>
178 I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
179 to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
180 will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
181 contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
182 what arguments its apps support, etc.
183
184 <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
185 <br>
186 This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
187 the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
188 changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
189 <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
190 <br>
191 This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
192 and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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209 <li> <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">Take me back to http://busybox.lineo.com/</a>.
210 <p>
211
212 <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
213 Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
214 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
215 by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
216 <p>
217
218 <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html">
219 Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
220 <p>
221
222 <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
223 <p>
224
225 <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>.
226 <p>
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228 <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development.
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