Eric Andersen | 766c012 | 2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> |
| 2 | |
| 3 | <HTML> |
| 4 | <HEAD> |
| 5 | <TITLE>BusyBox</TITLE> |
| 6 | </HEAD> |
| 7 | |
| 8 | <body text="#000000" alink="#660000" link="#660000" bgcolor="#dee2de" vlink="#660000"> |
| 9 | |
| 10 | <basefont face="lucida, helvetica, arial" size="3"> |
| 11 | |
| 12 | |
| 13 | <CENTER> |
| 14 | <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=2> |
| 15 | <TR> |
| 16 | <td bgcolor="#000000"> |
| 17 | <FONT FACE="lucida, helvetica" COLOR="#ccccc0"> |
| 18 | <B>B u s y B o x</B> |
| 19 | </FONT> |
| 20 | </TD> |
| 21 | </TR> |
| 22 | </TABLE> |
| 23 | <a href="/"><IMG SRC="images/busybox2.jpg" alt="BusyBox" border="0" width="360" height="230"</a><BR> |
| 24 | |
| 25 | |
| 26 | <TABLE WIDTH=95% CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=4 BORDER=1> |
| 27 | |
| 28 | <!-- Begin Older News section --> |
| 29 | |
| 30 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> |
| 31 | <A NAME="news"> |
| 32 | <BIG><B> |
| 33 | Older BusyBox News</A> |
| 34 | </B></BIG> |
| 35 | </A> |
| 36 | </TD></TR> |
| 37 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> |
| 38 | |
| 39 | <ul> |
| 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 <syslog.h> |
| 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 | } |
| 68 | </pre> |
| 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. |
| 193 | </ul> |
| 194 | |
| 195 | |
| 196 | <!-- Begin Links section --> |
| 197 | |
| 198 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> |
| 199 | <A NAME="links"> |
| 200 | <BIG><B> |
| 201 | Important Links</A> |
| 202 | </B></BIG> |
| 203 | </A> |
| 204 | </TD></TR> |
| 205 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> |
| 206 | |
| 207 | <ul> |
| 208 | |
| 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> |
| 227 | |
| 228 | <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development. |
| 229 | <p> |
| 230 | |
| 231 | </ul> |
| 232 | |
| 233 | |
| 234 | <!-- End of Table --> |
| 235 | |
| 236 | </TD></TR> |
| 237 | </TABLE> |
| 238 | </P> |
| 239 | |
| 240 | |
| 241 | |
| 242 | <!-- Footer --> |
| 243 | <HR> |
| 244 | <TABLE WIDTH="100%"> |
| 245 | <TR> |
| 246 | <TD> |
| 247 | <font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> |
| 248 | Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to |
| 249 | <a href="mailto:andersen@lineo.com">Erik Andersen</a><BR> |
| 250 | The Busybox logo is copyright 1999,2000, Erik Andersen. |
| 251 | </font> |
| 252 | </TD> |
| 253 | |
| 254 | <TD> |
| 255 | <a href="http://www.vim.org"><img border=0 width=88 height=32 |
| 256 | src="images/anim.written.in.vi.gif" |
| 257 | alt="This site created with the vi editor"></a> |
| 258 | </TD> |
| 259 | |
| 260 | <TD> |
| 261 | <a href="http://www.gimp.org/"><img border=0 width=88 height=38 |
| 262 | src="images/gfx_by_gimp.gif" alt="Graphics by GIMP"></a> |
| 263 | </TD> |
| 264 | |
| 265 | <TD> |
| 266 | <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com"><img width=90 height=36 |
| 267 | src="images/ltbutton2.jpg" alt="Linux Today"></a> |
| 268 | </TD> |
| 269 | |
| 270 | <TD> |
| 271 | <p><a href="http://slashdot.org"><img width=90 height=36 |
| 272 | src="images/sdsmall.gif" alt="Slashdot"></a> |
| 273 | </TD> |
| 274 | |
| 275 | <TD> |
| 276 | <a href="http://freshmeat.net"><img width=90 height=36 |
| 277 | src="images/fm.mini.jpg" alt="Freshmeat"></a> |
| 278 | </TD> |
| 279 | |
| 280 | </TR> |
| 281 | </TABLE> |
| 282 | |
| 283 | |
| 284 | </BODY> |
| 285 | </HTML> |
| 286 | |