| Eric Andersen | aa0765e | 1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 1 | 0.31 |
| 2 | * I added a changelog for version 0.30. |
| 3 | * adjusted find internals to make it smaller, and removed |
| 4 | some redundancy. |
| 5 | * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group |
| 6 | are absent. Now will warn you and carry on. |
| 7 | * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be |
| 8 | the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in, |
| 9 | adds 3.9k. |
| 10 | |
| 11 | |
| Eric Andersen | c499601 | 1999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | 0.30 |
| 13 | Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for |
| 14 | paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox, |
| Eric Andersen | aa0765e | 1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 15 | or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These |
| 16 | changes include: |
| 17 | |
| 18 | Core Changes: |
| 19 | * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the |
| 20 | busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...' |
| 21 | * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in |
| 22 | functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list |
| 23 | has to be there anyway to map invocation name to function). |
| 24 | * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their |
| 25 | usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for |
| 26 | itself. |
| 27 | * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and |
| 28 | postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs |
| 29 | cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much |
| 30 | more granular. |
| 31 | * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly |
| 32 | ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it. |
| 33 | * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc) |
| 34 | so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): |
| 35 | extern int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); |
| 36 | which speeds integration of new apps. |
| 37 | * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to |
| 38 | {en|dis}able debugging. |
| 39 | * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os |
| 40 | (optimize for smaller binaries). |
| 41 | |
| 42 | App Changes: |
| 43 | * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of |
| 44 | monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written: |
| 45 | * cat - Works same as always. |
| 46 | * chgrp, chmod, chown - rewrite. Combined into a single |
| 47 | source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org> |
| 48 | that removes the dependency on libc6 libnss* libraries. |
| 49 | * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices, |
| 50 | pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive dir copies. |
| 51 | * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct FileInfo. |
| 52 | * find - Now includes some basic regexp matching |
| 53 | which will be the basic of a future mini-sed. |
| 54 | * ln - Same functionality. |
| 55 | * mkdir - Added -p flag to feature set. |
| 56 | * mv - rewrite. |
| 57 | * rm - Added -f flag to feature set. |
| 58 | * rmdir - Same functionality. |
| 59 | * swapon, swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer |
| 60 | uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab instead. |
| 61 | * touch - Same functionality. |
| 62 | * date - adjusted with a patch from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz> |
| 63 | to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU getopt. |
| 64 | * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make >128Meg swaps. |
| 65 | * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar |
| 66 | implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended |
| 67 | it to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work). |
| 68 | * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. |
| 69 | * Added the following new apps: |
| 70 | * loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies |
| 71 | * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> |
| 72 | * grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches simple strings |
| 73 | * ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all, but works. |
| 74 | * fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but I ripped out |
| 75 | internationalization and such to make them smaller. |
| 76 | * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus internationalization and such). |
| 77 | * Probably some other changes that I forgot to document... |
| 78 | |
| Eric Andersen | c499601 | 1999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 79 | -Erik Andersen |
| 80 | |
| Eric Andersen | 2ce1edc | 1999-10-12 15:42:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 81 | 0.28 |
| 82 | mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten. |
| 83 | |
| Eric Andersen | cc8ed39 | 1999-10-05 16:24:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 84 | 0.27 |
| 85 | Mount now supports -a, and -t auto. |
| 86 | Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'. |
| 87 | More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage. |
| 88 | Printf added as module. |
| 89 | 0.26 |
| 90 | Touch now creates files. -c option for no create. |
| Eric Andersen | c499601 | 1999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 91 | |