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Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +000010.43
Erik Andersend75af992000-03-16 08:09:09 +00002 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
3 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
4 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
5 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
Erik Andersen2ac2fae2000-03-07 23:32:17 +00006 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
Erik Andersen269bba22000-03-08 14:50:47 +00007 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
8 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
9 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
10 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
11 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
12 directory.
Erik Andersen246cc6d2000-03-07 07:41:42 +000013 * Wrote basename, killall, and uptime.
Erik Andersen64371702000-03-04 22:23:27 +000014 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
15 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
16 and then adjusted a bit by me.
Erik Andersenfb002d02000-03-05 08:07:00 +000017 * Added tr and dirname from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
Erik Andersend75af992000-03-16 08:09:09 +000018 * Added echo and test (from me).
Erik Andersenb99ca132000-04-04 18:49:18 +000019 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +000020 * tar wouldn't create directory entries that don't end in '/',
Erik Andersen42387e42000-02-21 17:27:17 +000021 now it does (thanks to Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>)
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +000022 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
23 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
24 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
25 fork() for running klogd.
26 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
27 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
Erik Andersen42387e42000-02-21 17:27:17 +000028 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
29 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +000030 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
Erik Andersen5b911dd2000-02-23 22:49:58 +000031 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
32 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
33 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
34 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
35 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
36 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
37 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +000038 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
39 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
40 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
41 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
42 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
43 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
44 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
45 a copy only if the rename fails.
Erik Andersen183da4a2000-04-04 18:36:37 +000046 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +000047 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
48 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
49 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
50 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
51 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
Erik Andersen246cc6d2000-03-07 07:41:42 +000052 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
Erik Andersen2ac2fae2000-03-07 23:32:17 +000053 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
54 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
Erik Andersence917322000-03-13 04:07:02 +000055 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
56 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
Erik Andersen0d068a22000-03-21 22:32:57 +000057 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
58 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
59 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
Erik Andersen298854f2000-03-23 01:09:18 +000060 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
Erik Andersen183da4a2000-04-04 18:36:37 +000061
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +000062
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +000063
64 -Erik Andersen
65
66
Erik Andersen05100cd2000-01-16 01:30:52 +0000670.42
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +000068
69 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
70 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
71 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +000072 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
73 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +000074 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
75 the way umount was originally written.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +000076 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +000077 to be more consistent with sysvinit
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +000078 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +000079 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
80
81 - Randolph Chung
82
83
84 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
85 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +000086 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
87 same directory it will print an error and continue.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +000088 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
89 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
90 hard links.
91 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +000092 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
93 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +000094 - Always check exit status.
95 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
96 * utility.c
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +000097 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
98 ignoring it.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +000099 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
100 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
101 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
102 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
103
104 -Karl M. Hegbloom
105
106
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000107 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
108 -beppu -piptigger
109 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
110 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
111 * change permissions and ownership on
Erik Andersen06936df2000-01-23 02:14:20 +0000112 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
Erik Andersena2f69e52000-01-19 04:30:37 +0000113 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
114 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000115 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000116 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000117 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
Erik Andersende552872000-01-23 01:34:05 +0000118 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
119 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
120 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
121 behave itself a bit better.
122 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000123 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
Erik Andersende552872000-01-23 01:34:05 +0000124 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
John Beppu9bc7e892000-01-23 13:54:15 +0000125 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000126 always dereference before. -beppu
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000127 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
128 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
129 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000130 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
131 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000132 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
133 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
134 end of line if there are no more application names).
Erik Andersence5b4662000-01-27 19:50:47 +0000135 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
136 would segfault).
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000137 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
138 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
139 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000140 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
141 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000142 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
Erik Andersen5cbdd712000-01-26 20:06:48 +0000143 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
144 turns up missing.
145 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
146 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
147 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
Erik Andersence5b4662000-01-27 19:50:47 +0000148 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
149 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
150 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
151 files pointed to by the symlinks.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000152 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
153 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000154 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000155 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
156 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000157 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
158 directories on the command line
Erik Andersenbf5f0092000-02-14 18:44:33 +0000159 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
160 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
161 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
Erik Andersen4d054312000-02-10 07:31:15 +0000162 Now both work.
163 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
164 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000165 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
166 in utility.c
167 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
168 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
169 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
170 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
171 also from Gilbert Coville.
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000172
Erik Andersen05100cd2000-01-16 01:30:52 +0000173
174 -Erik Andersen
175
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +00001760.41
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000177 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
178 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000179 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000180 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
181 working.
Erik Andersen9a9a2612000-01-09 06:49:08 +0000182 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000183 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
184 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
185 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
186 Now fixed.
Erik Andersen05df2392000-01-13 04:43:48 +0000187 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
188 with no interveining subdirectories.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000189 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
190 * and support in umount for loop
Erik Andersenb7cc49d2000-01-13 06:38:14 +0000191 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
192 <bcollins@debian.org>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000193 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
194 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000195 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
196 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000197 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
198 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
199 -O2 -m386 ...)
200 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
201 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
202 referenced, but not compiled)
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000203 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
204 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000205 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
206 * consoles.
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000207
Erik Andersen83865e32000-01-15 22:33:09 +0000208 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000209
John Beppu935fb381999-12-15 19:35:02 +00002100.40
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000211 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
212 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
213 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000214 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
215 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000216 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
217 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000218 being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
219 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
220 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000221 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
222 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000223 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
Erik Andersen4d1d0111999-12-17 18:44:15 +0000224 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
Erik Andersen3fe2ecf1999-12-21 08:52:04 +0000225 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
226 <konst@voshod.com>.
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000227 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
228 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
Erik Andersen00266d31999-12-28 00:17:46 +0000229 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
230 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
231 special files.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000232 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
233 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000234 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
235 Ouch!!!
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000236 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000237 them so they should now work as expected.
Erik Andersen1266a131999-12-29 22:19:46 +0000238 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
239 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000240 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
Erik Andersen1266a131999-12-29 22:19:46 +0000241 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
242 like GNU ls.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000243 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
244 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000245 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
246 - fixed several typos
247 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000248 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
Erik Andersenf664c001999-12-29 02:36:29 +0000249
Erik Andersen6f23cec1999-12-15 22:14:12 +0000250
Erik Andersen5338ce12000-01-07 23:30:07 +0000251 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
John Beppu935fb381999-12-15 19:35:02 +0000252
Eric Andersenabc0f4f1999-12-08 23:19:36 +00002530.39
Eric Andersen19db07b1999-12-11 08:41:28 +0000254 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
255 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000256 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
257 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
258 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
259 sometime.
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000260 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000261 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
262 the right thing.
Eric Andersenabc0f4f1999-12-08 23:19:36 +0000263 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
264 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000265 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
266 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
Eric Andersen1792f8c1999-12-09 06:11:36 +0000267 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000268 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
269 * in
Eric Andersenf0758dd1999-12-09 07:57:58 +0000270 which blocked reboots.
Eric Andersen2cb55071999-12-10 08:25:07 +0000271 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
272 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
John Beppu29fcc901999-12-09 23:33:04 +0000273 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000274 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
275 <beppu@lineo.com>)
276 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000277
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000278 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000279
Eric Andersenbb587021999-11-29 04:30:12 +00002800.38
281 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
282 file existed.
Eric Andersend00c2621999-12-07 08:37:31 +0000283 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000284 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
285 correct.
Eric Andersenb186d981999-12-03 09:19:54 +0000286 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
287 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
288 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
Eric Andersende1d6121999-12-03 15:14:25 +0000289 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
290 kernel messages.
Eric Andersen0ecb54a1999-12-05 23:24:55 +0000291 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
292 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
Eric Andersend00c2621999-12-07 08:37:31 +0000293 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
294 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
295 will complain if you enable them when you disable
296 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
Eric Andersen0ecb54a1999-12-05 23:24:55 +0000297
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000298 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
Eric Andersenbb587021999-11-29 04:30:12 +0000299
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +00003000.37
Eric Andersenbefda6e1999-11-25 08:06:22 +0000301 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
302 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000303 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
304 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
305 * now be enabled
306 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
307 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
308 exists).
309 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
310 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
311 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
312 * Moved some code
313 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
314 work properly.
315 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
316 * out the
Eric Andersen394f7641999-11-23 21:38:12 +0000317 last file in the list.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000318 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
319 * 'ls -l'
320 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
321 are presented properly.
Eric Andersen3843e961999-11-25 07:30:46 +0000322 * Also added a TODO.
323
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +0000324
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000325 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +0000326
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +00003270.36
328 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
329 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000330 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
331 * from
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000332 Eric Delaunay).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000333 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
334 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000335 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000336 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000337 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
338 * compiled
Eric Andersena9c95ea1999-11-15 17:33:30 +0000339 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000340 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
341 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
342 * of least surprise
343 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
344 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
345 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
346 * destination
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000347 was a directory.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000348 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
349 * directories
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000350 with very wrong permissions.
351 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
352 Now it properly modifies permissions.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000353 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
354 * ensure
355 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
356 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
357 not seen when switched to a different VT.
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000358
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000359 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000360
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +00003610.35
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000362 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
363 * intended
364 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
365 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000366 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000367 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
368 Delaunay.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000369 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000370 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
371 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
372 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
373 * special files,
374 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
375 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
376 interested student.
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000377 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000378
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000379 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000380
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +00003810.34
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +0000382 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +0000383 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
384 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +0000385 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000386 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
387 to Eric Delaunay.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000388 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
389 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Eric Andersen3d8dbe11999-11-09 01:51:02 +0000390 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000391 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000392 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000393 should now work correctly.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000394 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
395 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
396 * replacements.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000397 Now it doesn't do that.
398 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
399 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +0000400
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000401 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
Eric Andersen3e2bb281999-11-09 03:12:29 +0000402
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +00004030.33
404 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
Eric Andersen29d2e361999-11-06 06:07:27 +0000405 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
406 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
407 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
408 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
409 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
410 state the real root device name)
411 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +0000412
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000413 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
Eric Andersendc6301e1999-11-06 07:34:50 +0000414
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +00004150.32
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +0000416 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000417 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
418 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +0000419 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
Eric Andersena07f0b01999-10-22 19:49:09 +0000420 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000421 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
422 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
423 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
424 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
425 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
426 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
427 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
428 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
429 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
430 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
431 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
432 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
433 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +0000434 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
435 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000436 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
437 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
438 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
439 <porter@debian.org>.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +0000440
Eric Andersena7093171999-10-23 05:42:08 +0000441
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000442 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +0000443
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +00004440.31
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000445 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
446 * make it smaller, and removed
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000447 some redundancy.
448 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
449 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
450 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000451 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
452 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
Eric Andersen51f8c891999-10-22 05:14:44 +0000453 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000454 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
455 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000456
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000457 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000458
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +00004590.30
460 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
461 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000462 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
463 changes include:
464
465 Core Changes:
466 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
467 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
468 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000469 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
470 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000471 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
472 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
473 itself.
474 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
475 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
476 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
477 more granular.
478 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
479 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
480 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000481 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
482 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
483 of new apps.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000484 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
485 {en|dis}able debugging.
486 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
487 (optimize for smaller binaries).
488
489 App Changes:
490 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
491 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000492 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
493 * rewrite. Combined into a single
494 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
495 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
496 libc6 libnss* libraries.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000497 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000498 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
499 dir copies.
500 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
501 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000502 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000503 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
504 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
505 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
506 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
507 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
508 instead.
509 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
510 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
511 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
512 getopt.
Erik Andersen6acaa402000-03-26 14:03:20 +0000513 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
514 >128Meg swaps.
515 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
516 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
517 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000518 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
519 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
520 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
521 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
522 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
523 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
524 * I ripped out
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000525 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000526 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
527 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
528 * changes that I forgot to document...
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000529
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000530 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
531
5320.29
533 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
534 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000535
Eric Andersen2ce1edc1999-10-12 15:42:48 +00005360.28
537 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
538
Eric Andersencc8ed391999-10-05 16:24:54 +00005390.27
540 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
541 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
542 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
543 Printf added as module.
5440.26
545 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000546