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Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +000010.34
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +00002 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +00003 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
4 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +00005 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +00006 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also
7 thanks to Eric Delaunay.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +00008 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
9 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Eric Andersen3d8dbe11999-11-09 01:51:02 +000010 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +000011 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
12 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
13 should now work correctly.
14 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does.
15 * sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now it does.
16 * sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with replacements.
17 Now it doesn't do that.
18 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
19 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +000020
Eric Andersen3e2bb281999-11-09 03:12:29 +000021 -Erik Andersen
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Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +0000230.33
24 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
Eric Andersen29d2e361999-11-06 06:07:27 +000025 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
26 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
27 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
28 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
29 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
30 state the real root device name)
31 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +000032
Eric Andersendc6301e1999-11-06 07:34:50 +000033 -Erik Andersen
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Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +0000350.32
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +000036 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
37 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP
38 at andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
39 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
Eric Andersena07f0b01999-10-22 19:49:09 +000040 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +000041 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works.
Eric Andersena7093171999-10-23 05:42:08 +000042 * kill segfaulted w/o any arguments. Now it doesn't do that.
43 * kill wasn't properly accepting signal names. It does now.
Eric Andersend0246fb1999-11-04 21:18:07 +000044 * Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I should probably add open)
45 * Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now readable by mere mortals IMHO.
Eric Andersenff719d61999-10-29 23:36:31 +000046 * Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k with full regular expressions!).
Eric Andersenbe971d61999-11-03 16:52:50 +000047 * Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
Eric Andersend0246fb1999-11-04 21:18:07 +000048 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +000049 * Fixed umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
50 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc
Eric Andersend0246fb1999-11-04 21:18:07 +000051 * Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
52 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to /proc/mounts.
53 mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df will now use /etc/mtab
54 if BB_MTAB is defined.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +000055 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
56 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
57 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
58 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
59 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter <porter@debian.org>.
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Eric Andersena7093171999-10-23 05:42:08 +000061
62 -Erik Andersen
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +000063
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000640.31
65 * I added a changelog for version 0.30.
66 * adjusted find internals to make it smaller, and removed
67 some redundancy.
68 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
69 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
70 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
Eric Andersen8eefd021999-10-22 05:18:28 +000071 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in
72 it adds 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
Eric Andersen51f8c891999-10-22 05:14:44 +000073 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
74 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use
75 glibc 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +000076
Eric Andersena7093171999-10-23 05:42:08 +000077 -Erik Andersen
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +000078
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000790.30
80 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
81 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +000082 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
83 changes include:
84
85 Core Changes:
86 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
87 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
88 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
89 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list
90 has to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
91 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
92 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
93 itself.
94 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
95 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
96 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
97 more granular.
98 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
99 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
100 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
101 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum):
102 extern int foo_main(int argc, char** argv);
103 which speeds integration of new apps.
104 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
105 {en|dis}able debugging.
106 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
107 (optimize for smaller binaries).
108
109 App Changes:
110 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
111 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
112 * cat - Works same as always.
113 * chgrp, chmod, chown - rewrite. Combined into a single
114 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>
115 that removes the dependency on libc6 libnss* libraries.
116 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
117 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive dir copies.
118 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct FileInfo.
119 * find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
120 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
121 * ln - Same functionality.
122 * mkdir - Added -p flag to feature set.
123 * mv - rewrite.
124 * rm - Added -f flag to feature set.
125 * rmdir - Same functionality.
126 * swapon, swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
127 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab instead.
128 * touch - Same functionality.
129 * date - adjusted with a patch from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
130 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU getopt.
131 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make >128Meg swaps.
132 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
133 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended
134 it to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
135 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout.
136 * Added the following new apps:
137 * loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
138 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro <lupus@lettere.unipd.it>
139 * grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches simple strings
140 * ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all, but works.
141 * fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but I ripped out
142 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
143 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus internationalization and such).
144 * Probably some other changes that I forgot to document...
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Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000146 -Erik Andersen
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Eric Andersen2ce1edc1999-10-12 15:42:48 +00001480.28
149 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
150
Eric Andersencc8ed391999-10-05 16:24:54 +00001510.27
152 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
153 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
154 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
155 Printf added as module.
1560.26
157 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000158