10.60.0 2 3 Note: 4 5 For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0. This 6 reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable 7 BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a stable version of 8 BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series. If bugs 9 show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc... This is also 10 intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be 11 getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to 12 break products that people are shipping. To avoid that, the new build 13 system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series 14 that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things 15 stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I 16 will release that as a new stable release series. 17 18 Critical Bugfixes: 19 * Matt Kraai 20 -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52). 21 -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery). 22 * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen 23 -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign 24 any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash 25 had several compile errors (depending on selected options) 26 and variable assignment problems as well. 27 28 New Applets: 29 * David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe 30 * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute 31 * Erik Andersen -- pidof 32 33 New Scripts: 34 * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl 35 This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils 36 package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on 37 your host system (not on the target). 38 39 Other Changes: 40 * Erik Andersen 41 -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems 42 -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again 43 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox 44 should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source 45 code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are 46 now automagicaly disabled). 47 -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc) 48 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> 49 -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the 50 line was previously altered when running a subst command. 51 * Matt Kraai 52 -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar) 53 -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands. 54 -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names. 55 -- Better devfs support 56 -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only. 57 -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller). 58 -- Size reduction in ping 59 -- Always write dd counts to stderr 60 -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled 61 * Aaron Lehmann 62 -- slimmed down md5sum 63 -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math 64 support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell. 65 * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox 66 work with dietlibc. 67 * David McCullough 68 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly 69 * Glenn McGrath 70 -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout 71 -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg, 72 but needs more testing. 73 -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc) 74 -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget 75 * Vladimir Oleynik 76 -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax, 77 -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups. 78 -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping 79 -- cmdedit updates and API change 80 -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls) 81 -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit 82 * Adam Slattery 83 -- Fixed ping compile problem 84 * Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com> 85 -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files. 86 87 88 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001 89 90 91 920.52 93 94 Critical Bugfixes: 95 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin 96 * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init 97 problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels. 98 99 New Applets: 100 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack 101 which has now been removed from BusyBox 102 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently 103 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format. 104 * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct 105 busybox shell. 106 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically 107 for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress. 108 * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell 109 that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems. 110 111 Other Changes: 112 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet. 113 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code 114 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets. 115 tar applet has not yet been assimilated... 116 * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm. 117 * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness 118 bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken) 119 * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed. 120 * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always 121 work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems). 122 * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim 123 added uClinux/m68k insmod support. 124 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df 125 should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats. 126 * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c 127 * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot 128 bug breaking gunzip checksum checking. 129 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C' 130 * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support. 131 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support 132 * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator 133 * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. 134 135 136 137 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001 138 139 1400.51 141 Critical Bugfixes: 142 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50 143 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line. 144 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50 145 when performing an 'export' in the shell. 146 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause 147 the init process to block (which can break systems badly). 148 149 New Applets: 150 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very 151 functional vi implementation in Only 22k. 152 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet 153 154 Other changes: 155 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a 156 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality. 157 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes 158 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the 159 busybox work on ia64 systems. 160 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface. 161 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc. 162 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable 163 output from ls, du, and df. 164 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1 165 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant. 166 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically 167 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler. 168 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message... 169 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod 170 support a bit for Mips RS3. 171 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50! 172 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed 173 variables 174 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print' 175 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code 176 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow 177 bugs, and similar problems. 178 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now 179 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now 180 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing). 181 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging 182 kernel command line environment variables into child environment 183 for init.c 184 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets 185 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs 186 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c 187 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed 188 locale support in several other places 189 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c 190 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate 191 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling 192 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates 193 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running 194 after permission errors. 195 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action() 196 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made 197 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes. 198 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting 199 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected. 200 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with 201 sed address range handling 202 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates 203 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling 204 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download 205 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in 206 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't 207 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to 208 restarting an aborted download. 209 210 211 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001 212 213 2140.50 215 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting 216 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates 217 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten, 218 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle. 219 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib 220 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals 221 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available 222 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes 223 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd 224 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512 225 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it 226 overrides the system pwd/grp 227 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep. 228 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support. 229 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it 230 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when 231 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd). 232 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet 233 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod. 234 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when 235 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled 236 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto- 237 generate the documentation from the source code, making life 238 much simpler for all. 239 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var 240 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented 241 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed. 242 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller 243 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source 244 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing 245 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd 246 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking 247 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod. 248 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups 249 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables). 250 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the 251 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children. 252 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed. 253 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone 254 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION 255 depending on what kernel is being used. 256 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod. 257 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet 258 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups 259 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos 260 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages 261 are stored to save several k of space. 262 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails 263 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories. 264 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support 265 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type, 266 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements. 267 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby 268 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere 269 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages. 270 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod. 271 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs. 272 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb. 273 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode, 274 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision. 275 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still 276 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting 277 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly 278 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir, 279 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c 280 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion 281 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to 282 improve complex prompt handling. 283 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting. 284 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen 285 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet 286 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors. 287 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts 288 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking 289 for several my_* functions into utility.c 290 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from 291 work done by Axis Communications). 292 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc 293 and updated the style guide. 294 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C 295 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite. 296 297 298 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001 299 3000.49 301 302 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c 303 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c 304 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet 305 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code 306 * spoon -- new watchdog applet 307 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now 308 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several 309 byte saving optimizations. 310 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default 311 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage 312 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging 313 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh 314 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine 315 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt 316 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet 317 to BusyBox" 318 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug 319 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels 320 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made 321 util-linux compatible 322 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to 323 avoid namespace pollution 324 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support 325 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters 326 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now 327 handles regexp file exclusion 328 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule 329 checking 330 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init 331 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide, 332 better if-then-else-fi handling 333 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c 334 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets 335 in read, exec, and piped builtins 336 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't 337 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it). 338 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling 339 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide 340 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance, 341 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions 342 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find 343 the width and height of the console. 344 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option. 345 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile 346 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions. 347 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to 348 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required 349 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this, 350 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions. 351 352 353 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001 354 3550.48 356 357 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files, 358 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option. 359 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now 360 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system. 361 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1. 362 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be 363 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init, 364 and other things). 365 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and 366 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM 367 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels. 368 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use 369 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's 370 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages. 371 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR 372 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap 373 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message. 374 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing, 375 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also 376 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added 377 conv=sync feature. 378 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a 379 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are 380 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry! 381 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h 382 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes. 383 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and 384 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude. 385 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible 386 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made 387 GNU-date compatible 388 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget 389 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take 390 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN 391 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a 392 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster! 393 * new applets: cmp readlink 394 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license 395 according to decision by the Regents of the University of 396 California; included reference 397 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed; 398 people should use -n instead 399 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr 400 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq 401 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs 402 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks 403 hard links. 404 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first 405 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled 406 for remote logging... 407 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d' 408 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document. 409 410 411 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000 412 4130.47 414 415 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb 416 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade. 417 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h" 418 * Improved portability between different libcs. 419 * Many apps ported to use getopt() 420 * Common handling of '--help' 421 * All usage messages centralized. 422 * Added a bunch of new commands: 423 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com> 424 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, 425 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications 426 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> 427 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help 428 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>. 429 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com> 430 * 'xargs' (written by me) 431 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based 432 on GNY expr 433 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me) 434 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks 435 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com> 436 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> 437 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new 438 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks. 439 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust. 440 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is 441 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net> 442 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from 443 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com> 444 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file' 445 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh! 446 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout 447 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h" 448 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD. 449 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x 450 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less. 451 * Tons of other bugfixes. 452 453 454 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000 455 456 4570.46 458 459 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5, 460 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including 461 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels 462 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir). 463 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink 464 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks 465 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de> 466 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks. 467 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ') 468 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com> 469 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the 470 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo 471 work with both old and new kernels). 472 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='. 473 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com> 474 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport. 475 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org> 476 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de> 477 - Added support for "sh -c command args..." 478 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work. 479 - Added shell environment variable substitution 480 - Added the "read" shell builtin. 481 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence 482 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down. 483 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like 484 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always 485 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell. 486 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort 487 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk> 488 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that 489 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs 490 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu> 491 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences. 492 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c. 493 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the 494 new SGML based docs into shape. 495 - cleanup of ar.c 496 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so. 497 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly. 498 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support 499 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net> 500 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45, 501 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This 502 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed. 503 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really 504 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really 505 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to 506 grab a copy from util-linux. 507 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can 508 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by 509 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org> 510 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3. 511 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines, 512 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled 513 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from 514 Matt Kraai as well. 515 516 517 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000 518 519 5200.45 521 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for 522 embedded systems). 523 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the 524 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile. 525 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change, 526 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k. 527 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a 528 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev 529 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller 530 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-). 531 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off! 532 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by 533 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au> 534 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> 535 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons. 536 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt 537 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these. 538 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated 539 docs accordingly. -beppu 540 * Wrote which 541 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by 542 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k. 543 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When 544 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may 545 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly 546 (i.e. DOSTATIC=true) 547 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes 548 and redirects. 549 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de> 550 * Fixed update segfault 551 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0 552 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and 553 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options) 554 (this was very broken in 0.43). 555 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. 556 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag 557 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better 558 compatibility with the standard tail command 559 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet 560 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't. 561 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves. 562 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount. 563 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2. 564 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device". 565 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks 566 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu> 567 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before) 568 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken) 569 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat). 570 * Makefile intelligence updates 571 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems 572 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to 573 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> 574 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC, 575 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> 576 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it 577 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> 578 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks 579 to Pavel Roskin. 580 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin. 581 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin. 582 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin. 583 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c" 584 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f" 585 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes 586 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin. 587 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses. 588 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin. 589 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability 590 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin. 591 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount 592 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin 593 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin 594 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken. 595 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected. 596 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE) 597 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing - 598 Pavel Roskin 599 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help 600 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin 601 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages 602 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases 603 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com> 604 for helping track this one down. 605 * More doc updates 606 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu 607 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works 608 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu 609 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour, 610 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu 611 612 613 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000 614 615 6160.44 617 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to 618 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling 619 it good. 620 621 -Erik Andersen 622 623 6240.43 625 * Major update to the provided documentation. 626 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an 627 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles 628 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything 629 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...) 630 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby 631 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This 632 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to 633 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually 634 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and 635 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/ 636 directory. 637 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime. 638 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and 639 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional 640 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support. 641 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated 642 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it> 643 and then adjusted a bit by me. 644 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com> 645 * Added echo and test (from me). 646 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org> 647 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740). 648 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>: 649 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits. 650 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use 651 fork() for running klogd. 652 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t) 653 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com> 654 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used 655 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to 656 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix. 657 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining 658 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel 659 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs. 660 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg 661 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in 662 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init. 663 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd. 664 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org> 665 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11 666 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make 667 it a common resource that can be used by other apps. 668 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are 669 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping). 670 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing 671 a copy only if the rename fails. 672 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections 673 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>: 674 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r" 675 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip" 676 * An initial telnet implementation was added by 677 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. 678 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e") 679 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width 680 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off). 681 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which 682 as would be expected displays help). 683 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not 684 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try. 685 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and 686 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to 687 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch. 688 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>. 689 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends. 690 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar' 691 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]' 692 no longer segfaults. 693 694 695 -Erik Andersen 696 697 6980.42 699 700 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting 701 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is 702 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT 703 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the 704 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do 705 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with 706 the way umount was originally written. 707 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot 708 to be more consistent with sysvinit 709 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased 710 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent 711 712 - Randolph Chung 713 714 715 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been 716 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c. 717 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the 718 same directory it will print an error and continue. 719 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that 720 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks 721 hard links. 722 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks. 723 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File 724 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes. 725 - Always check exit status. 726 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'. 727 * utility.c 728 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus 729 ignoring it. 730 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers 731 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed. 732 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in 733 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little. 734 735 -Karl M. Hegbloom 736 737 738 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly 739 -beppu -piptigger 740 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer 741 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently 742 * change permissions and ownership on 743 certain directories pointed to by symlinks. 744 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing 745 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases). 746 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the 747 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was 748 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed. 749 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to 750 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp> 751 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it 752 behave itself a bit better. 753 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> 754 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which 755 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one. 756 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would 757 always dereference before. -beppu 758 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory. 759 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp> 760 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> 761 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head 762 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also 763 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> 764 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the 765 end of line if there are no more application names). 766 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n" 767 would segfault). 768 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()" 769 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's). 770 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making 771 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to 772 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling 773 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h 774 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols 775 turns up missing. 776 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device 777 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount 778 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me. 779 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by 780 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. 781 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the 782 files pointed to by the symlinks. 783 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>: 784 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly 785 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments 786 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv 787 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd. 788 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and 789 directories on the command line 790 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is. 791 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does. 792 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't. 793 Now both work. 794 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could 795 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints. 796 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines 797 in utility.c 798 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP. 799 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified 800 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com> 801 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change 802 also from Gilbert Coville. 803 804 805 -Erik Andersen 806 8070.41 808 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed 809 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org> 810 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar' 811 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from 812 working. 813 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog 814 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to 815 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix. 816 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run. 817 Now fixed. 818 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir 819 with no interveining subdirectories. 820 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount, 821 * and support in umount for loop 822 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins 823 <bcollins@debian.org> 824 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in 825 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also 826 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile()) 827 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size 828 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated 829 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with 830 -O2 -m386 ...) 831 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines 832 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be 833 referenced, but not compiled) 834 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now 835 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles. 836 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial 837 * consoles. 838 839 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000 840 8410.40 842 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps: 843 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App:: 844 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru> 845 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts. 846 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different 847 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of 848 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab 849 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can 850 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result. 851 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik 852 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing 853 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu 854 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7 855 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel. 856 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev" 857 <konst@voshod.com>. 858 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly 859 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed. 860 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits. 861 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device 862 special files. 863 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a 864 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership 865 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....) 866 Ouch!!! 867 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten 868 them so they should now work as expected. 869 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and 870 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> 871 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly. 872 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more 873 like GNU ls. 874 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder 875 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>: 876 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code, 877 - fixed several typos 878 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes 879 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault. 880 881 882 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000 883 8840.39 885 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung 886 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list! 887 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on 888 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted 889 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller 890 sometime. 891 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors 892 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does 893 the right thing. 894 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy 895 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.) 896 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls 897 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking 898 one file descriptor per file. Oops. 899 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code 900 * in 901 which blocked reboots. 902 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when 903 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd). 904 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing 905 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu 906 <beppu@lineo.com>) 907 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu 908 909 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999 910 9110.38 912 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab 913 file existed. 914 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems. 915 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be 916 correct. 917 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns 918 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which 919 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior. 920 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and 921 kernel messages. 922 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and 923 is actually a socket with the right permissions. 924 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc 925 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it, 926 will complain if you enable them when you disable 927 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS. 928 929 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999 930 9310.37 932 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog 933 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k. 934 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper 935 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can 936 * now be enabled 937 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to 938 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file 939 exists). 940 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm 941 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from 942 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories. 943 * Moved some code 944 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar 945 work properly. 946 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat 947 * out the 948 last file in the list. 949 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed 950 * 'ls -l' 951 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid 952 are presented properly. 953 * Also added a TODO. 954 955 956 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999 957 9580.36 959 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no 960 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay). 961 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also 962 * from 963 Eric Delaunay). 964 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If 965 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever 966 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits. 967 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo) 968 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when 969 * compiled 970 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS. 971 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric 972 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle 973 * of least surprise 974 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer 975 --help and obey the '-c' flag. 976 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the 977 * destination 978 was a directory. 979 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make 980 * directories 981 with very wrong permissions. 982 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them. 983 Now it properly modifies permissions. 984 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to 985 * ensure 986 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise 987 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were 988 not seen when switched to a different VT. 989 990 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999 991 9920.35 993 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god 994 * intended 995 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c' 996 flag and only then outputs to stdout). 997 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize 998 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric 999 Delaunay. 1000 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards) 1001 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works 1002 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses 1003 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device 1004 * special files, 1005 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt 1006 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the 1007 interested student. 1008 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens. 1009 1010 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999 1011 10120.34 1013 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory, 1014 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay 1015 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a 1016 better job of finding the real console device rather than using 1017 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks 1018 to Eric Delaunay. 1019 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and 1020 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay). 1021 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on. 1022 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was 1023 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things 1024 should now work correctly. 1025 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now 1026 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with 1027 * replacements. 1028 Now it doesn't do that. 1029 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names. 1030 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid. 1031 1032 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999 1033 10340.33 1035 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting. 1036 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c 1037 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken). 1038 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab, 1039 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab 1040 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to 1041 state the real root device name) 1042 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c 1043 1044 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999 1045 10460.32 1047 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on 1048 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at 1049 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org 1050 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks 1051 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore. 1052 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any 1053 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting 1054 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I 1055 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now 1056 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k 1057 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync 1058 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed 1059 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>) 1060 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the 1061 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc) 1062 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to 1063 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df 1064 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined. 1065 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely 1066 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it 1067 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now 1068 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links 1069 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter 1070 <porter@debian.org>. 1071 1072 1073 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999 1074 10750.31 1076 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to 1077 * make it smaller, and removed 1078 some redundancy. 1079 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group 1080 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on. 1081 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be 1082 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds 1083 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable. 1084 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly 1085 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc 1086 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest. 1087 1088 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999 1089 10900.30 1091 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for 1092 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox, 1093 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These 1094 changes include: 1095 1096 Core Changes: 1097 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the 1098 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...' 1099 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in 1100 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has 1101 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function). 1102 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their 1103 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for 1104 itself. 1105 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and 1106 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs 1107 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much 1108 more granular. 1109 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly 1110 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it. 1111 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc) 1112 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern 1113 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration 1114 of new apps. 1115 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to 1116 {en|dis}able debugging. 1117 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os 1118 (optimize for smaller binaries). 1119 1120 App Changes: 1121 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of 1122 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written: 1123 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown - 1124 * rewrite. Combined into a single 1125 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi 1126 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on 1127 libc6 libnss* libraries. 1128 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices, 1129 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive 1130 dir copies. 1131 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct 1132 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching 1133 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed. 1134 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to 1135 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to 1136 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon, 1137 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer 1138 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab 1139 instead. 1140 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch 1141 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz> 1142 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU 1143 getopt. 1144 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make 1145 >128Meg swaps. 1146 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar 1147 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it 1148 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work). 1149 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the 1150 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies 1151 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro 1152 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches 1153 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all, 1154 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but 1155 * I ripped out 1156 internationalization and such to make them smaller. 1157 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus 1158 * internationalization and such). Probably some other 1159 * changes that I forgot to document... 1160 1161 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999 1162 11630.29 1164 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you. 1165 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999 1166 11670.28 1168 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten. 1169 11700.27 1171 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto. 1172 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'. 1173 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage. 1174 Printf added as module. 11750.26 1176 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create. 1177 1178