5 -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52).
6 -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery).
7 * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen
8 -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign
9 any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash
10 had several compile errors (depending on selected options)
11 and variable assignment problems as well.
14 * David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe
15 * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
18 * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
19 This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
20 package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
21 your host system (not on the target).
25 -- various little things
26 -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
27 -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
28 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
29 should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
30 code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
31 now automagicaly disabled).
32 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
33 -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
34 line was previously altered when running a subst command.
36 -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
37 -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
38 -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
39 -- Better devfs support
40 -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
41 -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
42 -- Size reduction in ping
44 -- slimmed down md5sum
45 -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
46 support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
47 * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
50 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
52 -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
53 -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
54 but needs more testing.
55 -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
56 -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
58 -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
59 -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
60 -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
61 -- cmdedit updates and API change
62 -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
63 -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
65 -- Fixed ping compile problem
68 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
75 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
76 * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
77 problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
80 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
81 which has now been removed from BusyBox
82 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
83 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
84 * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
86 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
87 for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
88 * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
89 that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
92 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
93 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
94 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
95 tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
96 * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
97 * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
98 bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
99 * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
100 * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
101 work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
102 * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
103 added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
104 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
105 should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
106 * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
107 * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
108 bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
109 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
110 * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
111 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
112 * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
113 * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
117 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
122 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
123 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
124 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
125 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
126 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
127 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
130 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
131 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
132 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
135 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
136 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
137 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
138 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
139 busybox work on ia64 systems.
140 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
141 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
142 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
143 output from ls, du, and df.
144 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
145 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
146 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
147 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
148 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
149 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
150 support a bit for Mips RS3.
151 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
152 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
154 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
155 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
156 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
157 bugs, and similar problems.
158 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
159 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
160 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
161 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
162 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
164 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
165 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
166 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
167 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
168 locale support in several other places
169 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
170 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
171 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
172 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
173 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
174 after permission errors.
175 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
176 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
177 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
178 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
179 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
180 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
181 sed address range handling
182 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
183 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
184 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
185 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
186 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
187 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
188 restarting an aborted download.
191 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
195 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
196 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
197 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
198 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
199 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
200 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
201 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
202 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
203 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
204 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
205 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
206 overrides the system pwd/grp
207 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
208 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
209 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
210 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
211 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
212 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
213 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
214 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
215 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
216 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
217 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
218 much simpler for all.
219 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
220 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
221 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
222 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
223 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
224 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
225 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
226 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
227 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
228 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
229 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
230 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
231 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
232 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
233 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
234 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
235 depending on what kernel is being used.
236 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
237 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
238 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
239 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
240 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
241 are stored to save several k of space.
242 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
243 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
244 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
245 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
246 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
247 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
248 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
249 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
250 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
251 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
252 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
253 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
254 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
255 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
256 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
257 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
258 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
259 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
260 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
261 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
262 improve complex prompt handling.
263 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
264 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
265 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
266 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
267 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
268 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
269 for several my_* functions into utility.c
270 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
271 work done by Axis Communications).
272 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
273 and updated the style guide.
274 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
275 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
278 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
282 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
283 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
284 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
285 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
286 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
287 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
288 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
289 byte saving optimizations.
290 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
291 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
292 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
293 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
294 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
295 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
296 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
298 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
299 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
300 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
301 util-linux compatible
302 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
303 avoid namespace pollution
304 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
305 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
306 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
307 handles regexp file exclusion
308 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
310 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
311 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
312 better if-then-else-fi handling
313 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
314 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
315 in read, exec, and piped builtins
316 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
317 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
318 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
319 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
320 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
321 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
322 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
323 the width and height of the console.
324 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
325 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
326 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
327 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
328 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
329 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
330 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
333 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
337 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
338 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
339 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
340 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
341 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
342 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
343 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
345 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
346 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
347 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
348 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
349 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
350 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
351 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
352 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
353 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
354 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
355 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
356 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
358 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
359 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
360 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
361 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
362 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
363 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
364 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
365 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
366 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
368 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
369 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
370 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
371 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
372 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
373 * new applets: cmp readlink
374 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
375 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
376 California; included reference
377 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
378 people should use -n instead
379 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
380 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
381 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
382 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
384 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
385 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
386 for remote logging...
387 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
388 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
391 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
395 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
396 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
397 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
398 * Improved portability between different libcs.
399 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
400 * Common handling of '--help'
401 * All usage messages centralized.
402 * Added a bunch of new commands:
403 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
404 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
405 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
406 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
407 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
408 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
409 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
410 * 'xargs' (written by me)
411 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
413 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
414 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
415 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
416 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
417 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
418 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
419 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
420 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
421 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
422 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
423 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
424 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
425 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
426 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
427 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
428 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
429 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
430 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
431 * Tons of other bugfixes.
434 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
439 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
440 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
441 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
442 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
443 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
444 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
445 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
446 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
447 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
448 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
449 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
450 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
451 work with both old and new kernels).
452 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
453 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
454 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
455 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
456 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
457 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
458 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
459 - Added shell environment variable substitution
460 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
461 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
462 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
463 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
464 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
465 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
466 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
467 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
468 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
469 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
470 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
471 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
472 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
473 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
474 new SGML based docs into shape.
476 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
477 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
478 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
479 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
480 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
481 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
482 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
483 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
484 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
485 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
486 grab a copy from util-linux.
487 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
488 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
489 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
490 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
491 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
492 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
493 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
497 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
501 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
503 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
504 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
505 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
506 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
507 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
508 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
509 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
510 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
511 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
512 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
513 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
514 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
515 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
516 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
517 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
518 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
519 docs accordingly. -beppu
521 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
522 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
523 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
524 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
525 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
527 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
529 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
530 * Fixed update segfault
531 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
532 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
533 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
534 (this was very broken in 0.43).
535 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
536 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
537 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
538 compatibility with the standard tail command
539 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
540 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
541 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
542 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
543 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
544 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
545 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
546 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
547 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
548 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
549 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
550 * Makefile intelligence updates
551 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
552 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
553 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
554 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
555 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
556 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
557 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
558 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
560 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
561 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
562 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
563 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
564 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
565 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
566 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
567 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
568 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
569 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
570 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
571 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
572 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
573 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
574 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
575 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
576 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
577 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
579 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
580 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
581 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
582 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
583 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
584 for helping track this one down.
586 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
587 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
588 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
589 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
590 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
593 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
597 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
598 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
605 * Major update to the provided documentation.
606 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
607 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
608 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
609 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
610 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
611 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
612 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
613 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
614 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
615 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
617 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
618 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
619 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
620 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
621 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
622 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
623 and then adjusted a bit by me.
624 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
625 * Added echo and test (from me).
626 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
627 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
628 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
629 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
630 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
631 fork() for running klogd.
632 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
633 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
634 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
635 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
636 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
637 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
638 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
639 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
640 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
641 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
642 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
643 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
644 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
645 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
646 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
647 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
648 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
649 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
650 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
651 a copy only if the rename fails.
652 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
653 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
654 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
655 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
656 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
657 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
658 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
659 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
660 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
661 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
662 as would be expected displays help).
663 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
664 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
665 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
666 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
667 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
668 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
669 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
670 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
671 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
680 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
681 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
682 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
683 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
684 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
685 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
686 the way umount was originally written.
687 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
688 to be more consistent with sysvinit
689 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
690 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
695 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
696 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
697 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
698 same directory it will print an error and continue.
699 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
700 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
702 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
703 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
704 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
705 - Always check exit status.
706 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
708 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
710 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
711 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
712 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
713 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
718 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
720 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
721 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
722 * change permissions and ownership on
723 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
724 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
725 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
726 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
727 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
728 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
729 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
730 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
731 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
732 behave itself a bit better.
733 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
734 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
735 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
736 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
737 always dereference before. -beppu
738 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
739 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
740 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
741 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
742 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
743 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
744 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
745 end of line if there are no more application names).
746 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
748 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
749 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
750 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
751 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
752 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
753 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
754 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
756 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
757 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
758 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
759 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
760 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
761 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
762 files pointed to by the symlinks.
763 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
764 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
765 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
766 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
767 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
768 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
769 directories on the command line
770 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
771 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
772 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
774 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
775 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
776 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
778 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
779 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
780 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
781 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
782 also from Gilbert Coville.
788 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
789 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
790 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
791 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
793 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
794 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
795 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
796 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
798 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
799 with no interveining subdirectories.
800 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
801 * and support in umount for loop
802 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
803 <bcollins@debian.org>
804 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
805 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
806 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
807 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
808 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
809 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
811 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
812 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
813 referenced, but not compiled)
814 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
815 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
816 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
819 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
822 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
823 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
824 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
825 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
826 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
827 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
828 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
829 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
830 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
831 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
832 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
833 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
834 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
835 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
836 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
838 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
839 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
840 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
841 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
843 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
844 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
845 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
847 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
848 them so they should now work as expected.
849 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
850 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
851 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
852 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
854 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
855 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
856 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
857 - fixed several typos
858 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
859 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
862 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
865 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
866 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
867 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
868 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
869 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
871 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
872 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
874 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
875 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
876 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
877 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
878 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
879 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
881 which blocked reboots.
882 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
883 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
884 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
885 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
887 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
889 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
892 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
894 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
895 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
897 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
898 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
899 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
900 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
902 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
903 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
904 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
905 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
906 will complain if you enable them when you disable
907 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
909 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
912 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
913 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
914 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
915 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
917 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
918 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
920 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
921 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
922 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
924 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
926 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
928 last file in the list.
929 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
931 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
932 are presented properly.
936 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
939 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
940 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
941 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
944 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
945 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
946 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
947 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
948 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
950 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
951 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
952 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
954 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
955 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
956 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
959 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
961 with very wrong permissions.
962 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
963 Now it properly modifies permissions.
964 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
966 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
967 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
968 not seen when switched to a different VT.
970 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
973 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
975 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
976 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
977 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
978 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
980 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
981 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
982 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
983 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
985 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
986 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
988 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
990 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
993 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
994 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
995 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
996 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
997 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
999 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
1000 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1001 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
1002 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
1003 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
1004 should now work correctly.
1005 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
1006 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
1008 Now it doesn't do that.
1009 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
1010 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
1012 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
1015 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
1016 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
1017 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
1018 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
1019 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
1020 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
1021 state the real root device name)
1022 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
1024 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
1027 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
1028 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
1029 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
1030 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
1031 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
1032 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
1033 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
1034 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
1035 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
1036 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
1037 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
1038 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
1039 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
1040 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
1041 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
1042 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
1043 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
1044 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
1045 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
1046 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
1047 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
1048 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
1049 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
1050 <porter@debian.org>.
1053 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
1056 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
1057 * make it smaller, and removed
1059 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
1060 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
1061 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
1062 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
1063 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
1064 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
1065 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
1066 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
1068 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
1071 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
1072 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
1073 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
1077 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
1078 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
1079 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
1080 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
1081 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
1082 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
1083 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
1085 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
1086 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
1087 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
1089 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
1090 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
1091 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
1092 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
1093 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
1095 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
1096 {en|dis}able debugging.
1097 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
1098 (optimize for smaller binaries).
1101 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
1102 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
1103 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
1104 * rewrite. Combined into a single
1105 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
1106 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
1107 libc6 libnss* libraries.
1108 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
1109 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1111 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1112 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1113 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1114 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1115 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1116 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1117 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1118 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1120 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1121 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1122 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1124 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1126 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1127 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1128 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1129 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1130 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1131 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1132 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1133 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1134 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1136 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1137 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1138 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1139 * changes that I forgot to document...
1141 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1144 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1145 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1148 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1151 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1152 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1153 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1154 Printf added as module.
1156 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.