3 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
4 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
5 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
6 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
7 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
8 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
11 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
12 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
13 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
16 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
17 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
18 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
19 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
20 busybox work on ia64 systems.
21 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
22 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
23 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
24 output from ls, du, and df.
25 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
26 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
27 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
28 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
29 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
30 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
31 support a bit for Mips RS3.
32 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
33 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
35 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
36 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
37 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
38 bugs, and similar problems.
39 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
40 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
41 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
42 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
43 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
45 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
46 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
47 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
48 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
49 locale support in several other places
50 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
51 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
52 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
53 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
54 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
55 after permission errors.
56 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
57 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
58 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
59 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
60 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
61 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
62 sed address range handling
63 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
64 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
65 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
66 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
67 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
68 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
69 restarting an aborted download.
72 -Erik Andersen, not yet released
76 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
77 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
78 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
79 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
80 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
81 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
82 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
83 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
84 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
85 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
86 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
87 overrides the system pwd/grp
88 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
89 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
90 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
91 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
92 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
93 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
94 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
95 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
96 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
97 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
98 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
100 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
101 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
102 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
103 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
104 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
105 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
106 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
107 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
108 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
109 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
110 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
111 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
112 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
113 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
114 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
115 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
116 depending on what kernel is being used.
117 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
118 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
119 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
120 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
121 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
122 are stored to save several k of space.
123 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
124 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
125 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
126 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
127 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
128 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
129 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
130 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
131 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
132 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
133 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
134 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
135 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
136 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
137 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
138 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
139 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
140 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
141 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
142 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
143 improve complex prompt handling.
144 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
145 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
146 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
147 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
148 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
149 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
150 for several my_* functions into utility.c
151 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
152 work done by Axis Communications).
153 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
154 and updated the style guide.
155 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
156 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
159 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
163 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
164 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
165 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
166 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
167 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
168 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
169 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
170 byte saving optimizations.
171 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
172 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
173 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
174 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
175 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
176 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
177 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
179 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
180 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
181 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
182 util-linux compatible
183 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
184 avoid namespace pollution
185 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
186 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
187 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
188 handles regexp file exclusion
189 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
191 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
192 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
193 better if-then-else-fi handling
194 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
195 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
196 in read, exec, and piped builtins
197 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
198 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
199 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
200 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
201 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
202 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
203 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
204 the width and height of the console.
205 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
206 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
207 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
208 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
209 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
210 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
211 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
214 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
218 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
219 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
220 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
221 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
222 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
223 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
224 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
226 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
227 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
228 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
229 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
230 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
231 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
232 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
233 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
234 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
235 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
236 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
237 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
239 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
240 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
241 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
242 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
243 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
244 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
245 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
246 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
247 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
249 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
250 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
251 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
252 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
253 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
254 * new applets: cmp readlink
255 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
256 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
257 California; included reference
258 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
259 people should use -n instead
260 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
261 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
262 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
263 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
265 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
266 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
267 for remote logging...
268 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
269 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
272 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
276 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
277 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
278 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
279 * Improved portability between different libcs.
280 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
281 * Common handling of '--help'
282 * All usage messages centralized.
283 * Added a bunch of new commands:
284 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
285 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
286 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
287 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
288 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
289 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
290 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
291 * 'xargs' (written by me)
292 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
294 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
295 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
296 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
297 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
298 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
299 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
300 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
301 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
302 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
303 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
304 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
305 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
306 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
307 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
308 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
309 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
310 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
311 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
312 * Tons of other bugfixes.
315 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
320 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
321 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
322 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
323 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
324 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
325 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
326 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
327 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
328 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
329 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
330 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
331 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
332 work with both old and new kernels).
333 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
334 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
335 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
336 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
337 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
338 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
339 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
340 - Added shell environment variable substitution
341 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
342 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
343 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
344 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
345 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
346 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
347 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
348 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
349 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
350 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
351 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
352 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
353 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
354 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
355 new SGML based docs into shape.
357 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
358 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
359 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
360 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
361 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
362 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
363 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
364 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
365 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
366 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
367 grab a copy from util-linux.
368 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
369 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
370 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
371 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
372 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
373 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
374 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
378 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
382 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
384 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
385 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
386 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
387 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
388 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
389 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
390 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
391 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
392 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
393 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
394 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
395 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
396 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
397 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
398 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
399 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
400 docs accordingly. -beppu
402 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
403 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
404 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
405 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
406 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
408 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
410 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
411 * Fixed update segfault
412 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
413 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
414 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
415 (this was very broken in 0.43).
416 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
417 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
418 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
419 compatibility with the standard tail command
420 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
421 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
422 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
423 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
424 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
425 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
426 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
427 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
428 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
429 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
430 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
431 * Makefile intelligence updates
432 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
433 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
434 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
435 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
436 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
437 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
438 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
439 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
441 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
442 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
443 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
444 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
445 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
446 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
447 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
448 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
449 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
450 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
451 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
452 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
453 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
454 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
455 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
456 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
457 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
458 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
460 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
461 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
462 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
463 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
464 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
465 for helping track this one down.
467 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
468 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
469 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
470 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
471 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
474 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
478 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
479 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
486 * Major update to the provided documentation.
487 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
488 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
489 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
490 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
491 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
492 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
493 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
494 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
495 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
496 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
498 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
499 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
500 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
501 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
502 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
503 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
504 and then adjusted a bit by me.
505 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
506 * Added echo and test (from me).
507 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
508 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
509 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
510 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
511 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
512 fork() for running klogd.
513 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
514 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
515 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
516 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
517 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
518 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
519 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
520 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
521 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
522 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
523 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
524 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
525 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
526 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
527 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
528 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
529 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
530 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
531 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
532 a copy only if the rename fails.
533 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
534 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
535 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
536 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
537 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
538 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
539 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
540 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
541 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
542 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
543 as would be expected displays help).
544 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
545 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
546 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
547 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
548 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
549 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
550 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
551 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
552 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
561 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
562 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
563 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
564 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
565 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
566 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
567 the way umount was originally written.
568 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
569 to be more consistent with sysvinit
570 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
571 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
576 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
577 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
578 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
579 same directory it will print an error and continue.
580 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
581 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
583 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
584 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
585 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
586 - Always check exit status.
587 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
589 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
591 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
592 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
593 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
594 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
599 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
601 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
602 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
603 * change permissions and ownership on
604 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
605 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
606 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
607 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
608 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
609 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
610 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
611 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
612 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
613 behave itself a bit better.
614 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
615 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
616 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
617 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
618 always dereference before. -beppu
619 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
620 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
621 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
622 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
623 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
624 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
625 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
626 end of line if there are no more application names).
627 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
629 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
630 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
631 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
632 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
633 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
634 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
635 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
637 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
638 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
639 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
640 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
641 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
642 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
643 files pointed to by the symlinks.
644 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
645 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
646 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
647 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
648 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
649 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
650 directories on the command line
651 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
652 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
653 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
655 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
656 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
657 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
659 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
660 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
661 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
662 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
663 also from Gilbert Coville.
669 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
670 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
671 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
672 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
674 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
675 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
676 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
677 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
679 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
680 with no interveining subdirectories.
681 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
682 * and support in umount for loop
683 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
684 <bcollins@debian.org>
685 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
686 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
687 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
688 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
689 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
690 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
692 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
693 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
694 referenced, but not compiled)
695 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
696 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
697 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
700 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
703 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
704 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
705 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
706 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
707 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
708 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
709 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
710 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
711 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
712 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
713 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
714 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
715 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
716 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
717 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
719 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
720 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
721 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
722 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
724 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
725 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
726 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
728 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
729 them so they should now work as expected.
730 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
731 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
732 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
733 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
735 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
736 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
737 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
738 - fixed several typos
739 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
740 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
743 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
746 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
747 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
748 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
749 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
750 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
752 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
753 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
755 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
756 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
757 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
758 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
759 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
760 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
762 which blocked reboots.
763 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
764 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
765 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
766 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
768 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
770 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
773 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
775 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
776 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
778 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
779 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
780 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
781 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
783 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
784 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
785 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
786 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
787 will complain if you enable them when you disable
788 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
790 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
793 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
794 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
795 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
796 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
798 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
799 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
801 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
802 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
803 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
805 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
807 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
809 last file in the list.
810 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
812 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
813 are presented properly.
817 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
820 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
821 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
822 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
825 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
826 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
827 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
828 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
829 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
831 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
832 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
833 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
835 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
836 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
837 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
840 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
842 with very wrong permissions.
843 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
844 Now it properly modifies permissions.
845 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
847 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
848 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
849 not seen when switched to a different VT.
851 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
854 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
856 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
857 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
858 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
859 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
861 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
862 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
863 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
864 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
866 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
867 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
869 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
871 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
874 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
875 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
876 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
877 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
878 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
880 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
881 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
882 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
883 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
884 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
885 should now work correctly.
886 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
887 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
889 Now it doesn't do that.
890 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
891 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
893 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
896 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
897 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
898 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
899 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
900 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
901 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
902 state the real root device name)
903 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
905 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
908 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
909 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
910 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
911 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
912 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
913 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
914 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
915 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
916 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
917 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
918 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
919 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
920 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
921 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
922 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
923 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
924 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
925 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
926 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
927 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
928 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
929 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
930 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
934 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
937 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
938 * make it smaller, and removed
940 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
941 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
942 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
943 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
944 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
945 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
946 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
947 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
949 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
952 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
953 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
954 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
958 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
959 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
960 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
961 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
962 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
963 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
964 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
966 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
967 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
968 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
970 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
971 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
972 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
973 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
974 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
976 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
977 {en|dis}able debugging.
978 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
979 (optimize for smaller binaries).
982 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
983 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
984 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
985 * rewrite. Combined into a single
986 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
987 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
988 libc6 libnss* libraries.
989 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
990 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
992 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
993 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
994 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
995 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
996 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
997 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
998 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
999 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1001 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1002 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1003 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1005 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1007 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1008 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1009 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1010 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1011 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1012 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1013 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1014 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1015 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1017 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1018 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1019 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1020 * changes that I forgot to document...
1022 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1025 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1026 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1029 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1032 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1033 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1034 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1035 Printf added as module.
1037 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.