2 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
3 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
4 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
5 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
6 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
7 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
8 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
9 docs accordingly. -beppu
11 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
12 BB_FEATURE_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
13 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
15 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
17 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
18 * Fixed update segfault
19 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
20 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
21 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
22 (this was very broken in 0.43).
23 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
24 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
25 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
26 compatibility with the standard tail command
27 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
28 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
29 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
30 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
31 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
32 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
33 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
34 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
35 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
36 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
37 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
38 * Makefile intelligence updates
39 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
40 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
41 Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
50 * Major update to the provided documentation.
51 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
52 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
53 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
54 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
55 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
56 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
57 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
58 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
59 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
60 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
62 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
63 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
64 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
65 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
66 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
67 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
68 and then adjusted a bit by me.
69 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
70 * Added echo and test (from me).
71 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
72 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
73 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
74 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
75 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
76 fork() for running klogd.
77 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
78 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
79 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
80 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
81 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
82 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
83 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
84 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
85 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
86 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
87 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
88 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
89 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
90 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
91 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
92 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
93 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
94 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
95 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
96 a copy only if the rename fails.
97 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
98 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
99 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
100 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
101 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
102 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
103 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
104 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
105 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
106 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
107 as would be expected displays help).
108 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
109 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
110 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
111 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
112 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
113 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
114 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
115 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
116 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
125 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
126 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
127 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
128 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
129 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
130 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
131 the way umount was originally written.
132 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
133 to be more consistent with sysvinit
134 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
135 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
140 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
141 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
142 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
143 same directory it will print an error and continue.
144 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
145 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
147 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
148 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
149 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
150 - Always check exit status.
151 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
153 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
155 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
156 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
157 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
158 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
163 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
165 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
166 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
167 * change permissions and ownership on
168 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
169 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
170 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
171 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
172 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
173 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
174 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
175 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
176 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
177 behave itself a bit better.
178 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
179 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
180 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
181 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
182 always dereference before. -beppu
183 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
184 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
185 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
186 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
187 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
188 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
189 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
190 end of line if there are no more application names).
191 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
193 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
194 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
195 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
196 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
197 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
198 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
199 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
201 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
202 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
203 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
204 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
205 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
206 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
207 files pointed to by the symlinks.
208 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
209 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
210 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
211 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
212 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
213 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
214 directories on the command line
215 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
216 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
217 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
219 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
220 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
221 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
223 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
224 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
225 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
226 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
227 also from Gilbert Coville.
233 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
234 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
235 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
236 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
238 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
239 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
240 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
241 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
243 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
244 with no interveining subdirectories.
245 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
246 * and support in umount for loop
247 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
248 <bcollins@debian.org>
249 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
250 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
251 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
252 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
253 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
254 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
256 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
257 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
258 referenced, but not compiled)
259 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
260 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
261 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
264 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
267 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
268 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
269 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
270 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
271 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
272 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
273 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
274 being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
275 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
276 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
277 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
278 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
279 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
280 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
281 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
283 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
284 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
285 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
286 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
288 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
289 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
290 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
292 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
293 them so they should now work as expected.
294 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
295 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
296 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
297 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
299 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
300 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
301 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
302 - fixed several typos
303 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
304 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
307 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
310 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
311 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
312 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
313 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
314 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
316 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
317 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
319 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
320 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
321 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
322 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
323 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
324 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
326 which blocked reboots.
327 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
328 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
329 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
330 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
332 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
334 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
337 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
339 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
340 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
342 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
343 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
344 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
345 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
347 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
348 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
349 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
350 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
351 will complain if you enable them when you disable
352 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
354 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
357 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
358 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
359 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
360 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
362 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
363 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
365 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
366 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
367 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
369 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
371 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
373 last file in the list.
374 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
376 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
377 are presented properly.
381 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
384 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
385 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
386 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
389 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
390 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
391 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
392 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
393 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
395 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
396 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
397 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
399 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
400 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
401 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
404 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
406 with very wrong permissions.
407 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
408 Now it properly modifies permissions.
409 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
411 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
412 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
413 not seen when switched to a different VT.
415 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
418 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
420 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
421 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
422 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
423 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
425 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
426 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
427 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
428 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
430 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
431 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
433 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
435 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
438 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
439 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
440 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
441 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
442 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
444 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
445 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
446 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
447 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
448 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
449 should now work correctly.
450 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
451 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
453 Now it doesn't do that.
454 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
455 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
457 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
460 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
461 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
462 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
463 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
464 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
465 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
466 state the real root device name)
467 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
469 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
472 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
473 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
474 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
475 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
476 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
477 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
478 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
479 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
480 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
481 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
482 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
483 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
484 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
485 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
486 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
487 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
488 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
489 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
490 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
491 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
492 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
493 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
494 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
498 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
501 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
502 * make it smaller, and removed
504 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
505 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
506 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
507 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
508 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
509 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
510 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
511 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
513 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
516 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
517 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
518 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
522 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
523 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
524 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
525 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
526 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
527 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
528 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
530 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
531 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
532 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
534 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
535 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
536 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
537 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
538 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
540 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
541 {en|dis}able debugging.
542 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
543 (optimize for smaller binaries).
546 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
547 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
548 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
549 * rewrite. Combined into a single
550 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
551 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
552 libc6 libnss* libraries.
553 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
554 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
556 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
557 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
558 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
559 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
560 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
561 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
562 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
563 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
565 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
566 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
567 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
569 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
571 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
572 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
573 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
574 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
575 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
576 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
577 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
578 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
579 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
581 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
582 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
583 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
584 * changes that I forgot to document...
586 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
589 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
590 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
593 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
596 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
597 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
598 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
599 Printf added as module.
601 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
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