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
16 * Erik Andersen -- pidof
19 * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
20 This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
21 package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
22 your host system (not on the target).
26 -- various little things
27 -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
28 -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
29 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
30 should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
31 code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
32 now automagicaly disabled).
33 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
34 -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
35 line was previously altered when running a subst command.
37 -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
38 -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
39 -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
40 -- Better devfs support
41 -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
42 -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
43 -- Size reduction in ping
44 -- Always write dd counts to stderr
46 -- slimmed down md5sum
47 -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
48 support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
49 * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
52 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
54 -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
55 -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
56 but needs more testing.
57 -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
58 -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
60 -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
61 -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
62 -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
63 -- cmdedit updates and API change
64 -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
65 -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
67 -- Fixed ping compile problem
70 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
77 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
78 * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
79 problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
82 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
83 which has now been removed from BusyBox
84 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
85 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
86 * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
88 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
89 for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
90 * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
91 that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
94 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
95 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
96 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
97 tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
98 * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
99 * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
100 bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
101 * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
102 * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
103 work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
104 * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
105 added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
106 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
107 should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
108 * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
109 * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
110 bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
111 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
112 * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
113 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
114 * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
115 * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
119 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
124 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
125 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
126 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
127 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
128 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
129 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
132 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
133 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
134 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
137 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
138 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
139 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
140 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
141 busybox work on ia64 systems.
142 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
143 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
144 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
145 output from ls, du, and df.
146 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
147 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
148 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
149 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
150 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
151 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
152 support a bit for Mips RS3.
153 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
154 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
156 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
157 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
158 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
159 bugs, and similar problems.
160 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
161 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
162 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
163 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
164 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
166 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
167 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
168 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
169 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
170 locale support in several other places
171 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
172 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
173 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
174 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
175 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
176 after permission errors.
177 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
178 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
179 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
180 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
181 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
182 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
183 sed address range handling
184 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
185 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
186 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
187 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
188 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
189 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
190 restarting an aborted download.
193 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
197 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
198 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
199 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
200 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
201 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
202 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
203 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
204 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
205 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
206 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
207 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
208 overrides the system pwd/grp
209 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
210 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
211 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
212 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
213 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
214 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
215 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
216 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
217 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
218 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
219 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
220 much simpler for all.
221 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
222 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
223 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
224 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
225 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
226 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
227 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
228 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
229 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
230 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
231 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
232 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
233 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
234 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
235 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
236 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
237 depending on what kernel is being used.
238 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
239 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
240 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
241 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
242 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
243 are stored to save several k of space.
244 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
245 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
246 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
247 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
248 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
249 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
250 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
251 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
252 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
253 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
254 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
255 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
256 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
257 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
258 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
259 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
260 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
261 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
262 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
263 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
264 improve complex prompt handling.
265 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
266 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
267 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
268 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
269 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
270 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
271 for several my_* functions into utility.c
272 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
273 work done by Axis Communications).
274 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
275 and updated the style guide.
276 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
277 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
280 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
284 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
285 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
286 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
287 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
288 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
289 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
290 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
291 byte saving optimizations.
292 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
293 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
294 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
295 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
296 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
297 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
298 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
300 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
301 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
302 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
303 util-linux compatible
304 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
305 avoid namespace pollution
306 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
307 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
308 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
309 handles regexp file exclusion
310 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
312 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
313 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
314 better if-then-else-fi handling
315 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
316 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
317 in read, exec, and piped builtins
318 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
319 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
320 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
321 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
322 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
323 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
324 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
325 the width and height of the console.
326 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
327 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
328 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
329 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
330 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
331 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
332 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
335 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
339 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
340 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
341 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
342 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
343 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
344 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
345 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
347 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
348 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
349 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
350 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
351 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
352 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
353 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
354 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
355 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
356 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
357 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
358 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
360 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
361 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
362 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
363 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
364 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
365 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
366 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
367 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
368 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
370 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
371 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
372 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
373 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
374 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
375 * new applets: cmp readlink
376 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
377 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
378 California; included reference
379 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
380 people should use -n instead
381 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
382 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
383 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
384 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
386 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
387 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
388 for remote logging...
389 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
390 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
393 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
397 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
398 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
399 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
400 * Improved portability between different libcs.
401 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
402 * Common handling of '--help'
403 * All usage messages centralized.
404 * Added a bunch of new commands:
405 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
406 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
407 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
408 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
409 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
410 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
411 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
412 * 'xargs' (written by me)
413 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
415 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
416 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
417 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
418 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
419 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
420 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
421 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
422 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
423 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
424 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
425 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
426 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
427 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
428 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
429 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
430 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
431 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
432 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
433 * Tons of other bugfixes.
436 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
441 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
442 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
443 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
444 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
445 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
446 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
447 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
448 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
449 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
450 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
451 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
452 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
453 work with both old and new kernels).
454 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
455 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
456 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
457 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
458 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
459 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
460 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
461 - Added shell environment variable substitution
462 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
463 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
464 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
465 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
466 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
467 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
468 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
469 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
470 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
471 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
472 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
473 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
474 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
475 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
476 new SGML based docs into shape.
478 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
479 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
480 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
481 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
482 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
483 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
484 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
485 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
486 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
487 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
488 grab a copy from util-linux.
489 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
490 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
491 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
492 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
493 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
494 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
495 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
499 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
503 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
505 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
506 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
507 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
508 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
509 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
510 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
511 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
512 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
513 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
514 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
515 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
516 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
517 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
518 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
519 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
520 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
521 docs accordingly. -beppu
523 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
524 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
525 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
526 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
527 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
529 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
531 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
532 * Fixed update segfault
533 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
534 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
535 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
536 (this was very broken in 0.43).
537 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
538 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
539 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
540 compatibility with the standard tail command
541 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
542 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
543 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
544 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
545 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
546 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
547 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
548 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
549 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
550 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
551 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
552 * Makefile intelligence updates
553 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
554 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
555 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
556 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
557 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
558 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
559 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
560 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
562 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
563 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
564 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
565 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
566 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
567 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
568 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
569 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
570 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
571 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
572 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
573 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
574 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
575 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
576 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
577 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
578 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
579 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
581 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
582 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
583 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
584 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
585 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
586 for helping track this one down.
588 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
589 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
590 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
591 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
592 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
595 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
599 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
600 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
607 * Major update to the provided documentation.
608 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
609 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
610 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
611 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
612 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
613 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
614 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
615 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
616 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
617 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
619 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
620 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
621 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
622 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
623 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
624 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
625 and then adjusted a bit by me.
626 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
627 * Added echo and test (from me).
628 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
629 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
630 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
631 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
632 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
633 fork() for running klogd.
634 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
635 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
636 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
637 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
638 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
639 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
640 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
641 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
642 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
643 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
644 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
645 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
646 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
647 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
648 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
649 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
650 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
651 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
652 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
653 a copy only if the rename fails.
654 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
655 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
656 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
657 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
658 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
659 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
660 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
661 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
662 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
663 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
664 as would be expected displays help).
665 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
666 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
667 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
668 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
669 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
670 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
671 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
672 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
673 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
682 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
683 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
684 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
685 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
686 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
687 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
688 the way umount was originally written.
689 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
690 to be more consistent with sysvinit
691 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
692 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
697 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
698 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
699 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
700 same directory it will print an error and continue.
701 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
702 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
704 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
705 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
706 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
707 - Always check exit status.
708 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
710 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
712 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
713 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
714 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
715 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
720 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
722 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
723 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
724 * change permissions and ownership on
725 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
726 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
727 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
728 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
729 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
730 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
731 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
732 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
733 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
734 behave itself a bit better.
735 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
736 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
737 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
738 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
739 always dereference before. -beppu
740 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
741 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
742 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
743 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
744 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
745 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
746 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
747 end of line if there are no more application names).
748 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
750 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
751 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
752 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
753 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
754 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
755 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
756 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
758 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
759 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
760 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
761 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
762 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
763 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
764 files pointed to by the symlinks.
765 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
766 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
767 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
768 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
769 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
770 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
771 directories on the command line
772 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
773 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
774 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
776 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
777 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
778 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
780 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
781 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
782 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
783 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
784 also from Gilbert Coville.
790 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
791 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
792 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
793 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
795 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
796 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
797 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
798 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
800 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
801 with no interveining subdirectories.
802 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
803 * and support in umount for loop
804 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
805 <bcollins@debian.org>
806 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
807 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
808 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
809 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
810 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
811 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
813 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
814 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
815 referenced, but not compiled)
816 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
817 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
818 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
821 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
824 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
825 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
826 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
827 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
828 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
829 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
830 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
831 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
832 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
833 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
834 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
835 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
836 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
837 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
838 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
840 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
841 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
842 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
843 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
845 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
846 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
847 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
849 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
850 them so they should now work as expected.
851 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
852 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
853 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
854 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
856 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
857 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
858 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
859 - fixed several typos
860 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
861 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
864 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
867 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
868 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
869 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
870 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
871 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
873 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
874 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
876 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
877 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
878 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
879 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
880 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
881 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
883 which blocked reboots.
884 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
885 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
886 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
887 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
889 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
891 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
894 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
896 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
897 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
899 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
900 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
901 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
902 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
904 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
905 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
906 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
907 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
908 will complain if you enable them when you disable
909 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
911 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
914 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
915 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
916 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
917 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
919 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
920 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
922 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
923 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
924 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
926 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
928 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
930 last file in the list.
931 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
933 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
934 are presented properly.
938 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
941 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
942 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
943 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
946 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
947 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
948 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
949 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
950 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
952 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
953 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
954 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
956 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
957 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
958 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
961 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
963 with very wrong permissions.
964 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
965 Now it properly modifies permissions.
966 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
968 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
969 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
970 not seen when switched to a different VT.
972 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
975 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
977 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
978 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
979 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
980 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
982 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
983 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
984 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
985 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
987 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
988 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
990 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
992 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
995 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
996 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
997 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
998 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
999 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
1001 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
1002 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1003 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
1004 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
1005 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
1006 should now work correctly.
1007 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
1008 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
1010 Now it doesn't do that.
1011 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
1012 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
1014 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
1017 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
1018 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
1019 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
1020 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
1021 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
1022 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
1023 state the real root device name)
1024 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
1026 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
1029 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
1030 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
1031 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
1032 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
1033 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
1034 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
1035 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
1036 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
1037 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
1038 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
1039 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
1040 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
1041 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
1042 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
1043 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
1044 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
1045 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
1046 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
1047 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
1048 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
1049 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
1050 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
1051 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
1052 <porter@debian.org>.
1055 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
1058 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
1059 * make it smaller, and removed
1061 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
1062 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
1063 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
1064 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
1065 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
1066 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
1067 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
1068 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
1070 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
1073 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
1074 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
1075 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
1079 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
1080 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
1081 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
1082 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
1083 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
1084 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
1085 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
1087 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
1088 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
1089 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
1091 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
1092 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
1093 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
1094 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
1095 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
1097 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
1098 {en|dis}able debugging.
1099 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
1100 (optimize for smaller binaries).
1103 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
1104 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
1105 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
1106 * rewrite. Combined into a single
1107 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
1108 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
1109 libc6 libnss* libraries.
1110 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
1111 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1113 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1114 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1115 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1116 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1117 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1118 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1119 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1120 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1122 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1123 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1124 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1126 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1128 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1129 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1130 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1131 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1132 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1133 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1134 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1135 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1136 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1138 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1139 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1140 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1141 * changes that I forgot to document...
1143 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1146 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1147 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1150 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1153 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1154 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1155 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1156 Printf added as module.
1158 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.