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