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 a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
9 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
10 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
11 docs accordingly. -beppu
13 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
14 BB_FEATURE_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
15 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
17 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
19 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
20 * Fixed update segfault
21 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
22 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
23 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
24 (this was very broken in 0.43).
25 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
26 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
27 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
28 compatibility with the standard tail command
29 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
30 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
31 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
32 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
33 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
34 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
35 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
36 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
37 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
38 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
39 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
40 * Makefile intelligence updates
41 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
42 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
43 Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
44 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
45 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
46 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
47 cannot find by name. Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
48 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
50 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
51 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
52 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
53 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
54 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
55 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses.
56 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
57 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>"
58 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
59 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
60 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
61 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
62 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
63 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
64 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
65 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
74 * Major update to the provided documentation.
75 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
76 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
77 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
78 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
79 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
80 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
81 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
82 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
83 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
84 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
86 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
87 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
88 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
89 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
90 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
91 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
92 and then adjusted a bit by me.
93 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
94 * Added echo and test (from me).
95 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
96 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
97 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
98 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
99 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
100 fork() for running klogd.
101 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
102 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
103 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
104 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
105 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
106 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
107 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
108 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
109 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
110 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
111 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
112 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
113 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
114 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
115 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
116 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
117 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
118 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
119 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
120 a copy only if the rename fails.
121 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
122 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
123 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
124 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
125 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
126 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
127 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
128 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
129 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
130 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
131 as would be expected displays help).
132 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
133 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
134 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
135 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
136 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
137 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
138 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
139 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
140 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
149 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
150 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
151 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
152 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
153 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
154 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
155 the way umount was originally written.
156 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
157 to be more consistent with sysvinit
158 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
159 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
164 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
165 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
166 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
167 same directory it will print an error and continue.
168 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
169 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
171 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
172 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
173 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
174 - Always check exit status.
175 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
177 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
179 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
180 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
181 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
182 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
187 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
189 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
190 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
191 * change permissions and ownership on
192 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
193 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
194 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
195 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
196 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
197 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
198 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
199 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
200 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
201 behave itself a bit better.
202 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
203 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
204 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
205 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
206 always dereference before. -beppu
207 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
208 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
209 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
210 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
211 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
212 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
213 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
214 end of line if there are no more application names).
215 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
217 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
218 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
219 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
220 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
221 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
222 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
223 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
225 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
226 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
227 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
228 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
229 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
230 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
231 files pointed to by the symlinks.
232 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
233 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
234 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
235 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
236 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
237 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
238 directories on the command line
239 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
240 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
241 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
243 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
244 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
245 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
247 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
248 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
249 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
250 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
251 also from Gilbert Coville.
257 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
258 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
259 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
260 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
262 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
263 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
264 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
265 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
267 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
268 with no interveining subdirectories.
269 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
270 * and support in umount for loop
271 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
272 <bcollins@debian.org>
273 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
274 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
275 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
276 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
277 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
278 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
280 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
281 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
282 referenced, but not compiled)
283 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
284 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
285 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
288 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
291 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
292 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
293 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
294 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
295 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
296 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
297 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
298 being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
299 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
300 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
301 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
302 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
303 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
304 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
305 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
307 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
308 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
309 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
310 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
312 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
313 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
314 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
316 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
317 them so they should now work as expected.
318 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
319 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
320 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
321 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
323 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
324 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
325 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
326 - fixed several typos
327 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
328 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
331 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
334 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
335 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
336 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
337 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
338 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
340 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
341 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
343 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
344 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
345 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
346 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
347 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
348 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
350 which blocked reboots.
351 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
352 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
353 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
354 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
356 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
358 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
361 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
363 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
364 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
366 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
367 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
368 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
369 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
371 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
372 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
373 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
374 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
375 will complain if you enable them when you disable
376 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
378 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
381 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
382 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
383 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
384 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
386 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
387 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
389 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
390 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
391 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
393 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
395 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
397 last file in the list.
398 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
400 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
401 are presented properly.
405 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
408 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
409 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
410 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
413 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
414 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
415 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
416 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
417 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
419 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
420 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
421 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
423 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
424 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
425 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
428 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
430 with very wrong permissions.
431 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
432 Now it properly modifies permissions.
433 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
435 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
436 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
437 not seen when switched to a different VT.
439 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
442 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
444 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
445 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
446 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
447 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
449 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
450 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
451 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
452 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
454 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
455 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
457 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
459 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
462 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
463 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
464 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
465 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
466 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
468 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
469 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
470 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
471 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
472 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
473 should now work correctly.
474 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
475 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
477 Now it doesn't do that.
478 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
479 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
481 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
484 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
485 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
486 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
487 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
488 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
489 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
490 state the real root device name)
491 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
493 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
496 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
497 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
498 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
499 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
500 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
501 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
502 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
503 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
504 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
505 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
506 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
507 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
508 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
509 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
510 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
511 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
512 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
513 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
514 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
515 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
516 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
517 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
518 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
522 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
525 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
526 * make it smaller, and removed
528 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
529 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
530 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
531 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
532 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
533 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
534 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
535 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
537 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
540 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
541 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
542 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
546 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
547 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
548 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
549 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
550 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
551 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
552 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
554 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
555 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
556 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
558 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
559 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
560 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
561 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
562 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
564 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
565 {en|dis}able debugging.
566 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
567 (optimize for smaller binaries).
570 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
571 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
572 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
573 * rewrite. Combined into a single
574 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
575 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
576 libc6 libnss* libraries.
577 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
578 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
580 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
581 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
582 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
583 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
584 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
585 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
586 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
587 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
589 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
590 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
591 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
593 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
595 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
596 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
597 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
598 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
599 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
600 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
601 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
602 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
603 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
605 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
606 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
607 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
608 * changes that I forgot to document...
610 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
613 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
614 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
617 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
620 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
621 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
622 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
623 Printf added as module.
625 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
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