8 * Erik Andersen -- Merged several applets from tinylogin,
9 namely adduser, addgroup, deluser, delgroup, getty.
14 * Vladimir Oleynik, Manuel Novoa III, Aaron Lehmann
15 -- a whole bunch of ash size optimizations
16 -- Fix for ash leading redirections (i.e. '2>/dev/null ls rubbish')
17 * Rodney Brown <RDBrown@mira.net>
18 -- Optimized gzip.c, shrinking it be ~1.5k
20 -- Fix sed s/[/]// handling (closes: #1208).
21 -- Fix `-/bin/sh' invocation (closes: #1209).
22 -- Fix ash exec (noted by Arne Bernin).
23 -- Fix tar segfault when include list is empty and exclude list is
25 -- Fix sed s/$/@/ handling (noted by Joshua Hudson).
27 -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up
28 in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO).
30 -- reverse resolve network name and cache in route and ifconfig
31 applets, fix print nslookup server name if compile without
32 uClibc, fix route crashe 'route add', fix warnings compile
33 networking and pwd_grp applets
35 -Erik Andersen, --not yet released--
44 New Applets & New Features:
47 Known Problems (to be fixed in 0.60.2)
48 * msh can segfault on constructs such as
49 for i in `ls *.c` ; do echo $i ; done
50 due to a memory allocation problem. This only seems to cause
51 problems when the backtick expands to be several k in size.
56 -- Fixed msh to support underscores in variable names.
57 -- Fixed a sed problem with unsatisfied backrefs (the problem was
58 noted by Martin Bene).
59 -- Removed CONFIG_SH define entirely. Now one simply picks the shell
60 or shells they want as CONFIG_<foo> in Config.h
61 -- Fixed head to use ferror(3) to check for errors, not errno.
62 * Shu-Hao Chang <shuhao_chang@trend.com.tw>
63 -- Fixed sed handling of multiple -e commands
64 * Magick <magick@linux-fan.com>
65 -- Fixed an init bug with AskFirst and /dev/null
66 * Jaspreet Singh <jsingh@somanetworks.com>
67 -- Fixed both a segfault and cosmetic bug in route
69 -- Made the insmod options CONFIG_FEATURE_NEW_MODULE_INTERFACE and
70 CONFIG_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE mutually exclusive
71 -- xgetcwd.c now includes sys/param.h to ensure PATH_MAX is defined
72 -- Fixed a potential segfault with lash + CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
73 -- Removed uint64_t from dos2unix, avoiding C lib compat. problems.
75 -- Rewrite of tftp (commands match atftp, accepts -b, can use
76 non-standard ports, and is smaller).
77 -- Fixed unarchive exclude list handling
79 -- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some
80 problems with mount and other applets).
81 -- Fixed ifconfig 'broadcast +' handling and disabled it by default
82 * Matthias ? <matthias@corelatus.com>
83 -- Fixed syslogd to log all messages from a single connection, not
87 -Erik Andersen, 23 August 2001
94 For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0. This
95 reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable
96 BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a stable version of
97 BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series. If bugs
98 show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc... This is also
99 intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be
100 getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to
101 break products that people are shipping. To avoid that, the new build
102 system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series
103 that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
104 stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I
105 will release that as a new stable release series.
109 -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52).
110 -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery).
111 * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen
112 -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign
113 any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash
114 had several compile errors (depending on selected options)
115 and variable assignment problems as well.
118 * David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe
119 * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
120 * Erik Andersen -- pidof
123 * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
124 This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
125 package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
126 your host system (not on the target).
130 -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
131 -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
132 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
133 should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
134 code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
135 now automagicaly disabled).
136 -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc)
137 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
138 -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
139 line was previously altered when running a subst command.
141 -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
142 -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
143 -- Added CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
144 -- Better devfs support
145 -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
146 -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
147 -- Size reduction in ping
148 -- Always write dd counts to stderr
149 -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled
151 -- slimmed down md5sum
152 -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
153 support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
154 * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
157 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
159 -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
160 -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
161 but needs more testing.
162 -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
163 -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
165 -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
166 -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
167 -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
168 -- cmdedit updates and API change
169 -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
170 -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
172 -- Fixed ping compile problem
173 * Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com>
174 -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files.
177 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
184 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
185 * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
186 problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
189 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
190 which has now been removed from BusyBox
191 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
192 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
193 * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
195 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
196 for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
197 * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
198 that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
201 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
202 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
203 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
204 tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
205 * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
206 * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
207 bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
208 * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
209 * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
210 work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
211 * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
212 added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
213 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
214 should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
215 * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
216 * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
217 bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
218 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
219 * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
220 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
221 * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
222 * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
226 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
231 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
232 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
233 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
234 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
235 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
236 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
239 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
240 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
241 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
244 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
245 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
246 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
247 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
248 busybox work on ia64 systems.
249 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
250 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
251 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
252 output from ls, du, and df.
253 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
254 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
255 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
256 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
257 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
258 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
259 support a bit for Mips RS3.
260 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
261 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
263 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
264 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
265 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
266 bugs, and similar problems.
267 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
268 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
269 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
270 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
271 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
273 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
274 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
275 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
276 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
277 locale support in several other places
278 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
279 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
280 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
281 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
282 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
283 after permission errors.
284 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
285 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
286 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
287 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
288 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
289 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
290 sed address range handling
291 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
292 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
293 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
294 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
295 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
296 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
297 restarting an aborted download.
300 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
304 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
305 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
306 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
307 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
308 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
309 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
310 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
311 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
312 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
313 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
314 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
315 overrides the system pwd/grp
316 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
317 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
318 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
319 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
320 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
321 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
322 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
323 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
324 CONFIG_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
325 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
326 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
327 much simpler for all.
328 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
329 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
330 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
331 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
332 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
333 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
334 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
335 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
336 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
337 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
338 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
339 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
340 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
341 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
342 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
343 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
344 depending on what kernel is being used.
345 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
346 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
347 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
348 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
349 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
350 are stored to save several k of space.
351 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
352 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
353 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
354 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
355 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
356 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
357 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
358 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
359 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
360 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
361 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
362 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
363 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
364 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
365 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
366 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
367 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
368 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
369 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
370 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
371 improve complex prompt handling.
372 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
373 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
374 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
375 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
376 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
377 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
378 for several my_* functions into utility.c
379 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
380 work done by Axis Communications).
381 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
382 and updated the style guide.
383 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
384 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
387 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
391 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
392 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
393 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
394 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
395 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
396 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
397 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
398 byte saving optimizations.
399 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
400 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
401 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
402 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
403 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
404 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
405 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
407 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
408 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
409 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
410 util-linux compatible
411 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
412 avoid namespace pollution
413 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
414 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
415 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
416 handles regexp file exclusion
417 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
419 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
420 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
421 better if-then-else-fi handling
422 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
423 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
424 in read, exec, and piped builtins
425 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
426 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
427 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
428 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
429 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
430 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
431 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
432 the width and height of the console.
433 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
434 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
435 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
436 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
437 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
438 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
439 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
442 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
446 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
447 define CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
448 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
449 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
450 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
451 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
452 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
454 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
455 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
456 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
457 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
458 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
459 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
460 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
461 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
462 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
463 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
464 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
465 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
467 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
468 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
469 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
470 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
471 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
472 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
473 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
474 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
475 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
477 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
478 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
479 precedence over applets unless CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
480 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
481 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
482 * new applets: cmp readlink
483 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
484 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
485 California; included reference
486 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
487 people should use -n instead
488 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
489 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
490 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
491 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
493 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
494 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
495 for remote logging...
496 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
497 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
500 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
504 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
505 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
506 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
507 * Improved portability between different libcs.
508 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
509 * Common handling of '--help'
510 * All usage messages centralized.
511 * Added a bunch of new commands:
512 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
513 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
514 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
515 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
516 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
517 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
518 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
519 * 'xargs' (written by me)
520 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
522 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
523 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
524 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
525 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
526 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
527 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
528 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
529 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
530 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
531 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
532 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
533 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
534 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
535 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
536 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
537 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
538 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
539 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
540 * Tons of other bugfixes.
543 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
548 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
549 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
550 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
551 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
552 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
553 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
554 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
555 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
556 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
557 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
558 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
559 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
560 work with both old and new kernels).
561 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
562 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
563 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
564 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
565 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
566 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
567 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
568 - Added shell environment variable substitution
569 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
570 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
571 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
572 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
573 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
574 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
575 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
576 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
577 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
578 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
579 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
580 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
581 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
582 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
583 new SGML based docs into shape.
585 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
586 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
587 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
588 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
589 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
590 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
591 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
592 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
593 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
594 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
595 grab a copy from util-linux.
596 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
597 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
598 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
599 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
600 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
601 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
602 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
606 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
610 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
612 * Added CONFIG_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
613 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
614 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
615 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
616 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
617 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
618 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
619 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
620 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
621 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
622 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
623 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
624 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
625 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
626 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
627 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
628 docs accordingly. -beppu
630 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
631 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
632 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
633 CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
634 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
636 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
638 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
639 * Fixed update segfault
640 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
641 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
642 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
643 (this was very broken in 0.43).
644 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
645 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
646 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
647 compatibility with the standard tail command
648 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
649 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
650 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
651 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
652 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
653 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
654 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
655 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
656 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
657 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
658 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
659 * Makefile intelligence updates
660 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
661 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
662 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
663 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
664 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
665 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
666 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
667 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
669 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
670 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
671 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
672 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
673 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
674 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
675 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
676 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
677 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
678 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
679 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
680 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
681 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
682 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
683 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
684 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
685 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling CONFIG_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
686 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
688 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
689 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
690 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
691 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
692 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
693 for helping track this one down.
695 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
696 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
697 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
698 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
699 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
702 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
706 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
707 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
714 * Major update to the provided documentation.
715 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
716 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
717 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
718 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
719 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
720 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
721 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
722 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
723 provides. To enable this, turn on CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
724 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
726 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
727 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
728 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
729 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
730 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
731 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
732 and then adjusted a bit by me.
733 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
734 * Added echo and test (from me).
735 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
736 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
737 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
738 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
739 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
740 fork() for running klogd.
741 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
742 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
743 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
744 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
745 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
746 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
747 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
748 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
749 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
750 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
751 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
752 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
753 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
754 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
755 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
756 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
757 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
758 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
759 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
760 a copy only if the rename fails.
761 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
762 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
763 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
764 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
765 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
766 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
767 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
768 * ps now supports CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
769 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
770 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
771 as would be expected displays help).
772 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
773 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
774 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
775 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
776 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
777 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
778 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
779 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
780 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
789 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
790 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
791 optionally compiled in with CONFIG_FEATURE_REMOUNT
792 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
793 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
794 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
795 the way umount was originally written.
796 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
797 to be more consistent with sysvinit
798 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
799 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
804 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
805 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
806 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
807 same directory it will print an error and continue.
808 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
809 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
811 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
812 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
813 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
814 - Always check exit status.
815 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
817 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
819 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
820 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
821 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
822 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
827 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
829 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
830 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
831 * change permissions and ownership on
832 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
833 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
834 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
835 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
836 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
837 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
838 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
839 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
840 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
841 behave itself a bit better.
842 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
843 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
844 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
845 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
846 always dereference before. -beppu
847 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
848 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
849 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
850 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
851 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
852 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
853 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
854 end of line if there are no more application names).
855 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
857 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
858 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
859 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
860 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
861 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
862 CONFIG_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
863 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
865 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
866 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
867 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
868 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
869 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
870 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
871 files pointed to by the symlinks.
872 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
873 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
874 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
875 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
876 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
877 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
878 directories on the command line
879 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
880 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
881 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
883 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
884 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
885 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
887 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
888 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
889 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
890 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
891 also from Gilbert Coville.
897 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
898 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
899 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
900 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
902 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
903 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
904 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
905 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
907 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
908 with no interveining subdirectories.
909 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
910 * and support in umount for loop
911 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
912 <bcollins@debian.org>
913 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
914 * fullWrite() not only if CONFIG_TAR is defined, but also
915 if CONFIG_CP or CONFIG_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
916 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
917 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
918 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
920 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
921 CONFIG_FEATURE_INITRD but not CONFIG_INIT. (init_main used to be
922 referenced, but not compiled)
923 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
924 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
925 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
928 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
931 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
932 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
933 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
934 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
935 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
936 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
937 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
938 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
939 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
940 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
941 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
942 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
943 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
944 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
945 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
947 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
948 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
949 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
950 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
952 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
953 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
954 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
956 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
957 them so they should now work as expected.
958 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
959 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
960 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
961 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
963 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
964 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
965 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
966 - fixed several typos
967 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
968 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
971 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
974 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
975 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
976 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
977 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
978 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
980 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
981 when CONFIG_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
983 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
984 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
985 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
986 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
987 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
988 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
990 which blocked reboots.
991 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
992 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
993 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
994 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
996 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
998 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
1001 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
1003 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
1004 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
1006 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
1007 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
1008 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
1009 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
1011 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
1012 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
1013 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
1014 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
1015 will complain if you enable them when you disable
1016 CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
1018 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
1021 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
1022 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
1023 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
1024 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
1026 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
1027 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
1029 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
1030 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
1031 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
1033 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
1035 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
1037 last file in the list.
1038 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
1040 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
1041 are presented properly.
1042 * Also added a TODO.
1045 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
1048 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
1049 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1050 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
1053 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
1054 * CONFIG_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
1055 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
1056 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
1057 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
1059 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
1060 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
1061 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
1063 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
1064 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
1065 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
1068 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
1070 with very wrong permissions.
1071 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
1072 Now it properly modifies permissions.
1073 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
1075 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
1076 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
1077 not seen when switched to a different VT.
1079 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
1082 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
1084 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
1085 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
1086 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
1087 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
1089 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
1090 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
1091 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
1092 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
1094 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
1095 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
1097 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
1099 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
1102 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
1103 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
1104 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
1105 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
1106 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
1108 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
1109 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1110 * more will now use the terminal size if CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
1111 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
1112 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
1113 should now work correctly.
1114 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
1115 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
1117 Now it doesn't do that.
1118 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
1119 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
1121 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
1124 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
1125 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
1126 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
1127 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
1128 * If CONFIG_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
1129 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
1130 state the real root device name)
1131 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
1133 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
1136 * More changes -- If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
1138 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
1139 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
1140 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
1141 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
1142 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
1143 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
1144 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
1145 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
1146 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
1147 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
1148 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added CONFIG_MTAB, allowing (at the
1149 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
1150 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
1151 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
1152 will now use /etc/mtab if CONFIG_MTAB is defined.
1153 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
1154 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
1155 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
1156 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
1157 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
1158 <porter@debian.org>.
1161 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
1164 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
1165 * make it smaller, and removed
1167 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
1168 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
1169 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
1170 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
1171 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
1172 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
1173 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
1174 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
1176 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
1179 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. If you have any problems
1180 with busybox, or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix
1181 it. These changes include:
1184 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
1185 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
1186 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
1187 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
1188 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
1189 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
1190 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
1192 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
1193 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
1194 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
1196 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
1197 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
1198 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
1199 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
1200 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
1202 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
1203 {en|dis}able debugging.
1204 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
1205 (optimize for smaller binaries).
1208 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
1209 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
1210 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
1211 * rewrite. Combined into a single
1212 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
1213 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
1214 libc6 libnss* libraries.
1215 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
1216 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1218 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1219 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1220 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1221 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1222 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1223 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1224 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1225 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1227 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1228 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1229 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1231 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1233 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1234 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1235 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1236 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1237 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1238 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1239 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1240 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1241 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1243 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1244 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1245 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1246 * changes that I forgot to document...
1248 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1251 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1252 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1255 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1258 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1259 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1260 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1261 Printf added as module.
1263 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
projects / oweals / busybox.git / blob