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
26 -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up
27 in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO).
30 -Erik Andersen, --not yet released--
39 New Applets & New Features:
42 Known Problems (to be fixed in 0.60.2)
43 * msh can segfault on constructs such as
44 for i in `ls *.c` ; do echo $i ; done
45 due to a memory allocation problem. This only seems to cause
46 problems when the backtick expands to be several k in size.
51 -- Fixed msh to support underscores in variable names.
52 -- Fixed a sed problem with unsatisfied backrefs (the problem was
53 noted by Martin Bene).
54 -- Removed BB_SH define entirely. Now one simply picks the shell
55 or shells they want as BB_<foo> in Config.h
56 -- Fixed head to use ferror(3) to check for errors, not errno.
57 * Shu-Hao Chang <shuhao_chang@trend.com.tw>
58 -- Fixed sed handling of multiple -e commands
59 * Magick <magick@linux-fan.com>
60 -- Fixed an init bug with AskFirst and /dev/null
61 * Jaspreet Singh <jsingh@somanetworks.com>
62 -- Fixed both a segfault and cosmetic bug in route
64 -- Made the insmod options BB_FEATURE_NEW_MODULE_INTERFACE and
65 BB_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE mutually exclusive
66 -- xgetcwd.c now includes sys/param.h to ensure PATH_MAX is defined
67 -- Fixed a potential segfault with lash + BB_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
68 -- Removed uint64_t from dos2unix, avoiding C lib compat. problems.
70 -- Rewrite of tftp (commands match atftp, accepts -b, can use
71 non-standard ports, and is smaller).
72 -- Fixed unarchive exclude list handling
74 -- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some
75 problems with mount and other applets).
76 -- Fixed ifconfig 'broadcast +' handling and disabled it by default
77 * Matthias ? <matthias@corelatus.com>
78 -- Fixed syslogd to log all messages from a single connection, not
82 -Erik Andersen, 23 August 2001
89 For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0. This
90 reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable
91 BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a stable version of
92 BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series. If bugs
93 show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc... This is also
94 intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be
95 getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to
96 break products that people are shipping. To avoid that, the new build
97 system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series
98 that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
99 stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I
100 will release that as a new stable release series.
104 -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52).
105 -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery).
106 * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen
107 -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign
108 any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash
109 had several compile errors (depending on selected options)
110 and variable assignment problems as well.
113 * David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe
114 * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
115 * Erik Andersen -- pidof
118 * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
119 This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
120 package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
121 your host system (not on the target).
125 -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
126 -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
127 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
128 should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
129 code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
130 now automagicaly disabled).
131 -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc)
132 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
133 -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
134 line was previously altered when running a subst command.
136 -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
137 -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
138 -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
139 -- Better devfs support
140 -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
141 -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
142 -- Size reduction in ping
143 -- Always write dd counts to stderr
144 -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled
146 -- slimmed down md5sum
147 -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
148 support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
149 * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
152 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
154 -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
155 -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
156 but needs more testing.
157 -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
158 -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
160 -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
161 -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
162 -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
163 -- cmdedit updates and API change
164 -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
165 -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
167 -- Fixed ping compile problem
168 * Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com>
169 -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files.
172 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
179 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
180 * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
181 problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
184 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
185 which has now been removed from BusyBox
186 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
187 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
188 * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
190 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
191 for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
192 * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
193 that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
196 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
197 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
198 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
199 tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
200 * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
201 * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
202 bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
203 * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
204 * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
205 work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
206 * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
207 added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
208 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
209 should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
210 * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
211 * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
212 bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
213 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
214 * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
215 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
216 * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
217 * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
221 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
226 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
227 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
228 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
229 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
230 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
231 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
234 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
235 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
236 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
239 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
240 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
241 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
242 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
243 busybox work on ia64 systems.
244 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
245 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
246 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
247 output from ls, du, and df.
248 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
249 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
250 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
251 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
252 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
253 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
254 support a bit for Mips RS3.
255 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
256 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
258 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
259 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
260 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
261 bugs, and similar problems.
262 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
263 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
264 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
265 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
266 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
268 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
269 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
270 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
271 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
272 locale support in several other places
273 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
274 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
275 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
276 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
277 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
278 after permission errors.
279 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
280 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
281 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
282 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
283 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
284 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
285 sed address range handling
286 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
287 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
288 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
289 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
290 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
291 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
292 restarting an aborted download.
295 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
299 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
300 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
301 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
302 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
303 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
304 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
305 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
306 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
307 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
308 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
309 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
310 overrides the system pwd/grp
311 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
312 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
313 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
314 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
315 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
316 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
317 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
318 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
319 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
320 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
321 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
322 much simpler for all.
323 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
324 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
325 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
326 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
327 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
328 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
329 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
330 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
331 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
332 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
333 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
334 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
335 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
336 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
337 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
338 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
339 depending on what kernel is being used.
340 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
341 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
342 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
343 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
344 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
345 are stored to save several k of space.
346 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
347 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
348 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
349 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
350 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
351 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
352 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
353 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
354 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
355 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
356 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
357 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
358 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
359 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
360 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
361 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
362 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
363 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
364 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
365 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
366 improve complex prompt handling.
367 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
368 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
369 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
370 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
371 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
372 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
373 for several my_* functions into utility.c
374 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
375 work done by Axis Communications).
376 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
377 and updated the style guide.
378 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
379 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
382 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
386 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
387 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
388 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
389 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
390 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
391 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
392 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
393 byte saving optimizations.
394 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
395 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
396 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
397 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
398 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
399 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
400 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
402 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
403 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
404 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
405 util-linux compatible
406 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
407 avoid namespace pollution
408 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
409 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
410 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
411 handles regexp file exclusion
412 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
414 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
415 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
416 better if-then-else-fi handling
417 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
418 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
419 in read, exec, and piped builtins
420 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
421 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
422 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
423 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
424 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
425 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
426 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
427 the width and height of the console.
428 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
429 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
430 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
431 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
432 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
433 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
434 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
437 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
441 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
442 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
443 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
444 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
445 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
446 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
447 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
449 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
450 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
451 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
452 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
453 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
454 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
455 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
456 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
457 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
458 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
459 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
460 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
462 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
463 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
464 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
465 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
466 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
467 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
468 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
469 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
470 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
472 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
473 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
474 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
475 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
476 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
477 * new applets: cmp readlink
478 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
479 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
480 California; included reference
481 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
482 people should use -n instead
483 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
484 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
485 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
486 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
488 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
489 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
490 for remote logging...
491 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
492 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
495 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
499 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
500 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
501 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
502 * Improved portability between different libcs.
503 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
504 * Common handling of '--help'
505 * All usage messages centralized.
506 * Added a bunch of new commands:
507 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
508 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
509 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
510 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
511 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
512 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
513 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
514 * 'xargs' (written by me)
515 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
517 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
518 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
519 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
520 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
521 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
522 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
523 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
524 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
525 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
526 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
527 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
528 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
529 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
530 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
531 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
532 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
533 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
534 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
535 * Tons of other bugfixes.
538 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
543 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
544 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
545 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
546 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
547 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
548 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
549 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
550 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
551 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
552 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
553 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
554 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
555 work with both old and new kernels).
556 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
557 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
558 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
559 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
560 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
561 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
562 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
563 - Added shell environment variable substitution
564 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
565 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
566 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
567 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
568 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
569 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
570 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
571 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
572 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
573 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
574 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
575 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
576 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
577 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
578 new SGML based docs into shape.
580 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
581 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
582 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
583 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
584 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
585 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
586 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
587 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
588 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
589 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
590 grab a copy from util-linux.
591 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
592 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
593 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
594 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
595 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
596 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
597 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
601 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
605 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
607 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
608 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
609 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
610 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
611 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
612 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
613 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
614 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
615 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
616 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
617 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
618 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
619 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
620 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
621 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
622 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
623 docs accordingly. -beppu
625 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
626 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
627 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
628 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
629 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
631 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
633 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
634 * Fixed update segfault
635 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
636 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
637 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
638 (this was very broken in 0.43).
639 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
640 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
641 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
642 compatibility with the standard tail command
643 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
644 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
645 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
646 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
647 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
648 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
649 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
650 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
651 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
652 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
653 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
654 * Makefile intelligence updates
655 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
656 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
657 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
658 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
659 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
660 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
661 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
662 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
664 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
665 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
666 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
667 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
668 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
669 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
670 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
671 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
672 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
673 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
674 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
675 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
676 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
677 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
678 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
679 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
680 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
681 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
683 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
684 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
685 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
686 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
687 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
688 for helping track this one down.
690 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
691 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
692 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
693 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
694 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
697 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
701 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
702 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
709 * Major update to the provided documentation.
710 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
711 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
712 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
713 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
714 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
715 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
716 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
717 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
718 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
719 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
721 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
722 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
723 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
724 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
725 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
726 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
727 and then adjusted a bit by me.
728 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
729 * Added echo and test (from me).
730 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
731 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
732 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
733 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
734 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
735 fork() for running klogd.
736 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
737 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
738 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
739 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
740 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
741 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
742 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
743 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
744 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
745 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
746 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
747 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
748 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
749 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
750 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
751 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
752 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
753 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
754 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
755 a copy only if the rename fails.
756 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
757 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
758 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
759 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
760 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
761 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
762 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
763 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
764 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
765 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
766 as would be expected displays help).
767 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
768 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
769 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
770 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
771 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
772 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
773 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
774 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
775 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
784 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
785 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
786 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
787 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
788 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
789 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
790 the way umount was originally written.
791 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
792 to be more consistent with sysvinit
793 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
794 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
799 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
800 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
801 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
802 same directory it will print an error and continue.
803 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
804 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
806 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
807 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
808 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
809 - Always check exit status.
810 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
812 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
814 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
815 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
816 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
817 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
822 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
824 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
825 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
826 * change permissions and ownership on
827 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
828 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
829 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
830 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
831 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
832 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
833 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
834 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
835 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
836 behave itself a bit better.
837 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
838 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
839 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
840 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
841 always dereference before. -beppu
842 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
843 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
844 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
845 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
846 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
847 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
848 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
849 end of line if there are no more application names).
850 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
852 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
853 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
854 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
855 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
856 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
857 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
858 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
860 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
861 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
862 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
863 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
864 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
865 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
866 files pointed to by the symlinks.
867 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
868 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
869 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
870 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
871 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
872 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
873 directories on the command line
874 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
875 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
876 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
878 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
879 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
880 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
882 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
883 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
884 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
885 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
886 also from Gilbert Coville.
892 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
893 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
894 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
895 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
897 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
898 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
899 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
900 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
902 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
903 with no interveining subdirectories.
904 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
905 * and support in umount for loop
906 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
907 <bcollins@debian.org>
908 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
909 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
910 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
911 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
912 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
913 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
915 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
916 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
917 referenced, but not compiled)
918 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
919 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
920 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
923 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
926 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
927 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
928 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
929 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
930 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
931 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
932 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
933 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
934 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
935 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
936 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
937 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
938 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
939 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
940 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
942 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
943 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
944 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
945 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
947 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
948 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
949 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
951 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
952 them so they should now work as expected.
953 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
954 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
955 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
956 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
958 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
959 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
960 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
961 - fixed several typos
962 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
963 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
966 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
969 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
970 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
971 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
972 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
973 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
975 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
976 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
978 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
979 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
980 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
981 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
982 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
983 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
985 which blocked reboots.
986 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
987 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
988 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
989 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
991 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
993 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
996 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
998 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
999 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
1001 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
1002 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
1003 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
1004 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
1006 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
1007 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
1008 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
1009 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
1010 will complain if you enable them when you disable
1011 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
1013 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
1016 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
1017 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
1018 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
1019 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
1021 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
1022 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
1024 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
1025 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
1026 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
1028 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
1030 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
1032 last file in the list.
1033 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
1035 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
1036 are presented properly.
1037 * Also added a TODO.
1040 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
1043 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
1044 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1045 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
1048 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
1049 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
1050 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
1051 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
1052 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
1054 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
1055 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
1056 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
1058 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
1059 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
1060 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
1063 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
1065 with very wrong permissions.
1066 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
1067 Now it properly modifies permissions.
1068 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
1070 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
1071 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
1072 not seen when switched to a different VT.
1074 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
1077 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
1079 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
1080 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
1081 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
1082 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
1084 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
1085 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
1086 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
1087 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
1089 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
1090 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
1092 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
1094 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
1097 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
1098 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
1099 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
1100 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
1101 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
1103 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
1104 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1105 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
1106 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
1107 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
1108 should now work correctly.
1109 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
1110 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
1112 Now it doesn't do that.
1113 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
1114 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
1116 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
1119 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
1120 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
1121 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
1122 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
1123 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
1124 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
1125 state the real root device name)
1126 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
1128 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
1131 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
1132 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
1133 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
1134 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
1135 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
1136 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
1137 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
1138 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
1139 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
1140 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
1141 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
1142 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
1143 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
1144 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
1145 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
1146 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
1147 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
1148 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
1149 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
1150 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
1151 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
1152 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
1153 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
1154 <porter@debian.org>.
1157 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
1160 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
1161 * make it smaller, and removed
1163 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
1164 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
1165 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
1166 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
1167 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
1168 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
1169 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
1170 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
1172 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
1175 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
1176 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
1177 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
1181 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
1182 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
1183 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
1184 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
1185 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
1186 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
1187 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
1189 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
1190 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
1191 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
1193 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
1194 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
1195 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
1196 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
1197 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
1199 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
1200 {en|dis}able debugging.
1201 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
1202 (optimize for smaller binaries).
1205 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
1206 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
1207 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
1208 * rewrite. Combined into a single
1209 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
1210 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
1211 libc6 libnss* libraries.
1212 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
1213 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1215 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1216 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1217 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1218 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1219 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1220 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1221 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1222 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1224 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1225 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1226 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1228 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1230 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1231 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1232 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1233 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1234 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1235 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1236 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1237 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1238 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1240 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1241 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1242 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1243 * changes that I forgot to document...
1245 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1248 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1249 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1252 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1255 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1256 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1257 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1258 Printf added as module.
1260 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
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