2 * added the -v option (inverted search) to grep,
3 updated docs/busybox.pod accordingly. -beppu
4 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
5 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
6 * Fix for ping warnings from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
7 * Fixed update segfault
8 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
9 * Fixed tar option parsing. In an attempt to accomodate the whiners
10 that wanted "tar cf foo.tar foo" (i.e. no "-" before options)
11 I broke creation of tarballs. I reverted the change (so tar needs
12 the "-" for all options).
13 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
14 * cp/mv now accepts (and ignores) the -f flag, since it always
16 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
17 compatibility with the standard tail command
18 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support supp. groups yet
19 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp under the hood. Now it behaves.
20 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
21 * Due to the license change, I can now use minix code. Minux tr replaces
22 the BSD derived tr, saving 4k and eliminating bsearch(3) from the
23 list of used Libc symbols.
24 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
25 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
26 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
34 * Major update to the provided documentation.
35 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
36 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
37 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
38 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
39 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
40 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
41 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
42 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
43 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
44 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
46 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
47 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
48 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
49 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
50 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
51 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
52 and then adjusted a bit by me.
53 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
54 * Added echo and test (from me).
55 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
56 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
57 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
58 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
59 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
60 fork() for running klogd.
61 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
62 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
63 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
64 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
65 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
66 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
67 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
68 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
69 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
70 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
71 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
72 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
73 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
74 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
75 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
76 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
77 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
78 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
79 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
80 a copy only if the rename fails.
81 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
82 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
83 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
84 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
85 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
86 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
87 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
88 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
89 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
90 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
91 as would be expected displays help).
92 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
93 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
94 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
95 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
96 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
97 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
98 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
99 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
100 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
109 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
110 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
111 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
112 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
113 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
114 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
115 the way umount was originally written.
116 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
117 to be more consistent with sysvinit
118 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
119 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
124 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
125 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
126 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
127 same directory it will print an error and continue.
128 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
129 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
131 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
132 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
133 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
134 - Always check exit status.
135 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
137 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
139 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
140 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
141 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
142 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
147 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
149 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
150 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
151 * change permissions and ownership on
152 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
153 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
154 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
155 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
156 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
157 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
158 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
159 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
160 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
161 behave itself a bit better.
162 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
163 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
164 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
165 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
166 always dereference before. -beppu
167 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
168 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
169 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
170 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
171 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
172 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
173 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
174 end of line if there are no more application names).
175 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
177 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
178 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
179 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
180 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
181 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
182 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
183 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
185 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
186 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
187 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
188 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
189 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
190 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
191 files pointed to by the symlinks.
192 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
193 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
194 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
195 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
196 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
197 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
198 directories on the command line
199 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
200 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
201 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
203 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
204 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
205 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
207 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
208 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
209 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
210 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
211 also from Gilbert Coville.
217 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
218 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
219 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
220 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
222 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
223 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
224 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
225 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
227 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
228 with no interveining subdirectories.
229 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
230 * and support in umount for loop
231 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
232 <bcollins@debian.org>
233 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
234 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
235 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
236 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
237 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
238 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
240 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
241 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
242 referenced, but not compiled)
243 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
244 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
245 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
248 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
251 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
252 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
253 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
254 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
255 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
256 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
257 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
258 being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
259 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
260 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
261 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
262 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
263 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
264 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
265 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
267 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
268 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
269 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
270 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
272 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
273 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
274 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
276 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
277 them so they should now work as expected.
278 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
279 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
280 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
281 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
283 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
284 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
285 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
286 - fixed several typos
287 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
288 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
291 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
294 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
295 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
296 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
297 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
298 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
300 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
301 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
303 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
304 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
305 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
306 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
307 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
308 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
310 which blocked reboots.
311 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
312 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
313 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
314 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
316 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
318 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
321 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
323 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
324 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
326 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
327 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
328 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
329 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
331 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
332 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
333 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
334 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
335 will complain if you enable them when you disable
336 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
338 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
341 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
342 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
343 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
344 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
346 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
347 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
349 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
350 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
351 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
353 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
355 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
357 last file in the list.
358 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
360 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
361 are presented properly.
365 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
368 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
369 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
370 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
373 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
374 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
375 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
376 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
377 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
379 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
380 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
381 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
383 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
384 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
385 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
388 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
390 with very wrong permissions.
391 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
392 Now it properly modifies permissions.
393 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
395 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
396 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
397 not seen when switched to a different VT.
399 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
402 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
404 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
405 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
406 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
407 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
409 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
410 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
411 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
412 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
414 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
415 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
417 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
419 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
422 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
423 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
424 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
425 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
426 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
428 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
429 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
430 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
431 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
432 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
433 should now work correctly.
434 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
435 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
437 Now it doesn't do that.
438 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
439 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
441 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
444 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
445 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
446 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
447 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
448 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
449 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
450 state the real root device name)
451 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
453 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
456 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
457 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
458 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
459 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
460 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
461 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
462 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
463 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
464 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
465 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
466 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
467 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
468 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
469 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
470 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
471 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
472 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
473 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
474 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
475 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
476 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
477 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
478 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
482 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
485 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
486 * make it smaller, and removed
488 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
489 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
490 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
491 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
492 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
493 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
494 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
495 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
497 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
500 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
501 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
502 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
506 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
507 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
508 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
509 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
510 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
511 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
512 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
514 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
515 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
516 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
518 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
519 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
520 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
521 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
522 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
524 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
525 {en|dis}able debugging.
526 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
527 (optimize for smaller binaries).
530 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
531 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
532 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
533 * rewrite. Combined into a single
534 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
535 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
536 libc6 libnss* libraries.
537 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
538 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
540 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
541 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
542 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
543 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
544 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
545 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
546 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
547 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
549 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
550 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
551 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
553 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
555 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
556 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
557 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
558 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
559 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
560 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
561 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
562 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
563 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
565 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
566 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
567 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
568 * changes that I forgot to document...
570 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
573 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
574 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
577 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
580 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
581 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
582 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
583 Printf added as module.
585 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.