4 * Glenn McGrath -- Fix gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
7 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, obsoletes rpmunpack.
8 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
9 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
10 * Vladimir Oleynik -- ash, most function busybox shell.
11 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell desinged specifically
13 * Erik Anderson -- msh, minix shell, only uses vfork, so can be
14 used on uClinux systems.
17 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
18 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
19 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
20 tar applet hasnt been assimilated yet.
23 -Erik Andersen, not yet released
28 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
29 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
30 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
31 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
32 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
33 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
36 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
37 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
38 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
41 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
42 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
43 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
44 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
45 busybox work on ia64 systems.
46 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
47 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
48 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
49 output from ls, du, and df.
50 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
51 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
52 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
53 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
54 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
55 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
56 support a bit for Mips RS3.
57 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
58 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
60 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
61 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
62 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
63 bugs, and similar problems.
64 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
65 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
66 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
67 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
68 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
70 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
71 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
72 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
73 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
74 locale support in several other places
75 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
76 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
77 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
78 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
79 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
80 after permission errors.
81 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
82 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
83 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
84 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
85 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
86 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
87 sed address range handling
88 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
89 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
90 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
91 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
92 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
93 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
94 restarting an aborted download.
97 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
101 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
102 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
103 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
104 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
105 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
106 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
107 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
108 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
109 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
110 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
111 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
112 overrides the system pwd/grp
113 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
114 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
115 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
116 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
117 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
118 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
119 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
120 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
121 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
122 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
123 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
124 much simpler for all.
125 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
126 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
127 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
128 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
129 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
130 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
131 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
132 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
133 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
134 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
135 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
136 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
137 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
138 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
139 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
140 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
141 depending on what kernel is being used.
142 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
143 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
144 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
145 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
146 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
147 are stored to save several k of space.
148 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
149 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
150 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
151 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
152 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
153 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
154 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
155 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
156 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
157 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
158 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
159 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
160 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
161 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
162 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
163 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
164 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
165 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
166 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
167 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
168 improve complex prompt handling.
169 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
170 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
171 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
172 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
173 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
174 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
175 for several my_* functions into utility.c
176 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
177 work done by Axis Communications).
178 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
179 and updated the style guide.
180 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
181 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
184 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
188 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
189 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
190 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
191 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
192 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
193 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
194 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
195 byte saving optimizations.
196 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
197 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
198 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
199 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
200 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
201 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
202 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
204 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
205 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
206 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
207 util-linux compatible
208 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
209 avoid namespace pollution
210 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
211 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
212 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
213 handles regexp file exclusion
214 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
216 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
217 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
218 better if-then-else-fi handling
219 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
220 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
221 in read, exec, and piped builtins
222 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
223 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
224 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
225 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
226 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
227 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
228 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
229 the width and height of the console.
230 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
231 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
232 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
233 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
234 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
235 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
236 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
239 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
243 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
244 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
245 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
246 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
247 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
248 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
249 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
251 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
252 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
253 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
254 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
255 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
256 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
257 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
258 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
259 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
260 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
261 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
262 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
264 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
265 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
266 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
267 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
268 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
269 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
270 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
271 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
272 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
274 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
275 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
276 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
277 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
278 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
279 * new applets: cmp readlink
280 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
281 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
282 California; included reference
283 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
284 people should use -n instead
285 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
286 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
287 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
288 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
290 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
291 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
292 for remote logging...
293 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
294 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
297 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
301 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
302 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
303 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
304 * Improved portability between different libcs.
305 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
306 * Common handling of '--help'
307 * All usage messages centralized.
308 * Added a bunch of new commands:
309 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
310 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
311 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
312 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
313 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
314 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
315 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
316 * 'xargs' (written by me)
317 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
319 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
320 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
321 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
322 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
323 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
324 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
325 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
326 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
327 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
328 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
329 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
330 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
331 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
332 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
333 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
334 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
335 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
336 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
337 * Tons of other bugfixes.
340 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
345 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
346 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
347 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
348 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
349 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
350 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
351 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
352 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
353 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
354 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
355 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
356 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
357 work with both old and new kernels).
358 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
359 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
360 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
361 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
362 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
363 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
364 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
365 - Added shell environment variable substitution
366 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
367 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
368 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
369 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
370 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
371 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
372 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
373 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
374 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
375 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
376 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
377 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
378 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
379 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
380 new SGML based docs into shape.
382 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
383 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
384 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
385 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
386 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
387 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
388 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
389 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
390 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
391 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
392 grab a copy from util-linux.
393 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
394 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
395 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
396 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
397 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
398 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
399 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
403 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
407 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
409 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
410 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
411 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
412 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
413 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
414 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
415 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
416 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
417 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
418 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
419 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
420 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
421 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
422 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
423 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
424 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
425 docs accordingly. -beppu
427 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
428 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
429 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
430 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
431 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
433 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
435 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
436 * Fixed update segfault
437 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
438 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
439 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
440 (this was very broken in 0.43).
441 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
442 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
443 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
444 compatibility with the standard tail command
445 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
446 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
447 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
448 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
449 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
450 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
451 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
452 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
453 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
454 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
455 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
456 * Makefile intelligence updates
457 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
458 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
459 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
460 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
461 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
462 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
463 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
464 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
466 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
467 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
468 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
469 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
470 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
471 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
472 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
473 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
474 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
475 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
476 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
477 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
478 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
479 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
480 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
481 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
482 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
483 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
485 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
486 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
487 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
488 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
489 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
490 for helping track this one down.
492 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
493 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
494 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
495 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
496 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
499 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
503 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
504 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
511 * Major update to the provided documentation.
512 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
513 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
514 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
515 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
516 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
517 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
518 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
519 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
520 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
521 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
523 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
524 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
525 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
526 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
527 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
528 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
529 and then adjusted a bit by me.
530 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
531 * Added echo and test (from me).
532 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
533 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
534 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
535 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
536 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
537 fork() for running klogd.
538 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
539 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
540 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
541 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
542 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
543 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
544 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
545 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
546 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
547 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
548 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
549 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
550 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
551 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
552 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
553 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
554 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
555 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
556 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
557 a copy only if the rename fails.
558 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
559 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
560 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
561 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
562 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
563 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
564 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
565 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
566 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
567 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
568 as would be expected displays help).
569 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
570 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
571 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
572 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
573 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
574 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
575 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
576 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
577 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
586 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
587 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
588 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
589 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
590 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
591 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
592 the way umount was originally written.
593 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
594 to be more consistent with sysvinit
595 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
596 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
601 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
602 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
603 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
604 same directory it will print an error and continue.
605 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
606 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
608 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
609 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
610 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
611 - Always check exit status.
612 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
614 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
616 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
617 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
618 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
619 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
624 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
626 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
627 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
628 * change permissions and ownership on
629 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
630 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
631 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
632 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
633 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
634 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
635 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
636 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
637 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
638 behave itself a bit better.
639 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
640 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
641 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
642 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
643 always dereference before. -beppu
644 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
645 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
646 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
647 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
648 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
649 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
650 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
651 end of line if there are no more application names).
652 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
654 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
655 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
656 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
657 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
658 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
659 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
660 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
662 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
663 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
664 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
665 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
666 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
667 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
668 files pointed to by the symlinks.
669 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
670 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
671 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
672 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
673 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
674 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
675 directories on the command line
676 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
677 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
678 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
680 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
681 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
682 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
684 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
685 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
686 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
687 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
688 also from Gilbert Coville.
694 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
695 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
696 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
697 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
699 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
700 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
701 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
702 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
704 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
705 with no interveining subdirectories.
706 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
707 * and support in umount for loop
708 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
709 <bcollins@debian.org>
710 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
711 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
712 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
713 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
714 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
715 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
717 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
718 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
719 referenced, but not compiled)
720 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
721 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
722 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
725 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
728 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
729 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
730 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
731 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
732 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
733 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
734 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
735 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
736 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
737 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
738 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
739 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
740 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
741 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
742 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
744 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
745 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
746 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
747 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
749 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
750 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
751 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
753 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
754 them so they should now work as expected.
755 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
756 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
757 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
758 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
760 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
761 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
762 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
763 - fixed several typos
764 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
765 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
768 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
771 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
772 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
773 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
774 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
775 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
777 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
778 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
780 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
781 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
782 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
783 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
784 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
785 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
787 which blocked reboots.
788 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
789 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
790 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
791 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
793 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
795 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
798 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
800 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
801 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
803 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
804 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
805 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
806 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
808 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
809 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
810 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
811 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
812 will complain if you enable them when you disable
813 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
815 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
818 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
819 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
820 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
821 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
823 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
824 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
826 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
827 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
828 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
830 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
832 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
834 last file in the list.
835 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
837 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
838 are presented properly.
842 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
845 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
846 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
847 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
850 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
851 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
852 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
853 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
854 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
856 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
857 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
858 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
860 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
861 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
862 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
865 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
867 with very wrong permissions.
868 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
869 Now it properly modifies permissions.
870 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
872 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
873 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
874 not seen when switched to a different VT.
876 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
879 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
881 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
882 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
883 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
884 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
886 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
887 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
888 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
889 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
891 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
892 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
894 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
896 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
899 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
900 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
901 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
902 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
903 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
905 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
906 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
907 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
908 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
909 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
910 should now work correctly.
911 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
912 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
914 Now it doesn't do that.
915 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
916 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
918 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
921 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
922 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
923 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
924 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
925 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
926 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
927 state the real root device name)
928 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
930 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
933 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
934 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
935 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
936 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
937 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
938 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
939 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
940 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
941 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
942 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
943 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
944 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
945 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
946 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
947 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
948 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
949 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
950 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
951 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
952 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
953 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
954 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
955 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
959 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
962 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
963 * make it smaller, and removed
965 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
966 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
967 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
968 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
969 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
970 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
971 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
972 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
974 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
977 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
978 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
979 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
983 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
984 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
985 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
986 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
987 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
988 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
989 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
991 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
992 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
993 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
995 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
996 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
997 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
998 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
999 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
1001 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
1002 {en|dis}able debugging.
1003 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
1004 (optimize for smaller binaries).
1007 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
1008 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
1009 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
1010 * rewrite. Combined into a single
1011 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
1012 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
1013 libc6 libnss* libraries.
1014 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
1015 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1017 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1018 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1019 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1020 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1021 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1022 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1023 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1024 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1026 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1027 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1028 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1030 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1032 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1033 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1034 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1035 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1036 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1037 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1038 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1039 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1040 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1042 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1043 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1044 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1045 * changes that I forgot to document...
1047 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1050 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1051 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1054 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1057 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1058 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1059 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1060 Printf added as module.
1062 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
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