2 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
4 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
5 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
6 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
7 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
8 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
9 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
10 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
11 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
12 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
13 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
14 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
15 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
16 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
17 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
18 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
19 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
20 docs accordingly. -beppu
22 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
23 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
24 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
25 BB_FEATURE_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
26 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
28 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
30 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
31 * Fixed update segfault
32 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
33 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
34 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
35 (this was very broken in 0.43).
36 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
37 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
38 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
39 compatibility with the standard tail command
40 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
41 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
42 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
43 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
44 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
45 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
46 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
47 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
48 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
49 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
50 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
51 * Makefile intelligence updates
52 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
53 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
54 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
55 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
56 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
57 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
58 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
59 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
61 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
62 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
63 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
64 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
65 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
66 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
67 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
68 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
69 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
70 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
71 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
72 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
73 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
74 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
75 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
76 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
77 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
78 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
80 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
81 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
82 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
83 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
84 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
85 for helping track this one down.
87 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
88 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
89 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
90 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
91 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
94 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
98 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
99 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
106 * Major update to the provided documentation.
107 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
108 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
109 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
110 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
111 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
112 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
113 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
114 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
115 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
116 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
118 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
119 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
120 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
121 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
122 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
123 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
124 and then adjusted a bit by me.
125 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
126 * Added echo and test (from me).
127 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
128 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
129 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
130 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
131 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
132 fork() for running klogd.
133 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
134 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
135 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
136 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
137 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
138 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
139 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
140 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
141 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
142 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
143 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
144 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
145 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
146 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
147 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
148 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
149 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
150 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
151 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
152 a copy only if the rename fails.
153 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
154 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
155 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
156 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
157 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
158 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
159 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
160 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
161 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
162 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
163 as would be expected displays help).
164 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
165 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
166 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
167 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
168 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
169 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
170 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
171 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
172 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
181 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
182 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
183 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
184 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
185 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
186 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
187 the way umount was originally written.
188 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
189 to be more consistent with sysvinit
190 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
191 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
196 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
197 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
198 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
199 same directory it will print an error and continue.
200 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
201 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
203 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
204 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
205 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
206 - Always check exit status.
207 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
209 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
211 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
212 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
213 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
214 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
219 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
221 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
222 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
223 * change permissions and ownership on
224 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
225 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
226 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
227 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
228 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
229 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
230 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
231 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
232 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
233 behave itself a bit better.
234 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
235 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
236 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
237 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
238 always dereference before. -beppu
239 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
240 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
241 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
242 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
243 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
244 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
245 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
246 end of line if there are no more application names).
247 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
249 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
250 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
251 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
252 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
253 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
254 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
255 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
257 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
258 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
259 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
260 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
261 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
262 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
263 files pointed to by the symlinks.
264 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
265 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
266 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
267 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
268 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
269 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
270 directories on the command line
271 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
272 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
273 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
275 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
276 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
277 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
279 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
280 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
281 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
282 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
283 also from Gilbert Coville.
289 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
290 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
291 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
292 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
294 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
295 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
296 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
297 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
299 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
300 with no interveining subdirectories.
301 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
302 * and support in umount for loop
303 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
304 <bcollins@debian.org>
305 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
306 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
307 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
308 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
309 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
310 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
312 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
313 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
314 referenced, but not compiled)
315 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
316 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
317 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
320 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
323 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
324 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
325 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
326 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
327 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
328 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
329 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
330 being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
331 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
332 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
333 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
334 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
335 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
336 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
337 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
339 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
340 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
341 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
342 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
344 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
345 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
346 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
348 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
349 them so they should now work as expected.
350 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
351 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
352 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
353 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
355 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
356 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
357 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
358 - fixed several typos
359 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
360 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
363 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
366 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
367 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
368 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
369 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
370 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
372 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
373 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
375 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
376 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
377 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
378 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
379 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
380 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
382 which blocked reboots.
383 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
384 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
385 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
386 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
388 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
390 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
393 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
395 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
396 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
398 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
399 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
400 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
401 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
403 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
404 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
405 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
406 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
407 will complain if you enable them when you disable
408 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
410 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
413 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
414 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
415 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
416 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
418 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
419 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
421 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
422 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
423 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
425 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
427 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
429 last file in the list.
430 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
432 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
433 are presented properly.
437 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
440 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
441 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
442 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
445 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
446 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
447 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
448 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
449 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
451 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
452 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
453 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
455 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
456 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
457 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
460 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
462 with very wrong permissions.
463 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
464 Now it properly modifies permissions.
465 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
467 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
468 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
469 not seen when switched to a different VT.
471 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
474 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
476 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
477 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
478 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
479 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
481 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
482 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
483 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
484 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
486 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
487 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
489 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
491 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
494 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
495 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
496 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
497 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
498 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
500 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
501 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
502 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
503 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
504 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
505 should now work correctly.
506 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
507 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
509 Now it doesn't do that.
510 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
511 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
513 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
516 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
517 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
518 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
519 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
520 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
521 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
522 state the real root device name)
523 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
525 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
528 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
529 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
530 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
531 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
532 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
533 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
534 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
535 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
536 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
537 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
538 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
539 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
540 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
541 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
542 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
543 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
544 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
545 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
546 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
547 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
548 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
549 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
550 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
554 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
557 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
558 * make it smaller, and removed
560 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
561 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
562 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
563 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
564 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
565 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
566 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
567 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
569 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
572 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
573 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
574 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
578 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
579 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
580 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
581 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
582 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
583 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
584 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
586 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
587 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
588 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
590 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
591 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
592 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
593 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
594 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
596 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
597 {en|dis}able debugging.
598 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
599 (optimize for smaller binaries).
602 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
603 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
604 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
605 * rewrite. Combined into a single
606 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
607 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
608 libc6 libnss* libraries.
609 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
610 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
612 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
613 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
614 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
615 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
616 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
617 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
618 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
619 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
621 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
622 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
623 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
625 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
627 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
628 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
629 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
630 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
631 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
632 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
633 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
634 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
635 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
637 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
638 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
639 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
640 * changes that I forgot to document...
642 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
645 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
646 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
649 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
652 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
653 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
654 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
655 Printf added as module.
657 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.