3 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
5 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
6 * Improved portability between different libcs.
7 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
8 * Common handling of '--help'
9 * All usage messages centralized.
10 * Added a bunch of new commands:
11 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
12 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
13 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
14 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
15 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
16 debugging) thanks to robotti@metconnect.com.
17 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
18 * 'xargs' (written by me)
19 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
21 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
22 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
23 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
24 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
25 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
26 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
27 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
28 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
29 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
30 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
31 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
32 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
33 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
34 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
35 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
36 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
37 * Tons of other bugfixes.
45 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
46 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
47 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
48 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
49 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
50 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
51 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
52 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
53 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
54 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
55 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
56 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
57 work with both old and new kernels).
58 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
59 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
60 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
61 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
62 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
63 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
64 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
65 - Added shell environment variable substitution
66 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
67 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
68 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
69 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
70 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
71 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
72 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
73 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
74 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
75 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
76 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
77 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
78 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
79 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
80 new SGML based docs into shape.
82 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
83 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
84 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
85 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
86 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
87 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
88 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
89 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
90 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
91 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
92 grab a copy from util-linux.
93 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
94 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
95 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
96 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
97 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
98 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
99 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
107 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
109 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
110 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
111 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
112 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
113 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
114 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
115 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
116 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
117 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
118 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
119 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
120 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
121 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
122 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
123 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
124 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
125 docs accordingly. -beppu
127 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
128 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
129 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
130 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
131 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
133 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
135 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
136 * Fixed update segfault
137 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
138 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
139 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
140 (this was very broken in 0.43).
141 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
142 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
143 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
144 compatibility with the standard tail command
145 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
146 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
147 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
148 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
149 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
150 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
151 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
152 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
153 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
154 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
155 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
156 * Makefile intelligence updates
157 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
158 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
159 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
160 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
161 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
162 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
163 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
164 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
166 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
167 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
168 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
169 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
170 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
171 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
172 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
173 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
174 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
175 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
176 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
177 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
178 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
179 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
180 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
181 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
182 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
183 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
185 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
186 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
187 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
188 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
189 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
190 for helping track this one down.
192 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
193 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
194 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
195 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
196 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
199 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
203 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
204 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
211 * Major update to the provided documentation.
212 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
213 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
214 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
215 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
216 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
217 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
218 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
219 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
220 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
221 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
223 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
224 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
225 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
226 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
227 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
228 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
229 and then adjusted a bit by me.
230 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
231 * Added echo and test (from me).
232 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
233 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
234 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
235 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
236 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
237 fork() for running klogd.
238 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
239 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
240 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
241 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
242 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
243 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
244 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
245 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
246 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
247 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
248 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
249 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
250 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
251 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
252 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
253 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
254 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
255 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
256 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
257 a copy only if the rename fails.
258 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
259 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
260 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
261 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
262 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
263 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
264 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
265 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
266 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
267 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
268 as would be expected displays help).
269 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
270 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
271 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
272 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
273 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
274 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
275 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
276 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
277 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
286 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
287 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
288 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
289 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
290 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
291 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
292 the way umount was originally written.
293 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
294 to be more consistent with sysvinit
295 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
296 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
301 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
302 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
303 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
304 same directory it will print an error and continue.
305 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
306 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
308 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
309 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
310 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
311 - Always check exit status.
312 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
314 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
316 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
317 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
318 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
319 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
324 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
326 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
327 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
328 * change permissions and ownership on
329 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
330 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
331 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
332 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
333 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
334 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
335 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
336 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
337 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
338 behave itself a bit better.
339 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
340 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
341 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
342 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
343 always dereference before. -beppu
344 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
345 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
346 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
347 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
348 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
349 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
350 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
351 end of line if there are no more application names).
352 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
354 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
355 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
356 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
357 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
358 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
359 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
360 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
362 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
363 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
364 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
365 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
366 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
367 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
368 files pointed to by the symlinks.
369 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
370 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
371 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
372 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
373 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
374 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
375 directories on the command line
376 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
377 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
378 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
380 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
381 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
382 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
384 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
385 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
386 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
387 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
388 also from Gilbert Coville.
394 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
395 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
396 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
397 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
399 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
400 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
401 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
402 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
404 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
405 with no interveining subdirectories.
406 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
407 * and support in umount for loop
408 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
409 <bcollins@debian.org>
410 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
411 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
412 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
413 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
414 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
415 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
417 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
418 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
419 referenced, but not compiled)
420 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
421 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
422 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
425 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
428 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
429 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
430 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
431 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
432 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
433 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
434 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
435 being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
436 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
437 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
438 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
439 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
440 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
441 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
442 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
444 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
445 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
446 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
447 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
449 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
450 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
451 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
453 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
454 them so they should now work as expected.
455 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
456 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
457 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
458 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
460 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
461 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
462 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
463 - fixed several typos
464 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
465 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
468 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
471 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
472 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
473 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
474 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
475 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
477 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
478 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
480 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
481 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
482 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
483 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
484 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
485 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
487 which blocked reboots.
488 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
489 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
490 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
491 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
493 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
495 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
498 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
500 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
501 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
503 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
504 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
505 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
506 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
508 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
509 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
510 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
511 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
512 will complain if you enable them when you disable
513 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
515 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
518 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
519 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
520 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
521 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
523 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
524 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
526 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
527 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
528 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
530 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
532 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
534 last file in the list.
535 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
537 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
538 are presented properly.
542 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
545 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
546 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
547 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
550 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
551 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
552 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
553 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
554 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
556 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
557 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
558 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
560 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
561 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
562 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
565 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
567 with very wrong permissions.
568 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
569 Now it properly modifies permissions.
570 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
572 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
573 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
574 not seen when switched to a different VT.
576 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
579 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
581 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
582 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
583 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
584 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
586 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
587 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
588 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
589 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
591 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
592 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
594 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
596 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
599 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
600 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
601 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
602 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
603 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
605 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
606 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
607 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
608 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
609 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
610 should now work correctly.
611 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
612 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
614 Now it doesn't do that.
615 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
616 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
618 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
621 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
622 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
623 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
624 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
625 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
626 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
627 state the real root device name)
628 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
630 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
633 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
634 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
635 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
636 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
637 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
638 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
639 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
640 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
641 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
642 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
643 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
644 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
645 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
646 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
647 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
648 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
649 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
650 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
651 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
652 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
653 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
654 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
655 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
659 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
662 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
663 * make it smaller, and removed
665 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
666 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
667 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
668 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
669 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
670 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
671 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
672 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
674 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
677 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
678 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
679 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
683 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
684 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
685 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
686 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
687 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
688 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
689 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
691 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
692 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
693 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
695 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
696 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
697 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
698 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
699 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
701 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
702 {en|dis}able debugging.
703 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
704 (optimize for smaller binaries).
707 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
708 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
709 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
710 * rewrite. Combined into a single
711 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
712 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
713 libc6 libnss* libraries.
714 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
715 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
717 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
718 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
719 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
720 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
721 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
722 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
723 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
724 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
726 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
727 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
728 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
730 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
732 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
733 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
734 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
735 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
736 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
737 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
738 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
739 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
740 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
742 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
743 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
744 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
745 * changes that I forgot to document...
747 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
750 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
751 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
754 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
757 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
758 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
759 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
760 Printf added as module.
762 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.