2 * New Apps: ping and hostname contributed by Randolph Chung
3 <tausq@debian.org>. 2 items off the TODO list!
4 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo").
5 * Added tail, based on tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
6 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k.
7 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
8 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a',
9 which does the right thing.
10 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
11 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
12 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals
13 * 'ls -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
14 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
19 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
21 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
22 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be correct.
23 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
24 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
25 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
26 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
28 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
29 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
30 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
31 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
32 will complain if you enable them when you disable
33 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
35 -Erik Andrsen, Dec 5, 1999
38 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
39 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
40 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper locations.
41 * Changed the build system slightly so that features can now be enabled
42 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
43 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file exists).
44 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h
45 * Now 'rm -R' and 'rm -r' both work.
46 * dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from stdin.
47 * Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories. Moved some code
48 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar work properly.
49 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat out the
50 last file in the list.
51 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed 'ls -l'
52 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid are
57 -Erik Andrsen, Nov 25, 1999
60 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
61 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
62 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also from
64 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay).
65 * If BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
66 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
67 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
68 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when compiled
69 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
70 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric Delaunay).
71 * changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle of least surprise
72 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer --help and
74 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the destination
76 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make directories
77 with very wrong permissions.
78 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
79 Now it properly modifies permissions.
80 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to ensure
81 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise important
82 messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were not seen when
83 switched to a different VT.
85 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
88 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god intended
89 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c' flag
90 and only then outputs to stdout).
91 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
92 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric Delaunay.
93 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
94 * tar now accepts --help
95 * chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
96 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps
97 * umount now parses options correctly
98 * tar can now unpack tarballs containing device special files,
99 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks
100 to Matt Porter. Creating archives containing these is still
101 left to the interested student.
102 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
104 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
107 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
108 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
109 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
110 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
111 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also
112 thanks to Eric Delaunay.
113 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
114 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
115 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
116 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
117 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
118 should now work correctly.
119 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does.
120 * sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now it does.
121 * sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with replacements.
122 Now it doesn't do that.
123 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
124 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
126 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
129 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
130 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
131 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
132 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
133 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
134 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
135 state the real root device name)
136 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
138 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
141 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
142 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP
143 at andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
144 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
145 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
146 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works.
147 * kill segfaulted w/o any arguments. Now it doesn't do that.
148 * kill wasn't properly accepting signal names. It does now.
149 * Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I should probably add open)
150 * Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now readable by mere mortals IMHO.
151 * Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k with full regular expressions!).
152 * Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
153 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options
154 * Fixed umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
155 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc
156 * Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
157 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to /proc/mounts.
158 mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df will now use /etc/mtab
159 if BB_MTAB is defined.
160 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
161 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
162 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
163 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
164 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter <porter@debian.org>.
167 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
170 * I added a changelog for version 0.30.
171 * adjusted find internals to make it smaller, and removed
173 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
174 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
175 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
176 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in
177 it adds 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
178 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
179 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use
180 glibc 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
182 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
185 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
186 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
187 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
191 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
192 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
193 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
194 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list
195 has to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
196 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
197 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
199 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
200 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
201 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
203 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
204 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
205 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
206 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum):
207 extern int foo_main(int argc, char** argv);
208 which speeds integration of new apps.
209 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
210 {en|dis}able debugging.
211 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
212 (optimize for smaller binaries).
215 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
216 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
217 * cat - Works same as always.
218 * chgrp, chmod, chown - rewrite. Combined into a single
219 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>
220 that removes the dependency on libc6 libnss* libraries.
221 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
222 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive dir copies.
223 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct FileInfo.
224 * find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
225 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
226 * ln - Same functionality.
227 * mkdir - Added -p flag to feature set.
229 * rm - Added -f flag to feature set.
230 * rmdir - Same functionality.
231 * swapon, swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
232 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab instead.
233 * touch - Same functionality.
234 * date - adjusted with a patch from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
235 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU getopt.
236 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make >128Meg swaps.
237 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
238 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended
239 it to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
240 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout.
241 * Added the following new apps:
242 * loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
243 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro <lupus@lettere.unipd.it>
244 * grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches simple strings
245 * ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all, but works.
246 * fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but I ripped out
247 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
248 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus internationalization and such).
249 * Probably some other changes that I forgot to document...
251 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
254 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
255 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
258 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
261 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
262 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
263 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
264 Printf added as module.
266 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.