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