3 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
4 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
5 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
6 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
7 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
8 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
11 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
12 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
13 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
16 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
17 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
18 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
19 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
20 busybox work on ia64 systems.
21 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
22 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
23 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
24 output from ls, du, and df.
25 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
26 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
27 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
28 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
29 support a bit for Mips RS3.
30 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
31 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
33 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
34 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
35 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
36 bugs, and similar problems.
37 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
38 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
39 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
40 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
41 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
43 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
44 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
45 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
46 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell.
47 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
48 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
49 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
50 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
51 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
52 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
53 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
54 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
55 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
56 sed address range handling
57 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
58 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth,
59 handling of http redirects, protocol changed to 1.0 to stop
60 servers from requesting chunked encoding, when attempting to
61 continue an aborted download but server doesn't support restarts
62 then reopen output file in write mode, bugfix: when content-length
63 not given, wget didn't download anything, if -c is not specified,
64 it no longer default to restarting an aborted download.
67 -Erik Andersen, not yet released
71 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
72 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
73 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
74 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
75 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
76 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals.
77 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available.
78 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
79 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
80 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
81 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
82 overrides the system pwd/grp
83 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
84 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
85 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
86 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
87 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
88 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
89 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
90 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
91 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
92 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
93 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
95 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
96 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
97 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
98 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
99 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
100 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
101 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
102 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
103 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
104 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
105 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
106 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
107 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
108 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
109 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
110 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
111 depending on what kernel is being used.
112 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
113 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
114 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
115 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
116 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
117 are stored to save several k of space.
118 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
119 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
120 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
121 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
122 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
123 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
124 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
125 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
126 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
127 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
128 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
129 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
130 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
131 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
132 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
133 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
134 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
135 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
136 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
137 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
138 improve complex prompt handling.
139 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
140 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
141 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
142 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
143 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
144 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
145 for several my_* functions into utility.c
146 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
147 work done by Axis Communications).
148 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
149 and updated the style guide.
150 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
151 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
154 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
158 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
159 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
160 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
161 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
162 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
163 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
164 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
165 byte saving optimizations.
166 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
167 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
168 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
169 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
170 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
171 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
172 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
174 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
175 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
176 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
177 util-linux compatible
178 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
179 avoid namespace pollution
180 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
181 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
182 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
183 handles regexp file exclusion
184 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
186 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
187 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
188 better if-then-else-fi handling
189 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
190 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
191 in read, exec, and piped builtins
192 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
193 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
194 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
195 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
196 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
197 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
198 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
199 the width and height of the console.
200 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
201 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
202 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
203 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
204 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
205 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
206 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
209 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
213 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
214 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
215 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
216 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
217 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
218 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
219 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
221 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
222 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
223 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
224 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
225 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
226 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
227 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
228 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
229 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
230 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
231 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
232 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
234 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
235 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
236 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
237 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
238 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
239 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
240 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
241 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
242 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
244 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
245 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
246 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
247 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
248 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
249 * new applets: cmp readlink
250 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
251 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
252 California; included reference
253 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
254 people should use -n instead
255 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
256 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
257 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
258 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
260 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
261 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
262 for remote logging...
263 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
264 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
267 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
271 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
272 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
273 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
274 * Improved portability between different libcs.
275 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
276 * Common handling of '--help'
277 * All usage messages centralized.
278 * Added a bunch of new commands:
279 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
280 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
281 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
282 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
283 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
284 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
285 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
286 * 'xargs' (written by me)
287 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
289 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
290 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
291 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
292 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
293 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
294 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
295 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
296 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
297 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
298 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
299 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
300 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
301 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
302 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
303 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
304 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
305 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
306 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
307 * Tons of other bugfixes.
310 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
315 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
316 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
317 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
318 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
319 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
320 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
321 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
322 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
323 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
324 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
325 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
326 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
327 work with both old and new kernels).
328 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
329 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
330 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
331 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
332 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
333 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
334 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
335 - Added shell environment variable substitution
336 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
337 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
338 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
339 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
340 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
341 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
342 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
343 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
344 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
345 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
346 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
347 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
348 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
349 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
350 new SGML based docs into shape.
352 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
353 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
354 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
355 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
356 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
357 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
358 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
359 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
360 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
361 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
362 grab a copy from util-linux.
363 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
364 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
365 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
366 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
367 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
368 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
369 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
373 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
377 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
379 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
380 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
381 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
382 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
383 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
384 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
385 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
386 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
387 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
388 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
389 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
390 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
391 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
392 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
393 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
394 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
395 docs accordingly. -beppu
397 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
398 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
399 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
400 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
401 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
403 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
405 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
406 * Fixed update segfault
407 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
408 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
409 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
410 (this was very broken in 0.43).
411 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
412 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
413 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
414 compatibility with the standard tail command
415 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
416 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
417 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
418 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
419 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
420 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
421 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
422 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
423 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
424 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
425 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
426 * Makefile intelligence updates
427 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
428 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
429 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
430 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
431 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
432 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
433 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
434 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
436 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
437 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
438 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
439 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
440 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
441 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
442 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
443 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
444 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
445 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
446 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
447 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
448 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
449 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
450 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
451 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
452 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
453 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
455 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
456 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
457 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
458 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
459 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
460 for helping track this one down.
462 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
463 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
464 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
465 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
466 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
469 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
473 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
474 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
481 * Major update to the provided documentation.
482 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
483 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
484 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
485 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
486 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
487 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
488 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
489 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
490 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
491 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
493 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
494 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
495 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
496 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
497 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
498 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
499 and then adjusted a bit by me.
500 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
501 * Added echo and test (from me).
502 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
503 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
504 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
505 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
506 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
507 fork() for running klogd.
508 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
509 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
510 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
511 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
512 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
513 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
514 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
515 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
516 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
517 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
518 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
519 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
520 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
521 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
522 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
523 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
524 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
525 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
526 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
527 a copy only if the rename fails.
528 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
529 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
530 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
531 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
532 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
533 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
534 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
535 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
536 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
537 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
538 as would be expected displays help).
539 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
540 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
541 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
542 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
543 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
544 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
545 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
546 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
547 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
556 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
557 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
558 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
559 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
560 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
561 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
562 the way umount was originally written.
563 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
564 to be more consistent with sysvinit
565 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
566 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
571 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
572 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
573 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
574 same directory it will print an error and continue.
575 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
576 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
578 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
579 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
580 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
581 - Always check exit status.
582 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
584 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
586 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
587 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
588 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
589 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
594 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
596 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
597 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
598 * change permissions and ownership on
599 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
600 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
601 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
602 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
603 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
604 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
605 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
606 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
607 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
608 behave itself a bit better.
609 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
610 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
611 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
612 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
613 always dereference before. -beppu
614 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
615 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
616 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
617 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
618 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
619 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
620 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
621 end of line if there are no more application names).
622 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
624 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
625 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
626 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
627 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
628 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
629 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
630 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
632 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
633 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
634 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
635 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
636 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
637 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
638 files pointed to by the symlinks.
639 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
640 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
641 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
642 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
643 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
644 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
645 directories on the command line
646 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
647 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
648 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
650 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
651 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
652 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
654 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
655 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
656 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
657 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
658 also from Gilbert Coville.
664 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
665 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
666 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
667 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
669 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
670 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
671 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
672 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
674 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
675 with no interveining subdirectories.
676 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
677 * and support in umount for loop
678 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
679 <bcollins@debian.org>
680 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
681 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
682 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
683 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
684 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
685 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
687 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
688 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
689 referenced, but not compiled)
690 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
691 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
692 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
695 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
698 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
699 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
700 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
701 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
702 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
703 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
704 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
705 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
706 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
707 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
708 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
709 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
710 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
711 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
712 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
714 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
715 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
716 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
717 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
719 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
720 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
721 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
723 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
724 them so they should now work as expected.
725 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
726 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
727 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
728 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
730 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
731 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
732 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
733 - fixed several typos
734 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
735 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
738 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
741 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
742 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
743 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
744 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
745 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
747 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
748 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
750 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
751 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
752 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
753 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
754 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
755 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
757 which blocked reboots.
758 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
759 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
760 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
761 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
763 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
765 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
768 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
770 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
771 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
773 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
774 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
775 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
776 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
778 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
779 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
780 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
781 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
782 will complain if you enable them when you disable
783 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
785 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
788 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
789 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
790 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
791 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
793 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
794 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
796 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
797 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
798 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
800 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
802 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
804 last file in the list.
805 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
807 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
808 are presented properly.
812 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
815 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
816 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
817 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
820 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
821 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
822 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
823 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
824 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
826 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
827 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
828 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
830 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
831 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
832 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
835 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
837 with very wrong permissions.
838 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
839 Now it properly modifies permissions.
840 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
842 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
843 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
844 not seen when switched to a different VT.
846 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
849 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
851 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
852 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
853 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
854 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
856 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
857 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
858 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
859 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
861 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
862 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
864 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
866 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
869 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
870 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
871 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
872 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
873 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
875 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
876 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
877 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
878 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
879 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
880 should now work correctly.
881 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
882 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
884 Now it doesn't do that.
885 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
886 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
888 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
891 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
892 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
893 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
894 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
895 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
896 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
897 state the real root device name)
898 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
900 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
903 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
904 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
905 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
906 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
907 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
908 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
909 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
910 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
911 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
912 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
913 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
914 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
915 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
916 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
917 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
918 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
919 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
920 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
921 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
922 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
923 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
924 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
925 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
929 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
932 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
933 * make it smaller, and removed
935 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
936 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
937 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
938 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
939 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
940 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
941 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
942 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
944 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
947 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
948 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
949 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
953 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
954 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
955 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
956 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
957 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
958 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
959 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
961 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
962 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
963 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
965 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
966 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
967 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
968 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
969 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
971 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
972 {en|dis}able debugging.
973 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
974 (optimize for smaller binaries).
977 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
978 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
979 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
980 * rewrite. Combined into a single
981 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
982 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
983 libc6 libnss* libraries.
984 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
985 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
987 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
988 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
989 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
990 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
991 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
992 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
993 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
994 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
996 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
997 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
998 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1000 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1002 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1003 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1004 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1005 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1006 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1007 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1008 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1009 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1010 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1012 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1013 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1014 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1015 * changes that I forgot to document...
1017 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1020 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1021 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1024 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1027 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1028 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1029 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1030 Printf added as module.
1032 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.