8 * Erik Andersen -- Merged several applets from tinylogin,
9 namely adduser, addgroup, deluser, delgroup, getty.
14 * Vladimir Oleynik, Manuel Novoa III, Aaron Lehmann
15 -- a whole bunch of ash size optimizations
16 -- Fix for ash leading redirections (i.e. '2>/dev/null ls rubbish')
17 * Rodney Brown <RDBrown@mira.net>
18 -- Optimized gzip.c, shrinking it be ~1.5k
20 -- Fix sed s/[/]// handling (closes: #1208).
21 -- Fix `-/bin/sh' invocation (closes: #1209).
22 -- Fix ash exec (noted by Arne Bernin).
24 -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up
25 in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO).
28 -Erik Andersen, --not yet released--
37 New Applets & New Features:
40 Known Problems (to be fixed in 0.60.2)
41 * msh can segfault on constructs such as
42 for i in `ls *.c` ; do echo $i ; done
43 due to a memory allocation problem. This only seems to cause
44 problems when the backtick expands to be several k in size.
49 -- Fixed msh to support underscores in variable names.
50 -- Fixed a sed problem with unsatisfied backrefs (the problem was
51 noted by Martin Bene).
52 -- Removed BB_SH define entirely. Now one simply picks the shell
53 or shells they want as BB_<foo> in Config.h
54 -- Fixed head to use ferror(3) to check for errors, not errno.
55 * Shu-Hao Chang <shuhao_chang@trend.com.tw>
56 -- Fixed sed handling of multiple -e commands
57 * Magick <magick@linux-fan.com>
58 -- Fixed an init bug with AskFirst and /dev/null
59 * Jaspreet Singh <jsingh@somanetworks.com>
60 -- Fixed both a segfault and cosmetic bug in route
62 -- Made the insmod options BB_FEATURE_NEW_MODULE_INTERFACE and
63 BB_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE mutually exclusive
64 -- xgetcwd.c now includes sys/param.h to ensure PATH_MAX is defined
65 -- Fixed a potential segfault with lash + BB_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
66 -- Removed uint64_t from dos2unix, avoiding C lib compat. problems.
68 -- Rewrite of tftp (commands match atftp, accepts -b, can use
69 non-standard ports, and is smaller).
70 -- Fixed unarchive exclude list handling
72 -- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some
73 problems with mount and other applets).
74 -- Fixed ifconfig 'broadcast +' handling and disabled it by default
75 * Matthias ? <matthias@corelatus.com>
76 -- Fixed syslogd to log all messages from a single connection, not
80 -Erik Andersen, 23 August 2001
87 For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0. This
88 reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable
89 BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a stable version of
90 BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series. If bugs
91 show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc... This is also
92 intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be
93 getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to
94 break products that people are shipping. To avoid that, the new build
95 system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series
96 that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
97 stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I
98 will release that as a new stable release series.
102 -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52).
103 -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery).
104 * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen
105 -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign
106 any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash
107 had several compile errors (depending on selected options)
108 and variable assignment problems as well.
111 * David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe
112 * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
113 * Erik Andersen -- pidof
116 * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
117 This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
118 package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
119 your host system (not on the target).
123 -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
124 -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
125 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
126 should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
127 code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
128 now automagicaly disabled).
129 -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc)
130 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
131 -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
132 line was previously altered when running a subst command.
134 -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
135 -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
136 -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
137 -- Better devfs support
138 -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
139 -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
140 -- Size reduction in ping
141 -- Always write dd counts to stderr
142 -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled
144 -- slimmed down md5sum
145 -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
146 support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
147 * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
150 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
152 -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
153 -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
154 but needs more testing.
155 -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
156 -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
158 -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
159 -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
160 -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
161 -- cmdedit updates and API change
162 -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
163 -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
165 -- Fixed ping compile problem
166 * Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com>
167 -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files.
170 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
177 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
178 * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
179 problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
182 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
183 which has now been removed from BusyBox
184 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
185 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
186 * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
188 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
189 for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
190 * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
191 that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
194 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
195 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
196 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
197 tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
198 * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
199 * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
200 bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
201 * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
202 * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
203 work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
204 * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
205 added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
206 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
207 should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
208 * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
209 * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
210 bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
211 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
212 * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
213 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
214 * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
215 * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
219 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
224 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
225 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
226 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
227 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
228 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
229 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
232 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
233 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
234 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
237 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
238 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
239 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
240 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
241 busybox work on ia64 systems.
242 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
243 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
244 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
245 output from ls, du, and df.
246 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
247 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
248 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
249 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
250 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
251 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
252 support a bit for Mips RS3.
253 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
254 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
256 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
257 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
258 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
259 bugs, and similar problems.
260 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
261 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
262 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
263 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
264 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
266 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
267 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
268 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
269 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
270 locale support in several other places
271 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
272 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
273 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
274 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
275 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
276 after permission errors.
277 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
278 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
279 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
280 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
281 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
282 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
283 sed address range handling
284 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
285 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
286 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
287 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
288 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
289 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
290 restarting an aborted download.
293 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
297 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
298 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
299 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
300 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
301 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
302 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
303 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
304 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
305 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
306 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
307 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
308 overrides the system pwd/grp
309 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
310 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
311 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
312 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
313 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
314 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
315 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
316 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
317 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
318 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
319 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
320 much simpler for all.
321 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
322 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
323 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
324 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
325 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
326 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
327 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
328 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
329 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
330 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
331 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
332 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
333 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
334 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
335 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
336 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
337 depending on what kernel is being used.
338 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
339 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
340 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
341 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
342 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
343 are stored to save several k of space.
344 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
345 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
346 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
347 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
348 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
349 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
350 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
351 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
352 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
353 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
354 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
355 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
356 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
357 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
358 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
359 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
360 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
361 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
362 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
363 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
364 improve complex prompt handling.
365 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
366 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
367 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
368 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
369 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
370 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
371 for several my_* functions into utility.c
372 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
373 work done by Axis Communications).
374 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
375 and updated the style guide.
376 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
377 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
380 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
384 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
385 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
386 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
387 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
388 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
389 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
390 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
391 byte saving optimizations.
392 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
393 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
394 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
395 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
396 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
397 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
398 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
400 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
401 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
402 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
403 util-linux compatible
404 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
405 avoid namespace pollution
406 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
407 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
408 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
409 handles regexp file exclusion
410 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
412 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
413 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
414 better if-then-else-fi handling
415 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
416 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
417 in read, exec, and piped builtins
418 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
419 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
420 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
421 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
422 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
423 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
424 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
425 the width and height of the console.
426 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
427 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
428 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
429 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
430 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
431 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
432 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
435 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
439 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
440 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
441 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
442 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
443 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
444 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
445 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
447 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
448 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
449 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
450 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
451 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
452 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
453 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
454 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
455 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
456 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
457 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
458 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
460 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
461 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
462 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
463 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
464 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
465 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
466 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
467 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
468 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
470 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
471 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
472 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
473 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
474 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
475 * new applets: cmp readlink
476 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
477 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
478 California; included reference
479 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
480 people should use -n instead
481 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
482 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
483 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
484 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
486 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
487 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
488 for remote logging...
489 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
490 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
493 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
497 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
498 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
499 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
500 * Improved portability between different libcs.
501 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
502 * Common handling of '--help'
503 * All usage messages centralized.
504 * Added a bunch of new commands:
505 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
506 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
507 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
508 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
509 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
510 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
511 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
512 * 'xargs' (written by me)
513 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
515 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
516 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
517 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
518 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
519 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
520 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
521 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
522 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
523 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
524 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
525 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
526 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
527 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
528 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
529 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
530 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
531 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
532 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
533 * Tons of other bugfixes.
536 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
541 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
542 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
543 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
544 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
545 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
546 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
547 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
548 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
549 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
550 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
551 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
552 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
553 work with both old and new kernels).
554 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
555 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
556 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
557 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
558 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
559 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
560 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
561 - Added shell environment variable substitution
562 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
563 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
564 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
565 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
566 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
567 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
568 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
569 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
570 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
571 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
572 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
573 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
574 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
575 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
576 new SGML based docs into shape.
578 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
579 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
580 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
581 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
582 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
583 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
584 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
585 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
586 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
587 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
588 grab a copy from util-linux.
589 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
590 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
591 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
592 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
593 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
594 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
595 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
599 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
603 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
605 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
606 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
607 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
608 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
609 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
610 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
611 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
612 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
613 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
614 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
615 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
616 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
617 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
618 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
619 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
620 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
621 docs accordingly. -beppu
623 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
624 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
625 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
626 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
627 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
629 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
631 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
632 * Fixed update segfault
633 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
634 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
635 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
636 (this was very broken in 0.43).
637 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
638 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
639 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
640 compatibility with the standard tail command
641 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
642 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
643 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
644 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
645 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
646 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
647 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
648 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
649 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
650 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
651 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
652 * Makefile intelligence updates
653 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
654 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
655 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
656 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
657 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
658 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
659 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
660 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
662 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
663 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
664 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
665 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
666 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
667 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
668 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
669 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
670 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
671 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
672 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
673 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
674 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
675 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
676 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
677 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
678 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
679 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
681 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
682 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
683 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
684 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
685 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
686 for helping track this one down.
688 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
689 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
690 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
691 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
692 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
695 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
699 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
700 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
707 * Major update to the provided documentation.
708 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
709 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
710 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
711 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
712 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
713 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
714 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
715 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
716 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
717 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
719 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
720 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
721 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
722 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
723 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
724 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
725 and then adjusted a bit by me.
726 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
727 * Added echo and test (from me).
728 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
729 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
730 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
731 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
732 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
733 fork() for running klogd.
734 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
735 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
736 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
737 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
738 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
739 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
740 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
741 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
742 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
743 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
744 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
745 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
746 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
747 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
748 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
749 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
750 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
751 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
752 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
753 a copy only if the rename fails.
754 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
755 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
756 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
757 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
758 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
759 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
760 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
761 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
762 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
763 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
764 as would be expected displays help).
765 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
766 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
767 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
768 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
769 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
770 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
771 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
772 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
773 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
782 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
783 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
784 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
785 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
786 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
787 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
788 the way umount was originally written.
789 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
790 to be more consistent with sysvinit
791 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
792 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
797 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
798 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
799 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
800 same directory it will print an error and continue.
801 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
802 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
804 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
805 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
806 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
807 - Always check exit status.
808 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
810 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
812 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
813 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
814 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
815 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
820 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
822 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
823 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
824 * change permissions and ownership on
825 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
826 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
827 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
828 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
829 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
830 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
831 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
832 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
833 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
834 behave itself a bit better.
835 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
836 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
837 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
838 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
839 always dereference before. -beppu
840 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
841 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
842 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
843 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
844 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
845 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
846 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
847 end of line if there are no more application names).
848 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
850 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
851 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
852 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
853 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
854 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
855 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
856 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
858 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
859 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
860 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
861 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
862 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
863 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
864 files pointed to by the symlinks.
865 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
866 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
867 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
868 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
869 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
870 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
871 directories on the command line
872 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
873 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
874 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
876 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
877 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
878 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
880 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
881 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
882 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
883 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
884 also from Gilbert Coville.
890 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
891 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
892 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
893 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
895 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
896 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
897 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
898 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
900 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
901 with no interveining subdirectories.
902 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
903 * and support in umount for loop
904 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
905 <bcollins@debian.org>
906 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
907 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
908 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
909 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
910 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
911 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
913 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
914 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
915 referenced, but not compiled)
916 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
917 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
918 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
921 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
924 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
925 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
926 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
927 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
928 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
929 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
930 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
931 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
932 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
933 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
934 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
935 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
936 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
937 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
938 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
940 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
941 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
942 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
943 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
945 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
946 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
947 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
949 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
950 them so they should now work as expected.
951 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
952 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
953 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
954 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
956 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
957 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
958 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
959 - fixed several typos
960 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
961 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
964 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
967 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
968 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
969 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
970 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
971 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
973 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
974 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
976 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
977 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
978 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
979 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
980 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
981 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
983 which blocked reboots.
984 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
985 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
986 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
987 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
989 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
991 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
994 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
996 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
997 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
999 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
1000 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
1001 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
1002 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
1004 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
1005 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
1006 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
1007 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
1008 will complain if you enable them when you disable
1009 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
1011 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
1014 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
1015 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
1016 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
1017 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
1019 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
1020 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
1022 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
1023 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
1024 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
1026 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
1028 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
1030 last file in the list.
1031 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
1033 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
1034 are presented properly.
1035 * Also added a TODO.
1038 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
1041 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
1042 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1043 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
1046 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
1047 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
1048 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
1049 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
1050 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
1052 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
1053 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
1054 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
1056 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
1057 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
1058 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
1061 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
1063 with very wrong permissions.
1064 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
1065 Now it properly modifies permissions.
1066 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
1068 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
1069 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
1070 not seen when switched to a different VT.
1072 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
1075 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
1077 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
1078 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
1079 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
1080 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
1082 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
1083 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
1084 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
1085 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
1087 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
1088 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
1090 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
1092 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
1095 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
1096 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
1097 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
1098 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
1099 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
1101 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
1102 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1103 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
1104 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
1105 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
1106 should now work correctly.
1107 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
1108 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
1110 Now it doesn't do that.
1111 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
1112 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
1114 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
1117 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
1118 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
1119 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
1120 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
1121 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
1122 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
1123 state the real root device name)
1124 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
1126 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
1129 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
1130 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
1131 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
1132 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
1133 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
1134 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
1135 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
1136 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
1137 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
1138 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
1139 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
1140 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
1141 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
1142 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
1143 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
1144 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
1145 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
1146 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
1147 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
1148 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
1149 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
1150 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
1151 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
1152 <porter@debian.org>.
1155 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
1158 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
1159 * make it smaller, and removed
1161 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
1162 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
1163 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
1164 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
1165 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
1166 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
1167 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
1168 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
1170 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
1173 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
1174 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
1175 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
1179 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
1180 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
1181 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
1182 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
1183 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
1184 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
1185 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
1187 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
1188 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
1189 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
1191 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
1192 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
1193 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
1194 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
1195 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
1197 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
1198 {en|dis}able debugging.
1199 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
1200 (optimize for smaller binaries).
1203 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
1204 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
1205 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
1206 * rewrite. Combined into a single
1207 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
1208 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
1209 libc6 libnss* libraries.
1210 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
1211 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1213 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1214 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1215 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1216 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1217 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1218 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1219 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1220 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1222 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1223 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1224 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1226 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1228 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1229 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1230 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1231 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1232 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1233 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1234 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1235 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1236 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1238 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1239 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1240 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1241 * changes that I forgot to document...
1243 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1246 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1247 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1250 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1253 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1254 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1255 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1256 Printf added as module.
1258 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
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