3 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
6 -Erik Andersen, not yet released
12 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
13 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
14 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
15 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
16 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
17 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
20 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
21 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
22 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
25 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
26 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
27 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
28 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
29 busybox work on ia64 systems.
30 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
31 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
32 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
33 output from ls, du, and df.
34 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
35 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
36 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
37 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
38 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
39 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
40 support a bit for Mips RS3.
41 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
42 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
44 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
45 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
46 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
47 bugs, and similar problems.
48 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
49 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
50 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
51 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
52 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
54 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
55 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
56 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
57 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
58 locale support in several other places
59 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
60 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
61 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
62 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
63 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
64 after permission errors.
65 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
66 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
67 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
68 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
69 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
70 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
71 sed address range handling
72 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
73 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
74 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
75 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
76 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
77 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
78 restarting an aborted download.
81 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
85 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
86 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
87 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
88 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
89 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
90 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
91 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
92 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
93 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
94 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
95 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
96 overrides the system pwd/grp
97 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
98 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
99 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
100 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
101 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
102 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
103 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
104 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
105 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
106 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
107 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
108 much simpler for all.
109 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
110 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
111 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
112 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
113 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
114 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
115 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
116 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
117 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
118 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
119 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
120 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
121 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
122 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
123 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
124 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
125 depending on what kernel is being used.
126 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
127 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
128 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
129 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
130 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
131 are stored to save several k of space.
132 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
133 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
134 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
135 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
136 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
137 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
138 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
139 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
140 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
141 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
142 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
143 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
144 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
145 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
146 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
147 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
148 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
149 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
150 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
151 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
152 improve complex prompt handling.
153 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
154 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
155 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
156 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
157 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
158 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
159 for several my_* functions into utility.c
160 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
161 work done by Axis Communications).
162 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
163 and updated the style guide.
164 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
165 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
168 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
172 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
173 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
174 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
175 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
176 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
177 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
178 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
179 byte saving optimizations.
180 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
181 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
182 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
183 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
184 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
185 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
186 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
188 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
189 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
190 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
191 util-linux compatible
192 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
193 avoid namespace pollution
194 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
195 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
196 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
197 handles regexp file exclusion
198 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
200 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
201 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
202 better if-then-else-fi handling
203 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
204 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
205 in read, exec, and piped builtins
206 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
207 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
208 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
209 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
210 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
211 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
212 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
213 the width and height of the console.
214 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
215 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
216 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
217 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
218 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
219 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
220 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
223 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
227 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
228 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
229 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
230 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
231 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
232 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
233 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
235 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
236 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
237 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
238 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
239 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
240 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
241 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
242 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
243 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
244 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
245 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
246 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
248 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
249 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
250 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
251 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
252 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
253 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
254 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
255 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
256 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
258 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
259 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
260 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
261 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
262 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
263 * new applets: cmp readlink
264 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
265 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
266 California; included reference
267 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
268 people should use -n instead
269 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
270 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
271 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
272 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
274 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
275 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
276 for remote logging...
277 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
278 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
281 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
285 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
286 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
287 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
288 * Improved portability between different libcs.
289 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
290 * Common handling of '--help'
291 * All usage messages centralized.
292 * Added a bunch of new commands:
293 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
294 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
295 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
296 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
297 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
298 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
299 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
300 * 'xargs' (written by me)
301 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
303 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
304 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
305 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
306 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
307 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
308 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
309 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
310 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
311 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
312 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
313 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
314 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
315 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
316 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
317 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
318 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
319 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
320 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
321 * Tons of other bugfixes.
324 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
329 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
330 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
331 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
332 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
333 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
334 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
335 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
336 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
337 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
338 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
339 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
340 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
341 work with both old and new kernels).
342 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
343 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
344 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
345 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
346 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
347 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
348 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
349 - Added shell environment variable substitution
350 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
351 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
352 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
353 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
354 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
355 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
356 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
357 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
358 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
359 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
360 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
361 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
362 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
363 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
364 new SGML based docs into shape.
366 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
367 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
368 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
369 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
370 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
371 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
372 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
373 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
374 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
375 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
376 grab a copy from util-linux.
377 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
378 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
379 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
380 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
381 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
382 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
383 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
387 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
391 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
393 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
394 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
395 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
396 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
397 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
398 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
399 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
400 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
401 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
402 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
403 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
404 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
405 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
406 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
407 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
408 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
409 docs accordingly. -beppu
411 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
412 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
413 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
414 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
415 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
417 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
419 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
420 * Fixed update segfault
421 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
422 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
423 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
424 (this was very broken in 0.43).
425 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
426 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
427 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
428 compatibility with the standard tail command
429 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
430 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
431 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
432 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
433 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
434 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
435 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
436 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
437 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
438 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
439 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
440 * Makefile intelligence updates
441 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
442 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
443 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
444 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
445 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
446 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
447 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
448 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
450 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
451 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
452 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
453 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
454 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
455 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
456 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
457 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
458 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
459 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
460 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
461 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
462 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
463 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
464 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
465 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
466 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
467 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
469 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
470 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
471 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
472 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
473 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
474 for helping track this one down.
476 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
477 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
478 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
479 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
480 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
483 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
487 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
488 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
495 * Major update to the provided documentation.
496 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
497 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
498 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
499 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
500 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
501 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
502 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
503 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
504 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
505 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
507 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
508 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
509 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
510 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
511 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
512 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
513 and then adjusted a bit by me.
514 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
515 * Added echo and test (from me).
516 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
517 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
518 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
519 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
520 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
521 fork() for running klogd.
522 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
523 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
524 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
525 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
526 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
527 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
528 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
529 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
530 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
531 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
532 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
533 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
534 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
535 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
536 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
537 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
538 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
539 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
540 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
541 a copy only if the rename fails.
542 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
543 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
544 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
545 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
546 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
547 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
548 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
549 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
550 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
551 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
552 as would be expected displays help).
553 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
554 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
555 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
556 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
557 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
558 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
559 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
560 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
561 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
570 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
571 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
572 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
573 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
574 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
575 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
576 the way umount was originally written.
577 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
578 to be more consistent with sysvinit
579 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
580 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
585 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
586 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
587 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
588 same directory it will print an error and continue.
589 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
590 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
592 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
593 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
594 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
595 - Always check exit status.
596 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
598 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
600 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
601 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
602 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
603 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
608 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
610 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
611 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
612 * change permissions and ownership on
613 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
614 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
615 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
616 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
617 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
618 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
619 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
620 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
621 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
622 behave itself a bit better.
623 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
624 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
625 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
626 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
627 always dereference before. -beppu
628 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
629 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
630 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
631 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
632 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
633 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
634 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
635 end of line if there are no more application names).
636 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
638 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
639 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
640 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
641 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
642 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
643 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
644 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
646 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
647 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
648 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
649 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
650 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
651 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
652 files pointed to by the symlinks.
653 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
654 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
655 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
656 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
657 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
658 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
659 directories on the command line
660 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
661 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
662 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
664 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
665 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
666 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
668 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
669 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
670 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
671 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
672 also from Gilbert Coville.
678 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
679 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
680 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
681 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
683 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
684 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
685 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
686 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
688 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
689 with no interveining subdirectories.
690 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
691 * and support in umount for loop
692 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
693 <bcollins@debian.org>
694 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
695 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
696 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
697 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
698 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
699 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
701 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
702 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
703 referenced, but not compiled)
704 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
705 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
706 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
709 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
712 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
713 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
714 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
715 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
716 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
717 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
718 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
719 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
720 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
721 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
722 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
723 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
724 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
725 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
726 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
728 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
729 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
730 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
731 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
733 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
734 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
735 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
737 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
738 them so they should now work as expected.
739 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
740 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
741 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
742 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
744 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
745 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
746 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
747 - fixed several typos
748 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
749 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
752 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
755 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
756 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
757 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
758 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
759 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
761 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
762 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
764 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
765 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
766 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
767 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
768 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
769 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
771 which blocked reboots.
772 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
773 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
774 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
775 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
777 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
779 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
782 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
784 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
785 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
787 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
788 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
789 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
790 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
792 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
793 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
794 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
795 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
796 will complain if you enable them when you disable
797 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
799 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
802 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
803 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
804 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
805 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
807 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
808 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
810 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
811 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
812 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
814 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
816 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
818 last file in the list.
819 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
821 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
822 are presented properly.
826 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
829 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
830 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
831 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
834 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
835 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
836 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
837 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
838 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
840 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
841 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
842 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
844 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
845 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
846 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
849 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
851 with very wrong permissions.
852 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
853 Now it properly modifies permissions.
854 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
856 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
857 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
858 not seen when switched to a different VT.
860 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
863 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
865 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
866 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
867 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
868 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
870 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
871 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
872 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
873 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
875 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
876 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
878 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
880 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
883 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
884 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
885 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
886 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
887 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
889 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
890 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
891 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
892 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
893 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
894 should now work correctly.
895 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
896 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
898 Now it doesn't do that.
899 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
900 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
902 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
905 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
906 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
907 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
908 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
909 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
910 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
911 state the real root device name)
912 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
914 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
917 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
918 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
919 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
920 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
921 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
922 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
923 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
924 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
925 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
926 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
927 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
928 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
929 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
930 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
931 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
932 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
933 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
934 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
935 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
936 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
937 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
938 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
939 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
943 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
946 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
947 * make it smaller, and removed
949 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
950 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
951 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
952 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
953 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
954 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
955 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
956 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
958 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
961 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
962 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
963 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
967 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
968 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
969 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
970 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
971 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
972 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
973 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
975 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
976 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
977 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
979 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
980 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
981 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
982 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
983 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
985 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
986 {en|dis}able debugging.
987 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
988 (optimize for smaller binaries).
991 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
992 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
993 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
994 * rewrite. Combined into a single
995 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
996 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
997 libc6 libnss* libraries.
998 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
999 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1001 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1002 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1003 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1004 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1005 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1006 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1007 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1008 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1010 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1011 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1012 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1014 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1016 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1017 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1018 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1019 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1020 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1021 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1022 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1023 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1024 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1026 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1027 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1028 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1029 * changes that I forgot to document...
1031 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1034 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1035 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1038 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1041 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1042 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1043 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1044 Printf added as module.
1046 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.