2 * added the -v option (inverted search) to grep,
3 updated docs/busybox.pod accordingly. -beppu
4 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
5 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
6 * Fix for ping warnings from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
7 * Fixed update segfault
8 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
9 * Fixed tar option parsing. In an attempt to accomodate the whiners
10 that wanted "tar cf foo.tar foo" (i.e. no "-" before options)
11 I broke creation of tarballs. I reverted the change (so tar needs
12 the "-" for all options).
13 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
14 * cp/mv now accepts (and ignores) the -f flag, since it always
16 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
17 compatibility with the standard tail command
18 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support supp. groups yet
26 * Major update to the provided documentation.
27 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
28 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
29 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
30 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
31 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
32 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
33 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
34 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
35 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
36 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
38 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
39 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
40 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
41 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
42 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
43 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
44 and then adjusted a bit by me.
45 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
46 * Added echo and test (from me).
47 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
48 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
49 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
50 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
51 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
52 fork() for running klogd.
53 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
54 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
55 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
56 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
57 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
58 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
59 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
60 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
61 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
62 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
63 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
64 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
65 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
66 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
67 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
68 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
69 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
70 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
71 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
72 a copy only if the rename fails.
73 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
74 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
75 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
76 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
77 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
78 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
79 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
80 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
81 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
82 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
83 as would be expected displays help).
84 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
85 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
86 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
87 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
88 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
89 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
90 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
91 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
92 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
101 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
102 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
103 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
104 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
105 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
106 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
107 the way umount was originally written.
108 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
109 to be more consistent with sysvinit
110 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
111 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
116 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
117 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
118 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
119 same directory it will print an error and continue.
120 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
121 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
123 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
124 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
125 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
126 - Always check exit status.
127 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
129 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
131 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
132 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
133 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
134 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
139 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
141 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
142 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
143 * change permissions and ownership on
144 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
145 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
146 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
147 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
148 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
149 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
150 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
151 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
152 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
153 behave itself a bit better.
154 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
155 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
156 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
157 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
158 always dereference before. -beppu
159 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
160 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
161 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
162 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
163 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
164 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
165 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
166 end of line if there are no more application names).
167 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
169 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
170 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
171 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
172 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
173 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
174 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
175 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
177 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
178 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
179 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
180 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
181 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
182 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
183 files pointed to by the symlinks.
184 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
185 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
186 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
187 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
188 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
189 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
190 directories on the command line
191 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
192 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
193 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
195 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
196 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
197 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
199 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
200 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
201 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
202 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
203 also from Gilbert Coville.
209 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
210 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
211 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
212 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
214 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
215 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
216 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
217 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
219 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
220 with no interveining subdirectories.
221 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
222 * and support in umount for loop
223 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
224 <bcollins@debian.org>
225 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
226 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
227 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
228 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
229 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
230 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
232 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
233 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
234 referenced, but not compiled)
235 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
236 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
237 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
240 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
243 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
244 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
245 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
246 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
247 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
248 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
249 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
250 being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
251 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
252 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
253 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
254 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
255 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
256 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
257 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
259 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
260 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
261 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
262 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
264 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
265 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
266 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
268 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
269 them so they should now work as expected.
270 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
271 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
272 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
273 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
275 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
276 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
277 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
278 - fixed several typos
279 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
280 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
283 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
286 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
287 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
288 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
289 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
290 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
292 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
293 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
295 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
296 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
297 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
298 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
299 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
300 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
302 which blocked reboots.
303 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
304 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
305 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
306 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
308 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
310 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
313 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
315 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
316 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
318 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
319 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
320 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
321 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
323 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
324 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
325 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
326 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
327 will complain if you enable them when you disable
328 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
330 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
333 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
334 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
335 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
336 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
338 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
339 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
341 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
342 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
343 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
345 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
347 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
349 last file in the list.
350 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
352 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
353 are presented properly.
357 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
360 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
361 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
362 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
365 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
366 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
367 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
368 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
369 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
371 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
372 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
373 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
375 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
376 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
377 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
380 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
382 with very wrong permissions.
383 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
384 Now it properly modifies permissions.
385 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
387 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
388 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
389 not seen when switched to a different VT.
391 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
394 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
396 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
397 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
398 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
399 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
401 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
402 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
403 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
404 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
406 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
407 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
409 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
411 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
414 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
415 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
416 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
417 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
418 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
420 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
421 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
422 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
423 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
424 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
425 should now work correctly.
426 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
427 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
429 Now it doesn't do that.
430 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
431 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
433 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
436 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
437 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
438 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
439 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
440 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
441 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
442 state the real root device name)
443 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
445 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
448 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
449 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
450 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
451 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
452 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
453 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
454 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
455 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
456 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
457 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
458 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
459 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
460 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
461 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
462 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
463 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
464 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
465 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
466 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
467 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
468 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
469 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
470 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
474 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
477 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
478 * make it smaller, and removed
480 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
481 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
482 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
483 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
484 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
485 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
486 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
487 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
489 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
492 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
493 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
494 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
498 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
499 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
500 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
501 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
502 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
503 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
504 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
506 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
507 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
508 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
510 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
511 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
512 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
513 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
514 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
516 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
517 {en|dis}able debugging.
518 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
519 (optimize for smaller binaries).
522 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
523 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
524 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
525 * rewrite. Combined into a single
526 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
527 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
528 libc6 libnss* libraries.
529 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
530 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
532 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
533 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
534 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
535 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
536 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
537 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
538 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
539 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
541 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
542 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
543 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
545 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
547 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
548 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
549 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
550 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
551 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
552 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
553 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
554 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
555 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
557 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
558 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
559 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
560 * changes that I forgot to document...
562 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
565 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
566 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
569 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
572 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
573 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
574 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
575 Printf added as module.
577 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.