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