5 -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52).
6 -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery).
7 * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen
8 -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign
9 any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash
10 had several compile errors (depending on selected options)
11 and variable assignment problems as well.
14 * David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe
15 * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
16 * Erik Andersen -- pidof
19 * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
20 This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
21 package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
22 your host system (not on the target).
26 -- various little things
27 -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
28 -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
29 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
30 should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
31 code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
32 now automagicaly disabled).
33 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
34 -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
35 line was previously altered when running a subst command.
37 -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
38 -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
39 -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
40 -- Better devfs support
41 -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
42 -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
43 -- Size reduction in ping
45 -- slimmed down md5sum
46 -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
47 support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
48 * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
51 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
53 -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
54 -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
55 but needs more testing.
56 -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
57 -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
59 -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
60 -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
61 -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
62 -- cmdedit updates and API change
63 -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
64 -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
66 -- Fixed ping compile problem
69 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
76 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
77 * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
78 problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
81 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
82 which has now been removed from BusyBox
83 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
84 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
85 * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
87 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
88 for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
89 * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
90 that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
93 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
94 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
95 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
96 tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
97 * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
98 * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
99 bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
100 * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
101 * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
102 work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
103 * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
104 added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
105 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
106 should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
107 * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
108 * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
109 bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
110 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
111 * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
112 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
113 * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
114 * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
118 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
123 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
124 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
125 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
126 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
127 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
128 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
131 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
132 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
133 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
136 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
137 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
138 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
139 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
140 busybox work on ia64 systems.
141 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
142 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
143 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
144 output from ls, du, and df.
145 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
146 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
147 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
148 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
149 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
150 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
151 support a bit for Mips RS3.
152 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
153 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
155 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
156 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
157 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
158 bugs, and similar problems.
159 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
160 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
161 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
162 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
163 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
165 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
166 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
167 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
168 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
169 locale support in several other places
170 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
171 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
172 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
173 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
174 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
175 after permission errors.
176 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
177 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
178 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
179 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
180 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
181 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
182 sed address range handling
183 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
184 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
185 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
186 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
187 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
188 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
189 restarting an aborted download.
192 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
196 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
197 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
198 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
199 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
200 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
201 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
202 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
203 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
204 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
205 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
206 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
207 overrides the system pwd/grp
208 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
209 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
210 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
211 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
212 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
213 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
214 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
215 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
216 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
217 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
218 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
219 much simpler for all.
220 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
221 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
222 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
223 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
224 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
225 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
226 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
227 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
228 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
229 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
230 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
231 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
232 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
233 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
234 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
235 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
236 depending on what kernel is being used.
237 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
238 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
239 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
240 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
241 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
242 are stored to save several k of space.
243 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
244 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
245 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
246 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
247 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
248 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
249 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
250 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
251 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
252 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
253 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
254 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
255 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
256 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
257 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
258 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
259 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
260 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
261 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
262 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
263 improve complex prompt handling.
264 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
265 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
266 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
267 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
268 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
269 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
270 for several my_* functions into utility.c
271 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
272 work done by Axis Communications).
273 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
274 and updated the style guide.
275 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
276 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
279 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
283 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
284 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
285 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
286 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
287 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
288 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
289 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
290 byte saving optimizations.
291 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
292 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
293 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
294 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
295 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
296 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
297 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
299 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
300 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
301 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
302 util-linux compatible
303 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
304 avoid namespace pollution
305 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
306 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
307 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
308 handles regexp file exclusion
309 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
311 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
312 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
313 better if-then-else-fi handling
314 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
315 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
316 in read, exec, and piped builtins
317 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
318 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
319 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
320 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
321 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
322 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
323 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
324 the width and height of the console.
325 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
326 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
327 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
328 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
329 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
330 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
331 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
334 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
338 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
339 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
340 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
341 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
342 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
343 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
344 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
346 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
347 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
348 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
349 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
350 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
351 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
352 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
353 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
354 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
355 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
356 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
357 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
359 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
360 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
361 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
362 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
363 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
364 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
365 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
366 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
367 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
369 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
370 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
371 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
372 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
373 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
374 * new applets: cmp readlink
375 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
376 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
377 California; included reference
378 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
379 people should use -n instead
380 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
381 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
382 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
383 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
385 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
386 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
387 for remote logging...
388 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
389 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
392 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
396 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
397 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
398 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
399 * Improved portability between different libcs.
400 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
401 * Common handling of '--help'
402 * All usage messages centralized.
403 * Added a bunch of new commands:
404 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
405 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
406 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
407 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
408 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
409 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
410 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
411 * 'xargs' (written by me)
412 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
414 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
415 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
416 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
417 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
418 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
419 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
420 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
421 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
422 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
423 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
424 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
425 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
426 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
427 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
428 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
429 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
430 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
431 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
432 * Tons of other bugfixes.
435 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
440 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
441 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
442 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
443 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
444 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
445 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
446 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
447 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
448 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
449 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
450 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
451 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
452 work with both old and new kernels).
453 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
454 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
455 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
456 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
457 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
458 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
459 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
460 - Added shell environment variable substitution
461 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
462 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
463 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
464 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
465 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
466 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
467 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
468 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
469 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
470 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
471 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
472 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
473 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
474 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
475 new SGML based docs into shape.
477 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
478 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
479 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
480 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
481 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
482 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
483 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
484 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
485 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
486 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
487 grab a copy from util-linux.
488 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
489 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
490 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
491 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
492 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
493 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
494 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
498 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
502 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
504 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
505 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
506 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
507 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
508 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
509 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
510 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
511 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
512 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
513 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
514 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
515 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
516 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
517 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
518 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
519 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
520 docs accordingly. -beppu
522 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
523 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
524 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
525 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
526 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
528 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
530 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
531 * Fixed update segfault
532 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
533 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
534 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
535 (this was very broken in 0.43).
536 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
537 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
538 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
539 compatibility with the standard tail command
540 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
541 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
542 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
543 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
544 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
545 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
546 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
547 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
548 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
549 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
550 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
551 * Makefile intelligence updates
552 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
553 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
554 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
555 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
556 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
557 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
558 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
559 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
561 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
562 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
563 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
564 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
565 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
566 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
567 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
568 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
569 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
570 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
571 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
572 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
573 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
574 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
575 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
576 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
577 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
578 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
580 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
581 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
582 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
583 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
584 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
585 for helping track this one down.
587 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
588 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
589 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
590 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
591 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
594 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
598 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
599 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
606 * Major update to the provided documentation.
607 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
608 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
609 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
610 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
611 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
612 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
613 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
614 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
615 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
616 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
618 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
619 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
620 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
621 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
622 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
623 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
624 and then adjusted a bit by me.
625 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
626 * Added echo and test (from me).
627 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
628 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
629 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
630 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
631 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
632 fork() for running klogd.
633 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
634 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
635 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
636 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
637 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
638 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
639 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
640 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
641 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
642 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
643 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
644 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
645 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
646 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
647 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
648 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
649 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
650 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
651 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
652 a copy only if the rename fails.
653 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
654 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
655 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
656 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
657 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
658 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
659 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
660 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
661 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
662 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
663 as would be expected displays help).
664 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
665 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
666 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
667 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
668 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
669 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
670 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
671 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
672 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
681 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
682 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
683 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
684 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
685 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
686 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
687 the way umount was originally written.
688 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
689 to be more consistent with sysvinit
690 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
691 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
696 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
697 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
698 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
699 same directory it will print an error and continue.
700 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
701 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
703 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
704 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
705 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
706 - Always check exit status.
707 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
709 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
711 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
712 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
713 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
714 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
719 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
721 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
722 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
723 * change permissions and ownership on
724 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
725 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
726 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
727 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
728 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
729 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
730 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
731 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
732 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
733 behave itself a bit better.
734 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
735 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
736 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
737 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
738 always dereference before. -beppu
739 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
740 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
741 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
742 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
743 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
744 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
745 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
746 end of line if there are no more application names).
747 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
749 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
750 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
751 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
752 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
753 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
754 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
755 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
757 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
758 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
759 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
760 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
761 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
762 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
763 files pointed to by the symlinks.
764 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
765 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
766 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
767 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
768 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
769 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
770 directories on the command line
771 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
772 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
773 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
775 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
776 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
777 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
779 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
780 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
781 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
782 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
783 also from Gilbert Coville.
789 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
790 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
791 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
792 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
794 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
795 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
796 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
797 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
799 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
800 with no interveining subdirectories.
801 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
802 * and support in umount for loop
803 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
804 <bcollins@debian.org>
805 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
806 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
807 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
808 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
809 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
810 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
812 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
813 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
814 referenced, but not compiled)
815 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
816 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
817 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
820 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
823 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
824 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
825 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
826 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
827 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
828 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
829 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
830 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
831 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
832 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
833 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
834 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
835 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
836 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
837 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
839 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
840 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
841 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
842 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
844 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
845 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
846 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
848 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
849 them so they should now work as expected.
850 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
851 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
852 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
853 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
855 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
856 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
857 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
858 - fixed several typos
859 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
860 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
863 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
866 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
867 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
868 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
869 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
870 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
872 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
873 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
875 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
876 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
877 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
878 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
879 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
880 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
882 which blocked reboots.
883 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
884 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
885 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
886 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
888 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
890 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
893 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
895 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
896 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
898 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
899 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
900 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
901 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
903 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
904 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
905 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
906 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
907 will complain if you enable them when you disable
908 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
910 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
913 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
914 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
915 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
916 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
918 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
919 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
921 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
922 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
923 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
925 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
927 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
929 last file in the list.
930 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
932 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
933 are presented properly.
937 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
940 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
941 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
942 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
945 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
946 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
947 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
948 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
949 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
951 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
952 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
953 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
955 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
956 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
957 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
960 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
962 with very wrong permissions.
963 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
964 Now it properly modifies permissions.
965 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
967 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
968 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
969 not seen when switched to a different VT.
971 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
974 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
976 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
977 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
978 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
979 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
981 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
982 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
983 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
984 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
986 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
987 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
989 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
991 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
994 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
995 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
996 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
997 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
998 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
1000 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
1001 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1002 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
1003 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
1004 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
1005 should now work correctly.
1006 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
1007 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
1009 Now it doesn't do that.
1010 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
1011 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
1013 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
1016 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
1017 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
1018 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
1019 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
1020 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
1021 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
1022 state the real root device name)
1023 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
1025 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
1028 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
1029 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
1030 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
1031 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
1032 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
1033 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
1034 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
1035 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
1036 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
1037 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
1038 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
1039 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
1040 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
1041 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
1042 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
1043 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
1044 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
1045 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
1046 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
1047 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
1048 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
1049 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
1050 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
1051 <porter@debian.org>.
1054 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
1057 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
1058 * make it smaller, and removed
1060 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
1061 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
1062 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
1063 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
1064 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
1065 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
1066 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
1067 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
1069 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
1072 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
1073 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
1074 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
1078 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
1079 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
1080 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
1081 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
1082 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
1083 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
1084 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
1086 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
1087 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
1088 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
1090 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
1091 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
1092 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
1093 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
1094 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
1096 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
1097 {en|dis}able debugging.
1098 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
1099 (optimize for smaller binaries).
1102 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
1103 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
1104 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
1105 * rewrite. Combined into a single
1106 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
1107 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
1108 libc6 libnss* libraries.
1109 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
1110 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1112 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1113 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1114 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1115 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1116 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1117 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1118 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1119 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1121 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1122 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1123 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1125 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1127 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1128 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1129 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1130 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1131 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1132 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1133 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1134 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1135 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1137 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1138 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1139 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1140 * changes that I forgot to document...
1142 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1145 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1146 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1149 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1152 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1153 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1154 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1155 Printf added as module.
1157 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.