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
18 * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
19 This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
20 package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
21 your host system (not on the target).
25 -- various little things
26 -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
27 -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
28 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
29 should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
30 code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
31 now automagicaly disabled).
32 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
33 -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
34 line was previously altered when running a subst command.
36 -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
37 -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
38 -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
39 -- Fixed ping compile problem, size reduction
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).
44 -- slimmed down md5sum
45 -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
46 support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
47 * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
50 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
52 -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
53 -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
54 but needs more testing.
55 -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
56 -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
58 -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
59 -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
60 -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
61 -- cmdedit updates and API change
62 -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
63 -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
66 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
73 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
74 * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
75 problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
78 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
79 which has now been removed from BusyBox
80 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
81 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
82 * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
84 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
85 for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
86 * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
87 that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
90 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
91 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
92 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
93 tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
94 * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
95 * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
96 bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
97 * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
98 * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
99 work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
100 * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
101 added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
102 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
103 should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
104 * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
105 * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
106 bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
107 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
108 * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
109 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
110 * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
111 * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
115 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
120 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
121 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
122 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
123 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
124 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
125 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
128 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
129 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
130 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
133 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
134 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
135 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
136 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
137 busybox work on ia64 systems.
138 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
139 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
140 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
141 output from ls, du, and df.
142 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
143 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
144 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
145 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
146 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
147 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
148 support a bit for Mips RS3.
149 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
150 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
152 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
153 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
154 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
155 bugs, and similar problems.
156 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
157 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
158 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
159 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
160 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
162 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
163 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
164 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
165 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
166 locale support in several other places
167 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
168 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
169 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
170 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
171 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
172 after permission errors.
173 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
174 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
175 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
176 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
177 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
178 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
179 sed address range handling
180 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
181 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
182 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
183 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
184 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
185 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
186 restarting an aborted download.
189 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
193 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
194 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
195 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
196 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
197 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
198 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
199 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
200 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
201 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
202 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
203 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
204 overrides the system pwd/grp
205 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
206 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
207 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
208 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
209 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
210 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
211 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
212 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
213 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
214 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
215 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
216 much simpler for all.
217 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
218 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
219 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
220 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
221 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
222 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
223 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
224 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
225 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
226 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
227 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
228 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
229 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
230 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
231 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
232 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
233 depending on what kernel is being used.
234 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
235 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
236 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
237 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
238 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
239 are stored to save several k of space.
240 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
241 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
242 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
243 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
244 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
245 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
246 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
247 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
248 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
249 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
250 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
251 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
252 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
253 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
254 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
255 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
256 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
257 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
258 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
259 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
260 improve complex prompt handling.
261 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
262 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
263 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
264 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
265 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
266 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
267 for several my_* functions into utility.c
268 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
269 work done by Axis Communications).
270 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
271 and updated the style guide.
272 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
273 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
276 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
280 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
281 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
282 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
283 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
284 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
285 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
286 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
287 byte saving optimizations.
288 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
289 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
290 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
291 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
292 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
293 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
294 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
296 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
297 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
298 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
299 util-linux compatible
300 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
301 avoid namespace pollution
302 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
303 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
304 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
305 handles regexp file exclusion
306 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
308 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
309 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
310 better if-then-else-fi handling
311 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
312 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
313 in read, exec, and piped builtins
314 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
315 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
316 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
317 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
318 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
319 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
320 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
321 the width and height of the console.
322 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
323 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
324 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
325 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
326 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
327 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
328 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
331 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
335 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
336 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
337 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
338 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
339 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
340 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
341 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
343 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
344 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
345 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
346 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
347 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
348 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
349 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
350 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
351 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
352 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
353 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
354 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
356 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
357 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
358 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
359 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
360 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
361 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
362 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
363 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
364 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
366 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
367 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
368 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
369 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
370 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
371 * new applets: cmp readlink
372 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
373 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
374 California; included reference
375 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
376 people should use -n instead
377 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
378 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
379 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
380 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
382 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
383 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
384 for remote logging...
385 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
386 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
389 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
393 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
394 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
395 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
396 * Improved portability between different libcs.
397 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
398 * Common handling of '--help'
399 * All usage messages centralized.
400 * Added a bunch of new commands:
401 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
402 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
403 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
404 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
405 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
406 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
407 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
408 * 'xargs' (written by me)
409 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
411 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
412 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
413 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
414 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
415 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
416 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
417 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
418 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
419 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
420 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
421 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
422 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
423 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
424 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
425 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
426 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
427 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
428 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
429 * Tons of other bugfixes.
432 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
437 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
438 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
439 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
440 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
441 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
442 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
443 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
444 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
445 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
446 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
447 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
448 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
449 work with both old and new kernels).
450 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
451 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
452 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
453 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
454 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
455 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
456 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
457 - Added shell environment variable substitution
458 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
459 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
460 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
461 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
462 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
463 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
464 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
465 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
466 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
467 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
468 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
469 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
470 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
471 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
472 new SGML based docs into shape.
474 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
475 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
476 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
477 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
478 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
479 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
480 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
481 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
482 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
483 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
484 grab a copy from util-linux.
485 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
486 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
487 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
488 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
489 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
490 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
491 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
495 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
499 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
501 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
502 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
503 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
504 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
505 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
506 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
507 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
508 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
509 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
510 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
511 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
512 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
513 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
514 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
515 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
516 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
517 docs accordingly. -beppu
519 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
520 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
521 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
522 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
523 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
525 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
527 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
528 * Fixed update segfault
529 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
530 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
531 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
532 (this was very broken in 0.43).
533 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
534 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
535 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
536 compatibility with the standard tail command
537 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
538 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
539 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
540 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
541 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
542 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
543 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
544 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
545 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
546 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
547 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
548 * Makefile intelligence updates
549 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
550 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
551 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
552 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
553 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
554 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
555 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
556 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
558 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
559 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
560 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
561 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
562 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
563 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
564 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
565 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
566 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
567 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
568 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
569 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
570 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
571 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
572 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
573 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
574 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
575 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
577 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
578 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
579 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
580 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
581 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
582 for helping track this one down.
584 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
585 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
586 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
587 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
588 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
591 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
595 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
596 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
603 * Major update to the provided documentation.
604 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
605 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
606 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
607 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
608 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
609 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
610 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
611 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
612 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
613 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
615 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
616 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
617 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
618 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
619 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
620 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
621 and then adjusted a bit by me.
622 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
623 * Added echo and test (from me).
624 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
625 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
626 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
627 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
628 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
629 fork() for running klogd.
630 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
631 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
632 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
633 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
634 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
635 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
636 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
637 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
638 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
639 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
640 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
641 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
642 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
643 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
644 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
645 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
646 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
647 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
648 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
649 a copy only if the rename fails.
650 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
651 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
652 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
653 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
654 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
655 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
656 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
657 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
658 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
659 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
660 as would be expected displays help).
661 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
662 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
663 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
664 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
665 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
666 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
667 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
668 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
669 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
678 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
679 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
680 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
681 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
682 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
683 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
684 the way umount was originally written.
685 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
686 to be more consistent with sysvinit
687 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
688 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
693 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
694 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
695 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
696 same directory it will print an error and continue.
697 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
698 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
700 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
701 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
702 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
703 - Always check exit status.
704 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
706 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
708 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
709 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
710 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
711 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
716 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
718 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
719 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
720 * change permissions and ownership on
721 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
722 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
723 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
724 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
725 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
726 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
727 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
728 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
729 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
730 behave itself a bit better.
731 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
732 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
733 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
734 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
735 always dereference before. -beppu
736 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
737 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
738 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
739 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
740 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
741 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
742 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
743 end of line if there are no more application names).
744 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
746 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
747 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
748 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
749 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
750 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
751 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
752 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
754 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
755 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
756 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
757 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
758 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
759 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
760 files pointed to by the symlinks.
761 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
762 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
763 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
764 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
765 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
766 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
767 directories on the command line
768 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
769 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
770 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
772 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
773 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
774 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
776 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
777 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
778 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
779 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
780 also from Gilbert Coville.
786 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
787 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
788 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
789 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
791 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
792 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
793 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
794 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
796 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
797 with no interveining subdirectories.
798 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
799 * and support in umount for loop
800 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
801 <bcollins@debian.org>
802 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
803 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
804 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
805 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
806 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
807 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
809 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
810 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
811 referenced, but not compiled)
812 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
813 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
814 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
817 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
820 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
821 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
822 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
823 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
824 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
825 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
826 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
827 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
828 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
829 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
830 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
831 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
832 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
833 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
834 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
836 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
837 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
838 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
839 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
841 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
842 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
843 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
845 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
846 them so they should now work as expected.
847 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
848 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
849 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
850 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
852 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
853 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
854 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
855 - fixed several typos
856 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
857 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
860 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
863 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
864 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
865 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
866 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
867 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
869 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
870 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
872 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
873 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
874 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
875 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
876 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
877 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
879 which blocked reboots.
880 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
881 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
882 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
883 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
885 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
887 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
890 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
892 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
893 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
895 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
896 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
897 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
898 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
900 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
901 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
902 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
903 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
904 will complain if you enable them when you disable
905 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
907 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
910 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
911 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
912 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
913 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
915 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
916 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
918 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
919 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
920 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
922 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
924 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
926 last file in the list.
927 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
929 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
930 are presented properly.
934 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
937 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
938 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
939 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
942 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
943 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
944 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
945 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
946 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
948 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
949 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
950 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
952 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
953 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
954 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
957 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
959 with very wrong permissions.
960 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
961 Now it properly modifies permissions.
962 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
964 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
965 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
966 not seen when switched to a different VT.
968 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
971 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
973 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
974 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
975 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
976 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
978 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
979 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
980 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
981 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
983 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
984 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
986 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
988 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
991 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
992 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
993 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
994 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
995 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
997 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
998 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
999 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
1000 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
1001 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
1002 should now work correctly.
1003 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
1004 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
1006 Now it doesn't do that.
1007 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
1008 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
1010 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
1013 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
1014 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
1015 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
1016 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
1017 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
1018 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
1019 state the real root device name)
1020 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
1022 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
1025 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
1026 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
1027 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
1028 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
1029 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
1030 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
1031 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
1032 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
1033 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
1034 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
1035 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
1036 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
1037 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
1038 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
1039 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
1040 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
1041 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
1042 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
1043 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
1044 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
1045 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
1046 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
1047 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
1048 <porter@debian.org>.
1051 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
1054 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
1055 * make it smaller, and removed
1057 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
1058 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
1059 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
1060 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
1061 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
1062 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
1063 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
1064 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
1066 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
1069 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
1070 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
1071 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
1075 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
1076 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
1077 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
1078 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
1079 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
1080 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
1081 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
1083 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
1084 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
1085 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
1087 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
1088 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
1089 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
1090 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
1091 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
1093 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
1094 {en|dis}able debugging.
1095 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
1096 (optimize for smaller binaries).
1099 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
1100 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
1101 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
1102 * rewrite. Combined into a single
1103 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
1104 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
1105 libc6 libnss* libraries.
1106 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
1107 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1109 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1110 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1111 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1112 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1113 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1114 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1115 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1116 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1118 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1119 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1120 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1122 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1124 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1125 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1126 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1127 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1128 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1129 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1130 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1131 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1132 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1134 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1135 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1136 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1137 * changes that I forgot to document...
1139 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1142 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1143 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1146 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1149 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1150 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1151 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1152 Printf added as module.
1154 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.