0.43
- * Wrote basename
+ * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
+ additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
+ job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
+ except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
+ * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
+ saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
+ is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
+ support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
+ provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
+ patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
+ directory.
+ * Wrote basename, killall, and uptime.
+ * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
+ with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
+ and then adjusted a bit by me.
+ * Added tr and dirname from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
+ * Added echo and test (from me).
+ * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
* tar wouldn't create directory entries that don't end in '/',
- now it does (
fix thanks to Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>)
+ now it does (thanks to Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>)
* Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
- When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
- When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
fork() for running klogd.
* nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
- * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used to
- count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
+ * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
+ to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
+ * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
+ exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
+ space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
+ * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
+ free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
+ /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
+ * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
+ * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
+ - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
+ - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
+ it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
+ - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
+ the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
+ - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
+ a copy only if the rename fails.
+ - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
+ - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
+ * An initial telnet implementation was added by
+ Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
+ * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
+ * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
+ to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
+ * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
+ specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
+ * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
+ the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
+ Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
+ * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
+
+
-Erik Andersen
* from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
getopt.
- * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
- * >128Meg swaps. Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat
- * with the tar
- implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
- to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
+ * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
+ >128Meg swaps.
+ * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
+ implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
+ to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
* dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
* following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
* chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
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