-0.44
+0.47pre
+
+ * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
+ your system.
+ * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
+ * added 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
+ * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
+ 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
+ * syslogd can now log messages to a remote host -- patch thanks
+ to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
+ * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
+ It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
+ cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
+ * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
+ Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
+ * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc
+ * Added 'rdate' command from Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
+ * Added 'wget' command, contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
+ <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
+ * Added 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
+ * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
+ wouldn't work (since it thought -r was an option). Doh!
+ * Added dos2unix, unix2dos, and unrpm.c thanks to robotti@metconnect.com.
+
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen
+
+
+0.46
+
+ * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
+ GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
+ 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
+ to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
+ * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
+ local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
+ to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
+ * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
+ * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
+ thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
+ * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
+ "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
+ work with both old and new kernels).
+ * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
+ Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
+ * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
+ Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
+ * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
+ - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
+ - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
+ - Added shell environment variable substitution
+ - Added the "read" shell builtin.
+ * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
+ used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
+ * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
+ '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
+ invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
+ * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
+ of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
+ * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
+ it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
+ * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
+ - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
+ Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
+ - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
+ new SGML based docs into shape.
+ - cleanup of ar.c
+ - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
+ - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
+ * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
+ -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
+ * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
+ it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
+ was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
+ * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
+ couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
+ very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
+ grab a copy from util-linux.
+ * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
+ then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
+ Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
+ * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
+ * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
+ thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
+ "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
+ Matt Kraai as well.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen
+
+
+0.45
+ * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
+ embedded systems).
* Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
- * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
- * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
* Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
+ * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
+ staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
+ entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
+ then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
+ Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
* Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
+ * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
+ * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
+ * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
+ <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
* Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
docs accordingly. -beppu
* Wrote which
+ * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
+ Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
* BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
- BB_FEATURE_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
+ BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
(i.e. DOSTATIC=true)
* BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
* Makefile intelligence updates
* Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
- Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
+ Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
- Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
+ Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
- cannot find by name. Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>
+ cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
to Pavel Roskin.
* Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
+ * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
+ * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
+ * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
+ * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
+ * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
+ and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
+ * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
+ * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
+ * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
+ with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
+ * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
+ if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
+ * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
+ * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
+ * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
+ * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
+ * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
+ Pavel Roskin
+ * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
+ and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
+ * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
+ and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
+ of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
+ for helping track this one down.
* More doc updates
+ * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
+ * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
+ * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
+ * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
+ this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
- -Erik Andersen
+ -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
+
+0.44
+ Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
+ avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
+ it good.
+
+ -Erik Andersen
0.43
* Added echo and test (from me).
* Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
* BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
- * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
- 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.
- 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>:
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
- 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>.
* cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
files pointed to by the symlinks.
- * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
- `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
- `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
- `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
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