+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!!! Fix thanks to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
+ 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).
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
- * Fix to tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences. Merged common
- escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c. Fix thanks to
- Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>.
+ * 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
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