+0.42
+ * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional.
+ * You no longer _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options.
+ * Tar could inadvertently change permissions and ownership on
+ certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
+ * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
+ the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
+ * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
+ symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
+ built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
+ * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
+ Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
+ * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
+ behave itself a bit better.
+ * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
+ for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
+ allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
+ * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
+ always dereference before. -beppu
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen
+
+0.41
+ * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
+ by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
+ * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
+ type commands (file in a directory to another directory)
+ from working.
+ * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
+ (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks
+ to Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
+ * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run. Now fixed.
+ * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
+ with no interveining subdirectories.
+ * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works.
+ * Added -o loop option for mount, and support in umount for loop
+ devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
+ <bcollins@debian.org>
+ * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
+ * compile in fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
+ if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
+ * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
+ (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated by
+ gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with -O2
+ -m386 ...)
+ * Compile no longer fails if busybox.def.h defines BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC
+ but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be referenced, but not compiled)
+ * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
+ defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
+ * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial consoles.
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
+
+0.40
+ * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu
+ * New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik
+ * New Apps: fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
+ * New App:: loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
+ for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
+ * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
+ but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out
+ of init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
+ being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
+ now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
+ * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
+ * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu
+ * Fixed the embarrasing failure of 'logger -p'. -erik
+ * Added the -s option to du -beppu
+ * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
+ with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
+ * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
+ <konst@voshod.com>.
+ * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
+ regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
+ * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
+ * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
+ special files.
+ * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files.
+ * Fixed a major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
+ of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
+ Ouch!!!
+ * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
+ them so they should now work as expected.
+ * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
+ has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
+ * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
+ * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
+ like GNU ls.
+ * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill.
+ * Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
+ - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
+ - fixed several typos
+ - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
+ * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
+
+0.39
+ * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
+ <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
+ * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo").
+ * Added tail, based on tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
+ to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller sometime.
+ * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
+ when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a',
+ which does the right thing.
+ * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
+ integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
+ * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals
+ * 'ls -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
+ one file descriptor per file. Oops.
+ * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code in
+ which blocked reboots.
+ * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
+ init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
+ * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
+ stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu <beppu@lineo.com>)
+ * Implemented tee. -beppu
+ * Implemented head. -beppu
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
+
+0.38
+ * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
+ file existed.
+ * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
+ * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be correct.
+ * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
+ (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
+ was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
+ * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
+ kernel messages.
+ * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
+ is actually a socket with the right permissions.
+ * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
+ filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
+ will complain if you enable them when you disable
+ BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
+
+0.37
+ * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
+ from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
+ * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper locations.
+ * Changed the build system slightly so that features can now be enabled
+ or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
+ compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file exists).
+ * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h
+ * Now 'rm -R' and 'rm -r' both work.
+ * dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from stdin.
+ * Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories. Moved some code
+ from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar work properly.
+ * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat out the
+ last file in the list.
+ * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed 'ls -l'
+ so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid are
+ presented properly.
+ * Also added a TODO.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
+
+0.36
+ * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
+ if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
+ * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also from
+ Eric Delaunay).
+ * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay).
+ * If BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
+ command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
+ * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
+ * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when compiled
+ in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
+ * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric Delaunay).
+ * changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle of least surprise
+ and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer --help and
+ obey the '-c' flag.
+ * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the destination
+ was a directory.
+ * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make directories
+ with very wrong permissions.
+ * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
+ Now it properly modifies permissions.
+ * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to ensure
+ they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise important
+ messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were not seen when
+ switched to a different VT.
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
+
+0.35
+ * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god intended
+ (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c' flag
+ and only then outputs to stdout).
+ * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
+ to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric Delaunay.
+ * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
+ * tar now accepts --help
+ * chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
+ * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps
+ * umount now parses options correctly
+ * tar can now unpack tarballs containing device special files,
+ sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks
+ to Matt Porter. Creating archives containing these is still
+ left to the interested student.
+ * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
+
+0.34
+ * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
+ Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
+ * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
+ better job of finding the real console device rather than using
+ /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also
+ thanks to Eric Delaunay.
+ * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
+ options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
+ * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
+ * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
+ a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
+ should now work correctly.
+ * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does.
+ * sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now it does.
+ * sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with replacements.
+ Now it doesn't do that.
+ * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
+ Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
+
+0.33
+ * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
+ * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
+ * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
+ * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
+ * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
+ is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
+ state the real root device name)
+ * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
+
+0.32
+ * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
+ busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP
+ at andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
+ * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
+ realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
+ * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works.
+ * kill segfaulted w/o any arguments. Now it doesn't do that.
+ * kill wasn't properly accepting signal names. It does now.
+ * Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I should probably add open)
+ * Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now readable by mere mortals IMHO.
+ * Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k with full regular expressions!).
+ * Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
+ * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options
+ * Fixed umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
+ * umount -a no longer umounts /proc
+ * Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
+ folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to /proc/mounts.
+ mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df will now use /etc/mtab
+ if BB_MTAB is defined.
+ * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
+ hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
+ followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
+ lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
+ as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter <porter@debian.org>.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
+
+0.31
+ * I added a changelog for version 0.30.
+ * adjusted find internals to make it smaller, and removed
+ some redundancy.
+ * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
+ are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
+ * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
+ the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in
+ it adds 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
+ * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
+ it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use
+ glibc 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
+
0.30
Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
- or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it.
- -Erik Andersen
+ or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
+ changes include:
+
+ Core Changes:
+ * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
+ busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
+ * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
+ functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list
+ has to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
+ * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
+ usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
+ itself.
+ * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
+ postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
+ cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
+ more granular.
+ * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
+ ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
+ * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
+ so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum):
+ extern int foo_main(int argc, char** argv);
+ which speeds integration of new apps.
+ * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
+ {en|dis}able debugging.
+ * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
+ (optimize for smaller binaries).
+
+ App Changes:
+ * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
+ monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
+ * cat - Works same as always.
+ * chgrp, chmod, chown - rewrite. Combined into a single
+ source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>
+ that removes the dependency on libc6 libnss* libraries.
+ * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
+ pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive dir copies.
+ * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct FileInfo.
+ * find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
+ which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
+ * ln - Same functionality.
+ * mkdir - Added -p flag to feature set.
+ * mv - rewrite.
+ * rm - Added -f flag to feature set.
+ * rmdir - Same functionality.
+ * swapon, swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
+ uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab instead.
+ * touch - Same functionality.
+ * date - adjusted with a patch 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).
+ * 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 <lupus@lettere.unipd.it>
+ * grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches simple strings
+ * ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all, but works.
+ * fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but I ripped out
+ internationalization and such to make them smaller.
+ * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus internationalization and such).
+ * Probably some other changes that I forgot to document...
+
+ -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
+
+0.29
+ This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
+ -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
0.28
mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
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