-0.53
+0.61.pre
+
+ Development Version
+
+
+
+ New Applets:
+ * Erik Andersen -- Merged several applets from tinylogin,
+ namely adduser, addgroup, deluser, delgroup, getty.
+ * Robert Griebl <sandman@handhelds.org>
+ -- reimplemented tinylogin applets: su, login
+ -- added hwclock
+ -- added uncompress
+
+ Other Changes:
+
+ * Vladimir Oleynik, Manuel Novoa III, Aaron Lehmann
+ -- a whole bunch of ash size optimizations
+ -- Fix for ash leading redirections (i.e. '2>/dev/null ls rubbish')
+ * Rodney Brown <RDBrown@mira.net>
+ -- Optimized gzip.c, shrinking it by ~1.5k
+ * Matt Kraai
+ -- Fix sed s/[/]// handling (closes: #1208).
+ -- Fix `-/bin/sh' invocation (closes: #1209).
+ -- Fix ash exec (noted by Arne Bernin).
+ -- Fix tar segfault when include list is empty and exclude list is
+ not.
+ -- Fix sed s/$/@/ handling (noted by Joshua Hudson).
+ -- Fix opt type in dpkg (closes: #118975).
+ * Magick
+ -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up
+ in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO).
+ * Vladimir Oleynik
+ -- reverse resolve network name and cache in route and ifconfig
+ applets, fix print nslookup server name if compile without
+ uClibc, fix route crashe 'route add', fix warnings compile
+ networking and pwd_grp applets
+ * Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org>
+ -- fix and shrink uuencode
+ -- allow tty* in inittab if exist, serial console is not the issue
+ * Robert Griebl <sandman@handhelds.org>
+ -- added suid/sgid handling with 3 modes to busybox:
+ 1) completly disabled
+ 2) tinylogin like
+ 3) runtime configureable via /etc/busybox.conf
+
+ -- modprobe: complete rewrite, supports modules.dep, parses
+ modules.conf for alias and options and can be called
+ from the kernel.
+ -- tar: support for -z when creating archives
+ -- wget: support for -Y|--proxy=on/off and --passive-ftp
+ -- vi: support for ":x"
+ -- date: support for -I (ISO format)
+ -- find: support for -xdev
+ -- mount: support for -t in list mode, parsing of /etc/filesystems
+ -- ash: support for --login (bash like)
+ -- route: support for -e
+ -- netstat: support for -e and -r
+ -- head/tail: support for old style -[0-9] options
+ -- sed: support for ! and \CregexpC
+ -- pidof: support for -s
+ -- nslookup: support for user specified name server
+
+ -- logger: fixed logging of '<' characters
+ -- ash: fixed crash when run in a rxvt window
+
+ -Erik Andersen, --not yet released--
+
+
+
+0.60.1
+
+ Stable Release
+
+
+ New Applets & New Features:
+ none. :)
+
+ Known Problems (to be fixed in 0.60.2)
+ * msh can segfault on constructs such as
+ for i in `ls *.c` ; do echo $i ; done
+ due to a memory allocation problem. This only seems to cause
+ problems when the backtick expands to be several k in size.
+
+
+ Bugfixes:
+ * Matt Kraai
+ -- Fixed msh to support underscores in variable names.
+ -- Fixed a sed problem with unsatisfied backrefs (the problem was
+ noted by Martin Bene).
+ -- Removed CONFIG_SH define entirely. Now one simply picks the shell
+ or shells they want as CONFIG_<foo> in Config.h
+ -- Fixed head to use ferror(3) to check for errors, not errno.
+ * Shu-Hao Chang <shuhao_chang@trend.com.tw>
+ -- Fixed sed handling of multiple -e commands
+ * Magick <magick@linux-fan.com>
+ -- Fixed an init bug with AskFirst and /dev/null
+ * Jaspreet Singh <jsingh@somanetworks.com>
+ -- Fixed both a segfault and cosmetic bug in route
+ * Erik Andersen
+ -- Made the insmod options CONFIG_FEATURE_NEW_MODULE_INTERFACE and
+ CONFIG_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE mutually exclusive
+ -- xgetcwd.c now includes sys/param.h to ensure PATH_MAX is defined
+ -- Fixed a potential segfault with lash + CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
+ -- Removed uint64_t from dos2unix, avoiding C lib compat. problems.
+ * Glenn McGrath
+ -- Rewrite of tftp (commands match atftp, accepts -b, can use
+ non-standard ports, and is smaller).
+ -- Fixed unarchive exclude list handling
+ * Manuel Novoa III
+ -- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some
+ problems with mount and other applets).
+ -- Fixed ifconfig 'broadcast +' handling and disabled it by default
+ * Matthias ? <matthias@corelatus.com>
+ -- Fixed syslogd to log all messages from a single connection, not
+ just the first.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 23 August 2001
+
+
+0.60.0
+
+ Note:
+
+ For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0. This
+ reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable
+ BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a stable version of
+ BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series. If bugs
+ show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc... This is also
+ intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be
+ getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to
+ break products that people are shipping. To avoid that, the new build
+ system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series
+ that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
+ stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I
+ will release that as a new stable release series.
Critical Bugfixes:
* Matt Kraai
New Applets:
* David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe
* Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
+ * Erik Andersen -- pidof
New Scripts:
* David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
Other Changes:
* Erik Andersen
- -- various little things
-- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
-- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
-- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
now automagicaly disabled).
+ -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc)
* Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
-- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
line was previously altered when running a subst command.
* Matt Kraai
-- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
-- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
- -- Added BB_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
- -- Fixed ping compile problem, size reduction
+ -- Added CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
-- Better devfs support
-- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
-- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
+ -- Size reduction in ping
+ -- Always write dd counts to stderr
+ -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled
* Aaron Lehmann
-- slimmed down md5sum
-- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
-- cmdedit updates and API change
-- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
-- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
+ * Adam Slattery
+ -- Fixed ping compile problem
+ * Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com>
+ -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files.
-Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
* Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
* Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
* David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
- BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
+ CONFIG_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
* John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
generate the documentation from the source code, making life
much simpler for all.
* Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
* Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
- * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
+ * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
the width and height of the console.
* Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
* Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
0.48
* Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
- define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
+ define CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
* Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
GNU-date compatible
* me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
* Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
- precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
+ precedence over applets unless CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
* Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
* new applets: cmp readlink
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
+ * Added CONFIG_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
* Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
* 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_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
+ CONFIG_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
* 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 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling CONFIG_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
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
+ provides. To enable this, turn on CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
directory.
* Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
* 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
+ * ps now supports CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
* ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
as would be expected displays help).
* Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
- optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
+ optionally compiled in with CONFIG_FEATURE_REMOUNT
* Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
{get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
* Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
- BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
+ CONFIG_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
* Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
turns up missing.
* Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
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())
+ * fullWrite() not only if CONFIG_TAR is defined, but also
+ if CONFIG_CP or CONFIG_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 now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
- BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
+ CONFIG_FEATURE_INITRD but not CONFIG_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.
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
+ when CONFIG_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.)
* 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.
+ CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
-Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
* from
Eric Delaunay).
* Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
- * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
+ * CONFIG_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
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.
+ * more will now use the terminal size if CONFIG_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.
* 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
+ * If CONFIG_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
+ * More changes -- If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
+ 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
* 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
+ * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added CONFIG_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.
+ will now use /etc/mtab if CONFIG_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
-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. These
- changes include:
+ Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. If you have any problems
+ with busybox, 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
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