+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:
* 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.
+ -- 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).
* 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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