-0.49pre
+0.49
- * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' command
* Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
+ * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
* Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
* Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
+ * spoon -- new watchdog applet
+ * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
+ scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
+ byte saving optimizations.
* Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
- * ?? -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
+ * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
* Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
* Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
* Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
* Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
util-linux compatible
* Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
- avoid namespace pollut
+ avoid namespace pollution
* Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
* Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
- * Larry Doolittle et al. -- internal shell cleanup and buglet fixing,
- read and exec should work better now
* Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
handles regexp file exclusion
- * Larry Doolittle -- new script to automate build rule checking
- * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init.
- * Erik Andersen -- sh.c renamed all symbols per the style guide.
- Better if-then-else-fi handling
+ * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
+ checking
+ * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
+ * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
+ better if-then-else-fi handling
* Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
+ * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
+ in read, exec, and piped builtins
* Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, <not released yet>
+ * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
+ * 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
+ 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
+ whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
+ Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
+ install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
+ libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
+ causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
0.48