+0.46
+
+ * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
+ local files!!! Fix thanks to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
+ * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
+ * 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).
+ * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
+ Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
+ * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
+ Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
+ * Added support for "sh -c command args...", thanks to
+ Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
+ * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
+ '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
+ invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
+ * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
+ of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
+
+ -Erik Andersen
+
+
+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
+ 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.
+ * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
+ staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
+ entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
+ then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
+ Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
+ * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
+ Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
+ * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
+ * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
+ * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
+ <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
+ * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
+ docs accordingly. -beppu
+ * Wrote which
+ * 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_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
+ and redirects.
+ * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
+ * Fixed update segfault
+ * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
+ * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
+ "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
+ (this was very broken in 0.43).
+ * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
+ * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
+ * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
+ compatibility with the standard tail command
+ * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
+ * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
+ * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
+ * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
+ * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
+ * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
+ * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
+ to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
+ * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
+ * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
+ * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
+ * Makefile intelligence updates
+ * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
+ with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
+ Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
+ * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
+ Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
+ * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
+ cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
+ * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
+ to Pavel Roskin.
+ * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
+ * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
+ * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
+ * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
+ * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
+ * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
+ and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
+ * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
+ * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
+ * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
+ with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
+ * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
+ if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
+ * 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 "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
+ Pavel Roskin
+ * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
+ and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
+ * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
+ and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
+ of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
+ for helping track this one down.
+ * More doc updates
+ * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
+ * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
+ * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
+ * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
+ this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
+
+
+0.44
+ Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
+ avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
+ it good.
+
+ -Erik Andersen
+
+
0.43
+ * Major update to the provided documentation.
* Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
directory.
- * Wrote basename, killall, and uptime.
+ * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
* tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
* Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
and then adjusted a bit by me.
- * Added tr and dirname from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
+ * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
* Added echo and test (from me).
* Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
- * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
- - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
+ * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
+ - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
- When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
fork() for running klogd.
* nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
- mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
a copy only if the rename fails.
- Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
- * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
- Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
- Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
* An initial telnet implementation was added by
* 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
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).
* Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
* all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
* Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
-
+ * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
+ * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
+ * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
+ no longer segfaults.
-Erik Andersen
Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
* cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
files pointed to by the symlinks.
- * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
- `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
- `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
- `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
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