+0.43
+ * 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
+ except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
+ * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
+ 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
+ patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
+ directory.
+ * Wrote basename, killall, and uptime.
+ * 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 echo and test (from me).
+ * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
+ * tar wouldn't create directory entries that don't end in '/',
+ now it does (thanks to Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>)
+ * tar has been completely rewritten, and tar creation and extraction
+ is now much better behaved.
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ - 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)
+ changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
+ * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
+ to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
+ Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
+ * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
+ exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
+ space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
+ * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
+ free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
+ /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
+ * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
+ * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
+ - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
+ - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
+ it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
+ - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
+ the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
+ - 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>:
+ - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
+ - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
+ * 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
+ to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
+ * 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>.
+
+
+
+ -Erik Andersen
+
+
+0.42
+
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ the way umount was originally written.
+ * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
+ to be more consistent with sysvinit
+ * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
+ the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
+
+ - Randolph Chung
+
+
+ * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
+ extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
+ * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
+ same directory it will print an error and continue.
+ * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
+ this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
+ hard links.
+ * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
+ * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
+ * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
+ - Always check exit status.
+ - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
+ * utility.c
+ - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
+ ignoring it.
+ - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
+ - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
+ * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
+ one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
+
+ -Karl M. Hegbloom
+
+
+ * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
+ -beppu -piptigger
+ * 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
+ * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
+ Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
+ * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
+ * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
+ * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
+ contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
+ * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
+ end of line if there are no more application names).
+ * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
+ would segfault).
+ * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
+ to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
+ by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
+ * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
+ 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>:
+ - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
+ - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
+ - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
+ - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
+ - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
+ directories on the command line
+ * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
+ * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
+ * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
+ Now both work.
+ * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
+ not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
+ * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
+ in utility.c
+ * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
+ * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
+ target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
+ * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
+ also from Gilbert Coville.
+
+
+ -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 now won't fail 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>
+ * 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
+ 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
+ * 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"
* 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
+ * 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.
+ * 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>:
+ * 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
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.
+ * 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.
+ 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
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
+ <beppu@lineo.com>)
+ * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
-Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
* 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 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.
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
+ * 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.
+ * 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.
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
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ * 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
+ * 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.
+ * 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).
+ * 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.
+ 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.
+ * 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
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.
+ /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
+ 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.
+ * 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.
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
+ 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 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>.
+ 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
+ * 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.
+ 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.
+ 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
* 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).
+ 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.
* 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.
+ 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
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.
+ * 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
+ 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
+ * 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...
+ * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
+ * internationalization and such). Probably some other
+ * changes that I forgot to document...
-Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
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