+0.44
+ * added the -v option (inverted search) to grep,
+ updated docs/busybox.pod accordingly. -beppu
+ * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
+ * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
+ * Fix for ping warnings from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
+ * Fixed update segfault
+ * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
+ * Fixed tar option parsing. In an attempt to accomodate the whiners
+ that wanted "tar cf foo.tar foo" (i.e. no "-" before options)
+ I broke creation of tarballs. I reverted the change (so tar needs
+ the "-" for all options).
+ * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
+ * cp/mv now accepts (and ignores) the -f flag, since it always
+ does force anyway
+ * 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 supp. groups yet
+ * More doc updates
+
+ -Erik
+
+
+
+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
+ 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, 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 from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
+ * Added echo and test (from me).
+ * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
+ * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
+ * 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).
+ * 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
+
+
0.42
* Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
* 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
+ * 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).
* 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 dusybox.defs.h
+ 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
* 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).
+ * 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
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