X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Changelog;h=f6a9222964a789424cb4ea5f0029fa8f76f0021c;hb=f378fced43edd9c4ae4a31117b74f467dcd75f01;hp=4655b7cd884fb444216d32820a736db507cd51e1;hpb=f0758dd6ba19f6039b6fed7da4ca2844b8c1032d;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog index 4655b7cd8..f6a922296 100644 --- a/Changelog +++ b/Changelog @@ -1,27 +1,320 @@ +0.44 + * added the -v option (inverted search) to grep, + updated docs/busybox.pod accordingly. -beppu + * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz + * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons. + * Fix for ping warnings from Sascha Ziemann + * 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 . + * cp/mv now accepts (and ignores) the -f flag, since it always + does force anyway + * tail can now accept - 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 + and then adjusted a bit by me. + * Added tr from John Lombardo + * Added echo and test (from me). + * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre + * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740). + * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin : + - 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 + * 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 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 + - 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 : + - 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 . + * 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 for the patch. + * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" . + * 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 + 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: 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 + * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it + behave itself a bit better. + * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins + 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 + * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder + * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head + * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also + contributed Friedrich Vedder + * 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 , and mount was fixed by me. + * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by + Randolph Chung . + * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the + files pointed to by the symlinks. + * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin : + - `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 + * 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 + * 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 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 + + * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni 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 . New App:: + * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky + 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 + 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 + * 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" + . + * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly + regexp implementation bug that is now fixed. + * 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 + 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 + * 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 + * : + - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code, + - fixed several typos + - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes + * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault. + + + -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000 + 0.39 - * New Apps: ping and hostname contributed by Randolph Chung - . 2 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. + * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung + . 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. * 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 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 + ) + * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu - -Erik Andrsen + -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999 0.38 * 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. @@ -34,73 +327,85 @@ will complain if you enable them when you disable BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS. - -Erik Andrsen, Dec 5, 1999 + -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999 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. - -Erik Andrsen, Nov 25, 1999 + -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999 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 @@ -110,17 +415,17 @@ 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. @@ -141,45 +446,45 @@ 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 ) - * 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 ) + * 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 . + 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 + . -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 @@ -193,8 +498,8 @@ * 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. @@ -205,9 +510,9 @@ * 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 @@ -216,39 +521,43 @@ 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 - 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 + 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 - 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 and tar -cf 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 - * 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 + 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 and tar -cf 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 + * 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