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Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I + might as well point you all at + Busybox + 1.2.1, a bugfix-only release with no new features.
+ +It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without + saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and + one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three + embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks + (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the + libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated + tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge + in a pear... Ahem.
+ +But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty + gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains + the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return + value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent + a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from + switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather + than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that + /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf + in the right place on 2.6 kernels.
+ +The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is + Busybox + 1.2.0. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog + over the weekend.
+ +I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development + cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to + try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time + we fix enough bugs. :)
+ +Update: Here are the first few bug fixes that will go into 1.2.1.
+BusyBox 1.1.3 is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a