-0.47pre
+0.47
+ * Tons of bugfixes.
* A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
your system.
* chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
* added 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
* 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
- * syslogd can now log messages to a remote host -- patch thanks
+ * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
* Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
* Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
- * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc
* Added 'rdate' command from Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
* Added 'wget' command, contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
<crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
* Added 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
+ * Added dos2unix, unix2dos, and unrpm.c thanks to robotti@metconnect.com.
+ * Added xargs (written by me)
+ * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
* Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
wouldn't work (since it thought -r was an option). Doh!
- * Added dos2unix, unix2dos, and unrpm.c thanks to robotti@metconnect.com.
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+ * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
+ * Many apps ported to use getopt()
+ * All usage messages centralized.
+ * Common handling of '--help'
+ * Improved portability between different libcs.
-Erik Andersen