-0.61.pre
+1.00-pre1
- Development Version
+ Preparing for a new Stable Series. Because so amazingly much has changed
+ since the last stable series (but mostly because I am feeling too lazy to
+ spend the next hour writing up a list of everything new and different),
+ I'll stick with a simple summary.
+ *) Many many new applets have been added.
+ *) We have an entirely new configuration system based on
+ the Linux kernel config system.
+ *) Most applets have more features, more configurable options,
+ and are more standards compliant.
- New Applets:
- * Erik Andersen -- Merged several applets from tinylogin,
- namely adduser, addgroup, deluser, delgroup, getty.
- * Robert Griebl <sandman@handhelds.org>
- -- reimplemented tinylogin applets: su, login
- -- added hwclock
- -- added uncompress
+ -Erik Andersen, July 14, 2003
- Other Changes:
-
- * Vladimir Oleynik, Manuel Novoa III, Aaron Lehmann
- -- a whole bunch of ash size optimizations
- -- Fix for ash leading redirections (i.e. '2>/dev/null ls rubbish')
- * Rodney Brown <RDBrown@mira.net>
- -- Optimized gzip.c, shrinking it by ~1.5k
- * Matt Kraai
- -- Fix sed s/[/]// handling (closes: #1208).
- -- Fix `-/bin/sh' invocation (closes: #1209).
- -- Fix ash exec (noted by Arne Bernin).
- -- Fix tar segfault when include list is empty and exclude list is
- not.
- -- Fix sed s/$/@/ handling (noted by Joshua Hudson).
- -- Fix opt type in dpkg (closes: #118975).
- * Magick
- -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up
- in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO).
- * Vladimir Oleynik
- -- reverse resolve network name and cache in route and ifconfig
- applets, fix print nslookup server name if compile without
- uClibc, fix route crashe 'route add', fix warnings compile
- networking and pwd_grp applets
- * Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org>
- -- fix and shrink uuencode
- -- allow tty* in inittab if exist, serial console is not the issue
- * Robert Griebl <sandman@handhelds.org>
- -- added suid/sgid handling with 3 modes to busybox:
- 1) completly disabled
- 2) tinylogin like
- 3) runtime configureable via /etc/busybox.conf
-
- -- modprobe: complete rewrite, supports modules.dep, parses
- modules.conf for alias and options and can be called
- from the kernel.
- -- tar: support for -z when creating archives
- -- wget: support for -Y|--proxy=on/off and --passive-ftp
- -- vi: support for ":x"
- -- date: support for -I (ISO format)
- -- find: support for -xdev
- -- mount: support for -t in list mode, parsing of /etc/filesystems
- -- ash: support for --login (bash like)
- -- route: support for -e
- -- netstat: support for -e and -r
- -- head/tail: support for old style -[0-9] options
- -- sed: support for ! and \CregexpC
- -- pidof: support for -s
- -- nslookup: support for user specified name server
-
- -- logger: fixed logging of '<' characters
- -- ash: fixed crash when run in a rxvt window
-
- -Erik Andersen, --not yet released--
-
-
-
-0.60.1
-
- Stable Release
-
-
- New Applets & New Features:
- none. :)
-
- Known Problems (to be fixed in 0.60.2)
- * msh can segfault on constructs such as
- for i in `ls *.c` ; do echo $i ; done
- due to a memory allocation problem. This only seems to cause
- problems when the backtick expands to be several k in size.
-
-
- Bugfixes:
- * Matt Kraai
- -- Fixed msh to support underscores in variable names.
- -- Fixed a sed problem with unsatisfied backrefs (the problem was
- noted by Martin Bene).
- -- Removed CONFIG_SH define entirely. Now one simply picks the shell
- or shells they want as CONFIG_<foo> in Config.h
- -- Fixed head to use ferror(3) to check for errors, not errno.
- * Shu-Hao Chang <shuhao_chang@trend.com.tw>
- -- Fixed sed handling of multiple -e commands
- * Magick <magick@linux-fan.com>
- -- Fixed an init bug with AskFirst and /dev/null
- * Jaspreet Singh <jsingh@somanetworks.com>
- -- Fixed both a segfault and cosmetic bug in route
- * Erik Andersen
- -- Made the insmod options CONFIG_FEATURE_NEW_MODULE_INTERFACE and
- CONFIG_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE mutually exclusive
- -- xgetcwd.c now includes sys/param.h to ensure PATH_MAX is defined
- -- Fixed a potential segfault with lash + CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
- -- Removed uint64_t from dos2unix, avoiding C lib compat. problems.
- * Glenn McGrath
- -- Rewrite of tftp (commands match atftp, accepts -b, can use
- non-standard ports, and is smaller).
- -- Fixed unarchive exclude list handling
- * Manuel Novoa III
- -- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some
- problems with mount and other applets).
- -- Fixed ifconfig 'broadcast +' handling and disabled it by default
- * Matthias ? <matthias@corelatus.com>
- -- Fixed syslogd to log all messages from a single connection, not
- just the first.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, 23 August 2001
-
-
-0.60.0
-
- Note:
-
- For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0. This
- reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable
- BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a stable version of
- BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series. If bugs
- show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc... This is also
- intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be
- getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to
- break products that people are shipping. To avoid that, the new build
- system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series
- that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
- stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I
- will release that as a new stable release series.
-
- Critical Bugfixes:
- * Matt Kraai
- -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52).
- -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery).
- * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen
- -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign
- any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash
- had several compile errors (depending on selected options)
- and variable assignment problems as well.
-
- New Applets:
- * David McCullough <davidm@snapgear.com> -- modprobe
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
- * Erik Andersen -- pidof
-
- New Scripts:
- * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
- This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
- package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
- your host system (not on the target).
-
- Other Changes:
- * Erik Andersen
- -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
- -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
- -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
- should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
- code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
- now automagicaly disabled).
- -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc)
- * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
- -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
- line was previously altered when running a subst command.
- * Matt Kraai
- -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
- -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
- -- Added CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
- -- Better devfs support
- -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
- -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
- -- Size reduction in ping
- -- Always write dd counts to stderr
- -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled
- * Aaron Lehmann
- -- slimmed down md5sum
- -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
- support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
- * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
- work with dietlibc.
- * David McCullough
- -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
- * Glenn McGrath
- -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
- -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
- but needs more testing.
- -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
- -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
- * Vladimir Oleynik
- -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
- -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
- -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
- -- cmdedit updates and API change
- -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
- -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
- * Adam Slattery
- -- Fixed ping compile problem
- * Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com>
- -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
-
-
-
-0.52
-
- Critical Bugfixes:
- * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
- * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
- problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
-
- New Applets:
- * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
- which has now been removed from BusyBox
- * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
- only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
- * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
- busybox shell.
- * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
- for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
- * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
- that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
-
- Other Changes:
- * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
- * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
- common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
- tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
- * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
- * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
- bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
- * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
- * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
- work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
- * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
- added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
- * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
- should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
- * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
- * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
- bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
- * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
- * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
- * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
- * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
- * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
-
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
-
-
-0.51
- Critical Bugfixes:
- * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
- when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
- * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
- when performing an 'export' in the shell.
- * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
- the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
-
- New Applets:
- * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
- functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
- * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
-
- Other changes:
- * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
- much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
- * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
- syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
- busybox work on ia64 systems.
- * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
- * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
- * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
- output from ls, du, and df.
- * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
- support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
- * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
- generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
- Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
- * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
- support a bit for Mips RS3.
- * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
- * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
- variables
- * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
- * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
- * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
- bugs, and similar problems.
- * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
- you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
- pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
- * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
- kernel command line environment variables into child environment
- for init.c
- * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
- * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
- locale support in several other places
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
- after permission errors.
- * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
- * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
- find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
- * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
- D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
- * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
- sed address range handling
- * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
- to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
- of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
- but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
- write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
- download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
- restarting an aborted download.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
-
-
-0.50
- * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
- * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
- * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
- with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
- * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
- * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
- * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
- * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
- * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
- * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
- * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
- overrides the system pwd/grp
- * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
- * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
- * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
- behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
- given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
- * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
- * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
- * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
- CONFIG_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
- * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
- generate the documentation from the source code, making life
- much simpler for all.
- * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
- masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
- the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
- * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
- * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
- * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
- * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
- * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
- * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
- * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
- * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
- * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
- kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
- * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
- * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
- * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
- depending on what kernel is being used.
- * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
- * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
- * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
- * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
- * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
- are stored to save several k of space.
- * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
- * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
- * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
- * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
- -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
- * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
- * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
- * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
- * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
- * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
- * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
- * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
- process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
- * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
- * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
- mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
- is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
- improve complex prompt handling.
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
- for several my_* functions into utility.c
- * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
- work done by Axis Communications).
- * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
- and updated the style guide.
- * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
- * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
-
-0.49
-
- * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
- * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
- * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
- * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
- * spoon -- new watchdog applet
- * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
- scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
- byte saving optimizations.
- * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
- * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
- * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
- * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
- * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
- * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
- * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
- to BusyBox"
- * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
- * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
- * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
- util-linux compatible
- * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
- avoid namespace pollution
- * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
- * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
- * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
- handles regexp file exclusion
- * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
- checking
- * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
- * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
- better if-then-else-fi handling
- * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
- * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
- in read, exec, and piped builtins
- * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
- use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
- * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
- * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
- * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
- de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
- * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
- the width and height of the console.
- * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
- * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
- whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
- Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
- install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
- libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
- causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
-
-0.48
-
- * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
- define CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
- * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
- return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
- Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
- * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
- mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
- and other things).
- * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
- Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
- and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
- * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
- an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
- also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
- * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
- * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
- from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
- * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
- (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
- updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
- conv=sync feature.
- * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
- pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
- not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
- * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
- to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
- * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
- fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
- * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
- * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
- GNU-date compatible
- * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
- * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
- precedence over applets unless CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
- * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
- binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
- * new applets: cmp readlink
- * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
- according to decision by the Regents of the University of
- California; included reference
- * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
- people should use -n instead
- * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
- * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
- * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
- * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
- hard links.
- * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
- * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
- for remote logging...
- * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
- * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
-
-0.47
-
- * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
- your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
- * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
- * Improved portability between different libcs.
- * Many apps ported to use getopt()
- * Common handling of '--help'
- * All usage messages centralized.
- * Added a bunch of new commands:
- * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
- * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
- <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
- * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
- * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
- debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
- * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
- * 'xargs' (written by me)
- * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
- on GNY expr
- * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
- * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
- to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
- * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
- * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
- 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
- * 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>
- * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
- now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
- * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
- * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
- * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
- * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
- kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
- * Tons of other bugfixes.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
-
-
-0.46
-
- * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
- GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
- 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
- to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
- * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
- local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
- to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
- * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
- * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
- thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
- * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
- "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
- work with both old and new kernels).
- * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
- Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
- * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
- Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
- * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
- - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
- - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
- - Added shell environment variable substitution
- - Added the "read" shell builtin.
- * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
- used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
- * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
- '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
- invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
- * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
- of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
- * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
- it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
- * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
- - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
- Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
- - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
- new SGML based docs into shape.
- - cleanup of ar.c
- - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
- - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
- * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
- -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
- * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
- it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
- was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
- * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
- couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
- very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
- grab a copy from util-linux.
- * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
- then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
- Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
- * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
- * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
- thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@codepoet.org>. The hand-tooled
- "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
- Matt Kraai as well.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
-
-
-0.45
- * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
- embedded systems).
- * Added CONFIG_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
- help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
- * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
- we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
- * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
- staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
- entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
- then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
- Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
- * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
- Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
- * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
- * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
- * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
- <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
- * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
- docs accordingly. -beppu
- * Wrote which
- * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
- Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
- * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
- CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
- be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
- (i.e. DOSTATIC=true)
- * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
- and redirects.
- * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
- * Fixed update segfault
- * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
- * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
- "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
- (this was very broken in 0.43).
- * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
- * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
- * 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 sup. groups yet
- * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
- * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
- * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
- * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
- * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
- * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
- to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
- * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
- * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
- * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
- * Makefile intelligence updates
- * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
- with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
- * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
- Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
- * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
- cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
- * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
- to Pavel Roskin.
- * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
- * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
- * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
- * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
- * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
- * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
- and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
- * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
- * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
- * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
- with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
- * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
- if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
- * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
- * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
- * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
- * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling CONFIG_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
- * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
- Pavel Roskin
- * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
- and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
- * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
- and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
- of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
- for helping track this one down.
- * More doc updates
- * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
- * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
- * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
- * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
- this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
-
-
-0.44
- Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
- avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
- it good.
-
- -Erik Andersen
-
-
-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 CONFIG_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 <proski@gnu.org>:
- - 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 <proski@gnu.org>:
- - 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 CONFIG_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
- busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
- optionally compiled in with CONFIG_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
- CONFIG_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 <proski@gnu.org>:
- - `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 CONFIG_TAR is defined, but also
- if CONFIG_CP or CONFIG_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
- CONFIG_FEATURE_INITRD but not CONFIG_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>
- 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 default 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"
- <konst@voshod.com>.
- * 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 <panta@prosa.it>
- * 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>:
- - 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, 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.
- * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
- when CONFIG_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
- one file descriptor per file. Oops.
- * 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@codepoet.org>)
- * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
-
- -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 find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
- (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
- was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
- * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
- kernel messages.
- * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
- is actually a socket with the right permissions.
- * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
- filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
- will complain if you enable them when you disable
- CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
-
- -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
- 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.
- * Also added a TODO.
-
-
- -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
- Eric Delaunay).
- * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
- * CONFIG_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
- 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
- was a directory.
- * 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.
-
- -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).
- * 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.
- * 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.
- * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
-
- -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
-
-0.34
- * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
- 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.
- * 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 CONFIG_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
- 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.
- Now it doesn't do that.
- * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
- Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
-
- -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
-
-0.33
- * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
- * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
- * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
- * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
- * If CONFIG_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
- is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
- state the real root device name)
- * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
-
- -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
-
-0.32
- * More changes -- If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
- andersen@codepoet.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 CONFIG_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 CONFIG_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>.
-
-
- -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
-
-0.31
- * 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.
- * 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.
-
- -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
-
-0.30
- Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. If you have any problems
- with busybox, or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix
- it. These changes include:
-
- Core Changes:
- * 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).
- * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
- usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
- itself.
- * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
- postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
- cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
- more granular.
- * 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.
- * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
- {en|dis}able debugging.
- * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
- (optimize for smaller binaries).
-
- 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.
- * 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
- 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
- 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...
-
- -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
-
-0.29
- This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
- -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
-
-0.28
- mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
-
-0.27
- Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
- Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
- More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
- Printf added as module.
-0.26
- Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
-
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