From: Eric Andersen Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 09:42:10 +0000 (-0000) Subject: prepare for release X-Git-Tag: 1_00^0 X-Git-Url: https://git.librecmc.org/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=9395ca4f6832a806737eca247f2758468f0cecd1;p=oweals%2Fbusybox.git prepare for release --- diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog index 7e09f670d..721fc8270 100644 --- a/Changelog +++ b/Changelog @@ -1,675 +1,1281 @@ --------------------- -PatchSet 4304 -Date: 2004/07/26 11:45:25 +PatchSet 4347 +Date: 2004/08/16 10:29:28 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD -Tag: (none) +Tag: busybox_1_00_rc3 Log: -Make certain that udhcp shuts down the interface +Prepare for release Members: - networking/ifupdown.c:1.43->1.44 + Changelog:1.294->1.295 + docs/busybox_header.pod:1.17->1.18 + docs/busybox.net/news.html:1.21->1.22 + docs/busybox.net/screenshot.html:1.11->1.12 --------------------- -PatchSet 4305 -Date: 2004/07/26 11:45:47 +PatchSet 4348 +Date: 2004/08/18 17:57:16 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -bump version to -rc2 +Fixup 'dc' usage Members: - Rules.mak:1.33->1.34 + include/usage.h:1.218->1.219 --------------------- -PatchSet 4306 -Date: 2004/07/26 11:46:50 +PatchSet 4349 +Date: 2004/08/19 18:22:13 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -oops +Patch from Vladimir N. Oleynik: + +On Wed Aug 18, 2004 at 06:52:57PM +0800, Matt Johnston wrote: +> I've come across some strange-seeming behaviour when running programs +> under Busybox (1.0.0-rc3) ash. If the child process sets stdin to be +> non-blocking and then exits, the parent ash will also exit. A quick strace +> shows that a subsequent read() from stdin returns EAGAIN (as would be +> expected): + +Thanks! +Patch attached. + + +--w +vodz Members: - networking/ifupdown.c:1.44->1.45 + shell/ash.c:1.104->1.105 + shell/cmdedit.c:1.92->1.93 --------------------- -PatchSet 4307 -Date: 2004/07/26 12:05:12 +PatchSet 4350 +Date: 2004/08/19 18:25:02 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -YAEGASHI Takeshi writes: - -Hi, - -With the following /etc/fstab (any two or more lines of nfs), mount -a --t nfs causes a segmentation faults. +Patch from Tito documenting the '-q' option -server:/exports/aaa /mnt/aaa nfs defaults 0 0 -server:/exprots/bbb /mnt/bbb nfs defaults 0 0 +Members: + include/usage.h:1.219->1.220 -In util-linux/nfsmount.c, it overwrites malloc'ed pointer *mount_opts -with a static pointer. With this patch it does proper memory realloc -and data copy instead. +--------------------- +PatchSet 4351 +Date: 2004/08/19 18:26:26 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Patch from Tito adding support for '-q' Members: - util-linux/nfsmount.c:1.27->1.28 + procps/kill.c:1.52->1.53 --------------------- -PatchSet 4308 -Date: 2004/07/26 12:05:44 +PatchSet 4352 +Date: 2004/08/19 18:30:31 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Make certain that udhcp shuts down the interface +Patch from Mike Castle to cleanup some modutils issues, in +particular making alias support work better. Members: - networking/ifupdown.c:1.45->1.46 + modutils/modprobe.c:1.39->1.40 --------------------- -PatchSet 4309 -Date: 2004/07/26 12:06:19 +PatchSet 4353 +Date: 2004/08/19 19:15:06 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Allow hex escape sequences +regularly update the status line display + -Erik Members: - libbb/process_escape_sequence.c:1.6->1.7 + editors/vi.c:1.37->1.38 --------------------- -PatchSet 4310 -Date: 2004/07/26 12:07:01 +PatchSet 4354 +Date: 2004/08/19 19:17:30 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Prepare for release +Patch from Rodney Radford adding x86_64 support. Members: - Changelog:1.293->1.294 - Rules.mak:1.34->1.35 - docs/busybox.net/news.html:1.19->1.20 + modutils/insmod.c:1.122->1.123 --------------------- -PatchSet 4311 -Date: 2004/07/26 12:11:32 -Author: andersen +PatchSet 4355 +Date: 2004/08/25 02:02:19 +Author: bug1 Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -bother. unrevert my fix. +Patch from Manousaridis Angelos to cleanup stale file descriptors, it was preventing unmounting an initial filesystem. Members: - libbb/process_escape_sequence.c:1.7->1.8 - networking/ifupdown.c:1.46->1.47 + loginutils/getty.c:1.13->1.14 + loginutils/login.c:1.19->1.20 --------------------- -PatchSet 4312 -Date: 2004/07/26 12:12:06 +PatchSet 4356 +Date: 2004/08/26 21:45:21 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -bump version to -rc2 +Felipe Kellermann writes: + +Unfortunatelly I've not followed the last two or three weeks commits (new +semester started and so now I rarely have time to fix my personal bridge) +but tonight I synched my tree and immediately noticed a rather nasty bug! + +[Using libbb/interface.c:1.24] +# grep eth0 /proc/net/dev | xargs +eth0:311708397 237346 1670 0 1789 1670 0 0 22580308 120297 0 0 0 102 0 0 + +# ifconfig eth0 +eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:20:AF:7C:EA:B7 + inet addr:10.0.0.1 Bcast:10.0.0.127 Mask:255.255.255.128 + UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 + RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 + TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 + collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 + RX bytes:0 (0.0 B) TX bytes:0 (0.0 B) + Interrupt:5 Base address:0x320 + + +All values `ifconfig' is showing are `zeroed' -- I quickly looked at the +last commits I missed and noticed that there were a commit relating to +ifconfig, libbb/interface.c:1.23->1.24 (PatchSet 4338). + +I've reversed the patch and now everything is working again. I compared +the get_name's return values from the 1.23 and 1.24 and quickly noticed +that the new revision is leaving `p' right on the sep while the rev 1.23 +was leaving it right on the starting of the values... + +1-line, 1/3-minute patch attached :-) Members: - Rules.mak:1.35->1.36 + libbb/interface.c:1.24->1.25 --------------------- -PatchSet 4313 -Date: 2004/07/26 12:22:33 +PatchSet 4357 +Date: 2004/08/26 22:18:56 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD -Tag: busybox_1_00_rc2 +Tag: (none) Log: -add missing ; +Tito writes: + +Hi, +I've spent the half night staring at the devilish my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid functions +trying to find out a way to avoid actual and future potential buffer overflow problems +without breaking existing code. +Finally I've found a not intrusive way to do this that surely doesn't break existing code +and fixes a couple of problems too. +The attached patch: +1) changes the behaviour of my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid to avoid potetntial buffer overflows +2) fixes all occurences of this function calls in tar.c , id.c , ls.c, whoami.c, logger.c, libbb.h. +3) The behaviour of tar, ls and logger is unchanged. +4) The behavior of ps with somewhat longer usernames messing up output is fixed. +5) The only bigger change was the increasing of size of the buffers in id.c to avoid + false negatives (unknown user: xxxxxx) with usernames longer than 8 chars. + The value i used ( 32 chars ) was taken from the tar header ( see gname and uname). + Maybe this buffers can be reduced a bit ( to 16 or whatever ), this is up to you. +6) The increase of size of the binary is not so dramatic: + size busybox + text data bss dec hex filename + 239568 2300 36816 278684 4409c busybox + size busybox_fixed + text data bss dec hex filename + 239616 2300 36816 278732 440cc busybox +7) The behaviour of whoami changed: + actually it prints out an username cut down to the size of the buffer. + This could be fixed by increasing the size of the buffer as in id.c or + avoid the use of my_getpwuid and use getpwuid directly instead. + Maybe this colud be also remain unchanged...... + +Please apply if you think it is ok to do so. +The diff applies on today's cvs tarball (2004-08-25). +Thanks in advance, +Ciao, +Tito Members: - networking/ifupdown.c:1.47->1.48 + archival/tar.c:1.194->1.195 + coreutils/id.c:1.24->1.25 + coreutils/ls.c:1.110->1.111 + coreutils/whoami.c:1.21->1.22 + include/libbb.h:1.133->1.134 + libbb/my_getgrgid.c:1.7->1.8 + libbb/my_getpwuid.c:1.7->1.8 + libbb/procps.c:1.13->1.14 + sysklogd/logger.c:1.39->1.40 --------------------- -PatchSet 4314 -Date: 2004/07/26 18:57:49 -Author: sandman +PatchSet 4358 +Date: 2004/08/26 22:22:50 +Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -document stuff I have done +Vladimir N. Oleynik writes: + +Ming-Ching, + +>>No. Here there are no mistakes. +>>You using POST metod. +>>For get data you should read from stdin CONTENT_LENGTH bytes. + +>Hower as I posted a little while ago, there is indeed a bug +>in POST method if the CONTENT_LENGTH is bigger +>than sizeof(wbuf[128]). So if your CGI script is expecting to +>read the full CONTENT_LENGTH, it might block forever, +>because it will only transfer sizeof(wbuf) to the CGI. + +Ok, Ok. I should find time to understand with a problem. +Try attached patch. + + +--w +vodz Members: - AUTHORS:1.45->1.46 + networking/httpd.c:1.26->1.27 --------------------- -PatchSet 4315 -Date: 2004/07/27 16:45:46 +PatchSet 4359 +Date: 2004/08/26 22:26:26 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Felipe Kellermann noticed a missing `break'. +Save a line or two Members: - libbb/process_escape_sequence.c:1.8->1.9 + loginutils/getty.c:1.14->1.15 + loginutils/login.c:1.20->1.21 --------------------- -PatchSet 4316 -Date: 2004/07/28 19:15:04 +PatchSet 4360 +Date: 2004/08/26 22:36:02 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Thanks to Ken Roberts, fix the slackware url +Tito writes: + +Hi, +I've fixed also the issue of whoami cutting down usernames. +This time I cannot send a diff because i don't know if my previous patches will be applied +or not, so I send in the whole file. +The changes I've made don't affect size but ensure that usernames of whatever lenght +are correctly displayed. +root@localhost:/dev/pts/3:/root/Desktop/busybox/coreutils# size whoami_orig.o + text data bss dec hex filename + 102 0 0 102 66 whoami_orig.o +root@localhost:/dev/pts/3:/root/Desktop/busybox/coreutils# size whoami.o + text data bss dec hex filename + 93 0 0 93 5d whoami.o + +This should be applied even if the other patches aren't as this matches the behaviour of the GNU whoami. + +Thanks in advance, +Ciao, +Tito Members: - docs/busybox.net/products.html:1.11->1.12 + coreutils/whoami.c:1.22->1.23 --------------------- -PatchSet 4317 -Date: 2004/07/29 23:15:16 -Author: mjn3 +PatchSet 4361 +Date: 2004/08/26 23:01:34 +Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Clean up hex escape support. +The login applet should always be setuid root Members: - libbb/process_escape_sequence.c:1.9->1.10 + include/applets.h:1.114->1.115 --------------------- -PatchSet 4318 -Date: 2004/07/30 14:31:01 +PatchSet 4362 +Date: 2004/08/26 23:13:00 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -As noted by Eric Spakman, calling static_down() and then calling -bootp_down() seems redundant, esp since bootp_down was a subset -of static_down, so just use that... +Improve the setuid situation a bit, and make it more apparent +when people really ought to make busybox setuid root. + -Erik Members: - networking/ifupdown.c:1.48->1.49 + Makefile:1.296->1.297 + loginutils/Config.in:1.8->1.9 + miscutils/Config.in:1.18->1.19 --------------------- -PatchSet 4319 -Date: 2004/07/30 14:36:37 +PatchSet 4363 +Date: 2004/08/26 23:15:29 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Fix up brain damage with the way major and minor are used to -create a dev_t +Togg writes: + +Syslogd wont start if remote-logging is enabled and the connection to the +remote-log server is not possible on syslogd startup. + +I found a patch somewhere which works like a charm. It uses sendto() which +seems more reliable for this issue. + +Please see attached patch. Many people will be more happy with this included +I think. + +Regards, +Togg Members: - miscutils/makedevs.c:1.19->1.20 + sysklogd/syslogd.c:1.113->1.114 --------------------- -PatchSet 4320 -Date: 2004/07/30 14:45:08 +PatchSet 4364 +Date: 2004/08/27 19:55:28 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -use SIGTERM to kill off udhcpd, not SIGKILL +Quiet a few warnings Members: - networking/ifupdown.c:1.49->1.50 + init/mesg.c:1.2->1.3 + shell/msh.c:1.20->1.21 --------------------- -PatchSet 4321 -Date: 2004/07/30 17:24:46 +PatchSet 4365 +Date: 2004/08/28 00:43:05 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Fixup getty, login, etc so the utmp and wtmp are updated, allowing -the 'who' and 'last' applets among other things to work as expected. - -Erik +Fixup some warnings Members: - coreutils/Config.in:1.24->1.25 - loginutils/Config.in:1.7->1.8 - loginutils/getty.c:1.11->1.12 - loginutils/login.c:1.17->1.18 - miscutils/Config.in:1.17->1.18 + archival/bunzip2.c:1.19->1.20 + archival/libunarchive/decompress_bunzip2.c:1.13->1.14 + coreutils/uniq.c:1.21->1.22 + modutils/insmod.c:1.123->1.124 + networking/ipcalc.c:1.10->1.11 + util-linux/mkfs_minix.c:1.42->1.43 --------------------- -PatchSet 4322 -Date: 2004/07/30 17:39:08 +PatchSet 4366 +Date: 2004/09/02 22:21:39 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Umm. Not guilty by reason of insanity. - -Erik +Tito writes: + +Hi Erik, +Hi to all, +This is part five of the my_get*id story. +I've tweaked a bit this two functions to make them more flexible, +but this changes will not affect existing code. +Now they work so: +1) my_getpwuid( char *user, uid_t uid, int bufsize) + + if bufsize is > 0 char *user cannot be set to NULL + on success username is written on static allocated buffer + on failure uid as string is written to buffer and NULL is returned + if bufsize is = 0 char *user can be set to NULL + on success username is returned + on failure NULL is returned + if bufsize is < 0 char *user can be set to NULL + on success username is returned + on failure an error message is printed and the program exits + + 2) 1) my_getgrgid( char *group, uid_t uid, int bufsize) + + if bufsize is > 0 char *group cannot be set to NULL + on success groupname is written on static allocated buffer + on failure gid as string is written to buffer and NULL is returned + if bufsize is = 0 char *group can be set to NULL + on success groupname is returned + on failure NULL is returned + if bufsize is < 0 char *group can be set to nULL + on success groupname is returned + on failure an error message is printed and the program exits + +This changes were needed mainly for my new id applet. +It is somewhat bigger then the previous but matches the behaviour of GNU id +and is capable to handle usernames of whatever length. +BTW: at a first look it seems to me that it will integrate well (with just a few changes) +with the pending patch in patches/id_groups_alias.patch. +The increase in size is balanced by the removal of my_getpwnamegid.c +from libbb as this was used only in previous id applet and by size optimizations +made possible in whoami.c and in passwd.c. +I know that we are in feature freeze but I think that i've tested it enough +(at least I hope so.......). Members: - loginutils/getty.c:1.12->1.13 - loginutils/login.c:1.18->1.19 + coreutils/id.c:1.25->1.26 + coreutils/whoami.c:1.23->1.24 + include/libbb.h:1.134->1.135 + libbb/Makefile.in:1.36->1.37 + libbb/my_getgrgid.c:1.8->1.9 + libbb/my_getpwuid.c:1.8->1.9 + loginutils/passwd.c:1.7->1.8 --------------------- -PatchSet 4323 -Date: 2004/07/30 17:48:21 +PatchSet 4367 +Date: 2004/09/02 22:22:16 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Fix incorrect arguments being passed to mknod +Tito writes: + +The second patch contains: +1) a size optimization for adduser.c +2) removes a warning about an unused variable in syslogd.c if CONFIG_FEATURE_REMOTE_LOG is not set +3)cosmetic fixes for addgroup_full_usage and adduser_full_usage + +Ciao, +Tito Members: - miscutils/makedevs.c:1.20->1.21 + include/usage.h:1.220->1.221 + loginutils/adduser.c:1.10->1.11 + sysklogd/syslogd.c:1.114->1.115 --------------------- -PatchSet 4324 -Date: 2004/07/30 23:52:08 +PatchSet 4368 +Date: 2004/09/02 23:03:24 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Simon Poole reports that awk segfaults when environment variables -with no value exist, i.e. +Based on patches from Mike Frysinger, add insmod support for +sparc and ia64 (itanium). - $ export BOB='' - % ./busybox awk - Segmentation fault +Also, reorganize the insmod architecture support code to be +alphasorted and less messy. -This patch teaches awk to not blow chunks on empty env variables. - -Erik +Update the readme to list current insmod arch support. Members: - editors/awk.c:1.9->1.10 + README:1.35->1.36 + modutils/insmod.c:1.124->1.125 --------------------- -PatchSet 4325 -Date: 2004/08/01 18:54:45 +PatchSet 4369 +Date: 2004/09/02 23:11:52 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -fixup cut-n-paste problem +No longer needed Members: - docs/busybox.net/news.html:1.20->1.21 + libbb/my_getpwnamegid.c:1.7->1.8(DEAD) + patches/id_groups_alias.patch:1.1->1.2(DEAD) --------------------- -PatchSet 4326 -Date: 2004/08/03 00:14:01 +PatchSet 4370 +Date: 2004/09/02 23:13:10 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Tito, farmatito at tiscali dot it writes: +Jonas Holmberg from axis dot com writes: -Hi to all, -This patch is useful for: -1) remove an unused var from extern char *find_real_root_device_name(const char* name) - changing it to extern char *find_real_root_device_name(void). -2) fixes include/libbb.h, coreutils/df.c, util-linux/mount.c and util-linux/umount.c accordingly. -3) fixes a bug, really a false positive, in find_real_root_device_name() that happens if - in the /dev directory exists a link named root (/dev/root) that should be skipped but - is not. This affects applets like df that display wrong results +This patch makes msh handle variable expansion within backticks more +correctly. + +Current behaviour (wrong): +-------------------------- + +BusyBox v1.00-rc3 (2004.08.26-11:51+0000) Built-in shell (msh) +Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. + +$ A='`echo hello`' +$ echo $A +`echo hello` +$ echo `echo $A` +hello +$ + + +New behaviour (correct): +------------------------ + +BusyBox v1.00-rc3 (2004.08.26-11:51+0000) Built-in shell (msh) +Enter 'help' for a list of built-in commands. + +$ A='`echo hello`' +$ echo $A +`echo hello` +$ echo `echo $A` +`echo hello` +$ + +The current behaviour (wrong according to standards) was actually my +fault. msh handles backticks by executing a subshell (which makes it +work on MMU-less systems). Executing a subshell makes it hard to only +expand variables once in the parent. Therefore I export all variables +that will be expanded within the backticks and let the subshell handle +the expansion instead. + +The bug was found while searching for security leaks in CGI-scripts. +Current behaviour of msh makes it easy to expand backticks by mistake +in $QUERY_STRING. I recommend appling the patch before release of bb +1.00. + +/Jonas Members: - coreutils/df.c:1.57->1.58 - include/libbb.h:1.132->1.133 - libbb/find_root_device.c:1.12->1.13 - util-linux/mount.c:1.119->1.120 - util-linux/umount.c:1.64->1.65 + shell/msh.c:1.21->1.22 --------------------- -PatchSet 4327 -Date: 2004/08/03 08:23:33 +PatchSet 4371 +Date: 2004/09/08 10:01:07 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -William Barsse writes: +Patrick Huesmann noticed BusyBox would not link when +CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_EDITING was defined *and* +CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_TAB_COMPLETION was undefined. -fixes two other issues (plus the previous as well) with a 2.4 kernel : +Vladimir N. Oleynik writes: -- should be able to modprobe an already loaded module and get 0 return -code : -# modprobe && modprobe && echo "ok" || echo "failed" -.... -failed +Its declare always, also if CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_TAB_COMPLETION +undefined. +Patch to CVS version attached. -Well, hope this helps and that I didn't screw up again, -- William +--w +vodz Members: - modutils/modprobe.c:1.33->1.34 + shell/ash.c:1.105->1.106 --------------------- -PatchSet 4328 -Date: 2004/08/04 19:16:54 +PatchSet 4372 +Date: 2004/09/08 10:56:06 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Run msh through indent +Felipe Kellermann writes: + +The Togg's sysklogd patch to use sendto() on remote logging is formatting +strangely (using `<' and '>' surrounding the `msg' string message). This +is OK, but this is not the standard way of formatting this message. + +So this patch does the following: + +o Fix the formatting to the standard way. +o Uses `MAXLINE' when needed; +o Don't loop sending messages without a "sleeping time", + I'm now doing `now = 1', `now <<= 1'; +o Don't die on `init_RemoteLog' when starting up (feature!) + We're now trying to connect every time we have an invalid fd; +o Removes one static uneeded variable. +o Removes two automatic uneeded variables. Members: - shell/msh.c:1.18->1.19 + sysklogd/syslogd.c:1.115->1.116 --------------------- -PatchSet 4329 -Date: 2004/08/04 19:19:10 +PatchSet 4373 +Date: 2004/09/08 20:13:05 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Michael Leibow, MichaelLe at belkin.com writes: +Fixup URL -A question was posted a month ago by Mark Alamo to see if others had -problems with sourcing subscripts within msh. We asked his firm to fix the -msh.c bug he described because we didn't have enough time to do it -ourselves. +Members: + docs/busybox.net/cvs_write.html:1.9->1.10 -When msh.c is executing a compound statement and there is a . command to -source another script file, msh.c will not execute the subscript until it's -completed executing the rest of the compound statement. +--------------------- +PatchSet 4374 +Date: 2004/09/14 13:59:44 +Author: bug1 +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +I have to assume both Avaks and LSILogic are deliberatly ignoring me. -His example was this: +Members: + docs/busybox.net/shame.html:1.18->1.19 -Echo "Start" ; . ./subA; echo "mid" ; . ./subB ; echo "end" +--------------------- +PatchSet 4375 +Date: 2004/09/14 16:08:02 +Author: bug1 +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Patch from tito to add argument checking. + +Members: + loginutils/addgroup.c:1.12->1.13 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4376 +Date: 2004/09/14 16:23:56 +Author: bug1 +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Patch from Felipe Kellermann, adds missing applet usage options, removes usage +for options that are currently not implemented and fixes typos. + +Members: + include/usage.h:1.221->1.222 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4377 +Date: 2004/09/14 17:24:58 +Author: bug1 +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Patch from Felipe Kellermann, remove some unnecessary dups, i declared a few extra const's also. + +Members: + networking/ifupdown.c:1.50->1.51 + networking/telnet.c:1.43->1.44 + networking/telnetd.c:1.12->1.13 + networking/tftp.c:1.28->1.29 + util-linux/getopt.c:1.13->1.14 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4378 +Date: 2004/09/14 18:12:13 +Author: bug1 +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Patch by Felipe Kellermann, fix a bug introduced in the last patch by adding a condition around the remote logging, also adds some comments. -subA and subB execute AFTER end is printed in reverse order. The same is -true if the sourced files are inside an if else fi, case esac, or any -compound statement. +Members: + sysklogd/syslogd.c:1.116->1.117 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4379 +Date: 2004/09/14 18:56:52 +Author: bug1 +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Apply patch from Felipe Kellermann to simlify logic of sort functions. +I reversed the result of the sort functions to make the big numbers go to the top. -Attached is a patch to msh.c. It fixes the problem. Cd to the root of your -busybox tree and execute "patch -p1 < msh.c.patch" +Members: + procps/top.c:1.12->1.13 -Unfortunately, I won't have more time to work on this so I hope that there -aren't any problems! +--------------------- +PatchSet 4380 +Date: 2004/09/14 19:14:00 +Author: bug1 +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +remove a cut/paste mistake, i better get some sleep. -Michael Leibow -Senior Software Engineer +Members: + procps/top.c:1.13->1.14 -Belkin Corporation +--------------------- +PatchSet 4381 +Date: 2004/09/15 02:05:23 +Author: bug1 +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Patch by Felipe Kellermann, use the common escape handling function and remove some unused code. Members: - shell/msh.c:1.19->1.20 + coreutils/printf.c:1.22->1.23 --------------------- -PatchSet 4330 -Date: 2004/08/06 00:58:53 +PatchSet 4382 +Date: 2004/09/15 02:39:09 Author: bug1 Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Part of patch from William Barsse, fixes a problem with unescaped %. +Only write to shadow file is shadow passwords are enabled. Patch by magicfox modified by myself to retain check for shadow file access. Members: - sysklogd/klogd.c:1.22->1.23 + loginutils/passwd.c:1.8->1.9 --------------------- -PatchSet 4331 -Date: 2004/08/06 01:49:04 +PatchSet 4383 +Date: 2004/09/15 03:04:07 Author: bug1 Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Patch from Tito to fix warnings about redifined functionions barrier and likely. +Tito writes, +"This patch fixes all the bugs in id previously spotted by vodz and me. +The binary size increased a bit, but now it should work as expected." Members: - shell/ash.c:1.103->1.104 + coreutils/id.c:1.26->1.27 + include/libbb.h:1.135->1.136 + libbb/Makefile.in:1.37->1.38 + libbb/my_getgrgid.c:1.9->1.10 + libbb/my_getpwuid.c:1.9->1.10 + libbb/my_getug.c:INITIAL->1.1 --------------------- -PatchSet 4332 -Date: 2004/08/11 02:30:30 +PatchSet 4384 +Date: 2004/09/15 03:24:32 Author: bug1 Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Willian Barsse wrote -"There seems to be a slight problem with the "mod_strcmp" function in -modprobe.c, it scans for the first occurence of the module name in the -"mod_path" variable and expects it to be the last path element. ie -/lib/modules/2.4.22-debug/kernel/fs/vfat in my example. The comparison -will always fail if mod_path contains another substring matching the -module name." +Add a missing brace, patch by Hideki IWAMOTO + +Members: + coreutils/stty.c:1.9->1.10 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4385 +Date: 2004/09/23 20:08:46 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Add some notes on how to make telnetd actually work -Robert McQueen wrote -"Although William Barsse's patch fixed mod_strcmp for 2.4 kernels, there -was a remaining problem which prevented it from working for me. I've -just tracked it down - when you enable kernel 2.6 module support it -hard-wired the extension to .ko instead of checking at runtime like the -other places where 2.4 differs from 2.6. The attached patch fixes this -for me." +Members: + networking/Config.in:1.28->1.29 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4386 +Date: 2004/09/24 01:25:39 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +A bit of extra explanation regarding STANDALONE Members: - modutils/modprobe.c:1.34->1.35 + shell/Config.in:1.16->1.17 --------------------- -PatchSet 4333 -Date: 2004/08/11 02:32:18 +PatchSet 4387 +Date: 2004/09/24 02:04:13 Author: bug1 Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Patch from Phil Blundellto improve substring match +Patch from David Daney to make the -i option work with -l. Members: - modutils/modprobe.c:1.35->1.36 + coreutils/ls.c:1.111->1.112 --------------------- -PatchSet 4334 -Date: 2004/08/11 02:45:47 +PatchSet 4388 +Date: 2004/09/24 02:36:44 Author: bug1 Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Patch from Bastian Blank to add 64 bit support to the test command. -Example of broken usage: ./busybox test 2147483648 -gt 2147483648 +Remove this error message at Vodz request, it was misleading. Members: - coreutils/Config.in:1.25->1.26 - coreutils/test.c:1.25->1.26 + libbb/correct_password.c:1.4->1.5 --------------------- -PatchSet 4335 -Date: 2004/08/11 03:50:30 +PatchSet 4389 +Date: 2004/09/24 09:09:44 Author: bug1 Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Patch from Tito to fix memory leak upon error. +Fix a typo Members: - libbb/xreadlink.c:1.5->1.6 + shell/Config.in:1.17->1.18 --------------------- -PatchSet 4336 -Date: 2004/08/11 05:56:30 +PatchSet 4390 +Date: 2004/09/24 09:18:55 Author: bug1 Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Patch from Mike Castle, dont print an empty line (patch modified by me to -change formatting). +Patch from Egor Duda +Attached patch prevents modprobe from trying to call 'insmod (null)' +whenever nonexistent module is either passed to modprobe via command +line or mentioned in modules.dep + +this replaces cryptic error +sh: Syntax error: word unexpected (expecting ")") +with +modprobe: module some-module not found. + +egor. Members: - modutils/modprobe.c:1.36->1.37 + modutils/modprobe.c:1.40->1.41 --------------------- -PatchSet 4337 -Date: 2004/08/11 08:10:58 +PatchSet 4391 +Date: 2004/09/24 09:24:27 Author: bug1 Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Set default command to list rather than get, its default behaviour now -coincides with upstream. Patch from debian diff. +Patch from Dmitry Zakharov to fix a bug triggered by freeswan's scripts. Members: - networking/libiproute/iproute.c:1.13->1.14 + editors/awk.c:1.10->1.11 --------------------- -PatchSet 4338 -Date: 2004/08/12 16:52:00 +PatchSet 4392 +Date: 2004/09/30 00:24:21 +Author: bug1 +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Patch from William Barsse to fix a segfault when multiple files are specified. + +Members: + coreutils/tail.c:1.47->1.48 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4393 +Date: 2004/10/07 00:35:59 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Patch from solar to fix problems with get_name() +Make it more apparent that archive creation is not supported Members: - libbb/interface.c:1.23->1.24 + archival/ar.c:1.49->1.50 --------------------- -PatchSet 4339 -Date: 2004/08/14 20:57:33 +PatchSet 4394 +Date: 2004/10/08 07:21:58 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Christian Ostheimer writes: +Patch from Michael Tokarev: + +Scenario: + + touch x -- creates plain file name `x' + mkdir x -- exits successefully + +libbb/make_directory.c, bb_make_directory(), contains +the following code: + + if (mkdir(path, 0777) < 0) { + /* If we failed for any other reason than the directory + * already exists, output a diagnostic and return -1.*/ + if (errno != EEXIST) { + fail_msg = "create"; + umask(mask); + break; + } + /* Since the directory exists, don't attempt to change + * permissions if it was the full target. Note that + * this is not an error conditon. */ + if (!c) { + umask(mask); + return 0; + } + } + +The assumption that EEXIST error is due to that the *directory* +already exists is wrong: any file type with that name will cause +this error to be returned. Proper way IMHO will be is to stat() +the path and check whenever this is really a directory. Below +(attached) is a patch to fix this issue. -Hello, +Members: + libbb/make_directory.c:1.15->1.16 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4395 +Date: 2004/10/08 07:45:08 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +egor duda writes: + +Hi! + +I've created a patch to busybox' build system to allow building it in +separate tree in a manner similar to kbuild from kernel version 2.6. + +That is, one runs command like +'make O=/build/some/where/for/specific/target/and/options' +and everything is built in this exact directory, provided that it exists. + +I understand that applyingc such invasive changes during 'release +candidates' stage of development is at best unwise. So, i'm currently +asking for comments about this patch, starting from whether such thing +is needed at all to whether it coded properly. + +'make check' should work now, and one make creates Makefile in build +directory, so one can run 'make' in build directory after that. + +One possible caveat is that if we build in some directory other than +source one, the source directory should be 'distclean'ed first. + +egor + +Members: + Makefile:1.297->1.298 + Rules.mak:1.37->1.38 + applets/Makefile:1.5->1.6 + applets/Makefile.in:1.5->1.6 + archival/Makefile:1.7->1.8 + archival/Makefile.in:1.5->1.6 + archival/libunarchive/Makefile:1.5->1.6 + archival/libunarchive/Makefile.in:1.23->1.24 + console-tools/Makefile:1.4->1.5 + console-tools/Makefile.in:1.5->1.6 + coreutils/Makefile:1.3->1.4 + coreutils/Makefile.in:1.9->1.10 + coreutils/libcoreutils/Makefile:1.3->1.4 + coreutils/libcoreutils/Makefile.in:1.3->1.4 + debianutils/Makefile:1.3->1.4 + debianutils/Makefile.in:1.5->1.6 + editors/Makefile:1.4->1.5 + editors/Makefile.in:1.5->1.6 + findutils/Makefile:1.4->1.5 + findutils/Makefile.in:1.4->1.5 + init/Makefile:1.5->1.6 + init/Makefile.in:1.9->1.10 + libbb/Makefile:1.10->1.11 + libbb/Makefile.in:1.38->1.39 + libpwdgrp/Makefile:1.3->1.4 + libpwdgrp/Makefile.in:1.4->1.5 + loginutils/Makefile:1.3->1.4 + loginutils/Makefile.in:1.8->1.9 + miscutils/Makefile:1.7->1.8 + miscutils/Makefile.in:1.12->1.13 + modutils/Makefile:1.4->1.5 + modutils/Makefile.in:1.3->1.4 + networking/Makefile:1.7->1.8 + networking/Makefile.in:1.19->1.20 + networking/libiproute/Makefile:1.3->1.4 + networking/libiproute/Makefile.in:1.6->1.7 + networking/udhcp/Makefile:1.3->1.4 + networking/udhcp/Makefile.in:1.10->1.11 + procps/Makefile:1.4->1.5 + procps/Makefile.in:1.6->1.7 + scripts/config/Makefile:1.4->1.5 + shell/Makefile:1.4->1.5 + shell/Makefile.in:1.3->1.4 + sysklogd/Makefile:1.5->1.6 + sysklogd/Makefile.in:1.3->1.4 + testsuite/runtest:1.8->1.9 + testsuite/du/du-h-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/du/du-k-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/du/du-l-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/du/du-m-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/du/du-s-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/du/du-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/head/head-n-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/head/head-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/ls/ls-1-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/ls/ls-h-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/ls/ls-l-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/ls/ls-s-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/sort/sort-n-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/sort/sort-r-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/sort/sort-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/tail/tail-n-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/tail/tail-works:1.1->1.2 + testsuite/xargs/xargs-works:1.1->1.2 + util-linux/Makefile:1.6->1.7 + util-linux/Makefile.in:1.8->1.9 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4396 +Date: 2004/10/08 07:58:30 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +As noticed by egor duda, current_menu is declared as 'extern struct menu +*current_menu;' in scripts/config/lkc.h line 63, and this conflicts with +static definition in mconf.c. + +Members: + scripts/config/mconf.c:1.5->1.6 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4397 +Date: 2004/10/08 08:03:29 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +last_patch139.gz from Vladimir N. Oleynik: + +>I also don't mean to disagree about leaving 30x status codes until after +>1.0. In fact, although redirecting http://host/dir to http://host/dir/ +>with a 301 is common practice (e.g. Apache, IIS), AFAIK it isn't +>actually required (or mentioned) by the HTTP specs. + +Ok. +Attached patch have 302 and 408 implemented features. + + +--w +vodz -function build_dep in modprobe.c assumes that dependencies of one module -have not more than 255 chars; -that is not sufficient in kernel 2.6.7 (alsa sound modules). - Below is -a diff that solves the problem for me. +Members: + networking/httpd.c:1.27->1.28 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4398 +Date: 2004/10/08 08:07:40 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Tito writes: + +Hi to all, +This patch contains just some fixes for some misleading +comments in my_getpwuid.c and my_getug.c. +The code is untouched so this patch will not +cause troubles. -With regards, Christian Ostheimer +Please apply. + +Thanks in advance and Ciao, +Tito Members: - modutils/modprobe.c:1.37->1.38 + libbb/my_getpwuid.c:1.10->1.11 + libbb/my_getug.c:1.1->1.2 --------------------- -PatchSet 4340 -Date: 2004/08/16 08:29:44 +PatchSet 4399 +Date: 2004/10/08 08:10:57 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Aurelien Jacobs writes: +Hiroshi Ito writes: + + Hello + + I'm using busy box on mipsel machine. + + "grep -f file" will cause segmentation fault. + +Vladimir N. Oleynik writes: -with a quick conversion you will see that 132608 == 0x20600 -so noticed that the elif will never be matched ! -Apparently there was already a try to modify this in CVS which -was reverted (it was plain wrong). +Hiroshi, -I don't know when __kernel_old_dev_t is needed, but with a 2.6.7 -or a 2.6.8 this is __kernel_dev_t wich is needed. +Thank for bug report, but your patch is full broken. +Worked patch attached. +(really changes is zero initialize, and indent correcting). + + +--w +vodz + +Members: + findutils/grep.c:1.85->1.86 -I corrected this with the following patch but maybe older 2.6 -still need __kernel_old_dev_t ? +--------------------- +PatchSet 4400 +Date: 2004/10/08 08:14:58 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Hiroshi Ito writes: -I think this should be corrected before 1.0. +ash + "unset OLDPWD; cd -" causes segmentation fault. + ( OLDPWD is not set when sh is invoked from getty. ) -Thanks -Aurel +patch against current CVS is attached. Members: - libbb/loop.c:1.10->1.11 + shell/ash.c:1.106->1.107 --------------------- -PatchSet 4341 -Date: 2004/08/16 08:36:28 +PatchSet 4401 +Date: 2004/10/08 08:17:39 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Use __kernel_old_dev_t for 2.6.x kernels +Hiroshi Ito writes: + +"kill -HUP 1" reloads inittab, and when I append one line to inittab +and send HUP signal two times, It will starts 2 process. + +patch against current CVS is attached. Members: - libbb/loop.c:1.11->1.12 + init/init.c:1.204->1.205 --------------------- -PatchSet 4342 -Date: 2004/08/16 08:38:34 +PatchSet 4402 +Date: 2004/10/08 08:21:54 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Joe.C writes: +Hiroshi Ito writes: - This bug is in busybox 1.0.0-rc2. When using lash exec -builtin with redirection, the opened file fd keep increasing. -For example, please try the following command with lash. +Hello, all. +Busybox init does not handle removed inittab entry correctly. -ls -al /proc//fd -exec /bin/sh 2>/dev/null -ls -al /proc//fd +# I'm sorry about my poor english, but you can find +# what I would like to say from patch, isn't it? - The last 'ls' command output will look like this. The fd -number 4 shouldn't exist. +even if you apply this path, +when yoy try to change a command line option in inittab, +you have to do following steps. +1. remove old line from initrd +2. send HUP signal to init +3. kill old proces which is invoked from init. +4. append new line to inittab +5. send HUP signal to init, again -lrwx------ 1 501 100 64 Aug 13 13:56 4 -> /dev/pts/5 -l-wx------ 1 501 100 64 Aug 13 13:56 2 -> /dev/null -lrwx------ 1 501 100 64 Aug 13 13:56 1 -> /dev/pts/5 -lrwx------ 1 501 100 64 Aug 13 13:56 0 -> /dev/pts/5 -dr-xr-xr-x 3 501 100 0 Aug 13 13:56 .. -dr-x------ 2 501 100 0 Aug 13 13:56 . +patch is against current CVS + last patch witch I send it last. - This one-line patch fix this problem by setting CLOEXEC flag for -squirrel fd. Please apply. +Members: + init/init.c:1.205->1.206 -Joe.C +--------------------- +PatchSet 4403 +Date: 2004/10/08 08:27:40 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Patch from Denis Vlasenko to fix a problem where +wget http://1.2.3.4/abc/ loses last '/' Members: - shell/lash.c:1.160->1.161 + networking/wget.c:1.74->1.75 --------------------- -PatchSet 4343 -Date: 2004/08/16 09:07:39 +PatchSet 4404 +Date: 2004/10/08 08:49:25 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Bertrand Baudet writes: +Wade Berrier writes: -Looks like the -D and -H options of the adduser applet aren't handle -properly in BusyBox. +Hello, -This patch fixes the masks definition for those options according to -there position in the optstring. +Here's a patch for a first attempt at static leases for udhcpd. +Included in the tarball are 2 files (static_leases.c, static_leases.h) +and a patch against the latest cvs. -Patch against RC2 but should also apply cleanly against CVS. +In the config file you can configure static leases with the following +format: -Bertrand +static_lease 00:60:08:11:CE:4E 192.168.0.54 +static_lease 00:60:08:11:CE:3E 192.168.0.44 + +Comments/suggestions/improvements are welcome. + + +Wade Members: - loginutils/adduser.c:1.9->1.10 + examples/udhcp/udhcpd.conf:1.3->1.4 + networking/udhcp/Makefile.in:1.11->1.12 + networking/udhcp/dhcpd.c:1.6->1.7 + networking/udhcp/dhcpd.h:1.6->1.7 + networking/udhcp/files.c:1.14->1.15 + networking/udhcp/leases.c:1.6->1.7 + networking/udhcp/serverpacket.c:1.6->1.7 + networking/udhcp/static_leases.c:INITIAL->1.1 + networking/udhcp/static_leases.h:INITIAL->1.1 --------------------- -PatchSet 4344 -Date: 2004/08/16 09:29:42 +PatchSet 4405 +Date: 2004/10/08 08:57:35 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Do not use vfork, as init is not vfork safe. Do not allow -askfirst when mmuless. +Patch from Claus Klein to increase, and make more apparent +the hard coded limit on the number of mounts Members: - init/init.c:1.203->1.204 + libbb/mtab.c:1.5->1.6 --------------------- -PatchSet 4345 -Date: 2004/08/16 10:22:34 +PatchSet 4406 +Date: 2004/10/08 09:43:34 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) Log: -Only pass modprobe module params with 2.6.x kernel support. - -Erik +Fix CONFIG_ASH_MATH_SUPPORT_64 so it actually works Members: - modutils/modprobe.c:1.38->1.39 + shell/ash.c:1.107->1.108 --------------------- -PatchSet 4346 -Date: 2004/08/16 10:23:33 +PatchSet 4407 +Date: 2004/10/08 10:50:08 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Add an initial FAQ + +Members: + docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html:INITIAL->1.1 + docs/busybox.net/header.html:1.8->1.9 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4408 +Date: 2004/10/08 10:52:08 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Fix the supported architectures section + +Members: + README:1.36->1.37 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4409 +Date: 2004/10/08 10:52:33 Author: andersen Branch: HEAD Tag: (none) @@ -677,5 +1283,99 @@ Log: Bump version Members: - Rules.mak:1.36->1.37 + Rules.mak:1.38->1.39 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4410 +Date: 2004/10/08 10:54:20 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +unmerged fix + +Members: + docs/busybox.net/news.html:1.22->1.23 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4411 +Date: 2004/10/08 11:11:02 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +oops + +Members: + docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html:1.1->1.2 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4412 +Date: 2004/10/11 20:52:16 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Patch from David Daney: + +It seems that date -s MMDDHHMMYYYY.ss + +will ignore the .ss part. This patch tries to fix the problem. + +David Daney. + +Members: + coreutils/date.c:1.47->1.48 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4413 +Date: 2004/10/13 06:25:51 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Make certain clients of bb_make_directory default to honoring +the user's umask + +Members: + archival/libunarchive/data_extract_all.c:1.20->1.21 + libbb/make_directory.c:1.16->1.17 + miscutils/devfsd.c:1.9->1.10 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4414 +Date: 2004/10/13 07:18:05 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +Simon Poole writes: + +Erik, + +Attached is a patch for the udhcpc sample scripts, to correct the order in +which routers are applied if the DHCP server provides more than one (as per +section 3.5 of RFC2132). + +Apologies for not being on the mailing list and thanks for your continued +efforts. + +Simon. + +Members: + examples/udhcp/sample.bound:1.1->1.2 + examples/udhcp/sample.renew:1.1->1.2 + examples/udhcp/simple.script:1.1->1.2 + +--------------------- +PatchSet 4415 +Date: 2004/10/13 07:25:01 +Author: andersen +Branch: HEAD +Tag: (none) +Log: +return failure when nslookup fails + +Members: + networking/nslookup.c:1.32->1.33 diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html b/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html index 294e219a7..a9324ae26 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ have additions to this FAQ document, we would love to add them,
  • I demand that you to add <favorite feature> right now! How come you don't answer all my questions on the mailing list instantly? I demand that you help me with all of my problems Right Now! +
  • How can I get started using BusyBox?
  • I need help with BusyBox! What should I do?
  • I need you to add <favorite feature>! Are the BusyBox developers willing to be paid in order to fix bugs or add in <favorite feature>? Are you willing to provide @@ -144,6 +145,27 @@ have additions to this FAQ document, we would love to add them, run your shell on a real console... +
    +

    +

    How can I get started using BusyBox?

    +

    + + An easy method to build your own basic BusyBox based system, is to + follow these simple steps: +

      +
    • Point your web browser here +
    • Click on "Download tarball" +
    • Unpack the tarball on your Linux system somewhere +
    • run 'make' and configure things to taste. +
    • run 'unset CC'. Some Linux systems (i.e. Gentoo) set 'CC' + in the system environment which messes up cross compiles. +
    • run 'make' +
    • go have lunch, drink a pop, call a friend, play a video game, etc + till it finishes downloading software and compiling things. +
    • You should now have a shiny new BusyBox based system. +
    + +

    I demand that you to add <favorite feature> right now! How come @@ -198,8 +220,8 @@ have additions to this FAQ document, we would love to add them, href="http://codepoet-consulting.com/">CodePoet Consulting to bid on your project. If Erik is too busy to personally add your feature, there are many other active BusyBox contributors who will almost certainly be able - to help you out. Erik can contact them and ask them about their availability, - and may even ask you to post your request for services on the mailing list. + to help you out. Erik can contact them privatly, and may even let you to + post your request for services on the mailing list.
    @@ -218,7 +240,7 @@ have additions to this FAQ document, we would love to add them, - + diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/license.html b/docs/busybox.net/license.html index 0e27c3956..14324f1df 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/license.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/license.html @@ -10,12 +10,32 @@ whatsoever, this page attempts to summarize what you should do to ensure you do not accidentally violate the law.

    +

    Complying with the BusyBox license is easy and completely free.

    + +U.S. and International Law protects copyright owners from the unauthorized +reproduction, adaptation, display, distribution, etc of copyright protected +works. Copyright violations (such as shipping BusyBox in a manner contrary to +its license) are subject to severe penalties. The courts can award up to +$150,000 per product shipped without even showing any actual loss by the +copyright holder. Criminal penalties are available for intentional acts +undertaken for purposes of "commercial advantage" or "private financial gain." +In addition, if it comes to my attention that you are violating the BusyBox +license, I will list you on the BusyBox Hall of Shame +webpage.

    +Nobody wants that to happen. Do everyone a favor and don't break the law -- if +you use BusyBox, you must comply with the BusyBox license. + +

    +

    BusyBox is licensed under the GNU General Public License

    + BusyBox is licensed under the GNU General Public License , which -is generally just abbreviated simply as the GPL license, or -just the GPL. Anyone thinking of shipping +is generally just abbreviated as the GPL license, or +just the GPL. +

    +Anyone thinking of shipping BusyBox as part of a product should be familiar with the licensing terms under which they are allowed to use and distribute BusyBox. You are advised to take a look over the @@ -53,37 +73,39 @@ applications such as BusyBox is mandatory.

    -Accompanied by source generally means you place the full -source code for all GPL'd products such as BusyBox on a driver CD -somewhere. Full source code includes the BusyBox ".config" file -used when your shipping BusyBox binary was compiled. +Accompanied by source generally means you distribute the full +source code for all GPL'd products including BusyBox along with your +product, such as by placing it somewhere on a driver CD. Full source +code includes the BusyBox ".config" file used when your shipping BusyBox +binary was compiled, and any and all modifications you made to the +BusyBox source code.

    A written offer generally means that somewhere in the -docs for your product, you write something like +documentation for your product, you write something like

    The GPL source code contained in this product is available as a free download from http://blah.blah.blah/
    -Or you can offer source by writing -somewhere in the docs for your product something like +Alternatively, you can offer the source code by writing +somewhere in the documentation for your product something like
    -If you would like a copy of the GPL source code in this product -on a CD, please send $9.99 to <address> for the costs of -preparing and mailing a CD to you. +If you would like a copy of the GPL source code contained in this +product shipped to you on CD, please send $9.99 to <address> +which covers the cost of preparing and mailing a CD to you.

    -Keep in mind though that if you distribute GPL'd binaries online -(as is often done when supplying firmware updates), it is highly -recommended that you make the corresponding source available online -at the same place. Regardless, you must either make source -available online (i.e. accompanied by source) and/or inform -those downloading firmware updates of their right to obtain source -(i.e. a written offer). Failure to do so is a violation of -your licensing obligations. +Keep in mind though that if you distribute GPL'd binaries online (as is often +done when supplying firmware updates), it is highly recommended that you +make the corresponding source available online at the same place. Regardless, +if you distribute a binary copy of BusyBox online (such as part of a firmware +update) you must either make source available online (i.e. +accompanied by source) and/or inform those downloading firmware updates +of their right to obtain source (i.e. a written offer). Failure to do +so is a violation of your licensing obligations.

    @@ -97,6 +119,7 @@ If you distribute any GPL'd binaries, you must also make source available as discussed on this webpage.

    +

    A Good Example

    These days, Linksys is doing a good job at complying with the GPL, they get to be an @@ -104,8 +127,8 @@ example of how to do things right. Please take a moment and check out what they do with distributing the firmware for their WRT54G Router. -Following their example would be a fine way to ensure you have -fulfilled your licensing obligations. +Following their example would be a fine way to ensure that you +have also fulfilled your licensing obligations. diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html index 1f5ebc34b..0d4c81bab 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html @@ -3,141 +3,43 @@
      -
    • 16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released

      +

    • 13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released

      - Here goes release candidate 3... -

      - The changelog has all the details. - And as usual you can download busybox here. - -

      Have Fun! - -

      -

    • 26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released

      - - Here goes release candidate 2... -

      - The changelog has all the details. - And as usual you can download busybox here. - -

      Have Fun! - -

      -

    • 20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released

      - - Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems - that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of - kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better. -

      - - I really want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real - reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as - is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for - everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting, - it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well. - There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with - it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while - there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work - is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door.... -

      - - Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this - time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a - bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you - explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch - has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your - bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]" - at the beginning of the email subject line! - -

      - The changelog has all the details. - And as usual you can download busybox here. - -

      Have Fun! + When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or + software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox. + With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and + who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices + is looking very bright.

      - On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away - yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about - 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I - could be back in time for the funeral if I attend OLS and give my presentation - as scheduled. -

      - As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come - to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS - this year. -

      - - -

      -

    • 13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released

      - - Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox - pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I really - want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not - bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only - bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be very helpful if - people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit - improvements. - -

      - The changelog has all the details. - And as usual you can download busybox here. - -

      Have Fun! -

      - - -

      -

    • 6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released

      - Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for - bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this - week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at - this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be - very helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation - and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the - documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some - assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets - match the features listed in the documentation. + It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every + device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date. + The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived!

      - I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but - - another release on 1 March 2004 has kept me busy... -

      - The changelog has all the details. - And as usual you can download busybox here. + Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous + improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux + KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel), + Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development + work and testing of thousands of people from around the world. -

      Have Fun!

      - -

      -

    • 23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released

      - - Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send - in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will - be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see - supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit, - please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release - out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre - series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you - spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the - busybox mailing list. It would also be very helpful if people could - help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be - especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the - various applets match the features listed in the documentation. + If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to + BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device + or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is + right for your application. If you need help getting started using + BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug + and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the BusyBox FAQ.

      - The changelog has all the details. - And as usual you can download busybox here. + As usual you can download busybox here.

      Have Fun! -

      -

    • Old News

      diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html b/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html index 788224679..83987ecf8 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html @@ -3,6 +3,142 @@

        +
      • 16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released

        + + Here goes release candidate 3... +

        + The changelog has all the details. + And as usual you can download busybox here. + +

        Have Fun! + +

        +

      • 26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released

        + + Here goes release candidate 2... +

        + The changelog has all the details. + And as usual you can download busybox here. + +

        Have Fun! + +

        +

      • 20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released

        + + Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems + that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of + kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better. +

        + + I really want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real + reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as + is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for + everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting, + it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well. + There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with + it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while + there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work + is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door.... +

        + + Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this + time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a + bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you + explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch + has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your + bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]" + at the beginning of the email subject line! + +

        + The changelog has all the details. + And as usual you can download busybox here. + +

        Have Fun! + +

        + On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away + yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about + 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I + could be back in time for the funeral if I attend OLS and give my presentation + as scheduled. +

        + As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come + to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS + this year. +

        + + +

        +

      • 13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released

        + + Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox + pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I really + want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not + bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only + bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be very helpful if + people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit + improvements. + +

        + The changelog has all the details. + And as usual you can download busybox here. + +

        Have Fun! +

        + + +

        +

      • 6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released

        + + Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for + bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this + week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at + this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be + very helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation + and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the + documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some + assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets + match the features listed in the documentation. + +

        + I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but + + another release on 1 March 2004 has kept me busy... + +

        + The changelog has all the details. + And as usual you can download busybox here. + +

        Have Fun! +

        + + +

        +

      • 23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released

        + + Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send + in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will + be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see + supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit, + please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release + out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre + series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you + spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the + busybox mailing list. It would also be very helpful if people could + help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be + especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the + various applets match the features listed in the documentation. + +

        + + The changelog has all the details. + And as usual you can download busybox here. + +

        Have Fun! +

        + +

      • 4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released

        There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/products.html b/docs/busybox.net/products.html index 527840655..6ca0e3c92 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/products.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/products.html @@ -71,17 +71,13 @@ nanoEngine

      • Linux Terminal Server Project -
      • Devil-Linux +
      • Devil-Linux -
      • DutNux +
      • DutNux -
      • Mindi +
      • Mindi -
      • ttylinux +
      • ttylinux
      • Coyote Linux @@ -93,6 +89,7 @@ Image
      • Tinfoil Hat Linux +
      • gp32linux
      • Familiar Linux
        A linux distribution for handheld computers
      • Timo's Rescue CD Set
      • Netstation @@ -149,6 +146,17 @@ Hat Linux
      • ActionTec GT701-WG Wireless Gateway/DSL Modem with source here +
      • S.M.A.R.T. Linux +
      • DLink - Model GSL-G604T, DSL-300T, and possibly other models + with source here, + with source and here, + and quite possibly other places as well. You may need to dig down a bit + to find the source, but it does seem to be there. +
      • Siemens SE515 DSL router + with source here, I think... + with some details here. +
      • Free Remote Windows Terminal +
      diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/screenshot.html b/docs/busybox.net/screenshot.html index e691a16c9..9c05791db 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/screenshot.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/screenshot.html @@ -13,7 +13,7 @@ font-family: monospace; font-size: smaller;" width="100"> $ ./busybox -BusyBox v1.00 (2004.04.06-14:56+0000) multi-call binary +BusyBox v1.00 (2004.10.13-04:49+0000) multi-call binary Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]... or: [function] [arguments]... diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/shame.html b/docs/busybox.net/shame.html index 849e73ce6..99807c17a 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/shame.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/shame.html @@ -22,9 +22,13 @@ companies listed below should be ashamed of themselves. Furthermore, each product listed here is subject to being legally ordered to cease and desist distribution for violation of copyright law, and the distributor of each product is subject to being sued for statutory copyright infringement damages -plus legal fees. Nobody wants to be sued, and Erik certainly has better things to do -than sue people. But he will sue if forced to do so to maintain compliance. +of up to $150,000 per work plus legal fees. Nobody wants to be sued, and Erik certainly would prefer to spend +his time doing better things than sue people. But he will sue if forced to +do so to maintain compliance. + +

      + Do everyone a favor and don't break the law -- if you use busybox, comply with the busybox license by releasing the source code with your product. @@ -32,7 +36,6 @@ the busybox license by releasing the source code with your product.