- forgot to pass in the HOST_EXTRACFLAGS

insmod: shrink

function                                             old     new   delta
obj_allocate_commons                                 488     462     -26
insmod_main                                         3830    3714    -116

cksum: respect CONFIG_LFS=y. Adds 36 bytes in this case.

- pull check-lxdialog from linux-2.6.26

trylink: make messages less confusing

modprobe-small: support "blacklist" keyword in /etc/modules/<modulename>

reinstate sponsor's links

fbset: fix mode matching code: original code may trigger false positive.
 E.g. fbset -n '16bit'
 succeeded at 'mode "640x480 16bit"' and that is wrong.
 Also parser is rewritten. By Vladimir.

function                                             old     new   delta
static.syncs                                           -      20     +20
g_options                                              4       -      -4
g_cmdoptions                                         432     385     -47
fbset_main                                          1842    1642    -200

ping: SO_RCVBUF must be bigger than packet size,
 otherwise large ping packets might fail to be received.

hexdump: fix SEGV in hexdump -e ""

setarch: do not try to use non-existent data in argv[]

tweak web page

- move some older news to the news archive (the main page was once again over 30kib big)

- reformat help text

Announce 1.11.2

- print the documentation per default

- document rmdir args

- document rmmod -w and -f arguments

fix xargs -e help text

- tweak markup. No relevant changes

- cleanup urls

- fix typo

- fix markup

- do not advertise the standalone udhcpd. It is actively maintained in busybox only.

- fix markup

- add doc-clean target

- add note about CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX while cleanup up markup.

- fix typo of mine

- improve documentation a bit

- some more nitpicks

- some more markup fixes

- fix typo

more of pointless beautifuing on the web page

trim webpage text a bit

- drop outdated paragraph (which additionally contained some mistyped html-like junk)

- misc. minor tweaks

- point people to the current stable branch

- tweak markup

more cosmetic fixes on the website

cosmetic fixes on the webpage

- tweak markup

- bump copyright year

- fix markup

- fix some wrong markup.
  sed -i -e 's, href=\([^"][^>]*\)>, href="\1">,g' *.html
  The proper way to specify an attribute is to quote the val: theattrib="val"

- correct release date for 1.12.0 and fix a few typos

announce 1.12.0

Bump version to 1.13.0.svn

This is 1.12.0

getopt32: do not return pointer to alloca() areas

envdir: fix "envdir with no params" case

findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary

fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing. By Vladimir

function                                             old     new   delta
create_fs_device                                     125     158     +33
parse_word                                            41       -     -41
parse_escape                                          55       -     -55
fsck_main                                           2246    1893    -353
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 33/-449)          Total: -416 bytes

linedit: fix use-after-free

libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)

libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()

function                                             old     new   delta
top_main                                            1100    1095      -5
getopt32                                            1398    1361     -37
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-42)             Total: -42 bytes

ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces
 from Wade Berrier <wberrier AT gmail.com>

Updating defconfig, fixing a typo in Config.in

- add new applet rdev (Grant Erickson)
- fixes and shrink (me)

showkey: new applet by Vladimir

setfont: new applet by Vladimir

libbb: use ptsname_r, it's smaller

function                                             old     new   delta
xgetpty                                               91      81     -10
ptsname                                               33       -     -33

   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 793828     592    6692  801112   c3958 busybox_old
 793796     592    6660  801048   c3918 busybox_unstripped

ash: fix "(cat < file)" hang introduced by rev 22944.

cut: fix buffer overflow (bug 4544).

chpst: fix "envdir dir" case (bug 4574).

arp: without -H <type>, assume "ether". closes 4564

install: fix long option not taking params (bug 4584)

mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir foo/bar" case
 (by Doug Graham <dgraham AT nortel.com>)

function                                             old     new   delta
bb_make_directory                                    291     280     -11

nmeter: fix read past the end if a buffer. Closes 4594

ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address, by Wade Berrier <wberrier AT gmail.com>

sendmail: work around (bogus) gcc warning

fix byte-swapping of compressed help on big-endian machines

optimize config_read() (by Timo Teras <timo.teras AT iki.fi>)

function                                             old     new   delta
bb_get_chunk_with_continuation                         -     176    +176
find_pair                                            169     187     +18
...
process_stdin                                        443     433     -10
config_read                                          549     456     -93
bb_get_chunk_from_file                               139       7    -132
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 7/7 up/down: 215/-254)          Total: -39 bytes

grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one.
 This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but
 costs +800 bytes. The same can be done to sed (TODO).

- support relatime / norelatime

- fix typo

modprobe-small: fix infinite looping, by Timo Teras

fix bug 4464 for real. I am dumb.

modprobe: semi-trivial code shrink

function                                             old     new   delta
build_dep                                            870     859     -11
already_loaded                                       134     112     -22
modprobe_main                                        449     368     -81
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/3 up/down: 0/-114)           Total: -114 bytes

*: use get_console_fd() as appropriate, and make it fail on open error -
 get_console_fd_or_die().

function                                             old     new   delta
get_console_fd_or_die                                  -     163    +163
loadkmap_main                                        211     201     -10
loadfont_main                                        440     430     -10
dumpkmap_main                                        218     208     -10
kbd_mode_main                                        158     146     -12
setkeycodes_main                                     156     143     -13
get_console_fd                                       163       -    -163
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 0/5 up/down: 163/-218)          Total: -55 bytes

kbd_mode: remove erroneous & from &var. By Vladimir.

libbb: fix thinko in latest xrealloc_vector change

- reinstate commented out _FORTIFY_SOURCE that was somehow dropped by Denys?

randomconfig fixes

man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config
man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given

man: yet another fixlet to "manpage link" code

man: fixlet for man links

man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova <varekova AT redhat.com>

function                                             old     new   delta
run_pipe                                             102     354    +252
show_manpage                                           -     126    +126
man_main                                             705     615     -90
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 1/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 378/-90)           Total: 288 bytes

*: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too.

function                                             old     new   delta
unpack_Z_stream                                        -    1229   +1229
open_zipped                                            -     176    +176
unpack_bz2_stream_prime                                -      60     +60
tar_main                                             642     677     +35
find_main                                            406     418     +12
sv_main                                             1222    1233     +11
decode_format_string                                 829     837      +8
cmp_main                                             641     649      +8
popstring                                            134     140      +6
filter_accept_list_reassign                          120     125      +5
parse_and_put_prompt                                 800     804      +4
passwd_main                                         1053    1049      -4
make_new_name_gunzip                                 119     114      -5
rpm_main                                            1688    1670     -18
prepare                                              302     283     -19
xmalloc_open_zipped_read_close                       135      61     -74
uncompress                                          1229       -   -1229
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 3/1 grow/shrink: 8/5 up/down: 1554/-1349)        Total: 205 bytes

- don't free user-supplied string (via -e)
- fix helptext

function                                             old     new   delta
chpasswd_main                                        300     319     +19
packed_usage                                       24352   24344      -8
.rodata                                           122227  122195     -32
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/2 up/down: 19/-40)            Total: -21 bytes

whitespace fixes, no code changed

xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E.
 closes bug 4414

modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets) instead of reads().
libbb: remove reads()

function                                             old     new   delta
include_conf_file_act                                961     980     +19
localcmd                                             282     284      +2
already_loaded                                       155     151      -4
in_cksum                                              58      53      -5
modprobe_main                                       1630    1624      -6
reads                                                129       -    -129
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/1 grow/shrink: 2/3 up/down: 21/-144)          Total: -123 bytes

fix some testsuite false positives

libbb: make xrealloc_vector zero out the realloc'ed tail

function                                             old     new   delta
xrealloc_vector_helper                                51      76     +25
man_main                                             712     705      -7
act                                                  250     234     -16
create_list                                           91      70     -21
getopt_main                                          695     664     -31
load_dep_bb                                          281     248     -33
fileAction                                           744     709     -35
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/6 up/down: 25/-143)          Total: -118 bytes

hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not.

function                                             old     new   delta
parse_stream                                        1920    2004     +84
done_word                                            715     752     +37
parse_and_run_stream                                 328     333      +5
builtin_exec                                          25      29      +4
pseudo_exec_argv                                     138     139      +1
run_list                                            2006    1999      -7
is_assignment                                        215     134     -81
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 5/2 up/down: 131/-88)            Total: 43 bytes

hush: remove a comment about already fixed bug

makedevs: shrink by Vladimir

function                                             old     new   delta
makedevs_main                                       1071    1049     -22
packed_usage                                       24744   24708     -36

ssd: fix -K/-S mixup in help text

xargs: update help text

xargs: fix xargs -e; added test for that