make variables static

check-lxdialog.sh: no point in giving up, maybe -lcurses will work?

load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam@hitachisoft.jp>)

chcon: trivial fix

losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie@gmail.com>)

function                                             old     new   delta
losetup_main                                         238     278     +40
packed_usage                                       23021   23027      +6
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 46/0)               Total: 46 bytes

runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug

inetd: move struct fields around -> save .25 k of code

function                                             old     new   delta
freeconfig                                            75      76      +1
register_rpc                                         200     196      -4
dupconfig                                            165     159      -6
reapchild                                            173     166      -7
retry                                                 93      82     -11
goaway                                               112     101     -11
getconfigent                                        1241    1222     -19
setup                                                645     592     -53
inetd_main                                          2160    2107     -53
config                                              1602    1518     -84
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/9 up/down: 1/-248)           Total: -247 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 773951    1038   10332  785321   bfba9 busybox_old
 773703    1038   10332  785073   bfab1 busybox_unstripped

install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tries to copy dir into dir too)
install: 'support' (ignore) -v and -b

documentation bits in comments, no code changes

cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat)

httpd: small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino@bluegiga.com>)

ed: large cleanup

function                                             old     new   delta
bad_nums                                               -      43     +43
skip_blank                                             -      24     +24
getNum                                               557     578     +21
insertLine                                           159     163      +4
setCurNum                                             31      33      +2
lastNum                                                4       -      -4
fileName                                               4       -      -4
dirty                                                  4       -      -4
curNum                                                 4       -      -4
curLine                                                4       -      -4
bufUsed                                                4       -      -4
bufSize                                                4       -      -4
bufPtr                                                 4       -      -4
bufBase                                                4       -      -4
printLines                                           357     345     -12
findLine                                             165     152     -13
lines                                                 16       -     -16
deleteLines                                          203     144     -59
readLines                                            538     473     -65
addLines                                             163      87     -76
marks                                                104       -    -104
termEdit                                             140       -    -140
ed_main                                             3125    2654    -471
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 2/12 grow/shrink: 3/6 up/down: 94/-992)         Total: -898 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 771142    1034   10564  782740   bf194 busybox_old
 770265    1034   10404  781703   bed87 busybox_unstripped

# size */ed.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   6370       0     156    6526    197e editors.org/ed.o
   5505       0       0    5505    1581 editors/ed.o

insmod: fix help text to not show options if only 2.6 was selected

insmod: shorten message text; style fixes

tar: add a comment about previous subtle fix

tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name

function                                             old     new   delta
writeFileToTarball                                  1362    1352     -10
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-10)             Total: -10 bytes

ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa@gmail.com>)

*: kill bb_get_last_path_component, replace with two functions
(one which strips trailing slash and one which does not)
wget: straighten out as a result of above change
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5056       1       0    5057    13c1 busybox.t4/networking/wget.o
   5022       0       0    5022    139e busybox.t5/networking/wget.o

wget: get rid of setitimer
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   5110       1       0    5111    13f7 busybox.t3/networking/wget.o
   5056       1       0    5057    13c1 busybox.t4/networking/wget.o

wget: reorder functions, no code changes

wget: code shrink, move data out of bss

wget: allow dots in header field names.
wget: code shrink

function                                             old     new   delta
gethdr                                               211     190     -21
wget_main                                           2609    2557     -52
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-73)             Total: -73 bytes

inetd: make some fields smaller, move data out of data/bss sections

function                                             old     new   delta
inetd_main                                          2125    2160     +35
setup                                                640     645      +5
initring                                              48      53      +5
reapchild                                            169     173      +4
retry                                                 92      93      +1
goaway                                               113     112      -1
inetd_setproctitle                                   175     173      -2
chargen_dg                                           229     227      -2
uid                                                    4       -      -4
.......................
Argv                                                   4       -      -4
rlim_ofile_cur                                         8       -      -8
config                                              1610    1602      -8
rlim_ofile                                            16       -     -16
getconfigent                                        1271    1241     -30
builtins                                             176     132     -44
ring                                                 128       -    -128
allsock                                              128       -    -128
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/18 grow/shrink: 5/6 up/down: 50/-423)         Total: -373 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 774144    1051   10708  785903   bfdef busybox_old
 774108    1039   10380  785527   bfc77 busybox_unstripped
$ size inetd.o inetd_orig.o
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
   9027       0       0    9027    2343 inetd.o
   9064      12     324    9400    24b8 inetd_orig.o

run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API)

make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64

httpd: simplify CGI i/o loop. -200 bytes.

include libbb.h, not busybox.h

- actually mv microcom.c to miscutils

- add microcom to defconfig

move microcom to miscutils

- remove some trailing whitespace

microcom: add copyright/license info

ash: remove erroneously applied patch

httpd: optional support for partial downloads

ash: s/int/smallint/. -60 bytes.

test: correct confusing placement of "const"

microcom: add new applet, this time for real

microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@gmail.ru>

update Glenn McGrath's email address

remove stray 8-bit chars from copyright banner

announce 1.7.1 on website

httpd: do not clear environment
mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov@gmail.ru>)

webpage: add a link to vda's "init must die" page

cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and
write to dest which is a symlink.

cp: make "cp file /dev/node" special case; explained in comments

function                                             old     new   delta
copy_file                                           1487    1538     +51
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/0 up/down: 51/0)               Total: 51 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 772502    1051   10724  784277   bf795 busybox_old
 772554    1051   10724  784329   bf7c9 busybox_unstripped

run_shell: code shrink for selinux

setup_environment: code shrink
run_shell: mark as NORETURN
setup_environment, run_shell: add usage comments
login: add FIXME :(

function                                             old     new   delta
UNSPEC_print                                          64      66      +2
sulogin_main                                         509     506      -3
mkfs_minix_main                                     3070    3067      -3
login_main                                          1615    1612      -3
su_main                                              461     448     -13
setup_environment                                    261     206     -55
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/5 up/down: 2/-77)             Total: -75 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 772578    1051   10724  784353   bf7e1 busybox_old
 772502    1051   10724  784277   bf795 busybox_unstripped

grep: delete obsolete comment

grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only)
  by replacing "=" by "|=" here:
  found |= strstr(line, gl->pattern) != NULL;
grep: optimization: stop on first -e match
grep: stop using bss. -40 bytes

style fix, no code changes

open_transformer: fix vda's goofup

top: small fix for command line wrapping

top: get rid of on-stack variable buffers, use permanent one.
code shrank with and without TOPMEM:

top_main                                             828     844     +16
display_process_list                                1525    1473     -52
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/1 up/down: 16/-52)            Total: -36 bytes

top_main                                            1150    1171     +21
display_topmem_process_list                         1150    1167     +17
display_process_list                                1525    1473     -52
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/1 up/down: 38/-52)            Total: -14 bytes

top: add sizeof(G) check; fix style

top: TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command. +2.5k when enabled,
+80 bytes when disabled (mainly because of text wrapping fixes
in display_process_list).

overload the existing '-q' flag so that if '-l' and '-q' are used
together, a "short form" listing (just pathnames) is generated.
change a few flag variables to "smallint" as well.

messages: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time
mount: smallish code shrink

syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read().

function                                             old     new   delta
syslogd_main                                        1206    1106    -100
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-100)           Total: -100 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 769820    1051   10764  781635   bed43 busybox_old
 769702    1051   10764  781517   beccd busybox_unstripped

*: replace select-for-one descriptor with poll, it's smaller.

$ ./.cmk bloatcheck
function                                             old     new   delta
readit                                               406     364     -42
syslogd_main                                        1249    1206     -43
traceroute_main                                     4115    4060     -55
mysleep                                              112      45     -67
arpping                                              579     441    -138
tftp                                                1575    1182    -393
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/6 up/down: 0/-738)           Total: -738 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 770580    1051   10764  782395   bf03b busybox_old
 769820    1051   10764  781635   bed43 busybox_unstripped

fix infinite retry bug.  also, reduce per-packet receive timeout
to something more reasonable than 5 seconds, and add simple
exponential backoff to compensate.  improves performance on
marginal networks.

fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points
on the command line, e.g. "find / /boot -xdev".

umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes

usage: trim a bit

function                                             old     new   delta
packed_usage                                       23113   23011    -102
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-102)           Total: -102 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 770610    1051   10764  782425   bf059 busybox_old
 770508    1051   10764  782323   beff3 busybox_unstripped

watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms)

function                                             old     new   delta
packed_usage                                       23069   23113     +44
static.suffixes                                        -      24     +24
watchdog_main                                        147     160     +13
static.V                                               -       1      +1
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 2/0 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 82/0)               Total: 82 bytes

tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex@yahoo.com>)

busybox --install -s: prevent puzzling "/bin/busybox: Invalid argument" message
libbb: comment out realpath, add readlink which doesn't warn

tar: conditionally don't wait for vforked child to exec, as it always
works right on Linux, and anyway mayresult only on less-than-clear error
message only, it will not cause tar to misbehave.

function                                             old     new   delta
open_transformer                                      98      80     -18
writeTarFile                                         714     547    -167
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/2 up/down: 0/-185)           Total: -185 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 770651    1051   10764  782466   bf082 busybox_old
 770463    1051   10764  782278   befc6 busybox_unstripped

mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines

du: remove statics (by Bernhard Fischer <rep.dot.nop@gmail.com>)

$ ./.cmk bloatcheck
function                                             old     new   delta
du_main                                              340     348      +8
print                                                 39      40      +1
status                                               129     125      -4
slink_depth                                            4       -      -4
print_files                                            4       -      -4
one_file_system                                        4       -      -4
max_print_depth                                        4       -      -4
du_depth                                               4       -      -4
disp_hr                                                4       -      -4
count_hardlinks                                        4       -      -4
du                                                   407     401      -6
dir_dev                                                8       -      -8
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/8 grow/shrink: 2/2 up/down: 9/-46)             Total: -37 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
    864      12      28     904     388 busybox.t3/coreutils/du.o
    867       0       0     867     363 busybox.t4/coreutils/du.o
 770647    1063   10788  782498   bf0a2 busybox.t3/busybox_unstripped
 770651    1051   10764  782466   bf082 busybox.t4/busybox_unstripped

login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth

trylink: reinstate accidentally deleted --verbose
trylink: remove commented-out parts

- IFUPDOWN_IFSTATE_PATH depends on IFUPDOWN

- Generally strip off -l that does not pull in a lib.
  If l_list is non-empty then add the group flags.

- fix bug where we linked again -lm even though it is not needed.
  For BBOX_LIB_LIST="crypt m" trylink ... with just applet true, we pulled in
  libm because in this case we tried to use invalid flags (plain "-l" without
  a lib) which of course failed, thus the script thought that -lm was needed.

  The fix is not to pass "-l" without a lib if we are about to check if any
  or the last remaining lib is really needed.

isrv: use monotonic_sec
runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK

top: another readability fix

vsz and rss are unsigned longs (ulong ~= width of void* =>
suitable for expressing total RAM in system). We account
for "32 bit in 64 bit" systems by storing kbytes, not bytes
there. Should allow for up to ~2000 Gb RAM on 32 bits.

top: don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1).
top: make code a bit more readable.

mount: allow (and ignore) -i

smart_ulltoa5: emit small letters k,m,g... - makes top
more readable

top: use poll instead of select for waiting on one descriptor
smart_ulltoa5: make it more cryptic. -50 bytes.

function                                             old     new   delta
passwd_main                                         1095    1103      +8
getNum                                               557     565      +8
buffer_fill_and_print                                 73      76      +3
udhcpc_main                                         2393    2395      +2
mkfs_minix_main                                     3071    3070      -1
dname_enc                                            377     373      -4
expmeta                                              480     472      -8
smart_ulltoa5                                        334     283     -51
top_main                                             911     815     -96
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 4/5 up/down: 21/-160)          Total: -139 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 770872    1063   10788  782723   bf183 busybox_old
 770732    1063   10788  782583   bf0f7 busybox_unstripped

mount: don't close fd twice in NFS code

cp: fix recursion check to not waste bytes remembering names of dirs

cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion

ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes)

add links to vda's pet projects

install: shrink a bit, fix two buglets

Start a small document "why ifupdown is bad"

make copy_file() a bit easier to understand, and smaller

function                                             old     new   delta
copy_file                                           1565    1447    -118
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-118)           Total: -118 bytes
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 770938    1063   10788  782789   bf1c5 busybox_old
 770814    1063   10788  782665   bf149 busybox_unstripped

support "#!/bin/busybox"-style wrappers. Needed for SELinux.
Patch by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam@hitachisoft.jp>

- add Yann's email-addr

cp,mv: simpler arg[cv] handling -> smallish code savings

- cosmetic html cleanup

- obfuscate addrs a little bit

cp: make POSIX-me-harder mode complain with a bit less insane message

spelling fixes to website

Cosmetic fixes to webpage

add missed attribution to httpd sendfile support

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