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Eric Andersenced2cef2000-07-20 23:41:24 +00002
Eric Andersen896fa4e2000-09-24 02:42:18 +00003 * Tons of bugfixes.
Eric Andersence40fc02000-09-14 21:56:18 +00004 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
5 your system.
Pavel Roskine99f7502000-07-24 20:15:30 +00006 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersenaaa94fb2000-08-22 01:02:05 +00007 * added 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
Eric Andersenced2cef2000-07-20 23:41:24 +00008 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
9 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
Eric Andersen896fa4e2000-09-24 02:42:18 +000010 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
Eric Andersenced2cef2000-07-20 23:41:24 +000011 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
Eric Andersen98bbd682000-07-31 17:05:58 +000012 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
Eric Andersen79565b62000-08-11 18:10:21 +000013 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
14 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
15 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
16 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
Eric Andersen918507e2000-08-21 22:46:33 +000017 * Added 'rdate' command from Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
Eric Andersen5d638842000-09-14 21:46:30 +000018 * Added 'wget' command, contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
19 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
Eric Andersenaaa94fb2000-08-22 01:02:05 +000020 * Added 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
Eric Andersen896fa4e2000-09-24 02:42:18 +000021 * Added dos2unix, unix2dos, and unrpm.c thanks to robotti@metconnect.com.
22 * Added xargs (written by me)
23 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
Eric Andersenaaa94fb2000-08-22 01:02:05 +000024 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
25 wouldn't work (since it thought -r was an option). Doh!
Eric Andersen896fa4e2000-09-24 02:42:18 +000026 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
27 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
28 * All usage messages centralized.
29 * Common handling of '--help'
30 * Improved portability between different libcs.
Eric Andersenced2cef2000-07-20 23:41:24 +000031
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Eric Andersen10dc9d42000-06-26 10:45:52 +0000360.46
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Eric Andersen960be792000-07-11 18:06:01 +000038 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
39 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
40 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
41 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
Eric Andersen1c314ad2000-06-28 16:56:25 +000042 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
Eric Andersenf1f6d582000-07-11 17:42:56 +000043 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
44 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
Eric Andersen1c314ad2000-06-28 16:56:25 +000045 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
Eric Andersen8845adc2000-07-06 22:51:35 +000046 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
47 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
Eric Andersen10dc9d42000-06-26 10:45:52 +000048 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
49 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
50 work with both old and new kernels).
Eric Andersenef40aa82000-06-26 11:16:22 +000051 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
52 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
Eric Andersen1386e702000-06-26 12:14:30 +000053 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
54 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
Eric Andersen53310252000-07-04 19:42:23 +000055 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
56 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
57 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
58 - Added shell environment variable substitution
59 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
60 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
61 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
Eric Andersen5d41d602000-06-29 20:20:14 +000062 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
63 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
64 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
Eric Andersen7c31ea42000-07-03 14:55:49 +000065 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
66 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
Eric Andersen53310252000-07-04 19:42:23 +000067 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
68 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
Eric Andersenbb374a62000-07-07 19:33:35 +000069 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
70 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
71 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
72 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
73 new SGML based docs into shape.
Eric Andersenf1f6d582000-07-11 17:42:56 +000074 - cleanup of ar.c
Eric Andersenbb374a62000-07-07 19:33:35 +000075 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
Eric Andersenf1f6d582000-07-11 17:42:56 +000076 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
Eric Andersen78eab2f2000-07-06 17:06:08 +000077 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
78 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
Eric Andersen02bc25b2000-07-06 21:29:32 +000079 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
80 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
81 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
Eric Andersene6b9dfa2000-07-07 20:54:30 +000082 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
83 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
84 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
85 grab a copy from util-linux.
Eric Andersen61dc0572000-07-11 17:29:36 +000086 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
87 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
88 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
Eric Andersenda1d1e72000-07-10 23:39:44 +000089 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
Eric Andersend006c9e2000-07-11 17:45:42 +000090 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
91 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
92 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
93 Matt Kraai as well.
Eric Andersen78eab2f2000-07-06 17:06:08 +000094
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Eric Andersen3c375982000-06-22 00:23:09 +0000990.45
Eric Andersen45087b12000-06-21 22:44:33 +0000100 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
101 embedded systems).
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000102 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
103 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
Erik Andersen7ab9c7e2000-05-12 19:41:47 +0000104 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
105 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
Eric Andersen9f16d612000-06-12 23:11:16 +0000106 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
107 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
108 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
109 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
Eric Andersen45087b12000-06-21 22:44:33 +0000110 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
Eric Andersen380e58a2000-06-02 03:25:00 +0000111 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
112 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
Eric Andersen9f16d612000-06-12 23:11:16 +0000113 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
114 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
Eric Andersen2b6ab3c2000-06-13 06:54:53 +0000115 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
116 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000117 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
118 docs accordingly. -beppu
119 * Wrote which
Eric Andersen45087b12000-06-21 22:44:33 +0000120 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
121 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000122 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
Eric Andersen53310252000-07-04 19:42:23 +0000123 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000124 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
125 (i.e. DOSTATIC=true)
Eric Andersen89960b82000-05-31 20:08:30 +0000126 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
127 and redirects.
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000128 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
Erik Andersen6ed02a02000-04-28 22:10:34 +0000129 * Fixed update segfault
130 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
Eric Andersen89960b82000-05-31 20:08:30 +0000131 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
132 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
133 (this was very broken in 0.43).
Erik Andersen94f5e0b2000-05-01 19:10:52 +0000134 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000135 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
Erik Andersen94f5e0b2000-05-01 19:10:52 +0000136 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
137 compatibility with the standard tail command
Erik Andersenac130e12000-05-10 05:00:31 +0000138 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
139 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
Erik Andersen5afc8642000-05-02 00:07:56 +0000140 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
Erik Andersen0e713ce2000-05-05 19:50:32 +0000141 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
142 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
143 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
Erik Andersenac130e12000-05-10 05:00:31 +0000144 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
145 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
Erik Andersen59b9e872000-05-10 05:05:45 +0000146 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
147 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000148 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000149 * Makefile intelligence updates
Eric Andersenb5966362000-05-31 20:04:38 +0000150 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
151 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000152 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersen86ab8a32000-06-02 03:21:42 +0000153 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000154 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersen86ab8a32000-06-02 03:21:42 +0000155 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000156 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersen86ab8a32000-06-02 03:21:42 +0000157 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
158 to Pavel Roskin.
159 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersen9c8ffa02000-06-02 17:51:39 +0000160 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersenef4268e2000-06-04 05:08:29 +0000161 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersen815e9042000-06-06 16:15:23 +0000162 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
163 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
Pavel Roskin2e965232000-06-15 18:04:40 +0000164 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
165 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersen815e9042000-06-06 16:15:23 +0000166 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
Pavel Roskine97da402000-06-14 17:39:41 +0000167 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
Pavel Roskinc389d912000-06-05 23:41:27 +0000168 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
169 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
Pavel Roskin680d65a2000-06-06 17:03:55 +0000170 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
171 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
Pavel Roskin700a5ae2000-06-06 18:10:17 +0000172 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
Eric Andersena42982e2000-06-07 17:28:53 +0000173 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
174 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
175 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
Pavel Roskin0024abc2000-06-07 20:38:15 +0000176 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
177 Pavel Roskin
Pavel Roskinda10ec02000-06-07 21:08:25 +0000178 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
179 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
Eric Andersen0c6a9702000-06-09 20:51:50 +0000180 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
181 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
182 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
183 for helping track this one down.
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000184 * More doc updates
Eric Andersenbaf22bf2000-06-13 00:49:41 +0000185 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
Eric Andersen053b1462000-06-13 06:24:53 +0000186 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
John Beppu44760d02000-06-12 23:04:55 +0000187 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
John Beppu00216792000-06-21 19:06:16 +0000188 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
189 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
Erik Andersen59b9e872000-05-10 05:05:45 +0000190
Erik Andersen25c44c62000-04-28 22:49:08 +0000191
Eric Andersenc6cdf582000-06-21 22:50:59 +0000192 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
Erik Andersen25c44c62000-04-28 22:49:08 +0000193
Erik Andersen227a59b2000-04-25 23:24:55 +0000194
Eric Andersenc6cdf582000-06-21 22:50:59 +00001950.44
196 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
197 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
198 it good.
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John Beppuf93a95d2000-04-24 18:07:30 +0000202
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +00002030.43
Erik Andersene5b6c7d2000-04-17 16:16:10 +0000204 * Major update to the provided documentation.
Erik Andersend75af992000-03-16 08:09:09 +0000205 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
206 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
207 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
208 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
Erik Andersen2ac2fae2000-03-07 23:32:17 +0000209 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
Erik Andersen269bba22000-03-08 14:50:47 +0000210 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
211 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
212 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
213 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
214 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
215 directory.
Erik Andersen9cf3bfa2000-04-13 18:49:43 +0000216 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
Erik Andersen0817d132000-04-09 15:17:40 +0000217 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
218 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
219 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
Erik Andersen64371702000-03-04 22:23:27 +0000220 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
221 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
222 and then adjusted a bit by me.
Erik Andersen9cf3bfa2000-04-13 18:49:43 +0000223 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
Erik Andersend75af992000-03-16 08:09:09 +0000224 * Added echo and test (from me).
Erik Andersenb99ca132000-04-04 18:49:18 +0000225 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Erik Andersenb9167cb2000-04-18 22:41:30 +0000226 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000227 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
Erik Andersen9cf3bfa2000-04-13 18:49:43 +0000228 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +0000229 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
230 fork() for running klogd.
231 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
232 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
Erik Andersen42387e42000-02-21 17:27:17 +0000233 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
234 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000235 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
Erik Andersen5b911dd2000-02-23 22:49:58 +0000236 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
237 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
238 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
239 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
240 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
241 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
242 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000243 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
244 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
245 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
246 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
247 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
248 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
249 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
250 a copy only if the rename fails.
Erik Andersen183da4a2000-04-04 18:36:37 +0000251 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000252 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000253 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
254 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
255 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
256 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
Erik Andersen246cc6d2000-03-07 07:41:42 +0000257 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
Erik Andersen2ac2fae2000-03-07 23:32:17 +0000258 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
259 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
Erik Andersena3e57ca2000-04-19 03:38:01 +0000260 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
261 as would be expected displays help).
Erik Andersence917322000-03-13 04:07:02 +0000262 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
263 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
Erik Andersen0d068a22000-03-21 22:32:57 +0000264 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
265 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
266 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
Erik Andersen298854f2000-03-23 01:09:18 +0000267 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
Erik Andersenb9167cb2000-04-18 22:41:30 +0000268 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
269 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
270 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
271 no longer segfaults.
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000272
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Erik Andersen05100cd2000-01-16 01:30:52 +00002770.42
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000278
279 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
280 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
281 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000282 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
283 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000284 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
285 the way umount was originally written.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000286 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000287 to be more consistent with sysvinit
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000288 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000289 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
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294 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
295 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000296 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
297 same directory it will print an error and continue.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000298 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
299 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
300 hard links.
301 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000302 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
303 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000304 - Always check exit status.
305 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
306 * utility.c
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000307 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
308 ignoring it.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000309 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
310 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
311 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
312 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
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Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000317 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
318 -beppu -piptigger
319 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
320 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
321 * change permissions and ownership on
Erik Andersen06936df2000-01-23 02:14:20 +0000322 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
Erik Andersena2f69e52000-01-19 04:30:37 +0000323 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
324 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000325 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000326 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000327 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
Erik Andersende552872000-01-23 01:34:05 +0000328 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
329 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
330 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
331 behave itself a bit better.
332 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000333 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
Erik Andersende552872000-01-23 01:34:05 +0000334 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
John Beppu9bc7e892000-01-23 13:54:15 +0000335 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000336 always dereference before. -beppu
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000337 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
338 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
339 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000340 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
341 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000342 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
343 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
344 end of line if there are no more application names).
Erik Andersence5b4662000-01-27 19:50:47 +0000345 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
346 would segfault).
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000347 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
348 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
349 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000350 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
351 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000352 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
Erik Andersen5cbdd712000-01-26 20:06:48 +0000353 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
354 turns up missing.
355 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
356 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
357 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
Erik Andersence5b4662000-01-27 19:50:47 +0000358 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
359 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
360 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
361 files pointed to by the symlinks.
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000362 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000363 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000364 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000365 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
366 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000367 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
368 directories on the command line
Erik Andersenbf5f0092000-02-14 18:44:33 +0000369 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
370 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
371 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
Erik Andersen4d054312000-02-10 07:31:15 +0000372 Now both work.
373 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
374 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000375 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
376 in utility.c
377 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
378 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
379 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
380 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
381 also from Gilbert Coville.
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000382
Erik Andersen05100cd2000-01-16 01:30:52 +0000383
384 -Erik Andersen
385
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +00003860.41
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000387 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
388 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000389 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000390 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
391 working.
Erik Andersen9a9a2612000-01-09 06:49:08 +0000392 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000393 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
394 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
395 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
396 Now fixed.
Erik Andersen05df2392000-01-13 04:43:48 +0000397 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
398 with no interveining subdirectories.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000399 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
400 * and support in umount for loop
Erik Andersenb7cc49d2000-01-13 06:38:14 +0000401 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
402 <bcollins@debian.org>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000403 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
404 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000405 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
406 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000407 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
408 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
409 -O2 -m386 ...)
410 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
411 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
412 referenced, but not compiled)
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000413 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
414 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000415 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
416 * consoles.
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000417
Erik Andersen83865e32000-01-15 22:33:09 +0000418 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000419
John Beppu935fb381999-12-15 19:35:02 +00004200.40
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000421 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
422 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
423 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000424 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
425 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000426 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
427 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000428 being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
429 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
430 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000431 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
432 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000433 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
Erik Andersen4d1d0111999-12-17 18:44:15 +0000434 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
Erik Andersen3fe2ecf1999-12-21 08:52:04 +0000435 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
436 <konst@voshod.com>.
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000437 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
438 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
Erik Andersen00266d31999-12-28 00:17:46 +0000439 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
440 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
441 special files.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000442 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
443 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000444 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
445 Ouch!!!
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000446 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000447 them so they should now work as expected.
Erik Andersen1266a131999-12-29 22:19:46 +0000448 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
449 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000450 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
Erik Andersen1266a131999-12-29 22:19:46 +0000451 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
452 like GNU ls.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000453 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
454 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000455 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
456 - fixed several typos
457 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000458 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
Erik Andersenf664c001999-12-29 02:36:29 +0000459
Erik Andersen6f23cec1999-12-15 22:14:12 +0000460
Erik Andersen5338ce12000-01-07 23:30:07 +0000461 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
John Beppu935fb381999-12-15 19:35:02 +0000462
Eric Andersenabc0f4f1999-12-08 23:19:36 +00004630.39
Eric Andersen19db07b1999-12-11 08:41:28 +0000464 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
465 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000466 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
467 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
468 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
469 sometime.
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000470 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000471 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
472 the right thing.
Eric Andersenabc0f4f1999-12-08 23:19:36 +0000473 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
474 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000475 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
476 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
Eric Andersen1792f8c1999-12-09 06:11:36 +0000477 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000478 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
479 * in
Eric Andersenf0758dd1999-12-09 07:57:58 +0000480 which blocked reboots.
Eric Andersen2cb55071999-12-10 08:25:07 +0000481 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
482 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
John Beppu29fcc901999-12-09 23:33:04 +0000483 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000484 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
485 <beppu@lineo.com>)
486 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000487
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000488 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000489
Eric Andersenbb587021999-11-29 04:30:12 +00004900.38
491 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
492 file existed.
Eric Andersend00c2621999-12-07 08:37:31 +0000493 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000494 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
495 correct.
Eric Andersenb186d981999-12-03 09:19:54 +0000496 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
497 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
498 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
Eric Andersende1d6121999-12-03 15:14:25 +0000499 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
500 kernel messages.
Eric Andersen0ecb54a1999-12-05 23:24:55 +0000501 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
502 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
Eric Andersend00c2621999-12-07 08:37:31 +0000503 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
504 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
505 will complain if you enable them when you disable
506 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
Eric Andersen0ecb54a1999-12-05 23:24:55 +0000507
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000508 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
Eric Andersenbb587021999-11-29 04:30:12 +0000509
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +00005100.37
Eric Andersenbefda6e1999-11-25 08:06:22 +0000511 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
512 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000513 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
514 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
515 * now be enabled
516 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
517 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
518 exists).
519 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
520 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
521 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
522 * Moved some code
523 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
524 work properly.
525 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
526 * out the
Eric Andersen394f7641999-11-23 21:38:12 +0000527 last file in the list.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000528 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
529 * 'ls -l'
530 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
531 are presented properly.
Eric Andersen3843e961999-11-25 07:30:46 +0000532 * Also added a TODO.
533
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +0000534
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000535 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +0000536
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +00005370.36
538 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
539 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000540 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
541 * from
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000542 Eric Delaunay).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000543 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
544 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000545 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000546 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000547 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
548 * compiled
Eric Andersena9c95ea1999-11-15 17:33:30 +0000549 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000550 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
551 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
552 * of least surprise
553 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
554 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
555 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
556 * destination
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000557 was a directory.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000558 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
559 * directories
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000560 with very wrong permissions.
561 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
562 Now it properly modifies permissions.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000563 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
564 * ensure
565 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
566 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
567 not seen when switched to a different VT.
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000568
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000569 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000570
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +00005710.35
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000572 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
573 * intended
574 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
575 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000576 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000577 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
578 Delaunay.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000579 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000580 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
581 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
582 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
583 * special files,
584 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
585 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
586 interested student.
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000587 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000588
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000589 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000590
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +00005910.34
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +0000592 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +0000593 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
594 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +0000595 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000596 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
597 to Eric Delaunay.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000598 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
599 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Eric Andersen3d8dbe11999-11-09 01:51:02 +0000600 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000601 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000602 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000603 should now work correctly.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000604 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
605 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
606 * replacements.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000607 Now it doesn't do that.
608 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
609 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +0000610
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000611 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
Eric Andersen3e2bb281999-11-09 03:12:29 +0000612
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +00006130.33
614 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
Eric Andersen29d2e361999-11-06 06:07:27 +0000615 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
616 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
617 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
618 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
619 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
620 state the real root device name)
621 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +0000622
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000623 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
Eric Andersendc6301e1999-11-06 07:34:50 +0000624
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +00006250.32
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +0000626 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000627 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
628 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +0000629 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
Eric Andersena07f0b01999-10-22 19:49:09 +0000630 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000631 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
632 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
633 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
634 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
635 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
636 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
637 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
638 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
639 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
640 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
641 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
642 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
643 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +0000644 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
645 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000646 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
647 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
648 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
649 <porter@debian.org>.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +0000650
Eric Andersena7093171999-10-23 05:42:08 +0000651
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000652 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +0000653
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +00006540.31
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000655 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
656 * make it smaller, and removed
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000657 some redundancy.
658 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
659 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
660 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000661 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
662 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
Eric Andersen51f8c891999-10-22 05:14:44 +0000663 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000664 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
665 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000666
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000667 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000668
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +00006690.30
670 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
671 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000672 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
673 changes include:
674
675 Core Changes:
676 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
677 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
678 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000679 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
680 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000681 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
682 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
683 itself.
684 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
685 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
686 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
687 more granular.
688 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
689 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
690 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000691 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
692 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
693 of new apps.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000694 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
695 {en|dis}able debugging.
696 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
697 (optimize for smaller binaries).
698
699 App Changes:
700 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
701 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000702 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
703 * rewrite. Combined into a single
704 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
705 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
706 libc6 libnss* libraries.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000707 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000708 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
709 dir copies.
710 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
711 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000712 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000713 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
714 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
715 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
716 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
717 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
718 instead.
719 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
720 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
721 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
722 getopt.
Erik Andersen6acaa402000-03-26 14:03:20 +0000723 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
724 >128Meg swaps.
725 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
726 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
727 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000728 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
729 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
730 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
731 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
732 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
733 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
734 * I ripped out
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000735 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000736 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
737 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
738 * changes that I forgot to document...
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000739
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000740 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
741
7420.29
743 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
744 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000745
Eric Andersen2ce1edc1999-10-12 15:42:48 +00007460.28
747 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
748
Eric Andersencc8ed391999-10-05 16:24:54 +00007490.27
750 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
751 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
752 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
753 Printf added as module.
7540.26
755 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000756