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Eric Andersen10dc9d42000-06-26 10:45:52 +000010.46
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Eric Andersen960be792000-07-11 18:06:01 +00003 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
4 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
5 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
6 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
Eric Andersen1c314ad2000-06-28 16:56:25 +00007 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
Eric Andersenf1f6d582000-07-11 17:42:56 +00008 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
9 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
Eric Andersen1c314ad2000-06-28 16:56:25 +000010 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
Eric Andersen8845adc2000-07-06 22:51:35 +000011 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
12 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
Eric Andersen10dc9d42000-06-26 10:45:52 +000013 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
14 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
15 work with both old and new kernels).
Eric Andersenef40aa82000-06-26 11:16:22 +000016 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
17 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
Eric Andersen1386e702000-06-26 12:14:30 +000018 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
19 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
Eric Andersen53310252000-07-04 19:42:23 +000020 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
21 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
22 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
23 - Added shell environment variable substitution
24 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
25 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
26 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
Eric Andersen5d41d602000-06-29 20:20:14 +000027 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
28 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
29 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
Eric Andersen7c31ea42000-07-03 14:55:49 +000030 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
31 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
Eric Andersen53310252000-07-04 19:42:23 +000032 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
33 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
Eric Andersenbb374a62000-07-07 19:33:35 +000034 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
35 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
36 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
37 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
38 new SGML based docs into shape.
Eric Andersenf1f6d582000-07-11 17:42:56 +000039 - cleanup of ar.c
Eric Andersenbb374a62000-07-07 19:33:35 +000040 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
Eric Andersenf1f6d582000-07-11 17:42:56 +000041 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
Eric Andersen78eab2f2000-07-06 17:06:08 +000042 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
43 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
Eric Andersen02bc25b2000-07-06 21:29:32 +000044 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
45 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
46 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
Eric Andersene6b9dfa2000-07-07 20:54:30 +000047 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
48 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
49 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
50 grab a copy from util-linux.
Eric Andersen61dc0572000-07-11 17:29:36 +000051 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
52 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
53 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
Eric Andersenda1d1e72000-07-10 23:39:44 +000054 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
Eric Andersend006c9e2000-07-11 17:45:42 +000055 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
56 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
57 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
58 Matt Kraai as well.
Eric Andersen78eab2f2000-07-06 17:06:08 +000059
Eric Andersen10dc9d42000-06-26 10:45:52 +000060
61 -Erik Andersen
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63
Eric Andersen3c375982000-06-22 00:23:09 +0000640.45
Eric Andersen45087b12000-06-21 22:44:33 +000065 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
66 embedded systems).
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +000067 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
68 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
Erik Andersen7ab9c7e2000-05-12 19:41:47 +000069 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
70 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
Eric Andersen9f16d612000-06-12 23:11:16 +000071 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
72 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
73 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
74 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
Eric Andersen45087b12000-06-21 22:44:33 +000075 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
Eric Andersen380e58a2000-06-02 03:25:00 +000076 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
77 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
Eric Andersen9f16d612000-06-12 23:11:16 +000078 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
79 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
Eric Andersen2b6ab3c2000-06-13 06:54:53 +000080 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
81 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +000082 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
83 docs accordingly. -beppu
84 * Wrote which
Eric Andersen45087b12000-06-21 22:44:33 +000085 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
86 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +000087 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
Eric Andersen53310252000-07-04 19:42:23 +000088 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +000089 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
90 (i.e. DOSTATIC=true)
Eric Andersen89960b82000-05-31 20:08:30 +000091 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
92 and redirects.
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +000093 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
Erik Andersen6ed02a02000-04-28 22:10:34 +000094 * Fixed update segfault
95 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
Eric Andersen89960b82000-05-31 20:08:30 +000096 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
97 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
98 (this was very broken in 0.43).
Erik Andersen94f5e0b2000-05-01 19:10:52 +000099 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000100 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
Erik Andersen94f5e0b2000-05-01 19:10:52 +0000101 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
102 compatibility with the standard tail command
Erik Andersenac130e12000-05-10 05:00:31 +0000103 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
104 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
Erik Andersen5afc8642000-05-02 00:07:56 +0000105 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
Erik Andersen0e713ce2000-05-05 19:50:32 +0000106 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
107 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
108 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
Erik Andersenac130e12000-05-10 05:00:31 +0000109 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
110 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
Erik Andersen59b9e872000-05-10 05:05:45 +0000111 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
112 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000113 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000114 * Makefile intelligence updates
Eric Andersenb5966362000-05-31 20:04:38 +0000115 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
116 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000117 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersen86ab8a32000-06-02 03:21:42 +0000118 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000119 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersen86ab8a32000-06-02 03:21:42 +0000120 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000121 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersen86ab8a32000-06-02 03:21:42 +0000122 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
123 to Pavel Roskin.
124 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersen9c8ffa02000-06-02 17:51:39 +0000125 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersenef4268e2000-06-04 05:08:29 +0000126 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersen815e9042000-06-06 16:15:23 +0000127 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
128 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
Pavel Roskin2e965232000-06-15 18:04:40 +0000129 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
130 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersen815e9042000-06-06 16:15:23 +0000131 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
Pavel Roskine97da402000-06-14 17:39:41 +0000132 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
Pavel Roskinc389d912000-06-05 23:41:27 +0000133 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
134 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
Pavel Roskin680d65a2000-06-06 17:03:55 +0000135 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
136 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
Pavel Roskin700a5ae2000-06-06 18:10:17 +0000137 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
Eric Andersena42982e2000-06-07 17:28:53 +0000138 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
139 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
140 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
Pavel Roskin0024abc2000-06-07 20:38:15 +0000141 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
142 Pavel Roskin
Pavel Roskinda10ec02000-06-07 21:08:25 +0000143 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
144 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
Eric Andersen0c6a9702000-06-09 20:51:50 +0000145 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
146 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
147 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
148 for helping track this one down.
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000149 * More doc updates
Eric Andersenbaf22bf2000-06-13 00:49:41 +0000150 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
Eric Andersen053b1462000-06-13 06:24:53 +0000151 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
John Beppu44760d02000-06-12 23:04:55 +0000152 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
John Beppu00216792000-06-21 19:06:16 +0000153 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
154 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
Erik Andersen59b9e872000-05-10 05:05:45 +0000155
Erik Andersen25c44c62000-04-28 22:49:08 +0000156
Eric Andersenc6cdf582000-06-21 22:50:59 +0000157 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
Erik Andersen25c44c62000-04-28 22:49:08 +0000158
Erik Andersen227a59b2000-04-25 23:24:55 +0000159
Eric Andersenc6cdf582000-06-21 22:50:59 +00001600.44
161 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
162 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
163 it good.
164
165 -Erik Andersen
166
John Beppuf93a95d2000-04-24 18:07:30 +0000167
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +00001680.43
Erik Andersene5b6c7d2000-04-17 16:16:10 +0000169 * Major update to the provided documentation.
Erik Andersend75af992000-03-16 08:09:09 +0000170 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
171 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
172 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
173 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
Erik Andersen2ac2fae2000-03-07 23:32:17 +0000174 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
Erik Andersen269bba22000-03-08 14:50:47 +0000175 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
176 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
177 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
178 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
179 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
180 directory.
Erik Andersen9cf3bfa2000-04-13 18:49:43 +0000181 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
Erik Andersen0817d132000-04-09 15:17:40 +0000182 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
183 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
184 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
Erik Andersen64371702000-03-04 22:23:27 +0000185 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
186 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
187 and then adjusted a bit by me.
Erik Andersen9cf3bfa2000-04-13 18:49:43 +0000188 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
Erik Andersend75af992000-03-16 08:09:09 +0000189 * Added echo and test (from me).
Erik Andersenb99ca132000-04-04 18:49:18 +0000190 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Erik Andersenb9167cb2000-04-18 22:41:30 +0000191 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000192 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
Erik Andersen9cf3bfa2000-04-13 18:49:43 +0000193 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +0000194 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
195 fork() for running klogd.
196 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
197 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
Erik Andersen42387e42000-02-21 17:27:17 +0000198 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
199 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000200 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
Erik Andersen5b911dd2000-02-23 22:49:58 +0000201 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
202 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
203 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
204 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
205 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
206 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
207 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000208 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
209 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
210 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
211 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
212 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
213 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
214 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
215 a copy only if the rename fails.
Erik Andersen183da4a2000-04-04 18:36:37 +0000216 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000217 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000218 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
219 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
220 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
221 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
Erik Andersen246cc6d2000-03-07 07:41:42 +0000222 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
Erik Andersen2ac2fae2000-03-07 23:32:17 +0000223 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
224 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
Erik Andersena3e57ca2000-04-19 03:38:01 +0000225 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
226 as would be expected displays help).
Erik Andersence917322000-03-13 04:07:02 +0000227 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
228 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
Erik Andersen0d068a22000-03-21 22:32:57 +0000229 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
230 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
231 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
Erik Andersen298854f2000-03-23 01:09:18 +0000232 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
Erik Andersenb9167cb2000-04-18 22:41:30 +0000233 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
234 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
235 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
236 no longer segfaults.
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000237
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +0000238
239 -Erik Andersen
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Erik Andersen05100cd2000-01-16 01:30:52 +00002420.42
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000243
244 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
245 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
246 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000247 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
248 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000249 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
250 the way umount was originally written.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000251 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000252 to be more consistent with sysvinit
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000253 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000254 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
255
256 - Randolph Chung
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258
259 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
260 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000261 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
262 same directory it will print an error and continue.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000263 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
264 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
265 hard links.
266 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000267 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
268 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000269 - Always check exit status.
270 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
271 * utility.c
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000272 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
273 ignoring it.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000274 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
275 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
276 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
277 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
278
279 -Karl M. Hegbloom
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281
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000282 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
283 -beppu -piptigger
284 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
285 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
286 * change permissions and ownership on
Erik Andersen06936df2000-01-23 02:14:20 +0000287 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
Erik Andersena2f69e52000-01-19 04:30:37 +0000288 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
289 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000290 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000291 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000292 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
Erik Andersende552872000-01-23 01:34:05 +0000293 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
294 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
295 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
296 behave itself a bit better.
297 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000298 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
Erik Andersende552872000-01-23 01:34:05 +0000299 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
John Beppu9bc7e892000-01-23 13:54:15 +0000300 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000301 always dereference before. -beppu
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000302 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
303 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
304 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000305 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
306 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000307 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
308 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
309 end of line if there are no more application names).
Erik Andersence5b4662000-01-27 19:50:47 +0000310 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
311 would segfault).
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000312 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
313 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
314 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000315 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
316 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000317 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
Erik Andersen5cbdd712000-01-26 20:06:48 +0000318 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
319 turns up missing.
320 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
321 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
322 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
Erik Andersence5b4662000-01-27 19:50:47 +0000323 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
324 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
325 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
326 files pointed to by the symlinks.
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000327 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000328 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000329 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000330 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
331 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000332 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
333 directories on the command line
Erik Andersenbf5f0092000-02-14 18:44:33 +0000334 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
335 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
336 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
Erik Andersen4d054312000-02-10 07:31:15 +0000337 Now both work.
338 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
339 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000340 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
341 in utility.c
342 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
343 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
344 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
345 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
346 also from Gilbert Coville.
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000347
Erik Andersen05100cd2000-01-16 01:30:52 +0000348
349 -Erik Andersen
350
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +00003510.41
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000352 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
353 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000354 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000355 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
356 working.
Erik Andersen9a9a2612000-01-09 06:49:08 +0000357 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000358 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
359 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
360 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
361 Now fixed.
Erik Andersen05df2392000-01-13 04:43:48 +0000362 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
363 with no interveining subdirectories.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000364 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
365 * and support in umount for loop
Erik Andersenb7cc49d2000-01-13 06:38:14 +0000366 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
367 <bcollins@debian.org>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000368 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
369 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000370 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
371 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000372 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
373 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
374 -O2 -m386 ...)
375 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
376 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
377 referenced, but not compiled)
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000378 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
379 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000380 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
381 * consoles.
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000382
Erik Andersen83865e32000-01-15 22:33:09 +0000383 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000384
John Beppu935fb381999-12-15 19:35:02 +00003850.40
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000386 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
387 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
388 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000389 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
390 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000391 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
392 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000393 being present, but if you dont like the defautl behavior you can
394 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
395 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000396 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
397 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000398 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
Erik Andersen4d1d0111999-12-17 18:44:15 +0000399 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
Erik Andersen3fe2ecf1999-12-21 08:52:04 +0000400 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
401 <konst@voshod.com>.
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000402 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
403 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
Erik Andersen00266d31999-12-28 00:17:46 +0000404 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
405 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
406 special files.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000407 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
408 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000409 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
410 Ouch!!!
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000411 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000412 them so they should now work as expected.
Erik Andersen1266a131999-12-29 22:19:46 +0000413 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
414 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000415 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
Erik Andersen1266a131999-12-29 22:19:46 +0000416 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
417 like GNU ls.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000418 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
419 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000420 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
421 - fixed several typos
422 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000423 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
Erik Andersenf664c001999-12-29 02:36:29 +0000424
Erik Andersen6f23cec1999-12-15 22:14:12 +0000425
Erik Andersen5338ce12000-01-07 23:30:07 +0000426 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
John Beppu935fb381999-12-15 19:35:02 +0000427
Eric Andersenabc0f4f1999-12-08 23:19:36 +00004280.39
Eric Andersen19db07b1999-12-11 08:41:28 +0000429 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
430 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000431 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
432 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
433 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
434 sometime.
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000435 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000436 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
437 the right thing.
Eric Andersenabc0f4f1999-12-08 23:19:36 +0000438 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
439 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000440 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
441 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
Eric Andersen1792f8c1999-12-09 06:11:36 +0000442 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000443 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
444 * in
Eric Andersenf0758dd1999-12-09 07:57:58 +0000445 which blocked reboots.
Eric Andersen2cb55071999-12-10 08:25:07 +0000446 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
447 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
John Beppu29fcc901999-12-09 23:33:04 +0000448 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000449 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
450 <beppu@lineo.com>)
451 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000452
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000453 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000454
Eric Andersenbb587021999-11-29 04:30:12 +00004550.38
456 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
457 file existed.
Eric Andersend00c2621999-12-07 08:37:31 +0000458 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000459 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
460 correct.
Eric Andersenb186d981999-12-03 09:19:54 +0000461 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
462 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
463 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
Eric Andersende1d6121999-12-03 15:14:25 +0000464 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
465 kernel messages.
Eric Andersen0ecb54a1999-12-05 23:24:55 +0000466 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
467 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
Eric Andersend00c2621999-12-07 08:37:31 +0000468 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
469 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
470 will complain if you enable them when you disable
471 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
Eric Andersen0ecb54a1999-12-05 23:24:55 +0000472
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000473 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
Eric Andersenbb587021999-11-29 04:30:12 +0000474
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +00004750.37
Eric Andersenbefda6e1999-11-25 08:06:22 +0000476 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
477 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000478 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
479 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
480 * now be enabled
481 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
482 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
483 exists).
484 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
485 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
486 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
487 * Moved some code
488 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
489 work properly.
490 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
491 * out the
Eric Andersen394f7641999-11-23 21:38:12 +0000492 last file in the list.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000493 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
494 * 'ls -l'
495 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
496 are presented properly.
Eric Andersen3843e961999-11-25 07:30:46 +0000497 * Also added a TODO.
498
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +0000499
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000500 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +0000501
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +00005020.36
503 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
504 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000505 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
506 * from
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000507 Eric Delaunay).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000508 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
509 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000510 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000511 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000512 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
513 * compiled
Eric Andersena9c95ea1999-11-15 17:33:30 +0000514 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000515 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
516 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
517 * of least surprise
518 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
519 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
520 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
521 * destination
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000522 was a directory.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000523 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
524 * directories
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000525 with very wrong permissions.
526 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
527 Now it properly modifies permissions.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000528 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
529 * ensure
530 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
531 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
532 not seen when switched to a different VT.
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000533
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000534 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000535
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +00005360.35
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000537 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
538 * intended
539 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
540 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000541 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000542 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
543 Delaunay.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000544 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000545 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
546 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
547 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
548 * special files,
549 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
550 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
551 interested student.
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000552 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000553
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000554 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000555
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +00005560.34
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +0000557 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +0000558 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
559 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +0000560 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000561 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
562 to Eric Delaunay.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000563 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
564 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Eric Andersen3d8dbe11999-11-09 01:51:02 +0000565 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000566 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000567 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000568 should now work correctly.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000569 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
570 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
571 * replacements.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000572 Now it doesn't do that.
573 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
574 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +0000575
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000576 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
Eric Andersen3e2bb281999-11-09 03:12:29 +0000577
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +00005780.33
579 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
Eric Andersen29d2e361999-11-06 06:07:27 +0000580 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
581 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
582 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
583 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
584 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
585 state the real root device name)
586 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +0000587
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000588 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
Eric Andersendc6301e1999-11-06 07:34:50 +0000589
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +00005900.32
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +0000591 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000592 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
593 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +0000594 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
Eric Andersena07f0b01999-10-22 19:49:09 +0000595 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000596 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
597 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
598 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
599 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
600 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
601 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
602 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
603 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
604 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
605 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
606 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
607 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
608 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +0000609 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
610 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000611 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
612 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
613 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
614 <porter@debian.org>.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +0000615
Eric Andersena7093171999-10-23 05:42:08 +0000616
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000617 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +0000618
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +00006190.31
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000620 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
621 * make it smaller, and removed
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000622 some redundancy.
623 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
624 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
625 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000626 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
627 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
Eric Andersen51f8c891999-10-22 05:14:44 +0000628 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000629 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
630 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000631
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000632 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000633
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +00006340.30
635 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
636 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000637 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
638 changes include:
639
640 Core Changes:
641 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
642 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
643 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000644 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
645 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000646 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
647 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
648 itself.
649 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
650 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
651 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
652 more granular.
653 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
654 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
655 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000656 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
657 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
658 of new apps.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000659 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
660 {en|dis}able debugging.
661 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
662 (optimize for smaller binaries).
663
664 App Changes:
665 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
666 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000667 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
668 * rewrite. Combined into a single
669 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
670 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
671 libc6 libnss* libraries.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000672 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000673 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
674 dir copies.
675 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
676 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000677 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000678 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
679 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
680 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
681 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
682 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
683 instead.
684 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
685 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
686 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
687 getopt.
Erik Andersen6acaa402000-03-26 14:03:20 +0000688 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
689 >128Meg swaps.
690 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
691 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
692 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000693 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
694 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
695 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
696 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
697 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
698 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
699 * I ripped out
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000700 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000701 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
702 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
703 * changes that I forgot to document...
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000704
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000705 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
706
7070.29
708 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
709 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000710
Eric Andersen2ce1edc1999-10-12 15:42:48 +00007110.28
712 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
713
Eric Andersencc8ed391999-10-05 16:24:54 +00007140.27
715 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
716 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
717 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
718 Printf added as module.
7190.26
720 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000721