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2 Critical Bugfixes:
3 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
4 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
5 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
6 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
7 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
8 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
9
10 New Applets:
Eric Andersen3f980402001-04-04 17:31:15 +000011 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
12 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
Eric Andersen84e229c2001-03-29 22:48:33 +000013 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
Eric Andersen7cf9fed2001-04-09 22:09:41 +000014
15 Other changes:
16 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
17 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
18 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
19 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
20 busybox work on ia64 systems.
21 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
22 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
23 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
24 output from ls, du, and df.
25 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
26 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
27 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
28 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
29 support a bit for Mips RS3.
30 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
31 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
32 variables
33 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
34 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
35 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
36 bugs, and similar problems.
37 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
38 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
39 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
Eric Andersenc97ec342001-04-03 18:01:51 +000040 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
41 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
42 for init.c
Eric Andersen7cf9fed2001-04-09 22:09:41 +000043 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
44 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
Eric Andersene5dfced2001-04-09 22:48:12 +000045 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
46 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
47 locale support in several other places
48 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
49 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
50 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
51 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
52 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
53 after permission errors.
Eric Andersen7cf9fed2001-04-09 22:09:41 +000054 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
55 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
56 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
57 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
58 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
59 sed address range handling
60 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
61 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth,
62 handling of http redirects, protocol changed to 1.0 to stop
63 servers from requesting chunked encoding, when attempting to
64 continue an aborted download but server doesn't support restarts
65 then reopen output file in write mode, bugfix: when content-length
66 not given, wget didn't download anything, if -c is not specified,
67 it no longer default to restarting an aborted download.
Eric Andersen84e229c2001-03-29 22:48:33 +000068
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70 -Erik Andersen, not yet released
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Eric Andersen6fd8c662001-02-13 20:04:30 +0000730.50
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +000074 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
75 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +000076 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
77 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +000078 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
79 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals.
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +000080 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available.
81 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
82 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
83 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +000084 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
85 overrides the system pwd/grp
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +000086 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
87 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
Eric Andersen11b7a1d2001-02-15 20:13:59 +000088 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
89 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
90 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +000091 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
92 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
93 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
94 BB_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +000095 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
96 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
97 much simpler for all.
98 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
99 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
100 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
101 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
102 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
103 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +0000104 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
105 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
106 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
107 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
108 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +0000109 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
110 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +0000111 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +0000112 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
113 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
114 depending on what kernel is being used.
115 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
116 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
117 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
118 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
119 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
120 are stored to save several k of space.
121 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
122 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
123 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
124 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
125 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
126 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
127 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
128 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +0000129 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +0000130 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
131 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
132 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
133 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +0000134 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
135 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +0000136 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
137 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
138 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
139 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +0000140 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
141 improve complex prompt handling.
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +0000142 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
143 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +0000144 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
145 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
146 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
147 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
148 for several my_* functions into utility.c
Eric Andersene6c4de02001-03-06 18:46:10 +0000149 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
150 work done by Axis Communications).
151 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
152 and updated the style guide.
153 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
Eric Andersen670bea22001-03-15 17:56:44 +0000154 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
Eric Andersen6fd8c662001-02-13 20:04:30 +0000155
156
Eric Andersen0d5051d2001-03-15 22:12:43 +0000157 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
Eric Andersen6fd8c662001-02-13 20:04:30 +0000158
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +00001590.49
Glenn L McGrath7541e3a2001-01-02 23:41:50 +0000160
Eric Andersena6cd0702000-12-20 23:22:29 +0000161 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000162 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
Eric Andersen05ebdd02001-01-04 21:14:15 +0000163 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
164 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000165 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
166 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
167 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
168 byte saving optimizations.
Eric Andersen05ebdd02001-01-04 21:14:15 +0000169 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000170 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
Eric Andersen05ebdd02001-01-04 21:14:15 +0000171 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
172 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
173 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
174 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
175 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
176 to BusyBox"
177 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
178 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
179 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
180 util-linux compatible
181 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
Eric Andersen59d31b62001-01-05 21:01:01 +0000182 avoid namespace pollution
Eric Andersen05ebdd02001-01-04 21:14:15 +0000183 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
184 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
Eric Andersen05ebdd02001-01-04 21:14:15 +0000185 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
186 handles regexp file exclusion
Mark Whitley92386562001-01-04 22:07:50 +0000187 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
188 checking
Eric Andersen59d31b62001-01-05 21:01:01 +0000189 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
190 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
191 better if-then-else-fi handling
Eric Andersen05ebdd02001-01-04 21:14:15 +0000192 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
Eric Andersen59d31b62001-01-05 21:01:01 +0000193 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
194 in read, exec, and piped builtins
Eric Andersen05ebdd02001-01-04 21:14:15 +0000195 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
196 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
Eric Andersen59d31b62001-01-05 21:01:01 +0000197 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
Mark Whitley92386562001-01-04 22:07:50 +0000198 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
199 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
200 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000201 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
202 the width and height of the console.
203 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
204 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
205 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
206 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
207 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
208 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
209 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
Eric Andersen05ebdd02001-01-04 21:14:15 +0000210
Eric Andersena6cd0702000-12-20 23:22:29 +0000211
Eric Andersen8ec10a92001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000212 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
Eric Andersena6cd0702000-12-20 23:22:29 +0000213
Eric Andersenef936da2000-10-30 17:22:04 +00002140.48
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Glenn L McGrath46f44d22000-12-10 01:57:30 +0000216 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
217 define BB_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
Eric Andersen0e836ed2000-12-04 23:52:19 +0000218 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
219 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
220 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
Eric Andersen21adca72000-12-06 18:18:26 +0000221 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
Eric Andersenef936da2000-10-30 17:22:04 +0000222 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
Eric Andersen4bfb6b72000-11-29 21:39:02 +0000223 and other things).
Eric Andersen21adca72000-12-06 18:18:26 +0000224 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
225 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
226 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
Eric Andersen618e8ed2000-11-29 22:30:31 +0000227 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
Eric Andersen4bfb6b72000-11-29 21:39:02 +0000228 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
229 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
Eric Andersen7da31202000-12-08 21:05:58 +0000230 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
Eric Andersen95d1f6d2000-12-13 18:30:59 +0000231 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
Eric Andersen618e8ed2000-11-29 22:30:31 +0000232 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
233 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
234 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
235 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
236 conv=sync feature.
Eric Andersen6b78fe32000-12-07 00:29:50 +0000237 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
Eric Andersen618e8ed2000-11-29 22:30:31 +0000238 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
239 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
Eric Andersen6b78fe32000-12-07 00:29:50 +0000240 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
Eric Andersen8c725e62000-11-30 00:27:06 +0000241 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
Eric Andersen0e836ed2000-12-04 23:52:19 +0000242 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
243 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
Eric Andersen6b78fe32000-12-07 00:29:50 +0000244 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
Eric Andersen7da31202000-12-08 21:05:58 +0000245 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
246 GNU-date compatible
Eric Andersen6b78fe32000-12-07 00:29:50 +0000247 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
248 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
Eric Andersen95d1f6d2000-12-13 18:30:59 +0000249 precedence over applets unless BB_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
Eric Andersen6b78fe32000-12-07 00:29:50 +0000250 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
251 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
252 * new applets: cmp readlink
253 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
254 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
255 California; included reference
256 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
257 people should use -n instead
258 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
259 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
260 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
Eric Andersen3d957c82000-12-07 00:34:58 +0000261 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
262 hard links.
Eric Andersen9cff4fb2000-12-08 19:35:51 +0000263 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
Eric Andersen76fef0a2000-12-08 19:41:21 +0000264 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
265 for remote logging...
Eric Andersen235f66d2000-12-13 18:07:38 +0000266 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
Eric Andersen46948362000-12-13 16:42:24 +0000267 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
Eric Andersen6b78fe32000-12-07 00:29:50 +0000268
Eric Andersenef936da2000-10-30 17:22:04 +0000269
Eric Andersen46948362000-12-13 16:42:24 +0000270 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
Eric Andersenef936da2000-10-30 17:22:04 +0000271
Eric Andersen896fa4e2000-09-24 02:42:18 +00002720.47
Eric Andersenced2cef2000-07-20 23:41:24 +0000273
Eric Andersence40fc02000-09-14 21:56:18 +0000274 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
Eric Andersendb7f2af2000-09-26 05:02:50 +0000275 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
Eric Andersencaffb6e2000-09-25 21:28:07 +0000276 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
277 * Improved portability between different libcs.
278 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
279 * Common handling of '--help'
280 * All usage messages centralized.
281 * Added a bunch of new commands:
282 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
283 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
284 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
285 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
286 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
Eric Andersenff1ed722000-09-25 22:53:33 +0000287 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
Eric Andersencaffb6e2000-09-25 21:28:07 +0000288 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
289 * 'xargs' (written by me)
290 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
291 on GNY expr
292 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
Eric Andersen896fa4e2000-09-24 02:42:18 +0000293 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
Eric Andersenced2cef2000-07-20 23:41:24 +0000294 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
Eric Andersencaffb6e2000-09-25 21:28:07 +0000295 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
296 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
297 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
Eric Andersen98bbd682000-07-31 17:05:58 +0000298 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
Eric Andersen79565b62000-08-11 18:10:21 +0000299 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
300 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
301 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
302 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
Eric Andersenaaa94fb2000-08-22 01:02:05 +0000303 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
Eric Andersencaffb6e2000-09-25 21:28:07 +0000304 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
Eric Andersen896fa4e2000-09-24 02:42:18 +0000305 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
Eric Andersen3570a342000-09-25 21:45:58 +0000306 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
Eric Andersencaffb6e2000-09-25 21:28:07 +0000307 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
Eric Andersenf8263512000-09-26 05:08:04 +0000308 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
309 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
Eric Andersencaffb6e2000-09-25 21:28:07 +0000310 * Tons of other bugfixes.
Eric Andersenced2cef2000-07-20 23:41:24 +0000311
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Eric Andersendb7f2af2000-09-26 05:02:50 +0000313 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
Eric Andersenced2cef2000-07-20 23:41:24 +0000314
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Eric Andersen10dc9d42000-06-26 10:45:52 +00003160.46
317
Eric Andersen960be792000-07-11 18:06:01 +0000318 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
319 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
320 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
321 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
Eric Andersen1c314ad2000-06-28 16:56:25 +0000322 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
Eric Andersenf1f6d582000-07-11 17:42:56 +0000323 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
324 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
Eric Andersen1c314ad2000-06-28 16:56:25 +0000325 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
Eric Andersen8845adc2000-07-06 22:51:35 +0000326 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
327 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
Eric Andersen10dc9d42000-06-26 10:45:52 +0000328 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
329 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
330 work with both old and new kernels).
Eric Andersenef40aa82000-06-26 11:16:22 +0000331 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
332 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
Eric Andersen1386e702000-06-26 12:14:30 +0000333 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
334 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
Eric Andersen53310252000-07-04 19:42:23 +0000335 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
336 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
337 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
338 - Added shell environment variable substitution
339 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
340 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
341 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
Eric Andersen5d41d602000-06-29 20:20:14 +0000342 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
343 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
344 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
Eric Andersen7c31ea42000-07-03 14:55:49 +0000345 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
346 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
Eric Andersen53310252000-07-04 19:42:23 +0000347 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
348 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
Eric Andersenbb374a62000-07-07 19:33:35 +0000349 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
350 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
351 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
352 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
353 new SGML based docs into shape.
Eric Andersenf1f6d582000-07-11 17:42:56 +0000354 - cleanup of ar.c
Eric Andersenbb374a62000-07-07 19:33:35 +0000355 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
Eric Andersenf1f6d582000-07-11 17:42:56 +0000356 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
Eric Andersen78eab2f2000-07-06 17:06:08 +0000357 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
358 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
Eric Andersen02bc25b2000-07-06 21:29:32 +0000359 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
360 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
361 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
Eric Andersene6b9dfa2000-07-07 20:54:30 +0000362 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
363 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
364 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
365 grab a copy from util-linux.
Eric Andersen61dc0572000-07-11 17:29:36 +0000366 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
367 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
368 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
Eric Andersenda1d1e72000-07-10 23:39:44 +0000369 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
Eric Andersend006c9e2000-07-11 17:45:42 +0000370 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
371 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
372 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
373 Matt Kraai as well.
Eric Andersen78eab2f2000-07-06 17:06:08 +0000374
Eric Andersen10dc9d42000-06-26 10:45:52 +0000375
Eric Andersendb7f2af2000-09-26 05:02:50 +0000376 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
Eric Andersen10dc9d42000-06-26 10:45:52 +0000377
378
Eric Andersen3c375982000-06-22 00:23:09 +00003790.45
Eric Andersen45087b12000-06-21 22:44:33 +0000380 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
381 embedded systems).
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000382 * Added BB_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
383 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
Erik Andersen7ab9c7e2000-05-12 19:41:47 +0000384 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
385 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
Eric Andersen9f16d612000-06-12 23:11:16 +0000386 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
387 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
388 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
389 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
Eric Andersen45087b12000-06-21 22:44:33 +0000390 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
Eric Andersen380e58a2000-06-02 03:25:00 +0000391 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
392 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
Eric Andersen9f16d612000-06-12 23:11:16 +0000393 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
394 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
Eric Andersen2b6ab3c2000-06-13 06:54:53 +0000395 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
396 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000397 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
398 docs accordingly. -beppu
399 * Wrote which
Eric Andersen45087b12000-06-21 22:44:33 +0000400 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
401 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000402 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
Eric Andersen53310252000-07-04 19:42:23 +0000403 BB_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000404 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
405 (i.e. DOSTATIC=true)
Eric Andersen89960b82000-05-31 20:08:30 +0000406 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
407 and redirects.
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000408 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
Erik Andersen6ed02a02000-04-28 22:10:34 +0000409 * Fixed update segfault
410 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
Eric Andersen89960b82000-05-31 20:08:30 +0000411 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
412 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
413 (this was very broken in 0.43).
Erik Andersen94f5e0b2000-05-01 19:10:52 +0000414 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000415 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
Erik Andersen94f5e0b2000-05-01 19:10:52 +0000416 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
417 compatibility with the standard tail command
Erik Andersenac130e12000-05-10 05:00:31 +0000418 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
419 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
Erik Andersen5afc8642000-05-02 00:07:56 +0000420 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
Erik Andersen0e713ce2000-05-05 19:50:32 +0000421 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
422 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
423 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
Erik Andersenac130e12000-05-10 05:00:31 +0000424 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
425 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
Erik Andersen59b9e872000-05-10 05:05:45 +0000426 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
427 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
Erik Andersen330fd2b2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000428 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000429 * Makefile intelligence updates
Eric Andersenb5966362000-05-31 20:04:38 +0000430 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
431 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000432 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersen86ab8a32000-06-02 03:21:42 +0000433 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000434 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersen86ab8a32000-06-02 03:21:42 +0000435 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000436 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
Eric Andersen86ab8a32000-06-02 03:21:42 +0000437 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
438 to Pavel Roskin.
439 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersen9c8ffa02000-06-02 17:51:39 +0000440 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersenef4268e2000-06-04 05:08:29 +0000441 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersen815e9042000-06-06 16:15:23 +0000442 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
443 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
Pavel Roskin2e965232000-06-15 18:04:40 +0000444 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
445 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
Eric Andersen815e9042000-06-06 16:15:23 +0000446 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
Pavel Roskine97da402000-06-14 17:39:41 +0000447 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
Pavel Roskinc389d912000-06-05 23:41:27 +0000448 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
449 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
Pavel Roskin680d65a2000-06-06 17:03:55 +0000450 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
451 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
Pavel Roskin700a5ae2000-06-06 18:10:17 +0000452 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
Eric Andersena42982e2000-06-07 17:28:53 +0000453 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
454 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
455 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling BB_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
Pavel Roskin0024abc2000-06-07 20:38:15 +0000456 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
457 Pavel Roskin
Pavel Roskinda10ec02000-06-07 21:08:25 +0000458 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
459 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
Eric Andersen0c6a9702000-06-09 20:51:50 +0000460 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
461 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
462 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
463 for helping track this one down.
Erik Andersen73c8c9c2000-05-13 05:36:13 +0000464 * More doc updates
Eric Andersenbaf22bf2000-06-13 00:49:41 +0000465 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
Eric Andersen053b1462000-06-13 06:24:53 +0000466 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
John Beppu44760d02000-06-12 23:04:55 +0000467 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
John Beppu00216792000-06-21 19:06:16 +0000468 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
469 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
Erik Andersen59b9e872000-05-10 05:05:45 +0000470
Erik Andersen25c44c62000-04-28 22:49:08 +0000471
Eric Andersenc6cdf582000-06-21 22:50:59 +0000472 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
Erik Andersen25c44c62000-04-28 22:49:08 +0000473
Erik Andersen227a59b2000-04-25 23:24:55 +0000474
Eric Andersenc6cdf582000-06-21 22:50:59 +00004750.44
476 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
477 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
478 it good.
479
480 -Erik Andersen
481
John Beppuf93a95d2000-04-24 18:07:30 +0000482
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +00004830.43
Erik Andersene5b6c7d2000-04-17 16:16:10 +0000484 * Major update to the provided documentation.
Erik Andersend75af992000-03-16 08:09:09 +0000485 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
486 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
487 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
488 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
Erik Andersen2ac2fae2000-03-07 23:32:17 +0000489 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
Erik Andersen269bba22000-03-08 14:50:47 +0000490 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
491 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
492 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
493 provides. To enable this, turn on BB_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
494 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
495 directory.
Erik Andersen9cf3bfa2000-04-13 18:49:43 +0000496 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
Erik Andersen0817d132000-04-09 15:17:40 +0000497 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
498 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
499 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
Erik Andersen64371702000-03-04 22:23:27 +0000500 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
501 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
502 and then adjusted a bit by me.
Erik Andersen9cf3bfa2000-04-13 18:49:43 +0000503 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
Erik Andersend75af992000-03-16 08:09:09 +0000504 * Added echo and test (from me).
Erik Andersenb99ca132000-04-04 18:49:18 +0000505 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
Erik Andersenb9167cb2000-04-18 22:41:30 +0000506 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000507 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
Erik Andersen9cf3bfa2000-04-13 18:49:43 +0000508 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +0000509 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
510 fork() for running klogd.
511 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
512 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
Erik Andersen42387e42000-02-21 17:27:17 +0000513 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
514 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000515 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
Erik Andersen5b911dd2000-02-23 22:49:58 +0000516 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
517 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
518 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
519 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
520 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
521 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
522 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000523 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
524 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
525 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
526 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
527 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
528 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
529 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
530 a copy only if the rename fails.
Erik Andersen183da4a2000-04-04 18:36:37 +0000531 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000532 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000533 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
534 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
535 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
536 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
Erik Andersen246cc6d2000-03-07 07:41:42 +0000537 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
Erik Andersen2ac2fae2000-03-07 23:32:17 +0000538 * ps now supports BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
539 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
Erik Andersena3e57ca2000-04-19 03:38:01 +0000540 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
541 as would be expected displays help).
Erik Andersence917322000-03-13 04:07:02 +0000542 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
543 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
Erik Andersen0d068a22000-03-21 22:32:57 +0000544 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
545 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
546 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
Erik Andersen298854f2000-03-23 01:09:18 +0000547 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
Erik Andersenb9167cb2000-04-18 22:41:30 +0000548 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
549 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
550 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
551 no longer segfaults.
Erik Andersen029011b2000-03-04 21:19:32 +0000552
Erik Andersene2729152000-02-18 21:34:17 +0000553
554 -Erik Andersen
555
556
Erik Andersen05100cd2000-01-16 01:30:52 +00005570.42
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000558
559 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
560 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
561 optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000562 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
563 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000564 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
565 the way umount was originally written.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000566 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000567 to be more consistent with sysvinit
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000568 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000569 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
570
571 - Randolph Chung
572
573
574 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
575 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000576 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
577 same directory it will print an error and continue.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000578 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
579 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
580 hard links.
581 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000582 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
583 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000584 - Always check exit status.
585 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
586 * utility.c
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000587 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
588 ignoring it.
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000589 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
590 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
591 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
592 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
593
594 -Karl M. Hegbloom
595
596
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000597 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
598 -beppu -piptigger
599 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
600 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
601 * change permissions and ownership on
Erik Andersen06936df2000-01-23 02:14:20 +0000602 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
Erik Andersena2f69e52000-01-19 04:30:37 +0000603 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
604 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000605 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000606 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000607 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
Erik Andersende552872000-01-23 01:34:05 +0000608 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
609 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
610 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
611 behave itself a bit better.
612 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000613 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
Erik Andersende552872000-01-23 01:34:05 +0000614 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
John Beppu9bc7e892000-01-23 13:54:15 +0000615 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000616 always dereference before. -beppu
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000617 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
618 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
619 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000620 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
621 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000622 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
623 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
624 end of line if there are no more application names).
Erik Andersence5b4662000-01-27 19:50:47 +0000625 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
626 would segfault).
Erik Andersen3fe39dc2000-01-25 18:13:53 +0000627 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
628 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
629 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000630 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
631 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
Erik Andersen27fdd082000-02-19 18:16:49 +0000632 BB_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
Erik Andersen5cbdd712000-01-26 20:06:48 +0000633 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
634 turns up missing.
635 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
636 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
637 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
Erik Andersence5b4662000-01-27 19:50:47 +0000638 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
639 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
640 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
641 files pointed to by the symlinks.
Pavel Roskin339b8922000-06-20 00:11:07 +0000642 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000643 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000644 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
Erik Andersenfac10d72000-02-07 05:29:42 +0000645 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
646 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000647 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
648 directories on the command line
Erik Andersenbf5f0092000-02-14 18:44:33 +0000649 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
650 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
651 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
Erik Andersen4d054312000-02-10 07:31:15 +0000652 Now both work.
653 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
654 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000655 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
656 in utility.c
657 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
658 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
659 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
660 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
661 also from Gilbert Coville.
Erik Andersenb2660c72000-01-20 19:51:48 +0000662
Erik Andersen05100cd2000-01-16 01:30:52 +0000663
664 -Erik Andersen
665
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +00006660.41
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000667 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
668 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000669 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000670 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
671 working.
Erik Andersen9a9a2612000-01-09 06:49:08 +0000672 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000673 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
674 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
675 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
676 Now fixed.
Erik Andersen05df2392000-01-13 04:43:48 +0000677 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
678 with no interveining subdirectories.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000679 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
680 * and support in umount for loop
Erik Andersenb7cc49d2000-01-13 06:38:14 +0000681 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
682 <bcollins@debian.org>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000683 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
684 * fullWrite() not only if BB_TAR is defined, but also
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000685 if BB_CP or BB_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
686 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000687 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
688 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
689 -O2 -m386 ...)
690 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
691 BB_FEATURE_LINUXRC but not BB_INIT. (init_main used to be
692 referenced, but not compiled)
Erik Andersen31638212000-01-15 22:28:50 +0000693 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
694 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000695 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
696 * consoles.
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000697
Erik Andersen83865e32000-01-15 22:33:09 +0000698 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
Erik Andersen1dbc17f2000-01-08 21:16:29 +0000699
John Beppu935fb381999-12-15 19:35:02 +00007000.40
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000701 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
702 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
703 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000704 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
705 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000706 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
707 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
Eric Andersen20c2bdd2000-12-11 19:39:25 +0000708 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000709 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
710 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000711 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
712 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000713 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
Erik Andersen4d1d0111999-12-17 18:44:15 +0000714 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
Erik Andersen3fe2ecf1999-12-21 08:52:04 +0000715 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
716 <konst@voshod.com>.
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000717 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
718 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
Erik Andersen00266d31999-12-28 00:17:46 +0000719 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
720 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
721 special files.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000722 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
723 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000724 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
725 Ouch!!!
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000726 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000727 them so they should now work as expected.
Erik Andersen1266a131999-12-29 22:19:46 +0000728 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
729 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000730 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
Erik Andersen1266a131999-12-29 22:19:46 +0000731 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
732 like GNU ls.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000733 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
734 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
Erik Andersen7dc16072000-01-04 01:10:25 +0000735 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
736 - fixed several typos
737 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
Erik Andersen812d4662000-01-07 18:30:40 +0000738 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
Erik Andersenf664c001999-12-29 02:36:29 +0000739
Erik Andersen6f23cec1999-12-15 22:14:12 +0000740
Erik Andersen5338ce12000-01-07 23:30:07 +0000741 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
John Beppu935fb381999-12-15 19:35:02 +0000742
Eric Andersenabc0f4f1999-12-08 23:19:36 +00007430.39
Eric Andersen19db07b1999-12-11 08:41:28 +0000744 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
745 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000746 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
747 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
748 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
749 sometime.
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000750 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000751 when BB_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
752 the right thing.
Eric Andersenabc0f4f1999-12-08 23:19:36 +0000753 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
754 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000755 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
756 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
Eric Andersen1792f8c1999-12-09 06:11:36 +0000757 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000758 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
759 * in
Eric Andersenf0758dd1999-12-09 07:57:58 +0000760 which blocked reboots.
Eric Andersen2cb55071999-12-10 08:25:07 +0000761 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
762 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
John Beppu29fcc901999-12-09 23:33:04 +0000763 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000764 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
765 <beppu@lineo.com>)
766 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000767
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000768 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
Eric Andersen485b9551999-12-07 23:14:59 +0000769
Eric Andersenbb587021999-11-29 04:30:12 +00007700.38
771 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
772 file existed.
Eric Andersend00c2621999-12-07 08:37:31 +0000773 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000774 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
775 correct.
Eric Andersenb186d981999-12-03 09:19:54 +0000776 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
777 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
778 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
Eric Andersende1d6121999-12-03 15:14:25 +0000779 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
780 kernel messages.
Eric Andersen0ecb54a1999-12-05 23:24:55 +0000781 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
782 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
Eric Andersend00c2621999-12-07 08:37:31 +0000783 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
784 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
785 will complain if you enable them when you disable
786 BB_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
Eric Andersen0ecb54a1999-12-05 23:24:55 +0000787
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000788 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
Eric Andersenbb587021999-11-29 04:30:12 +0000789
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +00007900.37
Eric Andersenbefda6e1999-11-25 08:06:22 +0000791 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
792 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000793 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
794 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
795 * now be enabled
796 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
797 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
798 exists).
799 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
800 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
801 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
802 * Moved some code
803 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
804 work properly.
805 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
806 * out the
Eric Andersen394f7641999-11-23 21:38:12 +0000807 last file in the list.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000808 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
809 * 'ls -l'
810 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
811 are presented properly.
Eric Andersen3843e961999-11-25 07:30:46 +0000812 * Also added a TODO.
813
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +0000814
Eric Andersen664584b1999-12-11 23:25:59 +0000815 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
Eric Andersen08b10341999-11-19 02:38:58 +0000816
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +00008170.36
818 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
819 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000820 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
821 * from
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000822 Eric Delaunay).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000823 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
824 * BB_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000825 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000826 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000827 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
828 * compiled
Eric Andersena9c95ea1999-11-15 17:33:30 +0000829 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000830 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
831 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
832 * of least surprise
833 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
834 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
835 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
836 * destination
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000837 was a directory.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000838 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
839 * directories
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000840 with very wrong permissions.
841 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
842 Now it properly modifies permissions.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000843 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
844 * ensure
845 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
846 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
847 not seen when switched to a different VT.
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000848
Eric Andersended62591999-11-18 00:19:26 +0000849 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
Eric Andersenb6a44b81999-11-13 04:47:09 +0000850
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +00008510.35
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000852 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
853 * intended
854 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
855 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000856 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000857 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
858 Delaunay.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000859 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000860 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
861 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
862 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
863 * special files,
864 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
865 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
866 interested student.
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000867 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000868
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000869 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +0000870
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +00008710.34
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +0000872 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +0000873 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
874 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +0000875 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000876 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
877 to Eric Delaunay.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000878 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
879 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Eric Andersen3d8dbe11999-11-09 01:51:02 +0000880 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000881 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000882 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000883 should now work correctly.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000884 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
885 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
886 * replacements.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +0000887 Now it doesn't do that.
888 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
889 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +0000890
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000891 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
Eric Andersen3e2bb281999-11-09 03:12:29 +0000892
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +00008930.33
894 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
Eric Andersen29d2e361999-11-06 06:07:27 +0000895 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
896 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
897 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
898 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
899 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
900 state the real root device name)
901 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +0000902
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000903 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
Eric Andersendc6301e1999-11-06 07:34:50 +0000904
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +00009050.32
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +0000906 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000907 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
908 andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +0000909 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
Eric Andersena07f0b01999-10-22 19:49:09 +0000910 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000911 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
912 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
913 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
914 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
915 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
916 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
917 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
918 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
919 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the
920 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
921 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
922 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
923 will now use /etc/mtab if BB_MTAB is defined.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +0000924 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
925 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000926 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
927 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
928 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
929 <porter@debian.org>.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +0000930
Eric Andersena7093171999-10-23 05:42:08 +0000931
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000932 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +0000933
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +00009340.31
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000935 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
936 * make it smaller, and removed
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000937 some redundancy.
938 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
939 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
940 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000941 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
942 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
Eric Andersen51f8c891999-10-22 05:14:44 +0000943 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000944 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
945 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000946
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000947 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000948
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +00009490.30
950 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
951 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000952 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
953 changes include:
954
955 Core Changes:
956 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
957 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
958 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000959 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
960 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000961 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
962 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
963 itself.
964 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
965 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
966 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
967 more granular.
968 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
969 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
970 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000971 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
972 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
973 of new apps.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000974 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
975 {en|dis}able debugging.
976 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
977 (optimize for smaller binaries).
978
979 App Changes:
980 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
981 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000982 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
983 * rewrite. Combined into a single
984 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
985 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
986 libc6 libnss* libraries.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000987 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000988 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
989 dir copies.
990 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
991 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000992 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +0000993 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
994 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
995 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
996 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
997 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
998 instead.
999 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1000 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1001 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1002 getopt.
Erik Andersen6acaa402000-03-26 14:03:20 +00001003 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1004 >128Meg swaps.
1005 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1006 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1007 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +00001008 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1009 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1010 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1011 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1012 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1013 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1014 * I ripped out
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +00001015 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
Erik Andersen9ffdaa62000-02-11 21:55:04 +00001016 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1017 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1018 * changes that I forgot to document...
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +00001019
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +00001020 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1021
10220.29
1023 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1024 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +00001025
Eric Andersen2ce1edc1999-10-12 15:42:48 +000010260.28
1027 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1028
Eric Andersencc8ed391999-10-05 16:24:54 +000010290.27
1030 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1031 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1032 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1033 Printf added as module.
10340.26
1035 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +00001036