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Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +000010.35
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +00002 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god intended
3 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c' flag
4 and only then outputs to stdout).
5 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
6 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric Delaunay.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +00007 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
8 * tar now accepts --help
9 * chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +000010 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +000011 * umount now parses options correctly
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +000012 * tar can now unpack tarballs containing device special files,
13 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks
14 to Matt Porter. Creating archives containing these is still
15 left to the interested student.
16 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +000017
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +000018 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
Eric Andersend73dc5b1999-11-10 23:13:02 +000019
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +0000200.34
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +000021 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +000022 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
23 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
Eric Andersen84d85681999-11-10 20:17:47 +000024 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +000025 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also
26 thanks to Eric Delaunay.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +000027 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
28 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
Eric Andersen3d8dbe11999-11-09 01:51:02 +000029 * more will now use the terminal size if BB_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
Eric Andersen50d63601999-11-09 01:47:36 +000030 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
31 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
32 should now work correctly.
33 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does.
34 * sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now it does.
35 * sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with replacements.
36 Now it doesn't do that.
37 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
38 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
Eric Andersen07e52971999-11-07 07:38:08 +000039
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +000040 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
Eric Andersen3e2bb281999-11-09 03:12:29 +000041
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +0000420.33
43 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
Eric Andersen29d2e361999-11-06 06:07:27 +000044 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
45 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
46 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
47 * If BB_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
48 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
49 state the real root device name)
50 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
Eric Andersenf14937d1999-11-06 03:02:42 +000051
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +000052 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
Eric Andersendc6301e1999-11-06 07:34:50 +000053
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +0000540.32
Eric Andersen99976851999-11-05 01:21:49 +000055 * More changes -- many thanks to Lineo for paying me to work on
56 busybox. If you have any problems please let me know ASAP
57 at andersen@lineo.com or andersee@debian.org
58 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
Eric Andersena07f0b01999-10-22 19:49:09 +000059 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +000060 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works.
Eric Andersena7093171999-10-23 05:42:08 +000061 * kill segfaulted w/o any arguments. Now it doesn't do that.
62 * kill wasn't properly accepting signal names. It does now.
Eric Andersend0246fb1999-11-04 21:18:07 +000063 * Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I should probably add open)
64 * Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now readable by mere mortals IMHO.
Eric Andersenff719d61999-10-29 23:36:31 +000065 * Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k with full regular expressions!).
Eric Andersenbe971d61999-11-03 16:52:50 +000066 * Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
Eric Andersend0246fb1999-11-04 21:18:07 +000067 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +000068 * Fixed umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
69 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc
Eric Andersend0246fb1999-11-04 21:18:07 +000070 * Added BB_MTAB, allowing (at the cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
71 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to /proc/mounts.
72 mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df will now use /etc/mtab
73 if BB_MTAB is defined.
Eric Andersencf8c9cf1999-11-05 00:31:46 +000074 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
75 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
76 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
77 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
78 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter <porter@debian.org>.
79
Eric Andersena7093171999-10-23 05:42:08 +000080
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +000081 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
Eric Andersenfa0540f1999-10-22 18:18:31 +000082
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000830.31
84 * I added a changelog for version 0.30.
85 * adjusted find internals to make it smaller, and removed
86 some redundancy.
87 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
88 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
89 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
Eric Andersen8eefd021999-10-22 05:18:28 +000090 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in
91 it adds 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
Eric Andersen51f8c891999-10-22 05:14:44 +000092 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
93 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use
94 glibc 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +000095
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +000096 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +000097
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000980.30
99 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. Many thanks to Lineo for
100 paying me to make these updates. If you have any problems with busybox,
Eric Andersenaa0765e1999-10-22 04:30:20 +0000101 or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix it. These
102 changes include:
103
104 Core Changes:
105 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
106 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
107 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
108 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list
109 has to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
110 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
111 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
112 itself.
113 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
114 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
115 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
116 more granular.
117 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
118 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
119 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
120 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum):
121 extern int foo_main(int argc, char** argv);
122 which speeds integration of new apps.
123 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
124 {en|dis}able debugging.
125 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
126 (optimize for smaller binaries).
127
128 App Changes:
129 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
130 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
131 * cat - Works same as always.
132 * chgrp, chmod, chown - rewrite. Combined into a single
133 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi <ezanard@debian.org>
134 that removes the dependency on libc6 libnss* libraries.
135 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
136 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive dir copies.
137 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct FileInfo.
138 * find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
139 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
140 * ln - Same functionality.
141 * mkdir - Added -p flag to feature set.
142 * mv - rewrite.
143 * rm - Added -f flag to feature set.
144 * rmdir - Same functionality.
145 * swapon, swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
146 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab instead.
147 * touch - Same functionality.
148 * date - adjusted with a patch from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
149 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU getopt.
150 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make >128Meg swaps.
151 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
152 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended
153 it to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
154 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout.
155 * Added the following new apps:
156 * loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
157 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro <lupus@lettere.unipd.it>
158 * grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches simple strings
159 * ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all, but works.
160 * fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but I ripped out
161 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
162 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus internationalization and such).
163 * Probably some other changes that I forgot to document...
164
Eric Andersen96bcfd31999-11-12 01:30:18 +0000165 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
166
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168 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
169 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000170
Eric Andersen2ce1edc1999-10-12 15:42:48 +00001710.28
172 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
173
Eric Andersencc8ed391999-10-05 16:24:54 +00001740.27
175 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
176 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
177 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
178 Printf added as module.
1790.26
180 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
Eric Andersenc4996011999-10-20 22:08:37 +0000181