8 * Erik Andersen -- Merged several applets from tinylogin,
9 namely adduser, addgroup, deluser, delgroup, getty.
14 * Vladimir Oleynik, Manuel Novoa III, Aaron Lehmann
15 -- a whole bunch of ash size optimizations
16 -- Fix for ash leading redirections (i.e. '2>/dev/null ls rubbish')
17 * Rodney Brown <RDBrown@mira.net>
18 -- Optimized gzip.c, shrinking it by ~1.5k
20 -- Fix sed s/[/]// handling (closes: #1208).
21 -- Fix `-/bin/sh' invocation (closes: #1209).
22 -- Fix ash exec (noted by Arne Bernin).
23 -- Fix tar segfault when include list is empty and exclude list is
25 -- Fix sed s/$/@/ handling (noted by Joshua Hudson).
26 -- Fix opt type in dpkg (closes: #118975).
28 -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up
29 in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO).
31 -- reverse resolve network name and cache in route and ifconfig
32 applets, fix print nslookup server name if compile without
33 uClibc, fix route crashe 'route add', fix warnings compile
34 networking and pwd_grp applets
35 * Tim Riker <Tim@Rikers.org>
36 -- fix and shrink uuencode
37 -- allow tty* in inittab if exist, serial console is not the issue
39 -Erik Andersen, --not yet released--
48 New Applets & New Features:
51 Known Problems (to be fixed in 0.60.2)
52 * msh can segfault on constructs such as
53 for i in `ls *.c` ; do echo $i ; done
54 due to a memory allocation problem. This only seems to cause
55 problems when the backtick expands to be several k in size.
60 -- Fixed msh to support underscores in variable names.
61 -- Fixed a sed problem with unsatisfied backrefs (the problem was
62 noted by Martin Bene).
63 -- Removed CONFIG_SH define entirely. Now one simply picks the shell
64 or shells they want as CONFIG_<foo> in Config.h
65 -- Fixed head to use ferror(3) to check for errors, not errno.
66 * Shu-Hao Chang <shuhao_chang@trend.com.tw>
67 -- Fixed sed handling of multiple -e commands
68 * Magick <magick@linux-fan.com>
69 -- Fixed an init bug with AskFirst and /dev/null
70 * Jaspreet Singh <jsingh@somanetworks.com>
71 -- Fixed both a segfault and cosmetic bug in route
73 -- Made the insmod options CONFIG_FEATURE_NEW_MODULE_INTERFACE and
74 CONFIG_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE mutually exclusive
75 -- xgetcwd.c now includes sys/param.h to ensure PATH_MAX is defined
76 -- Fixed a potential segfault with lash + CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
77 -- Removed uint64_t from dos2unix, avoiding C lib compat. problems.
79 -- Rewrite of tftp (commands match atftp, accepts -b, can use
80 non-standard ports, and is smaller).
81 -- Fixed unarchive exclude list handling
83 -- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some
84 problems with mount and other applets).
85 -- Fixed ifconfig 'broadcast +' handling and disabled it by default
86 * Matthias ? <matthias@corelatus.com>
87 -- Fixed syslogd to log all messages from a single connection, not
91 -Erik Andersen, 23 August 2001
98 For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0. This
99 reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable
100 BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a stable version of
101 BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series. If bugs
102 show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc... This is also
103 intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be
104 getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to
105 break products that people are shipping. To avoid that, the new build
106 system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series
107 that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
108 stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I
109 will release that as a new stable release series.
113 -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52).
114 -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery).
115 * Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen
116 -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh. msh could not assign
117 any variables and had debug code still enabled. ash
118 had several compile errors (depending on selected options)
119 and variable assignment problems as well.
122 * David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe
123 * Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
124 * Erik Andersen -- pidof
127 * David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
128 This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils
129 package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on
130 your host system (not on the target).
134 -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
135 -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
136 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly. Busybox
137 should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
138 code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are
139 now automagicaly disabled).
140 -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc)
141 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
142 -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the
143 line was previously altered when running a subst command.
145 -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
146 -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
147 -- Added CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
148 -- Better devfs support
149 -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
150 -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
151 -- Size reduction in ping
152 -- Always write dd counts to stderr
153 -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled
155 -- slimmed down md5sum
156 -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math
157 support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
158 * Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox
161 -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
163 -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
164 -- dpkg rewrite. Should now be compatable with the real dpkg,
165 but needs more testing.
166 -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc)
167 -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
169 -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
170 -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
171 -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
172 -- cmdedit updates and API change
173 -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
174 -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
176 -- Fixed ping compile problem
177 * Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com>
178 -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files.
181 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
188 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
189 * Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
190 problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
193 * Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack
194 which has now been removed from BusyBox
195 * Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently
196 only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
197 * Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
199 * Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
200 for busybox. Quite usable but still a work in progress.
201 * Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell. A very small but capable shell
202 that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
205 * Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
206 * Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
207 common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
208 tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
209 * Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
210 * Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
211 bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
212 * Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed.
213 * Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes. It should now always
214 work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
215 * Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
216 added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
217 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
218 should work as expected. Eliminated use of floats.
219 * Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
220 * Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
221 bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
222 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C'
223 * Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
224 * Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> -- wget arbitrary header support
225 * John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
226 * Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
230 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
235 * Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
236 when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
237 * Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
238 when performing an 'export' in the shell.
239 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
240 the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
243 * Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet! This is a very
244 functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
245 * Erik Andersen -- added env applet
248 * Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
249 much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
250 * Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes
251 syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
252 busybox work on ia64 systems.
253 * Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
254 * Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
255 * Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
256 output from ls, du, and df.
257 * Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
258 support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
259 * John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
260 generated from the source code. This makes it _much_ simpler.
261 Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
262 * Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod
263 support a bit for Mips RS3.
264 * Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
265 * Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
267 * David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print'
268 * Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code
269 * Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow
270 bugs, and similar problems.
271 * Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init. Now
272 you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
273 pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
274 * Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
275 kernel command line environment variables into child environment
277 * Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
278 * Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs
279 * Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
280 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
281 locale support in several other places
282 * Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
283 * Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
284 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
285 * Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
286 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running
287 after permission errors.
288 * Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
289 * Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
290 find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
291 * Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
292 D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected.
293 * Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with
294 sed address range handling
295 * Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
296 to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
297 of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
298 but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
299 write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
300 download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
301 restarting an aborted download.
304 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
308 * Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting
309 * Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
310 * Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
311 with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
312 * Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
313 * Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
314 * Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
315 * Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
316 * Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
317 * Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
318 * Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it
319 overrides the system pwd/grp
320 * Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
321 * Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
322 * Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
323 behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
324 given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
325 * Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet
326 * Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
327 * David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when
328 CONFIG_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
329 * John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
330 generate the documentation from the source code, making life
331 much simpler for all.
332 * Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
333 masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented
334 the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
335 * Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller
336 * Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
337 * Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
338 * Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
339 * Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
340 * Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
341 * Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
342 * Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
343 * Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
344 kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
345 * Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
346 * Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
347 * Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
348 depending on what kernel is being used.
349 * Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
350 * Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet
351 * Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
352 * Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
353 * Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages
354 are stored to save several k of space.
355 * Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails
356 * Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
357 * Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
358 * Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type,
359 -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
360 * Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
361 * Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
362 * Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages.
363 * John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
364 * Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs.
365 * Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb.
366 * Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode,
367 process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision.
368 * Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still
369 * Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
370 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly
371 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir,
372 mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
373 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
374 is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
375 improve complex prompt handling.
376 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
377 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
378 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet
379 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
380 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts
381 * Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking
382 for several my_* functions into utility.c
383 * Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from
384 work done by Axis Communications).
385 * Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
386 and updated the style guide.
387 * Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
388 * Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
391 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
395 * Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
396 * Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
397 * Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
398 * Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
399 * spoon -- new watchdog applet
400 * Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now
401 scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly. Also several
402 byte saving optimizations.
403 * Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
404 * Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
405 * Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
406 * Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
407 * Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
408 * Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
409 * Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet
411 * David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
412 * Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
413 * Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made
414 util-linux compatible
415 * Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to
416 avoid namespace pollution
417 * Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
418 * Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
419 * Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now
420 handles regexp file exclusion
421 * Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
423 * Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
424 * Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide,
425 better if-then-else-fi handling
426 * Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
427 * Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
428 in read, exec, and piped builtins
429 * Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48. Now fixed (and doesn't
430 use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
431 * ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
432 * Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
433 * Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
434 de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
435 * Erik Andersen -- ls now honors CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
436 the width and height of the console.
437 * Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
438 * Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
439 whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
440 Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
441 install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
442 libnss_* libraries. Adds 1.5k. You can now, also, disable this,
443 causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
446 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
450 * Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
451 define CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
452 * Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
453 return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
454 Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
455 * me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
456 mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
458 * Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and
459 Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM
460 and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
461 * Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use
462 an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it. There's
463 also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.
464 * Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
465 * Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap
466 from date.c. Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
467 * Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing,
468 (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out). Also
469 updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added
471 * Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a
472 pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are
473 not placed into the source tree. Thanks Larry!
474 * Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h
475 to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
476 * Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
477 fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.
478 * Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
479 * Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made
481 * me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
482 * Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
483 precedence over applets unless CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
484 * Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
485 binary search instead of linear search. Much faster!
486 * new applets: cmp readlink
487 * Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
488 according to decision by the Regents of the University of
489 California; included reference
490 * tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
491 people should use -n instead
492 * Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
493 * Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
494 * Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
495 * Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks
497 * Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
498 * Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
499 for remote logging...
500 * Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
501 * various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
504 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
508 * A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
509 your system. Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
510 * Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
511 * Improved portability between different libcs.
512 * Many apps ported to use getopt()
513 * Common handling of '--help'
514 * All usage messages centralized.
515 * Added a bunch of new commands:
516 * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
517 * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>,
518 <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
519 * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
520 * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
521 debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
522 * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
523 * 'xargs' (written by me)
524 * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
526 * lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
527 * syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
528 to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
529 * chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
530 * 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
531 'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
532 * Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.
533 It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured). The code is
534 cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
535 * Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from
536 Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
537 * Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
538 now work (previously it thought -r was an option). Doh!
539 * Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
540 * Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
541 * Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
542 * Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
543 kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
544 * Tons of other bugfixes.
547 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
552 * Better portability. Now should compile cleanly with libc5,
553 GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including
554 2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
555 to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir).
556 * Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
557 local files that matched tarball contents!!! Fix thanks
558 to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
559 * Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
560 * Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ')
561 thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
562 * Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
563 "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
564 work with both old and new kernels).
565 * Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
566 Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
567 * Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
568 Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
569 * Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
570 - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
571 - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
572 - Added shell environment variable substitution
573 - Added the "read" shell builtin.
574 * Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence
575 used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
576 * Added support for being a login shell, so things like
577 '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always
578 invoke the shell. Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
579 * ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort
580 of thing. Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
581 * Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
582 it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
583 * Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
584 - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.
585 Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
586 - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
587 new SGML based docs into shape.
589 - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
590 - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
591 * Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support
592 -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
593 * In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45,
594 it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h. This
595 was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
596 * Removed sfdisk from BusyBox. It was buggy, fat, and we really
597 couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
598 very appropriate. Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
599 grab a copy from util-linux.
600 * Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can
601 then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
602 Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
603 * Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
604 * Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
605 thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>. The hand-tooled
606 "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from
610 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
614 * Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for
616 * Added CONFIG_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
617 help messages (i.e --help). Saves 17k over a full compile.
618 * Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change,
619 we can now use minix code. Minix tr saves 4k.
620 * insmod now works. It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a
621 staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev
622 entries, and a kernel module or two... It doesn't get smaller
623 then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
624 Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
625 * Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by
626 Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
627 * Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
628 * Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
629 * Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt
630 <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
631 * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated
632 docs accordingly. -beppu
634 * Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by
635 Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
636 * BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell. When
637 CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
638 be invoked as shell internals. Best used when compiling staticly
640 * BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes
642 * Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
643 * Fixed update segfault
644 * Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
645 * Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and
646 "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options)
647 (this was very broken in 0.43).
648 * Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
649 * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
650 * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better
651 compatibility with the standard tail command
652 * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
653 * logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp. Now it doesn't.
654 * whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS. Now it behaves.
655 * Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
656 * Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
657 * Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
658 * Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes. Patch thanks
659 to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
660 * cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
661 * zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
662 * Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
663 * Makefile intelligence updates
664 * Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
665 with commands that contain colons in them. Fix thanks to
666 Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
667 * Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC,
668 Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
669 * Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it
670 cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
671 * Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks
673 * Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
674 * Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
675 * Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin.
676 * Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
677 * Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
678 * Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
679 and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
680 * Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
681 * Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
682 * "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
683 with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
684 * "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
685 if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
686 * Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
687 * Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
688 * Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
689 * Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling CONFIG_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
690 * Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
692 * Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
693 and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
694 * Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
695 and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
696 of nested directories. Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
697 for helping track this one down.
699 * Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
700 * Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
701 * math takes input from stdin if no args are given. -- John Beppu
702 * math was renamed to dc. Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
703 this will probably be remedied in the future. -- John Beppu
706 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
710 Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to
711 avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
718 * Major update to the provided documentation.
719 * Busybox now includes a shell! It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
720 additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing). Handles
721 job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
722 except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
723 * Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby
724 saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin). This
725 is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
726 support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
727 provides. To enable this, turn on CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
728 patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
730 * Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
731 * tar has been completely rewritten by me. Both tar creation and
732 extraction are now well behaved. Costs 7.6k with all optional
733 tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support.
734 * Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
735 with a ram disk. Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
736 and then adjusted a bit by me.
737 * Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com>
738 * Added echo and test (from me).
739 * Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
740 * BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
741 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
742 - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
743 - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use
744 fork() for running klogd.
745 * nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
746 changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
747 * Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used
748 to count hard-linked files more then once). Many thanks to
749 Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
750 * Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining
751 exactly the same functionality). /proc takes up 90k of kernel
752 space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
753 * init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg
754 free). Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in
755 /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
756 * Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
757 * Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom <karlheg@debian.org>
758 - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
759 - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make
760 it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
761 - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
762 the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
763 - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
764 a copy only if the rename fails.
765 - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
766 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
767 - Fixes to sort. Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
768 - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
769 * An initial telnet implementation was added by
770 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
771 * Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
772 * ps now supports CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
773 to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
774 * ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
775 as would be expected displays help).
776 * Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not
777 specified. It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
778 * all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
779 the common error handling saves a few bytes. Thanks to
780 Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
781 * Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
782 * Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.
783 * Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
784 * Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]'
793 * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
794 busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
795 optionally compiled in with CONFIG_FEATURE_REMOUNT
796 * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
797 {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
798 not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
799 the way umount was originally written.
800 * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
801 to be more consistent with sysvinit
802 * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
803 the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
808 * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
809 extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
810 * Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
811 same directory it will print an error and continue.
812 * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
813 this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
815 * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
816 * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. busybox: File
817 * name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
818 - Always check exit status.
819 - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
821 - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
823 - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
824 - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
825 * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
826 one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
831 * changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
833 * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. You no longer
834 * _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. Tar could inadvertently
835 * change permissions and ownership on
836 certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
837 * Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
838 the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
839 * Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the
840 symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
841 built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
842 * Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to
843 Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
844 * Rewrote and simplified logger. Added the "-t" option, and made it
845 behave itself a bit better.
846 * Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
847 for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
848 allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
849 * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
850 always dereference before. -beppu
851 * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
852 Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
853 * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
854 * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
855 * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
856 contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
857 * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
858 end of line if there are no more application names).
859 * Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n"
861 * Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
862 to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
863 * Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
864 tail -f work only with a single file. This reduced tail from 6k to
865 2.4k. The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
866 CONFIG_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
867 * Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
869 * Fixed mount and umount. Previously they could leak loop device
870 allocations, causing the system to quickly run out. Fix for umount
871 by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
872 * ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by
873 Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
874 * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
875 files pointed to by the symlinks.
876 * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
877 - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
878 - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
879 - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
880 - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
881 - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
882 directories on the command line
883 * swapoff -a was not working. Now it is.
884 * init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot. Now it does.
885 * "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
887 * Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
888 not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed. Sed now uses ints.
889 * Began converting error handling to use some common routines
891 * syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
892 * install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
893 target directory. Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
894 * You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change
895 also from Gilbert Coville.
901 * New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed
902 by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
903 * Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
904 type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
906 * Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog
907 (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug). Thanks to
908 Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
909 * /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.
911 * mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
912 with no interveining subdirectories.
913 * Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works. Added -o loop option for mount,
914 * and support in umount for loop
915 devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
916 <bcollins@debian.org>
917 * Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
918 * fullWrite() not only if CONFIG_TAR is defined, but also
919 if CONFIG_CP or CONFIG_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
920 * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
921 (as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
922 by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
924 * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines
925 CONFIG_FEATURE_INITRD but not CONFIG_INIT. (init_main used to be
926 referenced, but not compiled)
927 * Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support. TERM now
928 defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
929 * Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
932 -Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
935 * New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
936 * fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. New App::
937 * loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
938 for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
939 * Major init re-work. init now supports inittab (slightly different
940 but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
941 init and into the conf file. It works just fine without inittab
942 being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
943 now do something about it. Init is much cleaner as a result.
944 * Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
945 * Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head -beppu Fixed the embarrasing
946 * failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
947 * Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7
948 with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
949 * Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev"
951 * Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly
952 regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
953 * Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
954 * Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
956 * Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files. Fixed a
957 * major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership
958 of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
960 * cp and mv were very broken when moving directories. I have rewritten
961 them so they should now work as expected.
962 * sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and
963 has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
964 * Fixed dmesg. It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
965 * Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
967 * Fixed a stupid segfault in kill. Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
968 * <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
969 - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
970 - fixed several typos
971 - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
972 * Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
975 -Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
978 * New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
979 <tausq@debian.org>. 3 items off the TODO list!
980 * I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo"). Added tail, based on
981 * tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
982 to suit my evil purposes. Costs 6k. I'll make it smaller
984 * on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
985 when CONFIG_MTAB was not enabled. Changed to 'umount -a', which does
987 * init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
988 integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
989 * kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
990 * -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking
991 one file descriptor per file. Oops.
992 * Fixed rebooting from init. I'd accidently left some debugging code
994 which blocked reboots.
995 * Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
996 init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
997 * Added a prelinary du implementation. Some parameter parsing
998 stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
1000 * Implemented tee. -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
1002 -Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
1005 * Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
1007 * df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
1008 * Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be
1010 * Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns
1011 (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
1012 was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
1013 * Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
1015 * syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
1016 is actually a socket with the right permissions.
1017 * I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc
1018 filesystem. Most apps don't need it. Those that _require_ it,
1019 will complain if you enable them when you disable
1020 CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
1022 -Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
1025 * Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
1026 from the command line or scripts) With both compiled in, costs 4k.
1027 * Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
1028 * locations. Changed the build system slightly so that features can
1030 or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
1031 compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
1033 * Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
1034 * -r' both work. dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
1035 * stdin. Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
1037 from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
1039 * Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat. Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
1041 last file in the list.
1042 * Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
1044 so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
1045 are presented properly.
1046 * Also added a TODO.
1049 -Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
1052 * fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no
1053 if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1054 * Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
1057 * Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay). If
1058 * CONFIG_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
1059 command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
1060 * Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
1061 * NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay. It costs 10k when
1063 in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
1064 * Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
1065 * Delaunay). changed zcat.c to gunzip.c. It now obeys the principle
1067 and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act. They answer
1068 --help and obey the '-c' flag.
1069 * Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
1072 * Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
1074 with very wrong permissions.
1075 * chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
1076 Now it properly modifies permissions.
1077 * Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
1079 they show up on whatever the active console it. Otherwise
1080 important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
1081 not seen when switched to a different VT.
1083 -Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
1086 * gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
1088 (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
1089 flag and only then outputs to stdout).
1090 * Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize
1091 to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails. Fix thanks to Eric
1093 * Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
1094 * tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
1095 * General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
1096 * options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
1098 sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
1099 Porter. Creating archives containing these is still left to the
1101 * fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
1103 -Erik Andersen, Nov 11, 1999
1106 * ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
1107 Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
1108 * init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
1109 better job of finding the real console device rather than using
1110 /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
1112 * more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and
1113 options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
1114 * more will now use the terminal size if CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
1115 * rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid. This was
1116 a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix. Things
1117 should now work correctly.
1118 * grep wouldn't grep stdin. Now it does. sed wouldn't sed stdin. Now
1119 * it does. sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
1121 Now it doesn't do that.
1122 * ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
1123 Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
1125 -Erik Andersen, Nov 8, 1999
1128 * Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
1129 * Removed some debugging noise from init.c
1130 * Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
1131 * Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
1132 * If CONFIG_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
1133 is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to
1134 state the real root device name)
1135 * merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
1137 -Erik Andersen, Nov 5, 1999
1140 * More changes -- If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
1142 * usage() now prints the BusyBox version. This will help folks
1143 realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
1144 * Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works. kill segfaulted w/o any
1145 * arguments. Now it doesn't do that. kill wasn't properly accepting
1146 * signal names. It does now. Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
1147 * should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c. Code is now
1148 * readable by mere mortals IMHO. Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
1149 * with full regular expressions!). Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
1150 * Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
1151 * umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
1152 * umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added CONFIG_MTAB, allowing (at the
1153 * cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
1154 folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
1155 /proc/mounts. mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
1156 will now use /etc/mtab if CONFIG_MTAB is defined.
1157 * Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
1158 hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
1159 followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc. recursiveAction() now
1160 lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
1161 as the name suggests. Fix thanks to Matt Porter
1162 <porter@debian.org>.
1165 -Erik Andersen, Nov 4, 1999
1168 * I added a changelog for version 0.30. adjusted find internals to
1169 * make it smaller, and removed
1171 * Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group
1172 are absent. Now will warn you and carry on.
1173 * Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
1174 the basis for a future sed utility). When compiled in it adds
1175 3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
1176 * Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
1177 it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
1178 2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
1180 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
1183 Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten. If you have any problems
1184 with busybox, or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix
1185 it. These changes include:
1188 * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
1189 busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
1190 * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in
1191 functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
1192 to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
1193 * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
1194 usage info. Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
1196 * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and
1197 postprocess. It was cumbersome to have so many programs
1198 cobbled together in this way. Without them, the app is much
1200 * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
1201 ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
1202 * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
1203 so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
1204 int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
1206 * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to
1207 {en|dis}able debugging.
1208 * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os
1209 (optimize for smaller binaries).
1212 * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
1213 monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
1214 * cat - Works same as always. chgrp, chmod, chown -
1215 * rewrite. Combined into a single
1216 source file. Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
1217 <ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
1218 libc6 libnss* libraries.
1219 * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
1220 pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
1222 * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
1223 * FileInfo. find - Now includes some basic regexp matching
1224 which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
1225 * ln - Same functionality. mkdir - Added -p flag to
1226 * feature set. mv - rewrite. rm - Added -f flag to
1227 * feature set. rmdir - Same functionality. swapon,
1228 * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
1229 uses /etc/swaps. swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
1231 * touch - Same functionality. date - adjusted with a patch
1232 * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
1233 to accomodate glibc timezone support. I then ripped out GNU
1235 * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux. Can now make
1237 * Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar
1238 implementation from sash. Now tar behaves as god intended it
1239 to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
1240 * dd -- rewritten. Can with with files, stdin, stdout. Added the
1241 * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
1242 * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
1243 * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it. Only matches
1244 * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it. Has _no_ options at all,
1245 * but works. fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
1247 internationalization and such to make them smaller.
1248 * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
1249 * internationalization and such). Probably some other
1250 * changes that I forgot to document...
1252 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
1255 This version was a messy pre-alpha. stay away or it will bite you.
1256 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
1259 mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
1262 Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
1263 Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
1264 More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
1265 Printf added as module.
1267 Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
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