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| - | <h3>Frequently Asked Questions</h3> |
| - | |
| - | This is a collection of some of the more frequently asked questions |
| - | about BusyBox. Some of the questions even have answers. If you |
| - | have additions to this FAQ document, we would love to add them, |
| - | |
| - | <h2>General questions</h2> |
| - | <ol> |
| - | <li><a href="#getting_started">How can I get started using BusyBox?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#configure">How do I configure busybox?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#build">How do I build BusyBox with a cross-compiler?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#build_system">How do I build a BusyBox-based system?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#kernel">Which Linux kernel versions are supported?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#arch">Which architectures does BusyBox run on?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#libc">Which C libraries are supported?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#commercial">Can I include BusyBox as part of the software on my device?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#external">Where can I find other small utilities since busybox does not include the features I want?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#demanding">I demand that you to add <favorite feature> right now! How come you don't answer all my questions on the mailing list instantly? I demand that you help me with all of my problems <em>Right Now</em>!</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#helpme">I need help with BusyBox! What should I do?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#contracts">I need you to add <favorite feature>! Are the BusyBox developers willing to be paid in order to fix bugs or add in <favorite feature>? Are you willing to provide support contracts?</a></li> |
| - | </ol> |
| - | |
| - | <h2>Troubleshooting</h2> |
| - | <ol> |
| - | <li><a href="#bugs">I think I found a bug in BusyBox! What should I do?!</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#backporting">I'm using an ancient version from the dawn of time and something's broken. Can you backport fixes for free?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#init">Busybox init isn't working!</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#sed">I can't configure busybox on my system.</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#job_control">Why do I keep getting "sh: can't access tty; job control turned off" errors? Why doesn't Control-C work within my shell?</a></li> |
| - | </ol> |
| - | |
| - | <h2>Misc. questions</h2> |
| - | <ol> |
| - | <li><a href="#tz">How do I change the time zone in busybox?</a></li> |
| - | </ol> |
| - | |
| - | <h2>Programming questions</h2> |
| - | <ol> |
| - | <li><a href="#goals">What are the goals of busybox?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#design">What is the design of busybox?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#source">How is the source code organized?</a> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><a href="#source_applets">The applet directories.</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#source_libbb">The busybox shared library (libbb)</a></li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | <li><a href="#optimize">I want to make busybox even smaller, how do I go about it?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#adding">Adding an applet to busybox</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#standards">What standards does busybox adhere to?</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#portability">Portability.</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#tips">Tips and tricks.</a> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><a href="#tips_encrypted_passwords">Encrypted Passwords</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#tips_vfork">Fork and vfork</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#tips_short_read">Short reads and writes</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#tips_memory">Memory used by relocatable code, PIC, and static linking.</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="#tips_kernel_headers">Including Linux kernel headers.</a></li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | <li><a href="#who">Who are the BusyBox developers?</a></li> |
| - | </ol> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h1>General questions</h1> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="getting_started">How can I get started using BusyBox?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> If you just want to try out busybox without installing it, download the |
| - | tarball, extract it, run "make defconfig", and then run "make". |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | This will create a busybox binary with almost all features enabled. To try |
| - | out a busybox applet, type "./busybox [appletname] [options]", for |
| - | example "./busybox ls -l" or "./busybox cat LICENSE". Type "./busybox" |
| - | to see a command list, and "busybox appletname --help" to see a brief |
| - | usage message for a given applet. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | BusyBox uses the name it was invoked under to determine which applet is |
| - | being invoked. (Try "mv busybox ls" and then "./ls -l".) Installing |
| - | busybox consists of creating symlinks (or hardlinks) to the busybox |
| - | binary for each applet in busybox, and making sure these links are in |
| - | the shell's command $PATH. The special applet name "busybox" (or with |
| - | any optional suffix, such as "busybox-static") uses the first argument |
| - | to determine which applet to run, as shown above. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | BusyBox also has a feature called the |
| - | <a name="standalone_shell">"standalone shell"</a>, where the busybox |
| - | shell runs any built-in applets before checking the command path. This |
| - | feature is also enabled by "make allyesconfig", and to try it out run |
| - | the command line "PATH= ./busybox ash". This will blank your command path |
| - | and run busybox as your command shell, so the only commands it can find |
| - | (without an explicit path such as /bin/ls) are the built-in busybox ones. |
| - | This is another good way to see what's built into busybox. |
| - | Note that the standalone shell requires CONFIG_BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH |
| - | to be set appropriately, depending on whether or not /proc/self/exe is |
| - | available or not. If you do not have /proc, then point that config option |
| - | to the location of your busybox binary, usually /bin/busybox. |
| - | (So if you set it to /proc/self/exe, and happen to be able to chroot into |
| - | your rootfs, you must mount /proc beforehand.) |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | A typical indication that you set CONFIG_BUSYBOX_EXEC_PATH to proc but |
| - | forgot to mount proc is: |
| - | <pre> |
| - | $ /bin/echo $PATH |
| - | /usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11 |
| - | $ echo $PATH |
| - | /bin/sh: echo: not found |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="configure">How do I configure busybox?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> Busybox is configured similarly to the linux kernel. Create a default |
| - | configuration and then run "make menuconfig" to modify it. The end |
| - | result is a .config file that tells the busybox build process what features |
| - | to include. So instead of "./configure; make; make install" the equivalent |
| - | busybox build would be "make defconfig; make; make install". |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> Busybox configured with all features enabled is a little under a megabyte |
| - | dynamically linked on x86. To create a smaller busybox, configure it with |
| - | fewer features. Individual busybox applets cost anywhere from a few |
| - | hundred bytes to tens of kilobytes. Disable unneeded applets to save, |
| - | space, using menuconfig. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The most important busybox configurators are:</p> |
| - | |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><p>make <b>defconfig</b> - Create the maximum "sane" configuration. This |
| - | enables almost all features, minus things like debugging options and features |
| - | that require changes to the rest of the system to work (such as selinux or |
| - | devfs device names). Use this if you want to start from a full-featured |
| - | busybox and remove features until it's small enough.</p></li> |
| - | <li><p>make <b>allnoconfig</b> - Disable everything. This creates a tiny version |
| - | of busybox that doesn't do anything. Start here if you know exactly what |
| - | you want and would like to select only those features.</p></li> |
| - | <li><p>make <b>menuconfig</b> - Interactively modify a .config file through a |
| - | multi-level menu interface. Use this after one of the previous two.</p></li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Some other configuration options are:</p> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><p>make <b>oldconfig</b> - Update an old .config file for a newer version |
| - | of busybox.</p></li> |
| - | <li><p>make <b>allyesconfig</b> - Select absolutely everything. This creates |
| - | a statically linked version of busybox full of debug code, with dependencies on |
| - | selinux, using devfs names... This makes sure everything compiles. Whether |
| - | or not the result would do anything useful is an open question.</p></li> |
| - | <li><p>make <b>allbareconfig</b> - Select all applets but disable all sub-features |
| - | within each applet. More build coverage testing.</p></li> |
| - | <li><p>make <b>randconfig</b> - Create a random configuration for test purposes.</p></li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p> Menuconfig modifies your .config file through an interactive menu where you can enable or disable |
| - | busybox features, and get help about each feature. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | To build a smaller busybox binary, run "make menuconfig" and disable the |
| - | features you don't need. (Or run "make allnoconfig" and then use |
| - | menuconfig to add just the features you need. Don't forget to recompile |
| - | with "make" once you've finished configuring.) |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="build">How do I build BusyBox with a cross-compiler?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | To build busybox with a cross-compiler, specify CROSS_COMPILE=<prefix>. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | CROSS_COMPILE specifies the prefix used for all executables used |
| - | during compilation. Only gcc and related binutils executables |
| - | are prefixed with $(CROSS_COMPILE) in the makefiles. |
| - | CROSS_COMPILE can be set on the command line: |
| - | </p> |
| - | <pre> |
| - | make CROSS_COMPILE=arm-linux-uclibcgnueabi- |
| - | </pre> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Alternatively CROSS_COMPILE can be set in the environment. |
| - | Default value for CROSS_COMPILE is not to prefix executables. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | To store the cross-compiler in your .config, set the variable |
| - | CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILER_PREFIX accordingly in menuconfig or by |
| - | editing the .config file. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="build_system">How do I build a BusyBox-based system?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | BusyBox is a package that replaces a dozen standard packages, but it is |
| - | not by itself a complete bootable system. Building an entire Linux |
| - | distribution from source is a bit beyond the scope of this FAQ, but it |
| - | understandably keeps cropping up on the mailing list, so here are some |
| - | pointers. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Start by learning how to strip a working system down to the bare essentials |
| - | needed to run one or two commands, so you know what it is you actually |
| - | need. An excellent practical place to do |
| - | this is the <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Bootdisk-HOWTO/">Linux |
| - | BootDisk Howto</a>, or for a more theoretical approach try |
| - | <a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-To-Bash-Prompt-HOWTO.html">From |
| - | PowerUp to Bash Prompt</a>. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | To learn how to build a working Linux system entirely from source code, |
| - | the place to go is the <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/">Linux |
| - | From Scratch</a> project. They have an entire book of step-by-step |
| - | instructions you can |
| - | <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/">read online</a> |
| - | or |
| - | <a href="http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/stable/">download</a>. |
| - | Be sure to check out the other sections of their main page, including |
| - | Beyond Linux From Scratch, Hardened Linux From Scratch, their Hints |
| - | directory, and their LiveCD project. (They also have mailing lists which |
| - | are better sources of answers to Linux-system building questions than |
| - | the busybox list.) |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | If you want an automated yet customizable system builder which produces |
| - | a BusyBox and uClibc based system, try |
| - | <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a>, which is |
| - | another project by the maintainer of the uClibc (Erik Andersen). |
| - | Download the tarball, extract it, unset CC, make. |
| - | For more instructions, see the website. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="kernel">Which Linux kernel versions are supported?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Full functionality requires Linux 2.4.x or better. (Earlier versions may |
| - | still work, but are no longer regularly tested.) A large fraction of the |
| - | code should run on just about anything. While the current code is fairly |
| - | Linux specific, it should be fairly easy to port the majority of the code |
| - | to support, say, FreeBSD or Solaris, or Mac OS X, or even Windows (if you |
| - | are into that sort of thing). |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="arch">Which architectures does BusyBox run on?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | BusyBox in general will build on any architecture supported by gcc. |
| - | Kernel module loading for 2.4 Linux kernels is currently |
| - | limited to ARM, CRIS, H8/300, x86, ia64, x86_64, m68k, MIPS, PowerPC, |
| - | S390, SH3/4/5, Sparc, v850e, and x86_64 for 2.4.x kernels. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | With 2.6.x kernels, module loading support should work on all architectures. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="libc">Which C libraries are supported?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | On Linux, BusyBox releases are tested against uClibc (0.9.27 or later) and |
| - | glibc (2.2 or later). Both should provide full functionality with busybox, |
| - | and if you find a bug we want to hear about it. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Linux-libc5 is no longer maintained (and has no known advantages over |
| - | uClibc), dietlibc is known to have numerous unfixed bugs, and klibc is |
| - | missing too many features to build BusyBox. If you require a small C |
| - | library for Linux, the busybox developers recommend uClibc. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Some BusyBox applets have been built and run under a combination |
| - | of newlib and libgloss (see |
| - | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-March/013759.html">this thread</a>). |
| - | This is still experimental, but may be supported in a future release. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="commercial">Can I include BusyBox as part of the software on my device?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Yes. As long as you <a href="http://busybox.net/license.html">fully comply |
| - | with the generous terms of the GPL BusyBox license</a> you can ship BusyBox |
| - | as part of the software on your device. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="external">Where can I find other small utilities since busybox |
| - | does not include the features i want?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | we maintain such a <a href="tinyutils.html">list</a> on this site! |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="demanding">I demand that you to add <favorite feature> right now! How come you don't answer all my questions on the mailing list instantly? I demand that you help me with all of my problems <em>Right Now</em>!</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | You have not paid us a single cent and yet you still have the product of |
| - | many years of our work. We are not your slaves! We work on BusyBox |
| - | because we find it useful and interesting. If you go off flaming us, we |
| - | will ignore you. |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="helpme">I need help with BusyBox! What should I do?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | If you find that you need help with BusyBox, you can ask for help on the |
| - | BusyBox mailing list at [email protected].</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> In addition to the mailing list, Erik Andersen (andersee), Manuel Nova |
| - | (mjn3), Rob Landley (landley), Mike Frysinger (SpanKY), |
| - | Bernhard Reutner-Fischer (blindvt), and other long-time BusyBox developers |
| - | are known to hang out on the uClibc IRC channel: #uclibc on |
| - | irc.freenode.net. There is a |
| - | <a href="http://ibot.Rikers.org/%23uclibc/">web archive of |
| - | daily logs of the #uclibc IRC channel</a> going back to 2002. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <b>Please do not send private email to Rob, Erik, Manuel, or the other |
| - | BusyBox contributors asking for private help unless you are planning on |
| - | paying for consulting services.</b> |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | When we answer questions on the BusyBox mailing list, it helps everyone |
| - | since people with similar problems in the future will be able to get help |
| - | by searching the mailing list archives. Private help is reserved as a paid |
| - | service. If you need to use private communication, or if you are serious |
| - | about getting timely assistance with BusyBox, you should seriously consider |
| - | paying for consulting services. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="contracts">I need you to add <favorite feature>! Are the BusyBox developers willing to be paid in order to fix bugs or add in <favorite feature>? Are you willing to provide support contracts?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Yes we are. The easy way to sponsor a new feature is to post an offer on |
| - | the mailing list to see who's interested. You can also email the project's |
| - | maintainer and ask them to recommend someone. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h1>Troubleshooting</h1> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="bugs">I think I found a bug in BusyBox! What should I do?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | If you simply need help with using or configuring BusyBox, please submit a |
| - | detailed description of your problem to the BusyBox mailing list at <a |
| - | href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>. |
| - | Please do not send email to individual developers asking |
| - | for private help unless you are planning on paying for consulting services. |
| - | When we answer questions on the BusyBox mailing list, it helps everyone, |
| - | while private answers help only you... |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Bug reports and new feature patches sometimes get lost when posted to the |
| - | mailing list, because the developers of BusyBox are busy people and have |
| - | only so much they can keep in their brains at a time. You can post a |
| - | polite reminder after 2-3 days without offending anybody. If that doesn't |
| - | result in a solution, please use the |
| - | <a href="https://bugs.busybox.net/">BusyBox Bug |
| - | and Patch Tracking System</a> to submit a detailed explanation and we'll |
| - | get to it as soon as we can. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Note that bugs entered into the bug system without being mentioned on the |
| - | mailing list first may languish there for months before anyone even notices |
| - | them. We generally go through the bug system when preparing for new |
| - | development releases, to see what fell through the cracks while we were |
| - | off writing new features. (It's a fast/unreliable vs slow/reliable thing. |
| - | Saves retransits, but the latency sucks.) |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="backporting">I'm using an ancient version from the dawn of time and something's broken. Can you backport fixes for free?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Variants of this one get asked a lot.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The purpose of the BusyBox mailing list is to develop and improve BusyBox, |
| - | and we're happy to respond to our users' needs. But if you're coming to the |
| - | list for free tech support we're going to ask you to upgrade to a current |
| - | version before we try to diagnose your problem.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>If you're building BusyBox 0.50 with uClibc 0.9.19 and gcc 1.27 there's a |
| - | fairly large chance that whatever problem you're seeing has already been fixed. |
| - | To get that fix, all you have to do is upgrade to a newer version. If you |
| - | don't at least _try_ that, you're wasting our time.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The volunteers are happy to fix any bugs you point out in the current |
| - | versions because doing so helps everybody and makes the project better. We |
| - | want to make the current version work for you. But diagnosing, debugging, and |
| - | backporting fixes to old versions isn't something we do for free, because it |
| - | doesn't help anybody but you. The cost of volunteer tech support is using a |
| - | reasonably current version of the project.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>If you don't want to upgrade, you have the complete source code and thus |
| - | the ability to fix it yourself, or hire a consultant to do it for you. If you |
| - | got your version from a vendor who still supports the older version, they can |
| - | help you. But there are limits as to what the volunteers will feel obliged to |
| - | do for you.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>As a rule of thumb, volunteers will generally answer polite questions about |
| - | a given version for about three years after its release before it's so old |
| - | we don't remember the answer off the top of our head. And if you want us to |
| - | put any _effort_ into tracking it down, we want you to put in a little effort |
| - | of your own by confirming it's still a problem with the current version. It's |
| - | also hard for us to fix a problem of yours if we can't reproduce it because |
| - | we don't have any systems running an environment that old.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>A consultant will happily set up a special environment just to reproduce |
| - | your problem, and you can always ask on the list if any of the developers |
| - | have consulting rates.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="init">Busybox init isn't working!</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Init is the first program that runs, so it might be that no programs are |
| - | working on your new system because of a problem with your cross-compiler, |
| - | kernel, console settings, shared libraries, root filesystem... To rule all |
| - | that out, first build a statically linked version of the following "hello |
| - | world" program with your cross compiler toolchain: |
| - | </p> |
| - | <pre> |
| - | #include <stdio.h> |
| - | |
| - | int main(int argc, char *argv) |
| - | { |
| - | printf("Hello world!\n"); |
| - | sleep(999999999); |
| - | } |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Now try to boot your device with an "init=" argument pointing to your |
| - | hello world program. Did you see the hello world message? Until you |
| - | do, don't bother messing with busybox init. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Once you've got it working statically linked, try getting it to work |
| - | dynamically linked. Then read the FAQ entry <a href="#build_system">How |
| - | do I build a BusyBox-based system?</a>, and the |
| - | <a href="/downloads/BusyBox.html#item_init">documentation for BusyBox |
| - | init</a>. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="sed">I can't configure busybox on my system.</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Configuring Busybox depends on a recent version of sed. Older |
| - | distributions (Red Hat 7.2, Debian 3.0) may not come with a |
| - | usable version. Luckily BusyBox can use its own sed to configure itself, |
| - | although this leads to a bit of a chicken and egg problem. |
| - | You can work around this by hand-configuring busybox to build with just |
| - | sed, then putting that sed in your path to configure the rest of busybox |
| - | with, like so: |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <pre> |
| - | tar xvjf sources/busybox-x.x.x.tar.bz2 |
| - | cd busybox-x.x.x |
| - | make allnoconfig |
| - | make include/bb_config.h |
| - | echo "CONFIG_SED=y" >> .config |
| - | echo "#undef ENABLE_SED" >> include/bb_config.h |
| - | echo "#define ENABLE_SED 1" >> include/bb_config.h |
| - | make |
| - | mv busybox sed |
| - | export PATH=`pwd`:"$PATH" |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Then you can run "make defconfig" or "make menuconfig" normally.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="job_control">Why do I keep getting "sh: can't access tty; job control turned off" errors? Why doesn't Control-C work within my shell?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Job control will be turned off since your shell can not obtain a controlling |
| - | terminal. This typically happens when you run your shell on /dev/console. |
| - | The kernel will not provide a controlling terminal on the /dev/console |
| - | device. Your should run your shell on a normal tty such as tty1 or ttyS0 |
| - | and everything will work perfectly. If you <em>REALLY</em> want your shell |
| - | to run on /dev/console, then you can hack your kernel (if you are into that |
| - | sortof thing) by changing drivers/char/tty_io.c to change the lines where |
| - | it sets "noctty = 1;" to instead set it to "0". I recommend you instead |
| - | run your shell on a real console... |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h1>Misc. questions</h1> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="tz">How do I change the time zone in busybox?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox has nothing to do with the timezone. Please consult your libc |
| - | documentation. (<a href="http://google.com/search?q=uclibc+glibc+timezone">http://google.com/search?q=uclibc+glibc+timezone</a>).</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h1>Development</h1> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="goals">What are the goals of busybox?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox aims to be the smallest and simplest correct implementation of the |
| - | standard Linux command line tools. First and foremost, this means the |
| - | smallest executable size we can manage. We also want to have the simplest |
| - | and cleanest implementation we can manage, be <a href="#standards">standards |
| - | compliant</a>, minimize run-time memory usage (heap and stack), run fast, and |
| - | take over the world.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="design">What is the design of busybox?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox is like a swiss army knife: one thing with many functions. |
| - | The busybox executable can act like many different programs depending on |
| - | the name used to invoke it. Normal practice is to create a bunch of symlinks |
| - | pointing to the busybox binary, each of which triggers a different busybox |
| - | function. (See <a href="FAQ.html#getting_started">getting started</a> in the |
| - | FAQ for more information on usage, and <a href="BusyBox.html">the |
| - | busybox documentation</a> for a list of symlink names and what they do.) |
| - | |
| - | <p>The "one binary to rule them all" approach is primarily for size reasons: a |
| - | single multi-purpose executable is smaller then many small files could be. |
| - | This way busybox only has one set of ELF headers, it can easily share code |
| - | between different apps even when statically linked, it has better packing |
| - | efficiency by avoding gaps between files or compression dictionary resets, |
| - | and so on.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Work is underway on new options such as "make standalone" to build separate |
| - | binaries for each applet, and a "libbb.so" to make the busybox common code |
| - | available as a shared library. Neither is ready yet at the time of this |
| - | writing.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <a name="source"></a> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="source_applets">The applet directories</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The directory "applets" contains the busybox startup code (applets.c and |
| - | busybox.c), and several subdirectories containing the code for the individual |
| - | applets.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox execution starts with the main() function in applets/busybox.c, |
| - | which sets the global variable applet_name to argv[0] and calls |
| - | run_applet_and_exit() in applets/applets.c. That uses the applets[] array |
| - | (defined in include/busybox.h and filled out in include/applets.h) to |
| - | transfer control to the appropriate APPLET_main() function (such as |
| - | cat_main() or sed_main()). The individual applet takes it from there.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This is why calling busybox under a different name triggers different |
| - | functionality: main() looks up argv[0] in applets[] to get a function pointer |
| - | to APPLET_main().</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox applets may also be invoked through the multiplexor applet |
| - | "busybox" (see busybox_main() in libbb/appletlib.c), and through the |
| - | standalone shell (grep for STANDALONE_SHELL in applets/shell/*.c). |
| - | See <a href="FAQ.html#getting_started">getting started</a> in the |
| - | FAQ for more information on these alternate usage mechanisms, which are |
| - | just different ways to reach the relevant APPLET_main() function.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The applet subdirectories (archival, console-tools, coreutils, |
| - | debianutils, e2fsprogs, editors, findutils, init, loginutils, miscutils, |
| - | modutils, networking, procps, shell, sysklogd, and util-linux) correspond |
| - | to the configuration sub-menus in menuconfig. Each subdirectory contains the |
| - | code to implement the applets in that sub-menu, as well as a Config.in |
| - | file defining that configuration sub-menu (with dependencies and help text |
| - | for each applet), and the makefile segment (Makefile.in) for that |
| - | subdirectory.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The run-time --help is stored in usage_messages[], which is initialized at |
| - | the start of applets/applets.c and gets its help text from usage.h. During the |
| - | build this help text is also used to generate the BusyBox documentation (in |
| - | html, txt, and man page formats) in the docs directory. See |
| - | <a href="#adding">adding an applet to busybox</a> for more |
| - | information.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="source_libbb"><b>libbb</b></a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Most non-setup code shared between busybox applets lives in the libbb |
| - | directory. It's a mess that evolved over the years without much auditing |
| - | or cleanup. For anybody looking for a great project to break into busybox |
| - | development with, documenting libbb would be both incredibly useful and good |
| - | experience.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Common themes in libbb include allocation functions that test |
| - | for failure and abort the program with an error message so the caller doesn't |
| - | have to test the return value (xmalloc(), xstrdup(), etc), wrapped versions |
| - | of open(), close(), read(), and write() that test for their own failures |
| - | and/or retry automatically, linked list management functions (llist.c), |
| - | command line argument parsing (getopt32.c), and a whole lot more.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="optimize">I want to make busybox even smaller, how do I go about it?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | To conserve bytes it's good to know where they're being used, and the |
| - | size of the final executable isn't always a reliable indicator of |
| - | the size of the components (since various structures are rounded up, |
| - | so a small change may not even be visible by itself, but many small |
| - | savings add up). |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> The busybox Makefile builds two versions of busybox, one of which |
| - | (busybox_unstripped) has extra information that various analysis tools |
| - | can use. (This has nothing to do with CONFIG_DEBUG, leave that off |
| - | when trying to optimize for size.) |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> The <b>"make bloatcheck"</b> option uses Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter |
| - | script to compare two versions of busybox (busybox_unstripped vs |
| - | busybox_old), and report which symbols changed size and by how much. |
| - | To use it, first build a base version with <b>"make baseline"</b>. |
| - | (This creates busybox_old, which should have the original sizes for |
| - | comparison purposes.) Then build the new version with your changes |
| - | and run "make bloatcheck" to see the size differences from the old |
| - | version. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | The first line of output has totals: how many symbols were added or |
| - | removed, how many symbols grew or shrank, the number of bytes added |
| - | and number of bytes removed by these changes, and finally the total |
| - | number of bytes difference between the two files. The remaining |
| - | lines show each individual symbol, the old and new sizes, and the |
| - | increase or decrease in size (which results are sorted by). |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <b>"make sizes"</b> option produces raw symbol size information for |
| - | busybox_unstripped. This is the output from the "nm --size-sort" |
| - | command (see "man nm" for more information), and is the information |
| - | bloat-o-meter parses to produce the comparison report above. For |
| - | defconfig, this is a good way to find the largest symbols in the tree |
| - | (which is a good place to start when trying to shrink the code). To |
| - | take a closer look at individual applets, configure busybox with just |
| - | one applet (run "make allnoconfig" and then switch on a single applet |
| - | with menuconfig), and then use "make sizes" to see the size of that |
| - | applet's components. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | The "showasm" command (in the scripts directory) produces an assembly |
| - | dump of a function, providing a closer look at what changed. Try |
| - | "scripts/showasm busybox_unstripped" to list available symbols, and |
| - | "scripts/showasm busybox_unstripped symbolname" to see the assembly |
| - | for a sepecific symbol. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="adding">Adding an applet to busybox</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>To add a new applet to busybox, first pick a name for the applet and |
| - | a corresponding CONFIG_NAME. Then do this:</p> |
| - | |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>Figure out where in the busybox source tree your applet best fits, |
| - | and put your source code there. Be sure to use APPLET_main() instead |
| - | of main(), where APPLET is the name of your applet.</li> |
| - | |
| - | <li>Add your applet to the relevant Config.in file (which file you add |
| - | it to determines where it shows up in "make menuconfig"). This uses |
| - | the same general format as the linux kernel's configuration system.</li> |
| - | |
| - | <li>Add your applet to the relevant Makefile.in file (in the same |
| - | directory as the Config.in you chose), using the existing entries as a |
| - | template and the same CONFIG symbol as you used for Config.in. (Don't |
| - | forget "needlibm" or "needcrypt" if your applet needs libm or |
| - | libcrypt.)</li> |
| - | |
| - | <li>Add your applet to "include/applets.h", using one of the existing |
| - | entries as a template. (Note: this is in alphabetical order. Applets |
| - | are found via binary search, and if you add an applet out of order it |
| - | won't work.)</li> |
| - | |
| - | <li>Add your applet's runtime help text to "include/usage.h". You need |
| - | at least appname_trivial_usage (the minimal help text, always included |
| - | in the busybox binary when this applet is enabled) and appname_full_usage |
| - | (extra help text included in the busybox binary with |
| - | CONFIG_FEATURE_VERBOSE_USAGE is enabled), or it won't compile. |
| - | The other two help entry types (appname_example_usage and |
| - | appname_notes_usage) are optional. They don't take up space in the binary, |
| - | but instead show up in the generated documentation (BusyBox.html, |
| - | BusyBox.txt, and the man page BusyBox.1).</li> |
| - | |
| - | <li>Run menuconfig, switch your applet on, compile, test, and fix the |
| - | bugs. Be sure to try both "allyesconfig" and "allnoconfig" (and |
| - | "allbareconfig" if relevant).</li> |
| - | |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="standards">What standards does busybox adhere to?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The standard we're paying attention to is the "Shell and Utilities" |
| - | portion of the <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">Open |
| - | Group Base Standards</a> (also known as the Single Unix Specification version |
| - | 3 or SUSv3). Note that paying attention isn't necessarily the same thing as |
| - | following it.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>SUSv3 doesn't even mention things like init, mount, tar, or losetup, nor |
| - | commonly used options like echo's '-e' and '-n', or sed's '-i'. Busybox is |
| - | driven by what real users actually need, not the fact the standard believes |
| - | we should implement ed or sccs. For size reasons, we're unlikely to include |
| - | much internationalization support beyond UTF-8, and on top of all that, our |
| - | configuration menu lets developers chop out features to produce smaller but |
| - | very non-standard utilities.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Also, Busybox is aimed primarily at Linux. Unix standards are interesting |
| - | because Linux tries to adhere to them, but portability to dozens of platforms |
| - | is only interesting in terms of offering a restricted feature set that works |
| - | everywhere, not growing dozens of platform-specific extensions. Busybox |
| - | should be portable to all hardware platforms Linux supports, and any other |
| - | similar operating systems that are easy to do and won't require much |
| - | maintenance.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>In practice, standards compliance tends to be a clean-up step once an |
| - | applet is otherwise finished. When polishing and testing a busybox applet, |
| - | we ensure we have at least the option of full standards compliance, or else |
| - | document where we (intentionally) fall short.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="portability">Portability.</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox is a Linux project, but that doesn't mean we don't have to worry |
| - | about portability. First of all, there are different hardware platforms, |
| - | different C library implementations, different versions of the kernel and |
| - | build toolchain... The file "include/platform.h" exists to centralize and |
| - | encapsulate various platform-specific things in one place, so most busybox |
| - | code doesn't have to care where it's running.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>To start with, Linux runs on dozens of hardware platforms. We try to test |
| - | each release on x86, x86-64, arm, power pc, and mips. (Since qemu can handle |
| - | all of these, this isn't that hard.) This means we have to care about a number |
| - | of portability issues like endianness, word size, and alignment, all of which |
| - | belong in platform.h. That header handles conditional #includes and gives |
| - | us macros we can use in the rest of our code. At some point in the future |
| - | we might grow a platform.c, possibly even a platform subdirectory. As long |
| - | as the applets themselves don't have to care.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>On a related note, we made the "default signedness of char varies" problem |
| - | go away by feeding the compiler -funsigned-char. This gives us consistent |
| - | behavior on all platforms, and defaults to 8-bit clean text processing (which |
| - | gets us halfway to UTF-8 support). NOMMU support is less easily separated |
| - | (see the tips section later in this document), but we're working on it.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Another type of portability is build environments: we unapologetically use |
| - | a number of gcc and glibc extensions (as does the Linux kernel), but these have |
| - | been picked up by packages like uClibc, TCC, and Intel's C Compiler. As for |
| - | gcc, we take advantage of newer compiler optimizations to get the smallest |
| - | possible size, but we also regression test against an older build environment |
| - | using the Red Hat 9 image at "http://busybox.net/downloads/qemu". This has a |
| - | 2.4 kernel, gcc 3.2, make 3.79.1, and glibc 2.3, and is the oldest |
| - | build/deployment environment we still put any effort into maintaining. (If |
| - | anyone takes an interest in older kernels you're welcome to submit patches, |
| - | but the effort would probably be better spent |
| - | <a href="http://www.selenic.com/linux-tiny/">trimming |
| - | down the 2.6 kernel</a>.) Older gcc versions than that are uninteresting since |
| - | we now use c99 features, although |
| - | <a href="http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/tcc/">tcc</a> might be worth a |
| - | look.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>We also test busybox against the current release of uClibc. Older versions |
| - | of uClibc aren't very interesting (they were buggy, and uClibc wasn't really |
| - | usable as a general-purpose C library before version 0.9.26 anyway).</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Other unix implementations are mostly uninteresting, since Linux binaries |
| - | have become the new standard for portable Unix programs. Specifically, |
| - | the ubiquity of Linux was cited as the main reason the Intel Binary |
| - | Compatability Standard 2 died, by the standards group organized to name a |
| - | successor to ibcs2: <a href="http://www.telly.org/86open/">the 86open |
| - | project</a>. That project disbanded in 1999 with the endorsement of an |
| - | existing standard: Linux ELF binaries. Since then, the major players at the |
| - | time (such as <a |
| - | href="http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/aix/products/aixos/linux/index.html">AIX</a>, <a |
| - | href="http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/ds/linux_interop.jsp#3">Solaris</a>, and |
| - | <a href="http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/bsd/2000/03/17/linuxapps.html">FreeBSD</a>) |
| - | have all either grown Linux support or folded.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The major exceptions are newcomer MacOS X, some embedded environments |
| - | (such as newlib+libgloss) which provide a posix environment but not a full |
| - | Linux environment, and environments like Cygwin that provide only partial Linux |
| - | emulation. Also, some embedded Linux systems run a Linux kernel but amputate |
| - | things like the /proc directory to save space.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Supporting these systems is largely a question of providing a clean subset |
| - | of BusyBox's functionality -- whichever applets can easily be made to |
| - | work in that environment. Annotating the configuration system to |
| - | indicate which applets require which prerequisites (such as procfs) is |
| - | also welcome. Other efforts to support these systems (swapping #include |
| - | files to build in different environments, adding adapter code to platform.h, |
| - | adding more extensive special-case supporting infrastructure such as mount's |
| - | legacy mtab support) are handled on a case-by-case basis. Support that can be |
| - | cleanly hidden in platform.h is reasonably attractive, and failing that |
| - | support that can be cleanly separated into a separate conditionally compiled |
| - | file is at least worth a look. Special-case code in the body of an applet is |
| - | something we're trying to avoid.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="tips">Programming tips and tricks.</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Various things busybox uses that aren't particularly well documented |
| - | elsewhere.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="tips_encrypted_passwords">Encrypted Passwords</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Password fields in /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow are in a special format. |
| - | If the first character isn't '$', then it's an old DES style password. If |
| - | the first character is '$' then the password is actually three fields |
| - | separated by '$' characters:</p> |
| - | <pre> |
| - | <b>$type$salt$encrypted_password</b> |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The "type" indicates which encryption algorithm to use: 1 for MD5 and 2 for SHA1.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The "salt" is a bunch of ramdom characters (generally 8) the encryption |
| - | algorithm uses to perturb the password in a known and reproducible way (such |
| - | as by appending the random data to the unencrypted password, or combining |
| - | them with exclusive or). Salt is randomly generated when setting a password, |
| - | and then the same salt value is re-used when checking the password. (Salt is |
| - | thus stored unencrypted.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The advantage of using salt is that the same cleartext password encrypted |
| - | with a different salt value produces a different encrypted value. |
| - | If each encrypted password uses a different salt value, an attacker is forced |
| - | to do the cryptographic math all over again for each password they want to |
| - | check. Without salt, they could simply produce a big dictionary of commonly |
| - | used passwords ahead of time, and look up each password in a stolen password |
| - | file to see if it's a known value. (Even if there are billions of possible |
| - | passwords in the dictionary, checking each one is just a binary search against |
| - | a file only a few gigabytes long.) With salt they can't even tell if two |
| - | different users share the same password without guessing what that password |
| - | is and decrypting it. They also can't precompute the attack dictionary for |
| - | a specific password until they know what the salt value is.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The third field is the encrypted password (plus the salt). For md5 this |
| - | is 22 bytes.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The busybox function to handle all this is pw_encrypt(clear, salt) in |
| - | "libbb/pw_encrypt.c". The first argument is the clear text password to be |
| - | encrypted, and the second is a string in "$type$salt$password" format, from |
| - | which the "type" and "salt" fields will be extracted to produce an encrypted |
| - | value. (Only the first two fields are needed, the third $ is equivalent to |
| - | the end of the string.) The return value is an encrypted password in |
| - | /etc/passwd format, with all three $ separated fields. It's stored in |
| - | a static buffer, 128 bytes long.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>So when checking an existing password, if pw_encrypt(text, |
| - | old_encrypted_password) returns a string that compares identical to |
| - | old_encrypted_password, you've got the right password. When setting a new |
| - | password, generate a random 8 character salt string, put it in the right |
| - | format with sprintf(buffer, "$%c$%s", type, salt), and feed buffer as the |
| - | second argument to pw_encrypt(text,buffer).</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="tips_vfork">Fork and vfork</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>On systems that haven't got a Memory Management Unit, fork() is unreasonably |
| - | expensive to implement (and sometimes even impossible), so a less capable |
| - | function called vfork() is used instead. (Using vfork() on a system with an |
| - | MMU is like pounding a nail with a wrench. Not the best tool for the job, but |
| - | it works.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox hides the difference between fork() and vfork() in |
| - | libbb/bb_fork_exec.c. If you ever want to fork and exec, use bb_fork_exec() |
| - | (which returns a pid and takes the same arguments as execve(), although in |
| - | this case envp can be NULL) and don't worry about it. This description is |
| - | here in case you want to know why that does what it does.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Implementing fork() depends on having a Memory Management Unit. With an |
| - | MMU then you can simply set up a second set of page tables and share the |
| - | physical memory via copy-on-write. So a fork() followed quickly by exec() |
| - | only copies a few pages of the parent's memory, just the ones it changes |
| - | before freeing them.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>With a very primitive MMU (using a base pointer plus length instead of page |
| - | tables, which can provide virtual addresses and protect processes from each |
| - | other, but no copy on write) you can still implement fork. But it's |
| - | unreasonably expensive, because you have to copy all the parent process' |
| - | memory into the new process (which could easily be several megabytes per fork). |
| - | And you have to do this even though that memory gets freed again as soon as the |
| - | exec happens. (This is not just slow and a waste of space but causes memory |
| - | usage spikes that can easily cause the system to run out of memory.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Without even a primitive MMU, you have no virtual addresses. Every process |
| - | can reach out and touch any other process' memory, because all pointers are to |
| - | physical addresses with no protection. Even if you copy a process' memory to |
| - | new physical addresses, all of its pointers point to the old objects in the |
| - | old process. (Searching through the new copy's memory for pointers and |
| - | redirect them to the new locations is not an easy problem.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>So with a primitive or missing MMU, fork() is just not a good idea.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>In theory, vfork() is just a fork() that writeably shares the heap and stack |
| - | rather than copying it (so what one process writes the other one sees). In |
| - | practice, vfork() has to suspend the parent process until the child does exec, |
| - | at which point the parent wakes up and resumes by returning from the call to |
| - | vfork(). All modern kernel/libc combinations implement vfork() to put the |
| - | parent to sleep until the child does its exec. There's just no other way to |
| - | make it work: the parent has to know the child has done its exec() or exit() |
| - | before it's safe to return from the function it's in, so it has to block |
| - | until that happens. In fact without suspending the parent there's no way to |
| - | even store separate copies of the return value (the pid) from the vfork() call |
| - | itself: both assignments write into the same memory location.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>One way to understand (and in fact implement) vfork() is this: imagine |
| - | the parent does a setjmp and then continues on (pretending to be the child) |
| - | until the exec() comes around, then the _exec_ does the actual fork, and the |
| - | parent does a longjmp back to the original vfork call and continues on from |
| - | there. (It thus becomes obvious why the child can't return, or modify |
| - | local variables it doesn't want the parent to see changed when it resumes.) |
| - | |
| - | <p>Note a common mistake: the need for vfork doesn't mean you can't have two |
| - | processes running at the same time. It means you can't have two processes |
| - | sharing the same memory without stomping all over each other. As soon as |
| - | the child calls exec(), the parent resumes.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>If the child's attempt to call exec() fails, the child should call _exit() |
| - | rather than a normal exit(). This avoids any atexit() code that might confuse |
| - | the parent. (The parent should never call _exit(), only a vforked child that |
| - | failed to exec.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>(Now in theory, a nommu system could just copy the _stack_ when it forks |
| - | (which presumably is much shorter than the heap), and leave the heap shared. |
| - | Even with no MMU at all |
| - | In practice, you've just wound up in a multi-threaded situation and you can't |
| - | do a malloc() or free() on your heap without freeing the other process' memory |
| - | (and if you don't have the proper locking for being threaded, corrupting the |
| - | heap if both of you try to do it at the same time and wind up stomping on |
| - | each other while traversing the free memory lists). The thing about vfork is |
| - | that it's a big red flag warning "there be dragons here" rather than |
| - | something subtle and thus even more dangerous.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="tips_sort_read">Short reads and writes</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox has special functions, bb_full_read() and bb_full_write(), to |
| - | check that all the data we asked for got read or written. Is this a real |
| - | world consideration? Try the following:</p> |
| - | |
| - | <pre>while true; do echo hello; sleep 1; done | tee out.txt</pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>If tee is implemented with bb_full_read(), tee doesn't display output |
| - | in real time but blocks until its entire input buffer (generally a couple |
| - | kilobytes) is read, then displays it all at once. In that case, we _want_ |
| - | the short read, for user interface reasons. (Note that read() should never |
| - | return 0 unless it has hit the end of input, and an attempt to write 0 |
| - | bytes should be ignored by the OS.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>As for short writes, play around with two processes piping data to each |
| - | other on the command line (cat bigfile | gzip > out.gz) and suspend and |
| - | resume a few times (ctrl-z to suspend, "fg" to resume). The writer can |
| - | experience short writes, which are especially dangerous because if you don't |
| - | notice them you'll discard data. They can also happen when a system is under |
| - | load and a fast process is piping to a slower one. (Such as an xterm waiting |
| - | on x11 when the scheduler decides X is being a CPU hog with all that |
| - | text console scrolling...)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>So will data always be read from the far end of a pipe at the |
| - | same chunk sizes it was written in? Nope. Don't rely on that. For one |
| - | counterexample, see <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc896.html">rfc 896 |
| - | for Nagle's algorithm</a>, which waits a fraction of a second or so before |
| - | sending out small amounts of data through a TCP/IP connection in case more |
| - | data comes in that can be merged into the same packet. (In case you were |
| - | wondering why action games that use TCP/IP set TCP_NODELAY to lower the latency |
| - | on their their sockets, now you know.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="tips_memory">Memory used by relocatable code, PIC, and static linking.</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The downside of standard dynamic linking is that it results in self-modifying |
| - | code. Although each executable's pages are mmaped() into a process' address |
| - | space from the executable file and are thus naturally shared between processes |
| - | out of the page cache, the library loader (ld-linux.so.2 or ld-uClibc.so.0) |
| - | writes to these pages to supply addresses for relocatable symbols. This |
| - | dirties the pages, triggering copy-on-write allocation of new memory for each |
| - | processes' dirtied pages.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>One solution to this is Position Independent Code (PIC), a way of linking |
| - | a file so all the relocations are grouped together. This dirties fewer |
| - | pages (often just a single page) for each process' relocations. The down |
| - | side is this results in larger executables, which take up more space on disk |
| - | (and a correspondingly larger space in memory). But when many copies of the |
| - | same program are running, PIC dynamic linking trades a larger disk footprint |
| - | for a smaller memory footprint, by sharing more pages.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>A third solution is static linking. A statically linked program has no |
| - | relocations, and thus the entire executable is shared between all running |
| - | instances. This tends to have a significantly larger disk footprint, but |
| - | on a system with only one or two executables, shared libraries aren't much |
| - | of a win anyway.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>You can tell the glibc linker to display debugging information about its |
| - | relocations with the environment variable "LD_DEBUG". Try |
| - | "LD_DEBUG=help /bin/true" for a list of commands. Learning to interpret |
| - | "LD_DEBUG=statistics cat /proc/self/statm" could be interesting.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>For more on this topic, here's Rich Felker:</p> |
| - | <blockquote> |
| - | <p>Dynamic linking (without fixed load addresses) fundamentally requires |
| - | at least one dirty page per dso that uses symbols. Making calls (but |
| - | never taking the address explicitly) to functions within the same dso |
| - | does not require a dirty page by itself, but will with ELF unless you |
| - | use -Bsymbolic or hidden symbols when linking.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>ELF uses significant additional stack space for the kernel to pass all |
| - | the ELF data structures to the newly created process image. These are |
| - | located above the argument list and environment. This normally adds 1 |
| - | dirty page to the process size.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The ELF dynamic linker has its own data segment, adding one or more |
| - | dirty pages. I believe it also performs relocations on itself.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The ELF dynamic linker makes significant dynamic allocations to manage |
| - | the global symbol table and the loaded dso's. This data is never |
| - | freed. It will be needed again if libdl is used, so unconditionally |
| - | freeing it is not possible, but normal programs do not use libdl. Of |
| - | course with glibc all programs use libdl (due to nsswitch) so the |
| - | issue was never addressed.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>ELF also has the issue that segments are not page-aligned on disk. |
| - | This saves up to 4k on disk, but at the expense of using an additional |
| - | dirty page in most cases, due to a large portion of the first data |
| - | page being filled with a duplicate copy of the last text page.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The above is just a partial list of the tiny memory penalties of ELF |
| - | dynamic linking, which eventually add up to quite a bit. The smallest |
| - | I've been able to get a process down to is 8 dirty pages, and the |
| - | above factors seem to mostly account for it (but some were difficult |
| - | to measure).</p> |
| - | </blockquote> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="tips_kernel_headers"></a>Including kernel headers</h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The "linux" or "asm" directories of /usr/include |
| - | contain Linux kernel |
| - | headers, so that the C library can talk directly to the Linux kernel. In |
| - | a perfect world, applications shouldn't include these headers directly, but |
| - | we don't live in a perfect world.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>For example, Busybox's losetup code wants linux/loop.c because nothing else |
| - | #defines the structures to call the kernel's loopback device setup ioctls. |
| - | Attempts to cut and paste the information into a local busybox header file |
| - | proved incredibly painful, because portions of the loop_info structure vary by |
| - | architecture, namely the type __kernel_dev_t has different sizes on alpha, |
| - | arm, x86, and so on. Meaning we either #include <linux/posix_types.h> or |
| - | we hardwire #ifdefs to check what platform we're building on and define this |
| - | type appropriately for every single hardware architecture supported by |
| - | Linux, which is simply unworkable.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This is aside from the fact that the relevant type defined in |
| - | posix_types.h was renamed to __kernel_old_dev_t during the 2.5 series, so |
| - | to cut and paste the structure into our header we have to #include |
| - | <linux/version.h> to figure out which name to use. (What we actually |
| - | do is |
| - | check if we're building on 2.6, and if so just use the new 64 bit structure |
| - | instead to avoid the rename entirely.) But we still need the version |
| - | check, since 2.4 didn't have the 64 bit structure.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The BusyBox developers spent <u>two years</u> trying to figure |
| - | out a clean way to do all this. There isn't one. The losetup in the |
| - | util-linux package from kernel.org isn't doing it cleanly either, they just |
| - | hide the ugliness by nesting #include files. Their mount/loop.h |
| - | #includes "my_dev_t.h", which #includes <linux/posix_types.h> |
| - | and <linux/version.h> just like we do. There simply is no alternative. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Just because directly #including kernel headers is sometimes |
| - | unavoidable doesn't me we should include them when there's a better |
| - | way to do it. However, block copying information out of the kernel headers |
| - | is not a better way.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <hr /> |
| - | <h2><a name="who">Who are the BusyBox developers?</a></h2> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The following login accounts currently exist on busybox.net. (I.E. these |
| - | people can commit <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/patches/">patches</a> |
| - | into subversion for the BusyBox, uClibc, and buildroot projects.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <pre> |
| - | aldot :Bernhard Reutner-Fischer |
| - | andersen :Erik Andersen - uClibc and BuildRoot maintainer. |
| - | bug1 :Glenn McGrath |
| - | davidm :David McCullough |
| - | gkajmowi :Garrett Kajmowicz - uClibc++ maintainer |
| - | jbglaw :Jan-Benedict Glaw |
| - | jocke :Joakim Tjernlund |
| - | landley :Rob Landley |
| - | lethal :Paul Mundt |
| - | mjn3 :Manuel Novoa III |
| - | osuadmin :osuadmin |
| - | pgf :Paul Fox |
| - | pkj :Peter Kjellerstedt |
| - | prpplague :David Anders |
| - | psm :Peter S. Mazinger |
| - | russ :Russ Dill |
| - | sandman :Robert Griebl |
| - | sjhill :Steven J. Hill |
| - | solar :Ned Ludd |
| - | timr :Tim Riker |
| - | tobiasa :Tobias Anderberg |
| - | vapier :Mike Frysinger |
| - | vda :Denys Vlasenko - BusyBox maintainer |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The following accounts used to exist on busybox.net, but don't anymore so |
| - | I can't ask /etc/passwd for their names. Rob Wentworth |
| - | <robwen at gmail.com> asked Google and recovered the names:</p> |
| - | |
| - | <pre> |
| - | aaronl :Aaron Lehmann |
| - | beppu :John Beppu |
| - | dwhedon :David Whedon |
| - | erik :Erik Andersen |
| - | gfeldman :Gennady Feldman |
| - | jimg :Jim Gleason |
| - | kraai :Matt Kraai |
| - | markw :Mark Whitley |
| - | miles :Miles Bader |
| - | proski :Pavel Roskin |
| - | rjune :Richard June |
| - | tausq :Randolph Chung |
| - | vodz :Vladimir N. Oleynik |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
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| - | <h3>BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</h3> |
| - | |
| - | <p>BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single |
| - | small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you |
| - | usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox |
| - | generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, |
| - | the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave |
| - | very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete |
| - | environment for any small or embedded system.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in |
| - | mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude |
| - | commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize |
| - | your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device |
| - | nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>BusyBox is maintained by |
| - | <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Denys Vlasenko</a>, |
| - | and licensed under the <a href="license.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a> |
| - | version 2.</p> |
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| - | <h3>Prerequisites</h3> |
| - | <p> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>Send several <em>sensible</em> patches to the <a href="lists.html" title="Mailing list">Mailing list</a>.</li> |
| - | <li>Help <em>users</em>, answer their questions, guide them, be helpful and friendly.</li> |
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| - | <h3>Morris Dancing</h3> |
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| - | <p>Subversion commit access requires an account on Morris. The server |
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| - | with.</p> |
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| - | <p>Once you are setup with an account, you will need to use your account to |
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| - | git push -v --thin |
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| - | <p>For additional detail on how to use |
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| - | <p>A morris account also gives you a personal web page |
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| - | course a shell prompt you can ssh into (as a regular user, root access is |
| - | reserved for folks doing maintenancy stuff only). But keep in mind an |
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| - | Source for the latest release can always be |
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| - | <p> |
| - | Latest releases and patch directories for each branch: |
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| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">1.10.1</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>, |
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| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>, |
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| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>, |
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| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>, |
| - | <br> |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.2.tar.bz2">1.6.2</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.2/">patches</a>, |
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| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>, |
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| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2">1.4.2</a>, |
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| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2">1.3.2</a>, |
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| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><a href="about.html">About BusyBox</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="screenshot.html">Screenshot</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="news.html">Announcements</a></li> |
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| - | <b>Documentation</b> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><a href="FAQ.html">FAQ</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="downloads/BusyBox.html">Command Help</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a></li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | <b>Get BusyBox</b> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><a href="download.html">Download Source</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="license.html">License</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="products.html">Products</a></li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | <b>Development</b> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/trunk/busybox/">Browse Source</a></li> |
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| - | <li><a href="https://bugs.busybox.net/">Bug Tracking</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="developer.html">Contributing</a></li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | <p><b>Links</b> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><a href="links.html">Related Sites</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="tinyutils.html">Tiny Utilities</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="sponsors.html">Sponsors</a></li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | <p><b>Developer Pages</b> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><a href="http://busybox.net/~landley/">Rob</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="http://busybox.net/~aldot/">Bernhard</a></li> |
| - | <li><a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/">Denys</a> |
| - | <br>- <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/resume/denys_vlasenko.htm">resume</a> |
| - | <br>- <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/mboot/">mboot</a> |
| - | <br>- <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/linld/">linld</a> |
| - | <br>- <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/init_vs_runsv.html">init must die</a> |
| - | <br>- <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/no_ifup.txt">no ifup</a> |
| - | <br>- <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/unscd/">unscd</a> |
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| - | <h3><a name="license">BusyBox is licensed under the GNU General Public License, version 2</a></h3> |
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| - | <p>BusyBox is licensed under <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html#SEC1">the |
| - | GNU General Public License</a> version 2, which is often abbreviated as GPLv2. |
| - | (This is the same license the Linux kernel is under, so you may be somewhat |
| - | familiar with it by now.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>A complete copy of the license text is included in the file LICENSE in |
| - | the BusyBox source code.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p><a href="products.html">Anyone thinking of shipping BusyBox as part of a |
| - | product</a> should be familiar with the licensing terms under which they are |
| - | allowed to use and distribute BusyBox. Read the full test of the GPL (either |
| - | through the above link, or in the file LICENSE in the busybox tarball), and |
| - | also read the <a href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html">Frequently |
| - | Asked Questions about the GPL</a>.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Basically, if you distribute GPL software the license requires that you also |
| - | distribute the source code to that GPL-licensed software. So if you distribute |
| - | BusyBox without making the source code to the version you distribute available, |
| - | you violate the license terms, and thus infringe on the copyrights of BusyBox. |
| - | (This requirement applies whether or not you modified BusyBox; either way the |
| - | license terms still apply to you.) Read the license text for the details.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <h3><a name="version">A note on GPL versions</a></h3> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Version 2 of the GPL is the only version of the GPL which current versions |
| - | of BusyBox may be distributed under. New code added to the tree is licensed |
| - | GPL version 2, and the project's license is GPL version 2.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Older versions of BusyBox (versions 1.2.2 and earlier, up through about svn |
| - | 16112) included variants of the recommended |
| - | "GPL version 2 or (at your option) later versions" boilerplate |
| - | permission grant. Ancient versions of BusyBox |
| - | (before svn 49) did not specify any version at all, and section 9 of GPLv2 |
| - | (the most recent version at that time) says those old versions may be |
| - | redistributed under any version of GPL (including the obsolete V1). This was |
| - | conceptually similar to a dual license, except that the different licenses were |
| - | different versions of the GPL.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>However, BusyBox has apparently always contained chunks of code that were |
| - | licensed under GPL version 2 only. Examples include applets written by Linus |
| - | Torvalds (util-linux/mkfs_minix.c and util_linux/mkswap.c) which stated they |
| - | "may be redistributed as per the Linux copyright" (which Linus |
| - | clarified in the |
| - | 2.4.0-pre8 release announcement in 2000 was GPLv2 only), and Linux kernel code |
| - | copied into libbb/loop.c (after Linus's announcement). There are probably |
| - | more, because all we used to check was that the code was GPL, not which |
| - | version. (Before the GPLv3 draft proceedings in 2006, it was a purely |
| - | theoretical issue that didn't come up much.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>To summarize: every version of BusyBox may be distributed under the terms of |
| - | GPL version 2. New versions (after 1.2.2) may <b>only</b> be distributed under |
| - | GPLv2, not under other versions of the GPL. Older versions of BusyBox might |
| - | (or might not) be distributable under other versions of the GPL. If you |
| - | want to use a GPL version other than 2, you should start with one of the old |
| - | versions such as release 1.2.2 or SVN 16112, and do your own homework to |
| - | identify and remove any code that can't be licensed under the GPL version you |
| - | want to use. New development is all GPLv2.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <h3><a name="enforce">License enforcement</a></h3> |
| - | |
| - | <p>BusyBox's copyrights are enforced by the <a |
| - | href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org/">Software Freedom Law Center</a> |
| - | (you can contact them at [email protected]), which |
| - | "accepts primary responsibility for enforcement of US copyrights on the |
| - | software... and coordinates international copyright enforcement efforts for |
| - | such works as necessary." If you distribute BusyBox in a way that doesn't |
| - | comply with the terms of the license BusyBox is distributed under, expect to |
| - | hear from these guys. Their entire reason for existing is to do pro-bono |
| - | legal work for free/open source software projects. (We used to list people who |
| - | violate the BusyBox license in <a href="shame.html">The Hall of Shame</a>, |
| - | but these days we find it much more effective to hand them over to the |
| - | lawyers.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Our enforcement efforts are aimed at bringing people into compliance with |
| - | the BusyBox license. Open source software is under a different license from |
| - | proprietary software, but if you violate that license you're still a software |
| - | pirate and the law gives the vendor (us) some big sticks to play with. We |
| - | don't want monetary awards, injunctions, or to generate bad PR for a company, |
| - | unless that's the only way to get somebody that repeatedly ignores us to comply |
| - | with the license on our code.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <h3><a name="good">A Good Example</a></h3> |
| - | |
| - | <p>These days, <a href="http://www.linksys.com/">Linksys</a> is |
| - | doing a good job at complying with the GPL, they get to be an |
| - | example of how to do things right. Please take a moment and |
| - | check out what they do with |
| - | <a href="http://www.linksys.com/servlet/Satellite?c=L_Content_C1&childpagename=US%2FLayout&cid=1115416836002&pagename=Linksys%2FCommon%2FVisitorWrapper"> |
| - | distributing the firmware for their WRT54G Router.</a> |
| - | Following their example would be a fine way to ensure that you |
| - | have also fulfilled your licensing obligations.</p> |
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| - | <br><a href="http://cxx.uclibc.org/">uClibc++</a> |
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| - | <br><a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a> |
| - | <br><a href="http://www.scratchbox.org/">Scratchbox</a> |
| - | <br><a href="http://openembedded.org/">OpenEmbedded</a> |
| - | <br><a href="http://www.ucdot.org/">uCdot</a> |
| - | <br><a href="http://www.linuxdevices.com/">LinuxDevices</a> |
| - | <br><a href="http://slashdot.org/">Slashdot</a> |
| - | <br><a href="http://freshmeat.net/">Freshmeat</a> |
| - | <br><a href="http://linuxtoday.com/">Linux Today</a> |
| - | <br><a href="http://lwn.net/">Linux Weekly News</a> |
| - | <br><a href="http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO">Linux HOWTOs</a> |
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| - | BusyBox has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> for discussion and |
| - | development. You can subscribe by visiting |
| - | <a href="http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>. |
| - | Only subscribers to the BusyBox mailing list are allowed to post |
| - | to this list. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | There is also a mailing list for <a href="/lists/busybox-cvs/">active developers</a> |
| - | wishing to read the complete diff of each and every change to busybox -- not for the |
| - | faint of heart. Active developers can subscribe by visiting |
| - | <a href="http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox-cvs">this page</a>. |
| - | The Subversion server is the only one permtted to post to this list. And yes, |
| - | this list name uses the word 'cvs' even though we don't use that anymore... |
| - | |
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| - | |
| - | <h3>Search the List Archives</h3> |
| - | Please search the mailing list archives before asking questions on the mailing |
| - | list, since there is a good chance someone else has asked the same question |
| - | before. Checking the archives is a great way to avoid annoying everyone on the |
| - | list with frequently asked questions... |
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| - | <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html"> |
| - | TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided |
| - | a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start"> |
| - | Blackfin development board</a> free of charge. |
| - | <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a> |
| - | is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable. |
| - | If you are an embedded device developer, |
| - | please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available |
| - | for download for this board. Visit |
| - | <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a> |
| - | for more information. |
| - | </li> |
| - | </ul> |
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| - | |
| - | <li><b>15 April 2009 -- BusyBox 1.14.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.13.4 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.14.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.14.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_14_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.14.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.4</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.4/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Sizes of busybox-1.13.4 and busybox-1.14.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| - | text data bss dec hex filename |
| - | 785501 483 7036 793020 c19bc busybox.1.13.4/busybox |
| - | 788380 467 6960 795807 c249f busybox.1.14.0/busybox |
| - | 15361 0 0 15361 3c01 busybox.1.13.4/shell/hush.o |
| - | 20724 0 0 20724 50f4 busybox.1.14.0/shell/hush.o |
| - | </pre> |
| - | <p>Most of growth is in hush. The rest shrank a bit. |
| - | |
| - | <p>New applets: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>flash_eraseall: by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (bigeasy AT linutronix.de)</li> |
| - | <li>acpid, mkdosfs, tunctl: by Vladimir</li> |
| - | <li>ftpd: by Adam Tkac (vonsch AT gmail.com)</li> |
| - | <li>timeout: by Roberto Foglietta</li> |
| - | <li>ionice: adapted from Linux kernel example by Walter Harms</li> |
| - | <li>mkpasswd: synonym to cryptpw. mkpasswd is in Debian, OTOH cryptpw was added to busybox earlier. Trying to make both camps happy by making those two applets just aliases. They are command-line compatible</li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Changes since previous release: |
| - | |
| - | <p>lash and msh are deprecated, please migrate to hush. |
| - | |
| - | <p>hush had many, many fixes and features added: here documents, arithmetic evaluation, function support, and all this works on NOMMU too, safely, including 100kb-sized `command` and here documents. Here document support, arithmetic evaluation, improved ${var} operations, other fixes are by Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org). |
| - | |
| - | <p>Other changes: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>libbb: unify concurrent-safe update of /etc/{passwd,group,[g]shadow}. By Tito (farmatito AT tiscali.it)</li> |
| - | <li>libbb/sha{1,256,512}: major code shrink</li> |
| - | <li>libbb/lineedit: make history saving/loading concurrent-safe</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: shrink linked list ops. By xmaks AT email.cz</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: str2sockaddr should accept [IPv6] addr without port - wget 'ftp://[::1]/file' needs that to work</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: make bb_info_msg do atomic, unbuffered writes</li> |
| - | <li>util-linux/volumeid: abort early on read failures. Should help with probing missing fdd's</li> |
| - | <li>util-linux/volumeid: fix bug 249 "findfs finds the wrong partition"</li> |
| - | <li>adduser: allow adding to group 0; don't _create_ /etc/shadow, only append data if it exists</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix mishandled ^C and SIGINT (several cases)</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix "ash -c 'exec 1>&0'" complaining that fd 0 is busy</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix $IFS handling in read. Closes bug 235</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix a case where we were closing wrong descriptor</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix bad interaction between ash -c '....&' and bash compat</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix miscalculation of memory needed for eval tree. Found by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)</li> |
| - | <li>ash: make dot command search current directory first, as bash does</li> |
| - | <li>ash: printf builtin with no arguments should not exit</li> |
| - | <li>awk: fix long field separators case. By Ian Wienand (ianw AT vmware.com)</li> |
| - | <li>awk: in BEGIN section $0 should be "", not "0"</li> |
| - | <li>awk: make "struct global" hack more robust wrt alignment. Closes bug 131</li> |
| - | <li>brctl: fix compilation on 2.4.x kernels</li> |
| - | <li>chat: treat timeout more correctly</li> |
| - | <li>chat: recognize RECORD directive</li> |
| - | <li>cksum, head, printenv: report errors via exitcode</li> |
| - | <li>cpio: add -p, -0 and -L options</li> |
| - | <li>crond, crontab: make cron directory location configurable</li> |
| - | <li>crond: correct more of logfile to 0666 (as usual, umask allows user to remove unwanted bits)</li> |
| - | <li>crond: put tasks in separate process groups</li> |
| - | <li>dc: fix the "base 2" patch omission of base not being set</li> |
| - | <li>depmod: accept and ignore -r. Linux kernel build needs this</li> |
| - | <li>depmod: fix -b option. By timo.teras AT iki.fi</li> |
| - | <li>udhcpc: fix a problem where we don't open listening socket fast enough</li> |
| - | <li>udhcpc: stop filtering environment passed to the script</li> |
| - | <li>udhcpd: disable option to have absolute lease times in lease file (that does not work with dumpleases)</li> |
| - | <li>udhcpd: write 64-bit current time in lease file. Without it, determination of remaining lease time is unreliable</li> |
| - | <li>udhcpd: remember hostnames of clients</li> |
| - | <li>dumpleases: fix -a option, use recorded current time in lease file, show hostnames</li> |
| - | <li>dnsd: fix a number of bugs. Ideas by Ming-Ching Tiew (mctiew AT yahoo.com)</li> |
| - | <li>dpkg: better and shorter code to compare versions. Taken from "official" dpkg by Eugene T. Bordenkircher (eugebo AT gmail.com)</li> |
| - | <li>du: fix "du /dir /dir" case</li> |
| - | <li>env: support -uVAR=VAL</li> |
| - | <li>expand, unexpand: fix incorrect expansion in some cases</li> |
| - | <li>expr: a bit more robust handling of regexps with groups. Closes bug 87</li> |
| - | <li>find: support --mindepth</li> |
| - | <li>getty: make speed 0 mean "don't change speed", stop using non-portable way of setting speeds</li> |
| - | <li>grep: support -z</li> |
| - | <li>gzip: fix gzip -dc bug caused by using stale getopt state</li> |
| - | <li>httpd: set $HOST to Host: header value. By Tobias Poschwatta (tp AT fonz.de)</li> |
| - | <li>ifupdown: allow options to udhcpc to be configurable from .config</li> |
| - | <li>init: do not eat last char in messages; do not print duplicate "init:" prefix to syslog</li> |
| - | <li>init: fix a bug where on reload order of entries might be wrong</li> |
| - | <li>init: major improvement in documentation and signal handling. Lots of nasty, but hard to trip, races are fixed</li> |
| - | <li>init: reinstate proper handling of !ENABLE_FEATURE_USE_INITTAB</li> |
| - | <li>init: remove wait loop on restart, it may be dangerous</li> |
| - | <li>init: test for vt terminal with VT_OPENQRY, assume that anything else is TERM=vt102, not TERM=linux. Closes bug 195</li> |
| - | <li>inotifyd: add x, o, and u events</li> |
| - | <li>inotifyd: fix buffer overflow and "unreaped zombies" problem</li> |
| - | <li>inotifyd: conserve resourses by closing unused inotify descriptors</li> |
| - | <li>insmod/modprobe: do not pass NULL to kernel as module parameter</li> |
| - | <li>ip: in "ip rule add from all table 1", "all" is taken as 0.0.0.0/32, whereas "any" and "default" would be 0.0.0.0/0. They must be all 0.0.0.0/0. Closes bug 57</li> |
| - | <li>iproute: fix ipXXX utilities trying to parse their applet name as their 1st parameter</li> |
| - | <li>klogctl: fix a problem where we don't terminate read data with '\0' and then misinterpret it</li> |
| - | <li>ls: do not follow links with -s. Closes bug 33</li> |
| - | <li>ls: implement -Q and -g (-g was accepted but ignored)</li> |
| - | <li>ls: make readlink error to not disrupt output (try ls -l /proc/self/fd)</li> |
| - | <li>man: better check for duplicated MANPATH</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: add support for - ("dont stop here") char</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: if /sys/class/block exists, don't scan /sys/block</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: ignore events with "$SUBSYSTEM" == "firmware" && "$ACTION" == "remove"</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: provide $SUBSYSTEM. By Vladimir</li> |
| - | <li>modprobe/insmod for 2.4: support compressed modules. By Guenter (lists AT gknw.net)</li> |
| - | <li>modprobe: rework/speedup by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)</li> |
| - | <li>modutils-24: fix bad interaction of xzalloc with xrealloc_vector</li> |
| - | <li>mount: support "-O option", stop trying to mount swap partitions, fix CIFS support</li> |
| - | <li>mountpoint: add -n option. By Vladimir</li> |
| - | <li>nslookup: allow usage of IPv6 addresses or hostnames for DNS server name; allow for port specification. Tested to work on uclibc svn: "nslookup google.com [::1]:5353". glibc + IPv6 address of DNS server still does not work</li> |
| - | <li>popmaildir: fix several grave bugs with using memory past end of malloc block</li> |
| - | <li>printf: fix 1.12.0 breakage (from %*d fix), it was misinterpreting "*"</li> |
| - | <li>printf: make integer format strings print long long-sized values</li> |
| - | <li>rmmod: fix bug 263 "modutils/rmmod can't remove modules with dash in name on 2.4 kernels"</li> |
| - | <li>sendmail: document and fix usage of fd #4, fix check for helper failure</li> |
| - | <li>sendmail: update by Vladimir</li> |
| - | <li>seq: add -w support. By Natanael Copa</li> |
| - | <li>seq: add support for "-s separator"</li> |
| - | <li>stat: make stat -f show filesystem "ID:" as coreutils does</li> |
| - | <li>sysctl: fix another corner case with "dots and slashes"</li> |
| - | <li>sysctl: fix broken -p [file]. Closes bug 231</li> |
| - | <li>sysctl: support recursing if name is a directory: "sysctl net.ipv4.conf". Patch by xmaks AT email.cz</li> |
| - | <li>syslogd: make signal handling syncronous</li> |
| - | <li>syslogd: create logfile with 0666 (affected by umask as usual), not 0600</li> |
| - | <li>tail: fix tail +N syntax not working. Closes bug 221</li> |
| - | <li>tar: do not change new tarfile's mode, GNU tar doesn't do it</li> |
| - | <li>tar: support GNU tar's "base256" encoding</li> |
| - | <li>telnetd: correctly output 0xff char</li> |
| - | <li>telnetd: do not advertise TELNET_LFLOW, we do not support it properly</li> |
| - | <li>tftp: when we infer local name from remote (-r [/]path/path/file), strip path. This mimics wget and is generally more intuitive</li> |
| - | <li>timeout: fix parsing of -t NUM on MMU</li> |
| - | <li>top: make it work again on 2.4 kernels. Closes bug 125</li> |
| - | <li>tr: fix overflow in expand and complement, fix stop after [:class:], fix handling of ranges and [x]'s</li> |
| - | <li>tr: support -C as synonym to -c, support [:xdigit:]</li> |
| - | <li>traceroute: rewrite. Do not emit raw IP packets, instead send UDP or ICMP packets and rely on the kernel to form IP headers, select source IP and interface</li> |
| - | <li>uname: add support for -i and -o, fix printing of unknown -p value with -a option, support long options</li> |
| - | <li>unzip: fix thinko with le/be conv and size. Closes bug 129</li> |
| - | <li>vi: fix several instances of major goof: when text grows, text[] might get reallocated! We were keeping around pointers to old place</li> |
| - | <li>vi: speedup and code shrink. By Walter Harms</li> |
| - | <li>wget: --post-data support. By Harald Kuthe (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li> |
| - | <li>wget: fix --header handling, more robust EINTR detection</li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>8 March 2009 -- BusyBox 1.13.3 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.3</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.3/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>1.13.3 is a bug fix release. It has fixes for awk, depmod, init, killall, mdev, |
| - | modprobe, printf, syslogd, tar, top, unzip, wget. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>31 December 2008 -- BusyBox 1.13.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.12.4 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.2</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.2/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.4</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.4/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Bug fix releases. 1.13.2 has fixes for crond, dc, init, ip, printf. |
| - | 1.12.4 has fixes for ip and printf. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>29 November 2008 -- BusyBox 1.13.1 (stable), BusyBox 1.12.3 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.1/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.3</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.3/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Bug fix releases. 1.13.1 has fixes for ash, option parsing, id, init, |
| - | inotifyd, klogd, line editing and modprobe. 1.12.3 has fixes |
| - | for option parsing and line editing. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>10 November 2008 -- BusyBox 1.13.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.12.2 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.13.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.13.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_13_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.13.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.2</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.2/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Sizes of busybox-1.12.2 and busybox-1.13.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| - | text data bss dec hex filename |
| - | 778291 551 7856 786698 c010a busybox-1.12.2/busybox |
| - | 778981 551 7852 787384 c03b8 busybox-1.13.0/busybox |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>New applets: blkid, devmem |
| - | |
| - | <p>Changes since previous release: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>mail applets: total overhaul. Vladimir as usual</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix "while kill -0 $child; do true; done" looping forever</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix NOEXEC mode - we were forgetting to pass environment</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix a bug in standalone mode (corrupted getopt state)</li> |
| - | <li>ash: optionally support ">&file" and "&>file" redirections</li> |
| - | <li>awk: bitwise ops cast oprands and results to unsigned long, not signed. closes bug 4774</li> |
| - | <li>awk: fix typo in atan2 code. closes bug 5594</li> |
| - | <li>awk: improve handling of negative numbers in bitwise ops; fix handling of octal costants</li> |
| - | <li>awk: support hex constants</li> |
| - | <li>basename: fix error code (again)</li> |
| - | <li>cpio: emit TRAILER even when hard links were found. By Pascal Bellard (pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com)</li> |
| - | <li>crontab: do not destroy STDIN_FILENO, editor may need it (crontab -e)</li> |
| - | <li>dc: support for bases 2 and 8, by Nate Case (ncase AT xes-inc.com)</li> |
| - | <li>dhcpc: treat "discover...select...discover..." loop the same way as "discover...discover...discover..."</li> |
| - | <li>dpkg: add dpkg -l PACKAGE_PATTERN. By Peter Korsgaard</li> |
| - | <li>fbset: fix mode matching code: original code may trigger false positive.</li> |
| - | <li>findfs: fix LUKS and FAT detection routines; do not exit if corrupted FAT fs makes us try to seek past the end</li> |
| - | <li>grep: fix 'echo aaa | grep -o a' + ENABLE_EXTRA_COMPAT case. By Natanael Copa</li> |
| - | <li>grep: fix EXTRA_COMPAT grep to honor -E and -i</li> |
| - | <li>gunzip: restore mtime</li> |
| - | <li>halt: reinstate -w even if !FEATURE_WTMP</li> |
| - | <li>hexdump: fix SEGV in hexdump -e ""</li> |
| - | <li>httpd: pass "Accept:" and "Accept-Language:" header to CGI scripts (Alina Friedrichsen)</li> |
| - | <li>hush: fix environment and memory leaks</li> |
| - | <li>hush: fix trashing of environment by local env vars: a=a; a=b cmd; - a was unset</li> |
| - | <li>id: improve compatibility with coreutils. By Tito Ragusa</li> |
| - | <li>inetd: fix a case when we have zero services</li> |
| - | <li>inetd: use config parser. by Vladimir</li> |
| - | <li>init: set stderr to NONBLOCK</li> |
| - | <li>insmod: fix detection of open failure</li> |
| - | <li>install: support -D</li> |
| - | <li>ip: fix ip route rejecting dotted quads as prefix</li> |
| - | <li>ip: route metric support (Natanael Copa)</li> |
| - | <li>iplink: accept shorthands for "address" keyword: "ip link set address 00:11:22:33:44:55"</li> |
| - | <li>kbd_mode: support -C TTY</li> |
| - | <li>kill[all[5]]: accept -s SIG too. By Steve Bennett (steveb AT workware.net.au)</li> |
| - | <li>klogd: handle many lines at once. By Steve Bennett (steveb AT workware.net.au)</li> |
| - | <li>less: support -I to be able to search case-insensitively</li> |
| - | <li>less: add optional line number toggle and resizing on window resize</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: do not reject floating point strings like ".15"</li> |
| - | <li>lineedit: fix bug 5824 "since rev 23530 fdisk and ed don't work any more"</li> |
| - | <li>lineedit: fix problems with empty commands in history</li> |
| - | <li>login: fix /etc/nologin handling</li> |
| - | <li>man: fix inconsistencies in handling $MANPATH</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: support match by major,minor. See bug 4714</li> |
| - | <li>modprobe-small: make insmod command line compatible</li> |
| - | <li>modprobe-small: support "blacklist" keyword in /etc/modules/MODULE_NAME</li> |
| - | <li>modprobe: fix a segfault when modprobe is called with no arguments at all</li> |
| - | <li>modutils/*: rewrite by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)</li> |
| - | <li>mount: fix "-o parm1 -o parm2" not accumulating</li> |
| - | <li>nmeter: 4k buffers are too small for /proc files, make them dynamically sized with 16k upper limit</li> |
| - | <li>ping: SO_RCVBUF must be bigger than packet size, otherwise large ping packets might fail to be received</li> |
| - | <li>route: fix for 64-bit BE machines by Seonghun Lim (wariua AT gmail.com)</li> |
| - | <li>rpm: fix incompatibilities which prevented rpm -i foo.src.rpm</li> |
| - | <li>runsvdir: support runsvdir-as-init</li> |
| - | <li>setarch: do not try to use non-existent data in argv[]</li> |
| - | <li>setfont: support -m and -C, support -m TEXTUAL_MAP (by Vladimir)</li> |
| - | <li>setup_environment: cd $HOME regardless of clear_env value</li> |
| - | <li>slattach: preserve speed in non-raw mode. By Matthieu Castet (matthieu.castet AT parrot.com)</li> |
| - | <li>start_stop_daemon: accept (and ignore) -R PARAM</li> |
| - | <li>sv: make default service dir configurable (Vladimir wants it)</li> |
| - | <li>sysctl: fix bug 3894 (by Kryzhanovskyy Maksym)</li> |
| - | <li>tar: fix bug 3844: non-root tar does not preserve perms</li> |
| - | <li>telnetd: handle emacs M-DEL and IAC-NOP. by Jim Cathey (jcathey AT ciena.com)</li> |
| - | <li>top: fix "top -d 1" (bug 5144)</li> |
| - | <li>top: optional SMP support by Vineet Gupta (vineetg76 AT gmail.com)</li> |
| - | <li>trylink: make messages less confusing</li> |
| - | <li>unzip: handle "central directory". needed for OpenOffice, gmail attachment .zips etc</li> |
| - | <li>vi: Rob's algorithm of reading and matching ESC sequences (nice work btw!)</li> |
| - | <li>vi: deal with EOF/error on stdin and with input NULs</li> |
| - | <li>vi: fix uninitialized last_search_pattern (bug 5794)</li> |
| - | <li>vi: handle chars 0x80, 0x81 etc correctly</li> |
| - | <li>volume identification: abolish /proc/partitions and /proc/cdroms scanning. It does not catch volume managers and such. Simply scan /dev/* for any block devices</li> |
| - | <li>watchdog: WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT accepts seconds, not milliseconds</li> |
| - | <li>watchdog: add -T option</li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | <p> |
| - | The email address [email protected] is the recommended way to contact |
| - | the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>28 September 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.1 (stable), BusyBox 1.11.3 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.1/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.3</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.3/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Bugfix-only releases for 1.11.x and 1.12.x branches. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>21 August 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.11.2 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.12.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.12.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_12_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.12.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.2</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.2/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Sizes of busybox-1.11.2 and busybox-1.12.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| - | text data bss dec hex filename |
| - | 829687 617 7052 837356 cc6ec busybox-1.11.2/busybox |
| - | 822961 594 6832 830387 cabb3 busybox-1.12.0/busybox |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir) |
| - | |
| - | <p>Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression): |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"</li> |
| - | <li>ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd! </li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix segfault in "command -v"</li> |
| - | <li>ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator</li> |
| - | <li>ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading</li> |
| - | <li>ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before</li> |
| - | <li>hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all</li> |
| - | <li>hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not</li> |
| - | <li>hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case</li> |
| - | <li>hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites</li> |
| - | <li>hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code)</li> |
| - | <li>hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements</li> |
| - | <li>hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case</li> |
| - | <li>hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"')</li> |
| - | <li>hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets</li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Other changes: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364)</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174)</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help"</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)</li> |
| - | <li>lineedit: fix use-after-free</li> |
| - | <li>libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too</li> |
| - | <li>bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])</li> |
| - | <li>open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor</li> |
| - | <li>open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit</li> |
| - | <li>arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)</li> |
| - | <li>ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code</li> |
| - | <li>awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading. </li> |
| - | <li>build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op</li> |
| - | <li>bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)</li> |
| - | <li>b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)</li> |
| - | <li>comm: almost total rewrite</li> |
| - | <li>cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard)</li> |
| - | <li>cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files</li> |
| - | <li>cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG</li> |
| - | <li>cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k</li> |
| - | <li>cpio: support some long options</li> |
| - | <li>crond: use execlp instead of execl</li> |
| - | <li>cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544)</li> |
| - | <li>envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases</li> |
| - | <li>findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary</li> |
| - | <li>fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir)</li> |
| - | <li>fuser: a bit of safety in scanf</li> |
| - | <li>grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes</li> |
| - | <li>halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT</li> |
| - | <li>httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de</li> |
| - | <li>ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks</li> |
| - | <li>ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li> |
| - | <li>ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)</li> |
| - | <li>inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found</li> |
| - | <li>insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing</li> |
| - | <li>install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa)</li> |
| - | <li>install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584)</li> |
| - | <li>lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies</li> |
| - | <li>ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable</li> |
| - | <li>man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com</li> |
| - | <li>man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given</li> |
| - | <li>man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable</li> |
| - | <li>man: fix missed NULL termination of an array</li> |
| - | <li>man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode</li> |
| - | <li>man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de)</li> |
| - | <li>man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: support for serializing hotplug</li> |
| - | <li>mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization</li> |
| - | <li>mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)</li> |
| - | <li>modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)</li> |
| - | <li>modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()</li> |
| - | <li>modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one</li> |
| - | <li>mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"</li> |
| - | <li>mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)</li> |
| - | <li>mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime"</li> |
| - | <li>mount: testsuite for "-o mand"</li> |
| - | <li>msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884)</li> |
| - | <li>mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints</li> |
| - | <li>netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)</li> |
| - | <li>nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594)</li> |
| - | <li>od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104)</li> |
| - | <li>pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054)</li> |
| - | <li>printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214)</li> |
| - | <li>printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite</li> |
| - | <li>printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184)</li> |
| - | <li>sendmail: updates from Vladimir:</li> |
| - | <li>sendmail: do not discard all headers</li> |
| - | <li>sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes</li> |
| - | <li>sendmail: fixed mail recipient address</li> |
| - | <li>sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed</li> |
| - | <li>sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified</li> |
| - | <li>sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat)</li> |
| - | <li>ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too</li> |
| - | <li>ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore</li> |
| - | <li>ssd: fix -a without -x case</li> |
| - | <li>ssd: use $PATH</li> |
| - | <li>tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0</li> |
| - | <li>tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection</li> |
| - | <li>taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy</li> |
| - | <li>tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "")</li> |
| - | <li>tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way</li> |
| - | <li>telnetd: fix issue file printing</li> |
| - | <li>test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does</li> |
| - | <li>testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e</li> |
| - | <li>time: don't segfault with no arguments</li> |
| - | <li>touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile)</li> |
| - | <li>tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354</li> |
| - | <li>tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374)</li> |
| - | <li>tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374)</li> |
| - | <li>unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard)</li> |
| - | <li>vi: fix reversed checks for underflow</li> |
| - | <li>vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid</li> |
| - | <li>xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414)</li> |
| - | <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>12 July 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.1/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk, |
| - | bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>11 July 2008 -- HOWTO is updated</b> |
| - | <p> |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/HOWTO/i486-linux-uclibc/HOWTO.txt"> |
| - | "How to build static busybox for i486-linux-uclibc"</a> is updated |
| - | and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't |
| - | work for you. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
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| - | <li><b>25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.11.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.11.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_11_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.11.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.4</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.4/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p>Sizes of busybox-1.10.4 and busybox-1.11.0 (with equivalent config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| - | text data bss dec hex filename |
| - | 800675 636 7080 808391 c55c7 busybox-1.10.4 |
| - | 798392 611 6900 805903 c4c0f busybox-1.11.0 |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>New applets: inotify (Vladimir Dronnikov), man (Ivana Varekova), |
| - | fbsplash (Michele Sanges), depmod (Bernhard Reutner-Fischer) |
| - | |
| - | <p>Changes since previous release: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX</li> |
| - | <li>ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes</li> |
| - | <li>hush: lots and lots of fixes</li> |
| - | <li>msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)</li> |
| - | <li>msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed</li> |
| - | <li>udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels</li> |
| - | <li>mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp</li> |
| - | <li>diff: make it work on non-seekable streams</li> |
| - | <li>openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one</li> |
| - | <li>mdev: fix block/char device detection</li> |
| - | <li>ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)</li> |
| - | <li>crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines</li> |
| - | <li>start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)</li> |
| - | <li>date: make it accept ISO date format</li> |
| - | <li>echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)</li> |
| - | <li>httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR</li> |
| - | <li>printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo</li> |
| - | <li>syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate</li> |
| - | <li>ls: support Unicode in names</li> |
| - | <li>ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)</li> |
| - | <li>mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)</li> |
| - | <li>libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again</li> |
| - | <li>other fixes and code size reductions in many applets</li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | <p> |
| - | The email address [email protected] is the recommended way to contact |
| - | the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!</b> |
| - | <p>We want to thank the following companies which are providing support |
| - | for the BusyBox project: |
| - | </p> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html"> |
| - | TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially.</li> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided |
| - | a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start"> |
| - | Blackfin development board</a> free of charge. |
| - | <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a> |
| - | is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable. |
| - | If you are an embedded device developer, |
| - | please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available |
| - | for download for this board. Visit |
| - | <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a> |
| - | for more information. |
| - | </li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.3</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.3/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, |
| - | ip, mdev and syslogd. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.2</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.2/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for echo, httpd, pidof, |
| - | start-stop-daemon, tar, taskset, tab completion in shells, build system. |
| - | <p>Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please |
| - | report if you encounter any problems with it. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.1/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for |
| - | fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.10.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.10.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_10_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.10.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| - | text data bss dec hex filename |
| - | 781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2 |
| - | 773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0 |
| - | </pre> |
| - | <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> |
| - | busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0: |
| - | echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112 |
| - | bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096 |
| - | discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096 |
| - | discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 |
| - | echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 |
| - | discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152 |
| - | find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952 |
| - | readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492 |
| - | ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464 |
| - | iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), |
| - | findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), |
| - | lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), |
| - | sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p>Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. |
| - | </p> |
| - | <p>Changes since previous release: |
| - | </p> |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>globally: add -Wunused-parameter</li> |
| - | <li>globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations</li> |
| - | <li>adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)</li> |
| - | <li>adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134</li> |
| - | <li>ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947</li> |
| - | <li>ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142</li> |
| - | <li>build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case</li> |
| - | <li>build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host</li> |
| - | <li>build system: make it do without "od -t"</li> |
| - | <li>build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376</li> |
| - | <li>build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU</li> |
| - | <li>cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470</li> |
| - | <li>crontab: almost complete rewrite</li> |
| - | <li>dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets</li> |
| - | <li>dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed</li> |
| - | <li>eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)</li> |
| - | <li>fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels</li> |
| - | <li>fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)</li> |
| - | <li>fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/</li> |
| - | <li>fuser: substantial rewrite</li> |
| - | <li>getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com></li> |
| - | <li>getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)</li> |
| - | <li>halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled</li> |
| - | <li>httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530</li> |
| - | <li>httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked</li> |
| - | <li>httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"</li> |
| - | <li>httpd: fix for POST upload</li> |
| - | <li>httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)</li> |
| - | <li>hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure</li> |
| - | <li>hush: more correct handling of piping</li> |
| - | <li>hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU</li> |
| - | <li>hush: report [v]fork failures</li> |
| - | <li>hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed</li> |
| - | <li>hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness</li> |
| - | <li>inetd: make "udp nowait" work</li> |
| - | <li>inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable</li> |
| - | <li>init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)</li> |
| - | <li>init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"</li> |
| - | <li>init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing</li> |
| - | <li>init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words</li> |
| - | <li>init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)</li> |
| - | <li>ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)</li> |
| - | <li>last: do not go into endless loop on read error</li> |
| - | <li>less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)</li> |
| - | <li>less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now</li> |
| - | <li>less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars</li> |
| - | <li>less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption</li> |
| - | <li>less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages</li> |
| - | <li>less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern!</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error</li> |
| - | <li>libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it></li> |
| - | <li>libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!</li> |
| - | <li>login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended</li> |
| - | <li>microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible</li> |
| - | <li>microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t</li> |
| - | <li>mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)</li> |
| - | <li>mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected</li> |
| - | <li>mount: add another mount helper call method</li> |
| - | <li>mount: allow and ignore _netdev option</li> |
| - | <li>mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)</li> |
| - | <li>mount: optional support for -vv verbosity</li> |
| - | <li>mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command</li> |
| - | <li>mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)</li> |
| - | <li>mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root</li> |
| - | <li>mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143</li> |
| - | <li>mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make</li> |
| - | <li>msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)</li> |
| - | <li>msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin</li> |
| - | <li>msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing</li> |
| - | <li>msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)</li> |
| - | <li>msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed</li> |
| - | <li>msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway</li> |
| - | <li>msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters</li> |
| - | <li>netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc</li> |
| - | <li>nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]</li> |
| - | <li>nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com></li> |
| - | <li>od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly</li> |
| - | <li>patch: don't trash permissions of patched file</li> |
| - | <li>ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time</li> |
| - | <li>ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns</li> |
| - | <li>reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414</li> |
| - | <li>rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com></li> |
| - | <li>run-parts: add --reverse</li> |
| - | <li>script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output</li> |
| - | <li>sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214</li> |
| - | <li>sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591</li> |
| - | <li>stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)</li> |
| - | <li>switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425</li> |
| - | <li>syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls</li> |
| - | <li>syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead</li> |
| - | <li>syslogd: fix shmat error check</li> |
| - | <li>syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436</li> |
| - | <li>syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574</li> |
| - | <li>syslogd: tighten up hostname handling</li> |
| - | <li>tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)</li> |
| - | <li>tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end</li> |
| - | <li>tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992</li> |
| - | <li>tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com></li> |
| - | <li>tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket</li> |
| - | <li>telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"</li> |
| - | <li>test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"</li> |
| - | <li>trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected</li> |
| - | <li>udhcp: make file paths configurable</li> |
| - | <li>udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports</li> |
| - | <li>udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE</li> |
| - | <li>udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)</li> |
| - | <li>udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)</li> |
| - | <li>umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint</li> |
| - | <li>umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro</li> |
| - | <li>umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604</li> |
| - | <li>unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com></li> |
| - | <li>unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)</li> |
| - | <li>unzip: handle short reads correctly</li> |
| - | <li>vi: many fixes</li> |
| - | <li>zcip: don't chdir to root</li> |
| - | <li>zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)</li> |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>21 March 2008 -- BusyBox old stable releases</b> |
| - | <p> |
| - | Bugfix-only releases for four past branches. Links to locations |
| - | for future hot patches are in parentheses. |
| - | <p> |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.2.tar.bz2">1.9.2</a> |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.2/">patches</a>), |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.3.tar.bz2">1.8.3</a> |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.3/">patches</a>), |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.5.tar.bz2">1.7.5</a> |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.5/">patches</a>), |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.2.tar.bz2">1.5.2</a> |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.2/">patches</a>). |
| - | <p> |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">How to add a patch.</a> |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>12 February 2008 -- BusyBox 1.9.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.1/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to fsck, |
| - | iproute, mdev, mkswap, msh, nameif, stty, test, zcip.</p> |
| - | <p>hush has `command` expansion re-enabled for NOMMU, although it is |
| - | inherently unsafe (by virtue of NOMMU's use of vfork instead of fork). |
| - | The plan is to make this less likely to bite people in future versions.</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>24 December 2007 -- BusyBox 1.9.0 (unstable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.9.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.9.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_9_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.9.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Sizes of busybox-1.8.2 and busybox-1.9.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):<pre> |
| - | text data bss dec hex filename |
| - | 792796 978 9724 803498 c42aa busybox-1.8.2 |
| - | 783803 683 7508 791994 c15ba busybox-1.9.0 |
| - | </pre> |
| - | <p>Top 10 stack users:<pre> |
| - | busybox-1.8.2: busybox-1.9.0: |
| - | input_tab 10428 echo_dg 4116 |
| - | umount_main 8252 bb_full_fd_action 4112 |
| - | rtnl_talk 8240 discard_dg 4096 |
| - | xrtnl_dump_filter 8240 echo_stream 4096 |
| - | sendMTFValues 5316 discard_stream 4096 |
| - | mainSort 4700 find_list_entry2 4096 |
| - | mkfs_minix_main 4288 readlink_main 4096 |
| - | grave 4260 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 |
| - | unix_do_one 4156 iproute_list_or_flush 3680 |
| - | parse_prompt 4132 insmod_main 3152 |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>lash is deleted from this release. hush can be configured down to almost |
| - | the same size, but it is significantly less buggy. It even works |
| - | on NOMMU machines (interactive mode and backticks are not working on NOMMU, |
| - | though). "lash" applet is still available, but it runs hush. |
| - | |
| - | <p>init has some changes in this release, please report if it causes |
| - | problems for you. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Changes since previous release: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>Build system improvements |
| - | <li>Testsuite additions |
| - | <li>Stack size reductions, code size reductions, data/bss reductions |
| - | <li>An option to prefer IPv4 address if host has both |
| - | <li>New applets: hd, sestatus |
| - | <li>Removed applets: lash |
| - | <li>hush: fixed a few bugs, wired up echo and test to be builtins |
| - | <li>init: simplify forking of children |
| - | <li>getty: special handling of '#' and '@' is removed |
| - | <li>[su]login: sanitize environment if called by non-root |
| - | <li>udhcpc: support "bad" servers which send oversized packets |
| - | (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) |
| - | <li>udhcpc: -O option allows to specify which options to ask for |
| - | (Stefan Hellermann <stefan at the2masters.de>) |
| - | <li>udhcpc: optionally check whether given IP is really free (by ARP ping) |
| - | (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson at axis.com>) |
| - | <li>vi: now handles files with unlimited line length |
| - | <li>vi: speedup for huge line lengths |
| - | <li>vi: Del key works |
| - | <li>sed: support GNUism '\t' |
| - | <li>cp/mv/install: optionally use bigger buffer for bulk copying |
| - | <li>line editing: don't eat stack like crazy |
| - | <li>passwd: follows symlinked /etc/passwd |
| - | <li>renice: accepts priority with +N too |
| - | <li>netstat: wide output mode |
| - | <li>nameif: extended matching (Nico Erfurth <masta at perlgolf.de>) |
| - | <li>test: become NOFORK applet |
| - | <li>find: -iname (Alexander Griesser <alexander.griesser at lkh-vil.or.at>) |
| - | <li>df: -i option (show inode info) (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) |
| - | <li>hexdump: -R option (Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard at ads-lu.com>) |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>23 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.2 (stable), BusyBox 1.7.4 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.2</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.2/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.4.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.4</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.4/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>These are bugfix-only releases. |
| - | 1.8.2 contains fixes for inetd, lash, tar, tr, and build system. |
| - | 1.7.4 contains a fix for inetd.</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>9 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.1/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to login (PAM), modprobe, syslogd, telnetd, unzip.</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.8.0 (unstable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.8.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.8.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_8_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.8.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Note: this is probably the very last release with lash. It will be dropped. Please migrate to hush. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.7.x: |
| - | <p>httpd: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>does not clear environment, CGIs will see all environment variables which were set for httpd |
| - | <li>fix bug where we were trying to read more POSTDATA than content-length |
| - | <li>fix trivial bug (spotted by Alex Landau) |
| - | <li>optional support for partial downloads |
| - | <li>simplified CGI i/o loop (now it looks good to me) |
| - | <li>small auth and IPv6 fixes (Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) |
| - | <li>support for proxying connection to other http server (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>top: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>TOPMEM feature - 's(how sizes)' command |
| - | <li>don't wait before final bailout (try top -b -n1) |
| - | <li>fix for command line wrapping |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Build system improvements: libbusybox mode restored (it was lost in transition to new makefiles). |
| - | |
| - | <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.7.3:<pre> |
| - | Equivalent .config, i386 uclibc static builds: |
| - | text data bss dec hex filename |
| - | 768123 1055 10768 779946 be6aa busybox-1.7.3/busybox |
| - | 759693 974 9420 770087 bc027 busybox-1.8.0/busybox</pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>New applets: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>microcom: new applet by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru> |
| - | <li>kbd_mode: new applet by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> |
| - | <li>bzip2: port bzip2 1.0.4 to busybox, 9 kb of code |
| - | <li>pgrep, pkill: new applets by Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com> |
| - | <li>setsebool: new applet (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged): |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>cp: -r and -R imply -d (coreutils compat) |
| - | <li>cp: detect and prevent infinite recursion |
| - | <li>cp: make it a bit closer to POSIX, but still refuse to open and overwrite symbolic link |
| - | <li>hdparm: reduce possibility of numeric overflow in -T |
| - | <li>hdparm: simplify timing measurement |
| - | <li>wget: -O FILE is allowed to overwrite existing file (compat) |
| - | <li>wget: allow dots in header field names |
| - | <li>telnetd: add -K option to close sessions as soon as child exits |
| - | <li>telnetd: don't SIGKILL child when closing the session, kernel will send SIGHUP for us |
| - | <li>ed: large cleanup, add line editing |
| - | <li>hush: feeble attempt at making it more NOMMU-friendly |
| - | <li>hush: fix glob() |
| - | <li>hush: stop doing manual accounting of open fd's, kernel can do it for us |
| - | <li>adduser: implement -S and fix uid selection |
| - | <li>ash: fix prompt expansion (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) |
| - | <li>ash: revert "cat | jobs" fix, it causes more problems than good |
| - | <li>find: fix -xdev behavior in the presence of two or more nested mount points |
| - | <li>grep: fix grep -F -e str1 -e str2 (was matching str2 only) |
| - | <li>grep: optimization: stop on first -e match |
| - | <li>gunzip: support concatenated gz files |
| - | <li>inetd: fix bug 1562 "inetd does not set argv[0] properly" (fix by Ilya Panfilov) |
| - | <li>install: 'support' (by ignoring) -v and -b |
| - | <li>install: fix bug in "install -c file dir" (tried to copy dir into dir too) |
| - | <li>ip: tunnel parameter parsing fix by Jean Wolter <jw5 at os.inf.tu-dresden.de> |
| - | <li>isrv: use monotonic_sec |
| - | <li>less: make 'f' key page forward |
| - | <li>libiproute: add missing break statements |
| - | <li>load_policy: update (Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) |
| - | <li>logger: fix a problem of losing all argv except first |
| - | <li>login: do reject wrong passwords with PAM auth |
| - | <li>losetup: support -f (Loic Grenie <loic.grenie at gmail.com>) |
| - | <li>fdisk: make fdisk compile on libc without llseek64 |
| - | <li>libbb: by popular request allow PATH to be customized at build time |
| - | <li>mkswap: selinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> |
| - | <li>mount: allow (and ignore) -i |
| - | <li>mount: ignore NFS bg option on NOMMU machines |
| - | <li>mount: mount helpers support (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.ru>) |
| - | <li>passwd: handle Ctrl-C, restore termios on Ctrl-C |
| - | <li>passwd: SELinux support by KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at ak.jp.nec.com> |
| - | <li>ping: make -I ethN work too (-I addr already worked) |
| - | <li>ps: fix RSS parsing (rss field in /proc/PID/stat is in pages, not bytes) |
| - | <li>read_line_input: fix it to not do any fancy editing if echoing is disabled |
| - | <li>run_parts: make it sort executables by name (required by API) |
| - | <li>runsv: do not use clock_gettime if !MONOTONIC_CLOCK |
| - | <li>runsvdir: fix "linear wait time" bug |
| - | <li>sulogin: remove alarm handling, it is redundant there |
| - | <li>svlogd: compat: svlogd -tt should timestamp stderr too |
| - | <li>syslogd: bail out if you see null read from Unix socket |
| - | <li>syslogd: do not need to poll(), we can just block in read() |
| - | <li>tail: work correctly on /proc files (Kazuo TAKADA <kztakada at sm.sony.co.jp>) |
| - | <li>tar + gzip/bzip2/etc: support NOMMU machines (by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) |
| - | <li>tar: strip leading '/' BEFORE memorizing hardlink's name |
| - | <li>tftp: fix infinite retry bug |
| - | <li>umount: support (by ignoring) -i; style fixes |
| - | <li>unzip: fix endianness bugs |
| - | <li>vi: don't wait 50 ms before reading ESC sequences |
| - | <li>watchdog: allow millisecond spec (-t 250ms) |
| - | <li>zcip: fix unaligned trap on ARM |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>4 November 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.3 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.3</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.3/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to ash, httpd, inetd, iptun, logger, login, tail.</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>30 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.2 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.2</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.2/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to install, find, login, httpd, runsvdir, chcon, setfiles, fdisk and line editing.</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>16 September 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.1/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to cp, runsv, tar, busybox --install and build system.</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>24 August 2007 -- BusyBox 1.7.0 (unstable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.7.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.7.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_7_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.7.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Applets which had many changes since 1.6.x: |
| - | <p>httpd: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>works in standalone mode on NOMMU machines now (partly by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) |
| - | <li>indexer example is rewritten in C |
| - | <li>optional support for error pages (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>) |
| - | <li>stop reading headers using 1-byte reads |
| - | <li>new option -v[v]: prints client addresses, HTTP codes returned, URLs |
| - | <li>extended -p PORT to -p [IP[v6]:]PORT |
| - | <li>sendfile support (by Pierre Metras <genepi at sympatico.ca>) |
| - | <li>add support for Status: CGI header |
| - | <li>fix CGI handling bug (we were closing wrong fd) |
| - | <li>CGI I/O loop still doesn't look 100% ok to me... |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>udhcp[cd]: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>add -f "foreground" and -S "syslog" options |
| - | <li>fixed "ifupdown + udhcpc_without_pidfile_creation" bug |
| - | <li>new config option "Rewrite the lease file at every new acknowledge" (Mats Erik Andersson <mats at blue2net.com> (Blue2Net AB)) |
| - | <li>consistently treat server_config.start/end IPs as host-order |
| - | <li>fix IP parsing for 64bit machines |
| - | <li>fix unsafe hton macro usage in read_opt() |
| - | <li>do not chdir to / when daemonizing |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>top, ps, killall, pidof: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>simpler loadavg processing |
| - | <li>truncate usernames to 8 chars |
| - | <li>fix non-CONFIG_DESKTOP ps -ww (by rockeychu) |
| - | <li>improve /proc/PID/cmdinfo reading code |
| - | <li>use cmdline, not comm field (fixes problems with re-execed applets showing as processes with name "exe", and not being found by pidof/killall by applet name) |
| - | <li>reduce CPU usage in decimal conversion (optional) (corresponding speedup on kernel side is accepted in mainline Linux kernel, yay!) |
| - | <li>make percentile (0.1%) calculations configurable |
| - | <li>add config option and code for global CPU% display |
| - | <li>reorder columns, so that [P]PIDs are together and VSZ/%MEM are together - makes more sense |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Build system improvements: doesn't link against libraries we don't need, |
| - | generates verbose link output and map file, allows for custom link |
| - | scripts (useful for removing extra padding, among other things). |
| - | |
| - | <p>Code and data size in comparison with 1.6.1:<pre> |
| - | Equivalent .config, i386 glibc dynamic builds: |
| - | text data bss dec hex filename |
| - | 672671 2768 16808 692247 a9017 busybox-1.6.1/busybox |
| - | 662948 2660 13528 679136 a5ce0 busybox-1.7.0/busybox |
| - | 662783 2631 13416 678830 a5bae busybox-1.7.0/busybox.customld |
| - | |
| - | Same .config built against static uclibc: |
| - | 765021 1059 11020 777100 bdb8c busybox-1.7.0/busybox_uc</pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Code/data shrink done in applets: crond, hdparm, dd, cal, od, nc, expr, uuencode, |
| - | test, slattach, diff, ping, tr, syslogd, hwclock, zcip, find, pidof, ash, uudecode, |
| - | runit/*, in libbb. |
| - | |
| - | <p>New applets: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>pscan, expand, unexpand (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) |
| - | <li>setfiles, restorecon (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) |
| - | <li>chpasswd (by Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso at slind.org>) |
| - | <li>slattach, ttysize |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Unfortunately, not much work is done on shells. This was mostly stalled |
| - | by lack of time (read: laziness) on my part to learn how to adapt existing |
| - | qemu-runnable image for a NOMMU architechture (available on qemu website) |
| - | for local testing of cross-compiled busybox on my machine. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Other changes since previous release (abridged): |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>addgroup: disallow addgroup -g num user group; make -g 0 work (Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) |
| - | <li>adduser: close /etc/{passwd,shadow} before calling passwd etc. Spotted by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> |
| - | <li>arping: -i should be -I, fixed |
| - | <li>ash: make "jobs | cat" work like in bash (was giving empty output) |
| - | <li>ash: recognize -l as --login equivalent; do not recognize +-login |
| - | <li>ash: fix buglet in DEBUG code (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) |
| - | <li>ash: fix SEGV if type has zero parameters |
| - | <li>awk: fix -F 'regex' bug (miscounted fields if last field is empty) |
| - | <li>catv: catv without arguments was trying to use environ as argv (Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com>) |
| - | <li>catv: don't die on open error (emit warning) |
| - | <li>chown/chgrp: completely match coreutils 6.8 wrt symlink handling |
| - | <li>correct_password: do not print "no shadow passwd..." message |
| - | <li>crond: don't start sendmail with absolute path, don't report obsolete version (report true bbox version) |
| - | <li>dd: fix bug where we assume count=INT_MAX when count is unspecified |
| - | <li>devfsd: sanitization by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> |
| - | <li>echo: fix non-fancy echo |
| - | <li>fdisk: make it work with big disks (read: typical today's disks) even if CONFIG_LFS is unset |
| - | <li>find: -context support for SELinux (KaiGai Kohei <kaigai at kaigai.gr.jp>) |
| - | <li>find: add conditional support for -maxdepth and -regex, make -size match GNU find |
| - | <li>find: fix build failure on certain configs (found by Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) |
| - | <li>fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one |
| - | <li>grep: implement -m MAX_MATCHES, fix buglets with context printing |
| - | <li>grep: fix selection done by FEATURE_GREP_EGREP_ALIAS (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox)) |
| - | <li>hush: add missing dependencies (Maxime Bizon <mbizon at freebox.fr> (Freebox)) |
| - | <li>hush: fix read builtin to not read ahead past EOL and to not use insane amounts of stack |
| - | <li>ifconfig: make it work with ifaces with interface no. > 255 |
| - | <li>ifup/ifdown: make location of ifstate configurable |
| - | <li>ifupdown: make netmask parsing smaller and more strict (was accepting 255.0.255.0, 255.1234.0.0 etc...) |
| - | <li>install: fix -s (strip) option, fix install a b /a/link/to/dir |
| - | <li>libbb: consolidate ARRAY_SIZE macro (Walter Harms <wharms at bfs.de>) |
| - | <li>libbb: make /etc/network parsing configurable. -200 bytes when off |
| - | <li>libbb: nuke BB_GETOPT_ERROR, always die if there are mutually exclusive options |
| - | <li>libbb: xioctl and friends by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it> |
| - | <li>login: optional support for PAM |
| - | <li>login: make /etc/nologin support configurable (-240 bytes) |
| - | <li>login: ask passwords even for wrong usernames |
| - | <li>md5_sha1_sum: fix mishandling when run as /bin/md5sum |
| - | <li>mdev: add support for firmware loading |
| - | <li>mdev: work even when CONFIG_SYSFS_DEPRECATED in kernel is off |
| - | <li>modprobe: add scanning of /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.symbols (by Yann E. MORIN <yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr>) |
| - | <li>more: fixes by Tristan Schmelcher <tpkschme at engmail.uwaterloo.ca> |
| - | <li>nc: make connecting to IPv4 from IPv6-enabled hosts easier (was requiring -s local_addr) |
| - | <li>passwd: fix bug "updating shadow even if user's record is in passwd" |
| - | <li>patch: fix -p -1 handling |
| - | <li>patch: fix bad line ending handling (Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) |
| - | <li>ping: display roundtrip times with 1/1000th of ms, not 1/10 ms precision. |
| - | <li>ping: fix incorrect handling of -I (Iouri Kharon <bc-info at styx.cabel.net>) |
| - | <li>ping: fix non-fancy ping6 |
| - | <li>printenv: fix "printenv VAR1 VAR2" bug (spotted by Kalyanatejaswi Balabhadrapatruni <kalyanatejaswi at yahoo.co.in>) |
| - | <li>ps: fix -Z (by Yuichi Nakamura <ynakam at hitachisoft.jp>) |
| - | <li>rpm: add optional support for bz2 data. +50 bytes of code |
| - | <li>rpm: fix bogus "package is not installed" case |
| - | <li>sed: fix 'q' command handling (by Nguyen Thai Ngoc Duy <pclouds at gmail.com>) |
| - | <li>start_stop_daemon: NOMMU fixes by Alex Landau <landau_alex at yahoo.com> |
| - | <li>stat: fix option -Z SEGV |
| - | <li>strings: strings a b was processing a twice, fix that |
| - | <li>svlogd: fix timestamping, do not warn if config is missing |
| - | <li>syslogd, logread: get rid of head pointer, fix logread bug in the process |
| - | <li>syslogd: do not convert tabs to ^I, set syslog IPC buffer to mode 0644 |
| - | <li>tar: improve OLDGNU compat, make old SUN compat configurable |
| - | <li>test: fix testing primary expressions like '"-u" = "-u"' |
| - | <li>uudecode: fix to base64 decode by Jorgen Cederlof <jcz at google.com> |
| - | <li>vi: multiple fixes by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> |
| - | <li>wget: fix bug in base64 encoding (bug 1404). +10 bytes |
| - | <li>wget: lift 256 chars limitation on terminal width |
| - | <li>wget, zcip: use monotonic_sec instead of gettimeofday |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>30 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.1/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to echo, hush, and wget.</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>1 June 2007 -- BusyBox 1.6.0 (unstable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.6.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.6.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/branches/busybox_1_6_stable/">svn</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.6.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable" |
| - | label. Please help making 1.6.1 stable by testing 1.6.0.</p> |
| - | <p>Note that hush shell had many changes and (hopefully) is much improved now, |
| - | but there is a possibility that it regressed in some obscure cases. Please |
| - | report any such cases.</p> |
| - | <p>lash users please note: lash is going to be deprecated in busybox 1.7.0 |
| - | and removed in the more distant future. Please migrate to hush.</p> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/~vda/mem_usage-1.6.0.txt">Memory usage has decreased, but we can do better still</a></p> |
| - | <p>Other changes since previous release: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>NOFORK: audit small applets and mark some of them as NOFORK. Put big scary warnings in relevant places |
| - | <li>NOFORK: factor out NOFORK/NOEXEC code from find. Use NOFORK/NOEXEC in find and xargs |
| - | <li>NOFORK: remove potential xmalloc from NOFORK path in bb_full_fd_action |
| - | <li>NOMMU: random fixes; compressed --help now works for NOMMU |
| - | <li>SELinux: load_policy applet |
| - | <li>[u]mount: extend -t option (Roy Marples <uberlord at gentoo.org>) |
| - | <li>addgroup: clean up, fix adding users to existing groups and make it optional (Tito) |
| - | <li>adduser: don't bomb out if shadow password file doesn't exist (from Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) |
| - | <li>applet.c: do not even try to read config if run by real root; fix suid config handling |
| - | <li>ash: fix infinite loop on exit if tty is not there anymore |
| - | <li>ash: fix kill -l (by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) |
| - | <li>ash: implement type -p, costs less than 10 bytes (patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) |
| - | <li>awk: don't segfault on printf(%*s). Closes bug 1337 |
| - | <li>awk: guard against empty environment |
| - | <li>awk: some 'lineno' vars were shorts, made them ints (code got smaller) |
| - | <li>cat: stop using stdio.h opens |
| - | <li>config system: clarify PREFER_APPLETS/SH_STANDALONE effects in help text |
| - | <li>cryptpw: new applet (by Thomas Lundquist <lists at zelow.no>) |
| - | <li>cttyhack: new applet |
| - | <li>dd: NOEXEC fix; fix skip= parse error (spotted by Dirk Clemens <develop at cle-mens.de>) |
| - | <li>deluser: add optional support for removing users from groups (by Tito <farmatito at tiscali.it>) |
| - | <li>diff: fix SEGV (NULL deref) in diff -N |
| - | <li>diff: fix segfault on empty dirs (Peter Korsgaard <peter.korsgaard at barco.com>) |
| - | <li>dnsd: fix several buglets, make smaller; openlog(), so that applet's name is logged |
| - | <li>dpkg: run_package_script() returns 0 if all ok and non-zero if failure. The result code was checked incorrectly in two places. (from Kim B. Heino <Kim.Heino at bluegiga.com>) |
| - | <li>dpkg: use bitfields which are a bit closer to typical short/char. Code size -800 bytes |
| - | <li>dumpleases: getopt32()-ization (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) |
| - | <li>e2fsprogs: stop using statics in chattr. Minor code shrinkage (-130 bytes) |
| - | <li>ether-wake: close bug 1317. Reorder fuctions to avoid forward refs while at it |
| - | <li>ether-wake: save a few more bytes of code |
| - | <li>find: -group, -depth (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) |
| - | <li>find: add support for -delete, -path (by Natanael Copa) |
| - | <li>find: fix -prune. Add big comment about it |
| - | <li>find: improve usage text (Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>) |
| - | <li>find: missed 'static' on const data; size and prune were mixed up; use index_in_str_array |
| - | <li>find: un-DESKTOPize (Kai Schwenzfeier <niteblade at gmx.net>) |
| - | <li>find_root_device: teach to deal with /dev/ subdirs (by Kirill K. Smirnov <lich at math.spbu.ru>) |
| - | <li>find_root_device: use lstat - don't follow links |
| - | <li>getopt32: fix llist_t options ordering. llist_rev is now unused |
| - | <li>getopt: use getopt32 for option parsing - inspired by patch by Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se> |
| - | <li>hdparm: fix multisector mode setting (from Toni Mirabete <amirabete at catix.cat>) |
| - | <li>hdparm: make -T -t code smaller (-194 bytes), and output prettier |
| - | <li>ifupdown: make it possible to use DHCP clients different from udhcp |
| - | <li>ifupdown: reread state file before rewriting it. Fixes "ifup started another ifup" state corruption bug. Patch by Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> |
| - | <li>ifupdown: small optimization (avoid doing useless work if we are not going to update state file) |
| - | <li>ip: fix compilation if FEATURE_TR_CLASSES is off |
| - | <li>ip: mv ip*_main into ip.c; use a dispatcher to save on needless duplication. Saves a minor 12b |
| - | <li>ip: rewrite the ip applet to be less bloaty. Convert to index_in_(sub)str_array() |
| - | <li>ip: set the scope properly. Thanks to Jean Wolter |
| - | <li>iplink: shrink iplink; sanitize libiproute a bit (-916 bytes) |
| - | <li>iproute: shrink a bit (-200 bytes) |
| - | <li>kill: know much more signals; make code smaller; use common code for kill applet and ash kill builtin |
| - | <li>klogd: remove dependency on syslogd |
| - | <li>lash: "forking" applets are actually can be treated the same way as "non-forked". Also save a bit of space on trailing NULL array elements. |
| - | <li>lash: fix kill buglet (didn't properly recognize ESRCH) |
| - | <li>lash: make -c work; crush buffer overrun and free of non-malloced ptr (from Mats Erik Andersson <mats.andersson64 at comhem.se>) |
| - | <li>lash: recognize and use NOFORK applets |
| - | <li>less: fix case when regex search finds nothing; fix very obscure memory corruption bug; fix less <HUGEFILE + [End] busy loop |
| - | <li>libbb: add xsendto, xunlink, xpipe |
| - | <li>libbb: fix segfault in reset_ino_dev_hashtable() when *hashtable was NULL |
| - | <li>libbb: make pidfile writing configurable |
| - | <li>libbb: make xsocket die with address family printed (if VERBOSE_RESOLUTION_ERRORS=y) |
| - | <li>libbb: rework NOMMU helper API so that it makes more sense and easier to use |
| - | <li>libiproute: audit callgraph, shortcut error paths into die() functions |
| - | <li>lineedit: do not try to open NULL history file |
| - | <li>lineedit: nuke two unused variables and code which sets them |
| - | <li>login: remove setpgrp call (makes it work from shell prompt again); sanitize stdio descriptors (we are suid, need to be careful!) |
| - | <li>login: shrink login and set_environment by ~100 bytes |
| - | <li>mount: fix incorrect usage of strtok (inadvertently used NULL sometimes) |
| - | <li>mount: fix mounting of symlinks (mount from util-linux allows that) |
| - | <li>msh: data/bss reduction (more than 9k of it); fix "underscore bug" (a_b=1111 didn't work); fix obscure case with backticks and closed fd 1 |
| - | <li>nc: port nc 1.10 to busybox |
| - | <li>netstat: fix for bogus state value for raw sockets |
| - | <li>netstat: introduce -W: wide, ipv6-friendly output; shrink by ~500 bytes |
| - | <li>nmeter: should die if stdout doesn't like him anymore |
| - | <li>patch: do not try to delete same file twice |
| - | <li>ping: fix wrong sign extension of packet id (bug 1373) |
| - | <li>ps: add -o tty and -o rss support; make a bit smaller; work around libc bug: printf("%.*s\n", MAX_INT, buffer) |
| - | <li>run_parts: rewrite |
| - | <li>run_parts: do not check path portion of a name for "bad chars". Needed for ifupdown. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo at cmu.edu> |
| - | <li>sed: fix escaped newlines in -f |
| - | <li>split: new applet |
| - | <li>stat: remove superfluous bss user (flags) and manually unswitch some areas |
| - | <li>stty: fix option parsing bug (spotted by Sascha Hauer <s.hauer at pengutronix.de>) |
| - | <li>svlogd: fix 'SEGV on uninitialized data' and make it honor TERM |
| - | <li>tail: fix SEGV on "tail -N" |
| - | <li>ipsvd: tcpsvd,udpsvd are new applets, GPL-ed 'clones' of Dan Bernstein's tcpserver. Author: Gerrit Pape <pape at smarden.org>, http://smarden.sunsite.dk/ipsvd/ |
| - | <li>test: close bug 1371; plug a memory leak; code size reduction |
| - | <li>tftp: code diet, and I think retransmits were broken |
| - | <li>tr: fix bug where we did not reject invalid classes like '[[:alpha'. debloat while at it |
| - | <li>udhcp: MAC_BCAST_ADDR and blank_chaddr are in fact constant, move to rodata; use pipe instead of socketpair |
| - | <li>udhcp[cd]: stop using atexit magic fir pidfile removal; stop deleting our own pidfile if we daemonize |
| - | <li>xargs: shrink code, ~80 bytes; simplify word list management |
| - | <li>zcip: make it work on NOMMU (+ improve NOMMU support machinery) |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>20 May 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.1/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This is a bugfix-only release, with fixes to hdparm, hush, ifupdown, ps |
| - | and sed.</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>23 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.5.0 (unstable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.5.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.5.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.5.0/">patches</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/fix.html">how to add a patch</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably does not deserve "stable" |
| - | label. Please help making 1.5.1 stable by testing 1.5.0.</p> |
| - | <p>Notable changes since previous release: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>find: added support for -user, -not, fixed -mtime, -mmin, -perm |
| - | <li>[de]archivers: merge common logic into one module |
| - | <li>ping[6]: unified code for both |
| - | <li>less: regex search improved |
| - | <li>ash: more readable code, testsuite added |
| - | <li>sed: several very obscure bugs fixed |
| - | <li>chown: -H, -L, -P support (required by POSIX) |
| - | <li>tar: handle (broken) checksums a-la Sun; tar restores mode again |
| - | <li>grep: implement -w, "implement" -a and -I by ignoring them |
| - | <li>cp: more sane behavior when overwriting existing files |
| - | <li>init: stop doing silly things with the console (-400 bytes) |
| - | <li>httpd: make httpd usable for NOMMU CPUs; fix POSTDATA handling bugs |
| - | <li>httpd: run interpreter for configured file extensions in any dir, |
| - | not only in /cgi-bin/ |
| - | <li>chrt: new applet |
| - | <li>SELinux: SELinux-related code and -Z option added to several applets, |
| - | new SELinux-specific applets: chcon, runcon. |
| - | <li>Build system: produces link map, uses -Wwrite-strings to catch |
| - | improper usage of string constants. |
| - | <li>Data and bss section usage audited and reduced - should help NOMMU |
| - | targets. |
| - | <li>Applets with bug fixes: gunzip, vi, syslogd, dpkg, ls, adjtimex, resize, |
| - | sv, printf, diff, awk, sort, dpkg, diff, tftp |
| - | <li>Applets with usability improvements: swapon, more, ifup/ifdown, hwclock, |
| - | udhcpd, start_stop_daemon, cmp |
| - | <li>Applets with code cleaned up: telnet, fdisk, fsck_minix, mkfs_minix, |
| - | syslogd, swapon, runsv, svlogd, klogd |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>18 March 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.2 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.2</a>. |
| - | </p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.1. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>25 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.1/">patches</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This release includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.4.0. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.4.0 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.4.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.4.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.4.0/">patches</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Since this is a x.x.0 release, it probably is a bit less "stable" |
| - | than usual.</p> |
| - | <p>Changes since previous release: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>e2fsprogs are mostly removed from busybox. Some smaller parts remain, |
| - | the rest of it sits disabled in e2fsprogs/old_e2fsprogs/*, because |
| - | it's too bloated. Really. I'm afraid it's about the only way we can |
| - | ever get e2fsprogs cleaned up. |
| - | <li>less: many improvements. Now can display binary files |
| - | (although I expect it to have trouble with displays where 8bit chars |
| - | don't have 1-to-1 char/glyph relationship). Regexp search is not buggy |
| - | anymore. Less does not read entire input up-front. Reads input |
| - | as it appears (yay!). Works rather nice as man pager. I recommend it |
| - | for general use now. |
| - | <li>IPv6: generic support is in place, many networking applets are |
| - | upgraded to be IPv6 capable. Probably some work remains, but it is |
| - | already much better than what we had previously. |
| - | <li>arp: new applet (thanks to Eric Spakman). |
| - | <li>fakeidentd: non-forking standalone server part was taking ~90% |
| - | of the applet. Factored it out (in fact, rewrote it). |
| - | <li>syslogd: mostly rewritten. |
| - | <li>decompress_unzip, gzip: sanitized a bit. |
| - | <li>sed: better hadling of NULs |
| - | <li>httpd: stop adding our own "Content-type:" to CGI output |
| - | <li>chown: user.grp works again. |
| - | <li>minor bugfixes to: passwd, date, tftp, start_stop_daemon, tar, |
| - | ps, ifupdown, time, su, stty, awk, ping[6], sort,... |
| - | </ul> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>20 January 2007 -- BusyBox 1.3.2 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.2</a>.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This release includes only one trivial fix accumulated since 1.3.1 |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>27 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.1</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.1/">patches</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Closing 2006 with new release. It includes only trivial fixes accumulated since 1.3.0 |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>14 December 2006 -- BusyBox 1.3.0 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.3.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.3.0</a>. |
| - | (<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.3.0/">patches</a>)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This release has CONFIG_DESKTOP option which enables features |
| - | needed for busybox usage on desktop machine. For example, find, chmod |
| - | and chown get several less frequently used options, od is significantly |
| - | bigger but matches GNU coreutils, etc. Intended to eventually make |
| - | busybox a viable alternative for "standard" utilities for slightly |
| - | adventurous desktop users. |
| - | <p>Changes since previous release: |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li>find: taking many more of standard options |
| - | <li>ps: POSIX-compliant -o implemented |
| - | <li>cp: added -s, -l |
| - | <li>grep: added -r, fixed -h |
| - | <li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally |
| - | incompatible) |
| - | <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage |
| - | on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers |
| - | (Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs. |
| - | Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks). |
| - | <li>httpd: added -i (inetd), -f (foreground), support for |
| - | directory indexer CGI (example is included), bugfixes. |
| - | <li>telnetd: fixed/improved IPv6 support, inetd+standalone support, |
| - | other fixes. Useful IPv6 stuff factored out into libbb. |
| - | <li>runit/*: new applets adapted from http://smarden.sunsite.dk/runit/ |
| - | (these are my personal favorite small-and-beautiful toys) |
| - | <li>minor bugfixes to: login, dd, mount, umount, chmod, chown, ln, udhcp, |
| - | fdisk, ifconfig, sort, tee, mkswap, wget, insmod. |
| - | </ul> |
| - | <p>Note that GnuPG key used to sign this release is different. |
| - | 1.2.2.1 is also signed post-factum now. Sorry for the mess. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>29 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2.1 (fix)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.2.2.1</a>.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Added compile-time warning that static linking against glibc |
| - | produces buggy executables. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>24 October 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.2 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p>It's a bit overdue, but |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.2.tar.bz2">here is |
| - | BusyBox 1.2.2</a>.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This release has dozens of fixes backported from the ongoing development |
| - | branch. There are a couple of bugfixes to sed, two fixes to documentation |
| - | generation (BusyBox.html shouldn't have USE() macros in it anymore), fix |
| - | umount to report the right errno on failure and to umount block devices by |
| - | name with newer kernels, fix mount to handle symlinks properly, make mdev |
| - | delete device nodes when called for hotplug remove, fix a segfault |
| - | in traceroute, a minor portability fix to md5sum option parsing, a build |
| - | fix for httpd with old gccs, an options parsing tweak to hdparm, make test |
| - | fail gracefully when getgroups() returns -1, fix a race condition in |
| - | modprobe when two instances run at once (hotplug does this), make "tar xf |
| - | foo.tar dir/dir" extract all subdirectories, make our getty initialize the |
| - | terminal more like mingetty, an selinux build fix, an endianness fix in |
| - | ping6, fix for zcip defending addresses, clean up some global variables in |
| - | gzip to save memory, fix sulogin -tNNN, a help text tweak, several warning |
| - | fixes and build fixes, fixup dnsd a bit, and a partridge in a pear tree.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>As <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/202106/">Linux Weekly News noted</a>, |
| - | this is my (Rob's) last release of BusyBox. The new maintainer is Denis |
| - | Vlasenko, I'm off to do <a href="http://landley.net/code">other things</a>. |
| - | </p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>29 September 2006 -- New license email address.</b> |
| - | <p>The email address [email protected] is now the recommended way to contact |
| - | the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>31 July 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.1 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p>Since nobody seems to have objected too loudly over the weekend, I |
| - | might as well point you all at |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.1.tar.bz2">Busybox |
| - | 1.2.1</a>, a bugfix-only release with no new features.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>It has three shell fixes (two to lash: going "var=value" without |
| - | saying "export" should now work, plus a missing null pointer check, and |
| - | one to ash when redirecting output to a file that fills up.) Fix three |
| - | embarassing thinkos in the new dmesg command. Two build tweaks |
| - | (dependencies for the compressed usage messages and running make in the |
| - | libbb subdirectory). One fix to tar so it can extract git-generated |
| - | tarballs (rather than barfing on the pax extensions). And a partridge |
| - | in a pear... Ahem.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>But wait, there's more! A passwd changing fix so an empty |
| - | gecos field doesn't trigger a false objection that the new passwd contains |
| - | the gecos field. Make all our setuid() and setgid() calls check the return |
| - | value in case somebody's using per-process resource limits that prevent |
| - | a user from having too many processes (and thus prevent a process from |
| - | switching away from root, in which case the process will now _die_ rather |
| - | than continue with root privileges). A fix to adduser to make sure that |
| - | /etc/group gets updated. And a fix to modprobe to look for modules.conf |
| - | in the right place on 2.6 kernels.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>30 June 2006 -- BusyBox 1.2.0</b> |
| - | <p>The -devel branch has been stabilized and the result is |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.tar.bz2">Busybox |
| - | 1.2.0</a>. Lots of stuff changed, I need to work up a decent changelog |
| - | over the weekend.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>I'm still experimenting with how long is best for the development |
| - | cycle, and since we've got some largeish projects queued up I'm going to |
| - | try a longer one. Expect 1.3.0 in December. (Expect 1.2.1 any time |
| - | we fix enough bugs. :)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Update: Here are <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.2.0.fixes.patch">the first few bug fixes</a> that will go into 1.2.1.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>17 May 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.3 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p><a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.3.tar.bz2">BusyBox |
| - | 1.1.3</a> is another bugfix release. It makes passwd use salt, fixes a |
| - | memory freeing bug in ls, fixes "build all sources at once" mode, makes |
| - | mount -a not abort on the first failure, fixes msh so ctrl-c doesn't kill |
| - | background processes, makes patch work with patch hunks that don't have a |
| - | timestamp, make less's text search a lot more robust (the old one could |
| - | segfault), and fixes readlink -f when built against uClibc.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Expect 1.2.0 sometime next month, which won't be a bugfix release.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>10 April 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.2 (stable)</b> |
| - | <p>You can now download <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.2.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.2</a>, a bug fix release consisting of 11 patches |
| - | backported from the development branch: Some build fixes, several fixes |
| - | for mount and nfsmount, a fix for insmod on big endian systems, a fix for |
| - | find -xdev, and a fix for comm. Check the file "changelog" in the tarball |
| - | for more info.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The next new development release (1.2.0) is slated for June. A 1.1.3 |
| - | will be released before then if more bug fixes crop up. (The new plan is |
| - | to have a 1.x.0 new development release every 3 months, with 1.x.y stable |
| - | bugfix only releases based on that as appropriate.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>27 March 2006 -- Software Freedom Law Center representing BusyBox and uClibc</b> |
| - | <p>One issue Erik Andersen wanted to resolve when handing off BusyBox |
| - | maintainership to Rob Landley was license enforcement. BusyBox and |
| - | uClibc's existing license enforcement efforts (pro-bono representation |
| - | by Erik's father's law firm, and the |
| - | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/shame.html">Hall of Shame</a>), haven't |
| - | scaled to match the popularity of the projects. So we put our heads |
| - | together and did the obvious thing: ask Pamela Jones of |
| - | <a href="http://www.groklaw.net">Groklaw</a> for suggestions. She |
| - | referred us to the fine folks at softwarefreedom.org.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>As a result, we're pleased to announce that the |
| - | <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law Center</a> |
| - | has agreed to represent BusyBox and uClibc. We join a number of other |
| - | free and open source software projects (such as |
| - | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/141806/">X.org</a>, |
| - | <a href="http://lwn.net/Articles/135413/">Wine</a>, and |
| - | <a href="http://plone.org/foundation/newsitems/software-freedom-law-center-support/">Plone</a> |
| - | in being represented by a fairly cool bunch of lawyers, which is not a |
| - | phrase you get to use every day.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>22 March 2006 -- BusyBox 1.1.1</b> |
| - | <p>The new maintainer is Rob Landley, and the new release is <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.tar.bz2">BusyBox 1.1.1</a>. Expect a "what's new" document in a few days. (Also, Erik and I have have another announcement pending...)</p> |
| - | <p>Update: Rather than put out an endless stream of 1.1.1.x releases, |
| - | the various small fixes have been collected together into a |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.1.fixes.patch">patch</a>, |
| - | and new fixes will be appended to that as needed. Expect 1.1.2 around |
| - | June.</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | <li><b>11 January 2006 -- 1.1.0 is out</b> |
| - | <p>The new stable release is |
| - | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0.tar.bz2">BusyBox |
| - | 1.1.0</a>. It has a number of improvements, including several new applets. |
| - | (It also has <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2006-January/017733.html">a few rough spots</a>, |
| - | but we're trying out a "release early, release often" strategy to see how |
| - | that works. Expect 1.1.1 sometime in March.)</p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>31 October 2005 -- 1.1.0-pre1</b> |
| - | <p>The development branch of busybox is stable enough for wider testing, so |
| - | you can now |
| - | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.1.0-pre1.tar.bz2">download</a>, |
| - | the first prerelease of 1.1.0. This prerelease includes a lot of |
| - | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">new |
| - | functionality</a>: new applets, new features, and extensive rewrites of |
| - | several existing applets. This prerelease should be noticeably more |
| - | <a href="http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/">standards |
| - | compliant</a> than earlier versions of busybox, although we're |
| - | still working out the <a href="https://bugs.busybox.net">bugs</a>.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>16 August 2005 -- 1.01 is out</b> |
| - | |
| - | <p>A new stable release (<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.tar.bz2">BusyBox |
| - | 1.01</a>) is now available for download, containing over a hundred |
| - | <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/2005-August/015424.html">small |
| - | fixes</a> that have cropped up since the 1.00 release.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>13 January 2005 -- Bug and Patch Tracking</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Bug reports sometimes get lost when posted to the mailing list. The |
| - | developers of BusyBox are busy people, and have only so much they can keep |
| - | in their brains at a time. In my case, I'm lucky if I can remember my own |
| - | name, much less a bug report posted last week... To prevent your bug report |
| - | from getting lost, if you find a bug in BusyBox, please use the |
| - | <a href="https://bugs.busybox.net/">shiny new Bug and Patch Tracking System</a> |
| - | to post all the gory details. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The same applies to patches... Regardless of whether your patch |
| - | is a bug fix or adds spiffy new features, please post your patch |
| - | to the Bug and Patch Tracking System to make certain it is |
| - | properly considered. |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>13 October 2004 -- BusyBox 1.00 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | When you take a careful look at nearly every embedded Linux device or |
| - | software distribution shipping today, you will find a copy of BusyBox. |
| - | With countless routers, set top boxes, wireless access points, PDAs, and |
| - | who knows what else, the future for Linux and BusyBox on embedded devices |
| - | is looking very bright. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | It is therefore with great satisfaction that I declare each and every |
| - | device already shipping with BusyBox is now officially out of date. |
| - | The highly anticipated release of BusyBox 1.00 has arrived! |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Over three years in development, BusyBox 1.00 represents a tremendous |
| - | improvement over the old 0.60.x stable series. Now featuring a Linux |
| - | KernelConf based configuration system (as used by the Linux kernel), |
| - | Linux 2.6 kernel support, many many new applets, and the development |
| - | work and testing of thousands of people from around the world. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | If you are already using BusyBox, you are strongly encouraged to upgrade to |
| - | BusyBox 1.00. If you are considering developing an embedded Linux device |
| - | or software distribution, you may wish to investigate if using BusyBox is |
| - | right for your application. If you need help getting started using |
| - | BusyBox, if you wish to donate to help cover expenses, or if you find a bug |
| - | and need help reporting it, you are invited to visit the <a |
| - | href="FAQ.html">BusyBox FAQ</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>Old News</b><p> |
| - | <a href="/oldnews.html">Click here to read older news</a> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>16 August 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes release candidate 3... |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. |
| - | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>26 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc2 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes release candidate 2... |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. |
| - | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>20 July 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-rc1 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes release candidate 1... This fixes all (most?) of the problems |
| - | that have turned up since -pre10. In particular, loading and unloading of |
| - | kernel modules with 2.6.x kernels should be working much better. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | I <b>really</b> want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released soon and I see no real |
| - | reason why the 1.0.0 release shouldn't happen with things pretty much as |
| - | is. BusyBox is in good shape at the moment, and it works nicely for |
| - | everything that I'm doing with it. And from the reports I've been getting, |
| - | it works nicely for what most everyone else is doing with it as well. |
| - | There will eventually be a 1.0.1 anyway, so we might as well get on with |
| - | it. No, BusyBox is not perfect. No piece of software ever is. And while |
| - | there is still plenty that can be done to improve things, most of that work |
| - | is waiting till we can get a solid 1.0.0 release out the door.... |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this |
| - | time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. If you have submitted a |
| - | bug-fixing patch to the busybox mailing list and no one has emailed you |
| - | explaining why your patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch |
| - | has been lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your |
| - | bug-fixing patch to the BusyBox mailing list, and be sure to put "[PATCH]" |
| - | at the beginning of the email subject line! |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. |
| - | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | On a less happy note, My 92 year old grandmother (my dad's mom) passed away |
| - | yesterday (June 19th). The funeral will be Thursday in a little town about |
| - | 2 hours south of my home. I've checked and there is absolutely no way I |
| - | could be back in time for the funeral if I attend <a |
| - | href="http://www.linuxsymposium.org/2004/">OLS</a> and give my presentation |
| - | as scheduled. |
| - | <p> |
| - | As such, it is with great reluctance and sadness that I have come |
| - | to the conclusion I will have to make my appologies and skip OLS |
| - | this year. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>13 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre10 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Ok, I lied. It turns out that -pre9 will not be the final BusyBox |
| - | pre-release. With any luck however -pre10 will be, since I <b>really</b> |
| - | want to get BusyBox 1.0.0 released very soon. As usual, please do not |
| - | bother to send in patches adding cool new features at this time. Only |
| - | bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if |
| - | people could continue to review the BusyBox documentation and submit |
| - | improvements. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. |
| - | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>6 April 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre9 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes the final BusyBox pre-release... This is your last chance for |
| - | bug fixes. With luck this will be released as BusyBox 1.0.0 later this |
| - | week. Please do not bother to send in patches adding cool new features at |
| - | this time. Only bug-fix patches will be accepted. It would also be |
| - | <b>very</b> helpful if people could help review the BusyBox documentation |
| - | and submit improvements. I've spent a lot of time updating the |
| - | documentation to make it better match reality, but I could really use some |
| - | assistance in checking that the features supported by the various applets |
| - | match the features listed in the documentation. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | I had hoped to get this released a month ago, but |
| - | <a href="http://codepoet.org/gallery/baby_peter/img_1796"> |
| - | another release on 1 March 2004</a> has kept me busy... |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. |
| - | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>23 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre8 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes yet another BusyBox pre-release... Please do not bother to send |
| - | in patches supplying new features at this time. Only bug-fix patches will |
| - | be accepted. If you have a cool new feature you would like to see |
| - | supported, or if you have an amazing new applet you would like to submit, |
| - | please wait and submit such things later. We really want to get a release |
| - | out we can all be proud of. We are still aiming to finish off the -pre |
| - | series in February and move on to the final 1.0.0 release... So if you |
| - | spot any bugs, now would be an excellent time to send in a fix to the |
| - | busybox mailing list. It would also be <b>very</b> helpful if people could |
| - | help review the BusyBox documentation and submit improvements. It would be |
| - | especially helpful if people could check that the features supported by the |
| - | various applets match the features listed in the documentation. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all the details. |
| - | And as usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>4 February 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre7 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | There was a bug in -pre6 that broke argument parsing for a |
| - | number of applets, since a variable was not being zeroed out |
| - | properly. This release is primarily intended to fix that one |
| - | problem. In addition, this release fixes several other |
| - | problems, including a rewrite by mjn3 of the code for parsing |
| - | the busybox.conf file used for suid handling, some shell updates |
| - | from vodz, and a scattering of other small fixes. We are still |
| - | aiming to finish off the -pre series in February and move on to |
| - | the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any problems, of have |
| - | suggestions to make, as always, please feel free to email the |
| - | busybox mailing list. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. And as usual you can |
| - | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>30 January 2004 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre6 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable |
| - | series. This release adds a number of size optimizations, |
| - | updates udhcp, fixes up 2.6 modutils support, updates ash |
| - | and the shell command line editing, and the usual pile of |
| - | bug fixes both large and small. Things appear to be |
| - | settling down now, so with a bit of luck and some testing |
| - | perhaps we can finish off the -pre series in February and |
| - | move on to the final 1.0.0 release... If you see any |
| - | problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please |
| - | feel free to email the busybox mailing list. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | People who rely on the <a href="downloads/snapshots/">daily BusyBox snapshots</a> |
| - | should be aware that snapshots of the old busybox 0.60.x |
| - | series are no longer available. Daily snapshots are now |
| - | only available for the BusyBox 1.0.0 series and now use |
| - | the naming scheme "busybox-<date>.tar.bz2". Please |
| - | adjust any build scripts using the old naming scheme accordingly. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. And as usual you can |
| - | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>23 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre5 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes the next pre-release for the new BusyBox stable |
| - | series. The most obvious thing in this release is a fix for |
| - | a terribly stupid bug in mount that prevented it from working |
| - | properly unless you specified the filesystem type. This |
| - | release also fixes a few compile problems, updates udhcp, |
| - | fixes a silly bug in fdisk, fixes ifup/ifdown to behave like |
| - | the Debian version, updates devfsd, updates the 2.6.x |
| - | modutils support, add a new 'rx' applet, removes the obsolete |
| - | 'loadacm' applet, fixes a few tar bugs, fixes a sed bug, and |
| - | a few other odd fixes. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | If you see any problems, of have suggestions to make, as |
| - | always, please feel free to send an email to the busybox |
| - | mailing list. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. And as usual you can |
| - | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li><b>10 December 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre4 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes the fourth pre-release for the new BusyBox stable |
| - | series. This release includes major rework to sed, lots of |
| - | rework on tar, a new tiny implementation of bunzip2, a new |
| - | devfsd applet, support for 2.6.x kernel modules, updates to |
| - | the ash shell, sha1sum and md5sum have been merged into a |
| - | common applet, the dpkg applets has been cleaned up, and tons |
| - | of random bugs have been fixed. Thanks everyone for all the |
| - | testing, bug reports, and patches! Once again, a big |
| - | thank-you goes to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for stepping in and |
| - | helping get patches merged! |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | And of course, if you are reading this, you might have noticed |
| - | the busybox website has been completely reworked. Hopefully |
| - | things are now somewhat easier to navigate... If you see any |
| - | problems, of have suggestions to make, as always, please feel |
| - | free to send an email to the busybox mailing list. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. And as usual you can |
| - | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable |
| - | series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under |
| - | testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number |
| - | of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all |
| - | the testing, bug reports, and patches! |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox |
| - | mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your |
| - | patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has |
| - | somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. |
| - | Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox |
| - | mailing list! |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of |
| - | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be |
| - | fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature |
| - | (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO |
| - | list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the |
| - | modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have |
| - | patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be |
| - | integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports |
| - | a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit |
| - | more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x |
| - | module loading alone. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of |
| - | course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of |
| - | <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> |
| - | out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for |
| - | stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am |
| - | not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0 |
| - | -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September... |
| - | But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or |
| - | exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon |
| - | indeed. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. And as usual you can |
| - | <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable |
| - | series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of |
| - | testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of |
| - | bugs, and these problems have now been fixed. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up |
| - | with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added, |
| - | init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and |
| - | 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init. |
| - | an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows |
| - | read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the |
| - | 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were |
| - | tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this |
| - | release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch |
| - | was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch. |
| - | That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the |
| - | BusyBox mailing list. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of |
| - | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be |
| - | fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that |
| - | is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 |
| - | release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If |
| - | necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th. |
| - | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem |
| - | turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by |
| - | then... |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | The busybox development series has been under construction for |
| - | nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So |
| - | it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release |
| - | of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes |
| - | since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version |
| - | number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison |
| - | 1.0.x... |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of |
| - | people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be |
| - | fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen |
| - | later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next |
| - | Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th. |
| - | Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns |
| - | up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end |
| - | of July. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release |
| - | and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was |
| - | rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That |
| - | happens sometimes. Please do <b>NOT</b> send all your patches, |
| - | support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of |
| - | emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches |
| - | sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the |
| - | right place to send your patches, support questions, etc. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn |
| - | McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III |
| - | (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that |
| - | have made this release possible. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | You don't really need to bother with the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes |
| - | vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate. |
| - | But you can take a look if you really want too. |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable) |
| - | is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for |
| - | the stable series to address all the problems that have turned |
| - | up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release |
| - | had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried |
| - | to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init |
| - | was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have). |
| - | I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the |
| - | 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I |
| - | mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last |
| - | release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work |
| - | will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development |
| - | version to have its first real release very very soon now... |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4 |
| - | (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily |
| - | a bugfix release for the stable series to address all |
| - | the problems that have turned up since the last |
| - | release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series. |
| - | I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done |
| - | on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and |
| - | should soon be getting its first real release. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog.full">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is |
| - | now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release |
| - | for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since |
| - | the last release, and this should address most of those problems. |
| - | This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The |
| - | development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will |
| - | hopefully be ready to become the next stable release. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b><p> |
| - | |
| - | Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to |
| - | the fine folks at <a href="http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a> |
| - | who are providing hosting for busybox.net and |
| - | uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a> |
| - | in Canada and |
| - | <a href="http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a> |
| - | in Germany. I hope this makes things much more |
| - | accessible for everyone! |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> |
| - | <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox |
| - | users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net |
| - | (which is where you are probably reading this). |
| - | Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both |
| - | living on my home system (at the end of my DSL |
| - | line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of |
| - | busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have |
| - | the access needed to keep that system updated (for |
| - | example, you might notice the daily snapshots there |
| - | stopped some time ago).</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home |
| - | server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, |
| - | the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, |
| - | I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net |
| - | co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the |
| - | co-location effort, <a href= |
| - | "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> |
| - | (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated |
| - | his <a href= |
| - | "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer |
| - | for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this |
| - | system is co-located, the current speed problems |
| - | should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, |
| - | some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror |
| - | sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p><!-- |
| - | <center> |
| - | Click here to help support busybox.net! |
| - | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> |
| - | <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> |
| - | </form> |
| - | </center> |
| - | --> |
| - | Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox |
| - | donations, let me assure you that no one is getting |
| - | rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be |
| - | spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware |
| - | upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently |
| - | has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when |
| - | google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in |
| - | not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of |
| - | ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So |
| - | far, donations received have been sufficient to |
| - | cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may |
| - | have co-location fees to worry about, but for now |
| - | we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to |
| - | everyone that has contributed!<br> |
| - | -Erik</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li> |
| - | <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> |
| - | |
| - | <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox |
| - | 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This |
| - | one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable |
| - | series, and it should take care of most everyone's |
| - | needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have |
| - | been working on in CVS ready to release (with the |
| - | wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in |
| - | this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh |
| - | (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N. |
| - | Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when |
| - | told to do complex things with backticks.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and |
| - | powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it |
| - | should work with just about any Linux system you |
| - | throw it at. See the <a href= |
| - | "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most |
| - | of</small> the details. The last release was |
| - | <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should |
| - | be even better.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href= |
| - | "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Have Fun.<br> |
| - | -Erik</p> |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b> |
| - | |
| - | <!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> |
| - | <center> |
| - | Click here to help buy busybox.net! |
| - | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg"> |
| - | <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> |
| - | <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> |
| - | </form> |
| - | </center> |
| - | <!-- End PayPal Logo --> |
| - | |
| - | I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing |
| - | to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but |
| - | will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee |
| - | for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will |
| - | initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my |
| - | home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, |
| - | but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth |
| - | I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there |
| - | have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't |
| - | even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the |
| - | time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this |
| - | bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I |
| - | start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth |
| - | will start costing some money. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that |
| - | idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument |
| - | where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas |
| - | about what we should spend our money on that don't involve |
| - | busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the |
| - | mailing list and web page. So... |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick |
| - | up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I |
| - | know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as |
| - | individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to |
| - | contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that |
| - | would be wonderful! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes |
| - | up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in |
| - | the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em> |
| - | serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no |
| - | new features, no new applets. So without further ado, |
| - | here it is. Come and get it. |
| - | <p> |
| - | The |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of |
| - | BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, |
| - | and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on |
| - | x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number |
| - | of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. |
| - | Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice |
| - | stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes |
| - | a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and |
| - | cleans up a number of things. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can |
| - | use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a> |
| - | to give it a try by downloading and compiling |
| - | <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>. |
| - | You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. |
| - | Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html"> |
| - | BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires |
| - | a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the |
| - | the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a> |
| - | to view the tutorial. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the |
| - | version number of this release, let me point out that this release |
| - | is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a |
| - | bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form |
| - | a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a |
| - | stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable |
| - | 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then |
| - | 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that |
| - | the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the |
| - | next release and I don't want that to break products that people |
| - | are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be |
| - | released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will |
| - | have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things |
| - | stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then |
| - | I will release that as a new stable release series. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| - | the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of |
| - | BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This |
| - | release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons |
| - | of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds |
| - | several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, |
| - | and ash). |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers |
| - | some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that |
| - | are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, |
| - | BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth |
| - | of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / |
| - | viewing <a href="busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you |
| - | can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively |
| - | turning off whichever applets you don't need.) |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This |
| - | release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, |
| - | contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only |
| - | 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. |
| - | There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in |
| - | the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in |
| - | 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially |
| - | deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For |
| - | one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov |
| - | added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC |
| - | compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility |
| - | functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now |
| - | all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes |
| - | maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now |
| - | compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters |
| - | for letting me use their system!). |
| - | <p> |
| - | You can read the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for |
| - | complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from |
| - | <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| - | <p>Have Fun! |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= |
| - | "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy |
| - | image</a>. Here's how you use it: |
| - | |
| - | <ol> |
| - | |
| - | <li> <a href="downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> |
| - | Download the image</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img |
| - | of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> |
| - | |
| - | <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. |
| - | |
| - | </ol> |
| - | |
| - | <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: |
| - | |
| - | <pre> |
| - | mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos |
| - | cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp |
| - | umount /mnt |
| - | gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz |
| - | mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, |
| - | and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the |
| - | shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable |
| - | expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made |
| - | smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| - | <p> |
| - | lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it |
| - | now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as |
| - | long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. |
| - | Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and |
| - | environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that |
| - | this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible |
| - | framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of |
| - | business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell |
| - | currently in progress at |
| - | <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller |
| - | things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. |
| - | For a list of the most interesting changes |
| - | you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their |
| - | work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been |
| - | out of town. |
| - | <p> |
| - | <em>Special Note</em><br> |
| - | |
| - | BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox |
| - | shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. |
| - | Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new |
| - | shell that will eventually replace lash is already under |
| - | construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry |
| - | Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in |
| - | progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> |
| - | and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next |
| - | release of BusyBox. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very |
| - | rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar |
| - | update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is |
| - | optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know |
| - | that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are |
| - | now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox |
| - | shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian |
| - | woody) a .udeb can now be generated. |
| - | <p> |
| - | The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading |
| - | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to |
| - | this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. |
| - | <p> |
| - | <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 |
| - | syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new |
| - | apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, |
| - | renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. |
| - | There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for |
| - | more correct option parsing. |
| - | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> |
| - | for complete details. |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar, |
| - | and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow |
| - | people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a |
| - | completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better. |
| - | BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell. |
| - | See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> |
| - | for complete details. |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this |
| - | point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This |
| - | release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar, |
| - | mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and |
| - | telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see |
| - | the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for |
| - | details). |
| - | <p> |
| - | Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own |
| - | <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, |
| - | publically browsable |
| - | <a href="http://sources.busybox.net/index.py/trunk/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, |
| - | anonymous |
| - | <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and |
| - | for those that are actively contributing there is even |
| - | <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. |
| - | I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced |
| - | a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion |
| - | we are just skipping 0.44. |
| - | <p> |
| - | Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release |
| - | of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)! |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. |
| - | For example, with the following test app: |
| - | <pre> |
| - | #include <syslog.h> |
| - | |
| - | int do_log(char* msg, int delay) |
| - | { |
| - | openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON); |
| - | while(1) { |
| - | syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg); |
| - | sleep(delay); |
| - | } |
| - | closelog(); |
| - | return(0); |
| - | }; |
| - | |
| - | int main(void) |
| - | { |
| - | if (fork()==0) |
| - | do_log("A", 2); |
| - | do_log("B", 3); |
| - | } |
| - | </pre> |
| - | it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff |
| - | from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something |
| - | while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad). |
| - | <p> |
| - | Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. |
| - | Thanks Karl! |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty |
| - | good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release |
| - | so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps |
| - | have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, |
| - | freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely |
| - | rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced. |
| - | More details are available in the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| - | Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive |
| - | <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches |
| - | and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were |
| - | Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti, |
| - | Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason. |
| - | There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry. |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to |
| - | do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people |
| - | to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at |
| - | 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing |
| - | tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw |
| - | at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because |
| - | the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release |
| - | of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable |
| - | enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural |
| - | changes I still want to make. |
| - | <p> |
| - | The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>. |
| - | Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7 |
| - | lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City. |
| - | He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and |
| - | it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the |
| - | fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody |
| - | and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife |
| - | (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying |
| - | down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now" |
| - | (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the |
| - | contrary). |
| - | <p> |
| - | Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting |
| - | labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully. |
| - | <p> |
| - | So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle... |
| - | Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect |
| - | to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will |
| - | include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a |
| - | re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now |
| - | accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking |
| - | problems. |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many |
| - | bugs have been fixed. See the |
| - | <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details. |
| - | |
| - | Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount |
| - | filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and |
| - | behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak |
| - | loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, |
| - | Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for |
| - | their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound |
| - | on it and let me know if you find any bugs. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false, |
| - | mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid, |
| - | logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device |
| - | support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init. |
| - | The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | |
| - | This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support), |
| - | syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod. |
| - | New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm. |
| - | In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which |
| - | in some cases produced serious security problems. |
| - | As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox) |
| - | to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website |
| - | will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also |
| - | contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do, |
| - | what arguments its apps support, etc. |
| - | |
| - | <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains |
| - | the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full |
| - | changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>. |
| - | <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b> |
| - | <br> |
| - | This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, |
| - | and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | </ul> |
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| - | |
| - | <h3>Products/Projects Using BusyBox</h3> |
| - | |
| - | Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and |
| - | I'd be happy to link to you. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | I know of the following projects that use BusyBox -- |
| - | listed in the order I happen to add them to the web page: |
| - | |
| - | <ul> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a><br>A configurable |
| - | means for building your own busybox/uClibc based system systems, maintained |
| - | by the uClibc developers. |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://openwrt.org">OpenWrt</a> a Linux distribution for embedded |
| - | devices, based on buildroot. |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.pengutronix.de/software/ptxdist_en.html">PTXdist</a> |
| - | <br>another configurable means for building your own busybox based systems. |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href= |
| - | "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/"> |
| - | Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat installer</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href= |
| - | "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/slackware-current/source/rootdisks/"> |
| - | Slackware Installer</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux install/boot CDs</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.mandriva.com/">The Mandriva installer</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://Leaf.SourceForge.net">Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall</a> |
| - | <br>The sucessor of the Linux Router Project, supporting all sorts |
| - | of embedded Linux gateways, routers, wireless routers, and firewalls. |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href= |
| - | "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix Installer</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux 2.0 SBC</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS project</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your Linux Disk</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href= |
| - | "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - |
| - | VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on nanoEngine</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal Server Project</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.minimalinux.org/ttylinux/">ttylinux</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition Image</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil Hat Linux</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://sourceforge.net/projects/gp32linux/">gp32linux</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://familiar.handhelds.org/">Familiar Linux</a><br>A linux distribution for handheld computers |
| - | <li><a href="http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/">Timo's Rescue CD Set</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://sf.net/projects/netstation/">Netstation</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.fiwix.org/">GNU/Fiwix Operating System</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.softcraft.com/">Generations Linux</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://systemimager.org/relatedprojects/">SystemImager / System Installation Suite</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.bablokb.de/gendist/">GENDIST distribution generator</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/">DIET-PC embedded Linux thin client distribution</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/">BYZantine Gnu/Linux</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/">Darik's Boot and Nuke</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.timesys.com/">TimeSys real-time Linux</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://movix.sf.net/">MoviX</a><br>Boots from CD and automatically plays every video file on the CD |
| - | <li><a href="http://katamaran.sourceforge.net">katamaran</a><br>Linux, X11, xfce windowmanager, based on BusyBox |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/simplygnustep">Prometheus SimplyGNUstep</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.renyi.hu/~ekho/lowlife/">lowlife</a><br>A documentation project on how to make your own uClibc-based systems and floppy. |
| - | <li><a href="http://metadistros.hispalinux.es/">Metadistros</a><br>a project to allow you easily make Live-CD distributions. |
| - | <li><a href="http://salvare.sourceforge.net/">Salvare</a><br>More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk. |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.stresslinux.org/">stresslinux</a><br>minimal linux distribution running from a bootable cdrom or via PXE. |
| - | <li><a href="http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/">thinstation</a><br>convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thinclients. |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.uhulinux.hu/">UHU-Linux Hungary</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://deep-water.berlios.de/">Deep-Water Linux</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.freesco.org/">Freesco router</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://Sentry.SourceForge.net/">Sentry Firewall CD</a> |
| - | |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | And here are products that use BusyBox -- |
| - | |
| - | <ul> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.dream-multimedia-tv.de/">Dreambox (Linux based PVR)</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.elpa.it/eng/rd129gb.html">RD129 embedded board from ELPA</a> |
| - | <li>EMTEC MovieCube R700 uses Busybox 1.1.3. |
| - | <li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.isilver-inc.com/">I-Silver Linux appliance servers</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus PDA</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.cyclades.com/">Cyclades-TS and other Cyclades products</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508">Linksys WRT54G - Wireless-G Broadband Router</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/topics/sbtopic_005_truemobile.htm">Dell TrueMobile 1184</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://actiontec.com/products/modems/dual_pcmodem/dpm_overview.html">Actiontec Dual PC Modem</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.kiss-technology.com/">Kiss DP Series DVD players</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.netgear.com/products/prod_details.asp?prodID=170">NetGear WG602 wireless router</a> |
| - | <br>with sources <a href="http://www.netgear.com/support/support_details.asp?dnldID=453">here</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-411BRP.htm">TRENDnet TEW-411BRP 802.11g Wireless AP/Router/Switch</a> |
| - | <br>Source for busybox and udhcp <a href="http://www.trendware.com/asp/download/fileinfo.asp?file_id=277&B1=Search">here</a> though no kernel source is provided. |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.buffalo-technology.com/webcontent/products/wireless/wbr-g54.htm">Buffalo WBR-G54 wireless router</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.asus.com/products/communication/wireless/wl-300g/overview.htm">ASUS WL-300g Wireless LAN Access Point</a> |
| - | <br>with source<a href="http://www.asus.com.tw/support/download/item.aspx?ModelName=WL-300G">here</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493">Belkin 54g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router</a> |
| - | <br>with source<a href="http://web.belkin.com/support/gpl.asp">here</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.acronis.com/products/partitionexpert/">Acronis PartitionExpert 2003</a> |
| - | <br>includes a heavily modified BusyBox v0.60.5 with built in |
| - | cardmgr, device detection, gpm, lspci, etc. Also includes udhcp, |
| - | uClibc 0.9.26, a heavily patched up linux kernel, etc. Source |
| - | can only be obtained <a href="http://www.acronis.com/files/gpl/linux.tar.bz2">here</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.usr.com/">U.S. Robotics Sureconnect 4-port ADSL router</a><br> |
| - | with source <a href="http://www.usr.com/support/s-gpl-code.asp">here</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.actiontec.com/products/broadband/54mbps_wireless_gateway_1p/index.html"> |
| - | ActionTec GT701-WG Wireless Gateway/DSL Modem</a> |
| - | with source <a href="http://opensource.actiontec.com/">here</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://smartlinux.sourceforge.net/">S.M.A.R.T. Linux</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.dlink.com/">DLink - Model GSL-G604T, DSL-300T, and possibly other models</a> |
| - | with source <a href="ftp://ftp.dlink.co.uk/dsl_routers_modems/">here,</a> |
| - | with source <a href="ftp://ftp.dlink.de/dsl-products/">and here,</a> |
| - | and quite possibly other places as well. You may need to dig down a bit |
| - | to find the source, but it does seem to be there. |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.siemens-mobile.de/cds/frontdoor/0,2241,de_de_0_42931_rArNrNrNrN,00.html">Siemens SE515 DSL router</a> |
| - | with source <a href="http://now-portal.c-lab.de/projects/gigaset/">here, I think...</a> |
| - | with some details <a href="http://heinz.hippenstiel.org/familie/hp/hobby/gigaset_se515dsl.html">here.</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://freeterm.spb.ru/frwt/">Free Remote Windows Terminal</a> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.zyxel.com/">ZyXEL Routers</a> |
| - | |
| - | </ul> |
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| - | |
| - | <h3> Busybox Screenshot! </h3> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | Everybody loves to look at screenshots, so here is a live action screenshot of BusyBox. |
| - | |
| - | <pre style="background-color: black; color: lightgreen; padding: 5px; |
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| - | |
| - | $ busybox |
| - | BusyBox v1.10.1 (2008-04-24 11:30:07 CEST) multi-call binary |
| - | Copyright (C) 1998-2007 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko |
| - | and others. Licensed under GPLv2. |
| - | See source distribution for full notice. |
| - | |
| - | Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]... |
| - | or: function [arguments]... |
| - | |
| - | BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix |
| - | utilities into a single executable. Most people will create a |
| - | link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox |
| - | will act like whatever it was invoked as! |
| - | |
| - | Currently defined functions: |
| - | [, [[, addgroup, adduser, adjtimex, ar, arp, arping, ash, |
| - | awk, basename, bbconfig, brctl, bunzip2, bzcat, bzip2, |
| - | cal, cat, catv, chat, chattr, chcon, chgrp, chmod, chown, |
| - | chpasswd, chpst, chroot, chrt, chvt, cksum, clear, cmp, |
| - | comm, cp, cpio, crond, crontab, cryptpw, cttyhack, cut, |
| - | date, dc, dd, deallocvt, delgroup, deluser, devfsd, df, |
| - | dhcprelay, diff, dirname, dmesg, dnsd, dos2unix, dpkg, |
| - | dpkg-deb, du, dumpkmap, dumpleases, echo, ed, egrep, eject, |
| - | env, envdir, envuidgid, ether-wake, expand, expr, fakeidentd, |
| - | false, fbset, fdflush, fdformat, fdisk, fetchmail, fgrep, |
| - | find, findfs, fold, free, freeramdisk, fsck, fsck.minix, |
| - | ftpget, ftpput, fuser, getenforce, getopt, getsebool, |
| - | getty, grep, gunzip, gzip, halt, hd, hdparm, head, hexdump, |
| - | hostid, hostname, httpd, hush, hwclock, id, ifconfig, |
| - | ifdown, ifenslave, ifup, inetd, init, insmod, install, |
| - | ip, ipaddr, ipcalc, ipcrm, ipcs, iplink, iproute, iprule, |
| - | iptunnel, kbd_mode, kill, killall, killall5, klogd, lash, |
| - | last, length, less, linux32, linux64, linuxrc, ln, load_policy, |
| - | loadfont, loadkmap, logger, login, logname, logread, losetup, |
| - | lpd, lpq, lpr, ls, lsattr, lsmod, lzmacat, makedevs, matchpathcon, |
| - | md5sum, mdev, mesg, microcom, mkdir, mkfifo, mkfs.minix, |
| - | mknod, mkswap, mktemp, modprobe, more, mount, mountpoint, |
| - | msh, mt, mv, nameif, nc, netstat, nice, nmeter, nohup, |
| - | nslookup, od, openvt, passwd, patch, pgrep, pidof, ping, |
| - | ping6, pipe_progress, pivot_root, pkill, poweroff, printenv, |
| - | printf, ps, pscan, pwd, raidautorun, rdate, readahead, |
| - | readlink, readprofile, realpath, reboot, renice, reset, |
| - | resize, restorecon, rm, rmdir, rmmod, route, rpm, rpm2cpio, |
| - | rtcwake, run-parts, runcon, runlevel, runsv, runsvdir, |
| - | rx, script, sed, selinuxenabled, sendmail, seq, sestatus, |
| - | setarch, setconsole, setenforce, setfiles, setkeycodes, |
| - | setlogcons, setsebool, setsid, setuidgid, sha1sum, slattach, |
| - | sleep, softlimit, sort, split, start-stop-daemon, stat, |
| - | strings, stty, su, sulogin, sum, sv, svlogd, swapoff, |
| - | swapon, switch_root, sync, sysctl, syslogd, tac, tail, |
| - | tar, taskset, tcpsvd, tee, telnet, telnetd, test, tftp, |
| - | tftpd, time, top, touch, tr, traceroute, true, tty, ttysize, |
| - | udhcpc, udhcpd, udpsvd, umount, uname, uncompress, unexpand, |
| - | uniq, unix2dos, unlzma, unzip, uptime, usleep, uudecode, |
| - | uuencode, vconfig, vi, vlock, watch, watchdog, wc, wget, |
| - | which, who, whoami, xargs, yes, zcat, zcip |
| - | |
| - | $ <span style="text-decoration:blink;">_</span> |
| - | |
| - | </pre> |
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| - | |
| - | <h3>Hall of Shame!!!</h3> |
| - | |
| - | <p>This page is no longer updated, these days we forward this sort of |
| - | thing to the <a href="http://www.softwarefreedom.org">Software Freedom Law |
| - | Center</a> instead.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <p>The following products and/or projects appear to use BusyBox, but do not |
| - | appear to release source code as required by the <a |
| - | href="/license.html">BusyBox license</a>. This is a violation of the law! |
| - | The distributors of these products are invited to contact <a href= |
| - | "mailto:[email protected]">Erik Andersen</a> if they have any confusion |
| - | as to what is needed to bring their products into compliance, or if they have |
| - | already brought their product into compliance and wish to be removed from the |
| - | Hall of Shame. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Here are the details of <a href="/license.html">exactly how to comply |
| - | with the BusyBox license</a>, so there should be no question as to |
| - | exactly what is expected. |
| - | Complying with the Busybox license is easy and completely free, so the |
| - | companies listed below should be ashamed of themselves. Furthermore, each |
| - | product listed here is subject to being legally ordered to cease and desist |
| - | distribution for violation of copyright law, and the distributor of each |
| - | product is subject to being sued for statutory copyright infringement damages |
| - | of up to $150,000 per work plus legal fees. Nobody wants to be sued, and <a |
| - | href="mailto:[email protected]">Erik</a> certainly would prefer to spend |
| - | his time doing better things than sue people. But he will sue if forced to |
| - | do so to maintain compliance. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Do everyone a favor and don't break the law -- if you use busybox, comply with |
| - | the busybox license by releasing the source code with your product. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | <ul> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.trittontechnologies.com/products.html">Tritton Technologies NAS120</a> |
| - | <br>see <a href="http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.0/1611.html">here for details</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.macsense.com/product/homepod/">Macsense HomePod</a> |
| - | <br>with details |
| - | <a href="http://developer.gloolabs.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=123&forum=7">here</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.cpx.com/products.asp?c=Wireless+Products">Compex Wireless Products</a> |
| - | <br>appears to be running v0.60.5 with Linux version 2.4.20-uc0 on ColdFire, |
| - | but no source code is mentioned or offered. |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.inventel.com/en/product/datasheet/10/">Inventel DW 200 wireless/ADSL router</a> |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.sweex.com/product.asp">Sweex DSL router</a> |
| - | <br>appears to be running BusyBox v1.00-pre2 and udhcpd, but no source |
| - | code is mentioned or offered. |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.trendware.com/products/TEW-410APB.htm">TRENDnet TEW-410APB</a> |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://www.hauppauge.com/Pages/products/data_mediamvp.html">Hauppauge Media MVP</a> |
| - | <br>Hauppauge contacted me on 16 Dec 2003, and claims to be working on resolving this problem. |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://www.hitex.com/download/adescom/data/">TriCore</a> |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://www.allnet.de/">ALLNET 0186 wireless router</a> |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://www.dmmtv.com/">Dreambox DM7000S DVB Satellite Receiver</a> |
| - | <br> Dream Multimedia contacted me on 22 Dec 2003 and is working on resolving this problem. |
| - | <br> Source _may_ be here: http://cvs.tuxbox.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/tuxbox/cdk/ |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=331690">Sigma Designs EM8500 based DVD players</a> |
| - | <br>Source for the Sigma Designs reference platform is found here<br> |
| - | <a href="http://www.uclinux.org/pub/uClinux/ports/arm/EM8500/uClinux-2.4-sigma.tar.gz">uClinux-2.4-sigma.tar.gz</a>, so while Sigma Designs itself appears to be in compliance, as far as I can tell, |
| - | no vendors of Sigma Designs EM8500 based devices actually comply with the GPL.... |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://testing.lkml.org/slashdot.php?mid=433790">Liteon LVD2001 DVD player using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a> |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://www.rimax.net/">Rimax DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a> |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://www.vinc.us/">Bravo DVD players using the Sigma Designs EM8500</a> |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://www.hb-direct.com/">H&B DX3110 Divx player based on Sigma Designs EM8500</a> |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://www.recospa.it/mdpro1/index.php">United *DVX4066 mpeg4 capable DVD players</a> |
| - | </li><li><a href="http://www.a-link.com/RR64AP.html">Avaks alink Roadrunner 64</a> |
| - | <br> Partial source available, based on source distributed under NDA from <a href="http://www.lsilogic.com/products/dsl_platform_solutions/hb_linuxr2_2.html"> LSILogic</a>. Why the NDA LSILogic, what are you hiding ? |
| - | <br>To verify the Avaks infrigment see my slashdot <a href="http://slashdot.org/~bug1/journal/">journal</a>. |
| - | <br>The ZipIt wireless IM device appears to be using Busybox-1.00-pre1 in the ramdisk, however no source has been made available. |
| - | </li><li>Undoubtedly there are others... Please report them so we can shame them (or if necessary sue them) into compliance. |
| - | |
| - | </ul> |
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| - | <h3>Sponsors</h3> |
| - | |
| - | <p>Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their support! They have |
| - | provided money for equipment and bandwidth. Next time you need help with a |
| - | project, consider these fine companies!</p> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <ul> |
| - | <li><a href="http://osuosl.org/">OSU OSL</a><br> |
| - | OSU OSL kindly provides hosting for BusyBox and uClibc. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com/">Codepoet Consulting</a><br> |
| - | Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc development. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.laptopcomputers.org/">Laptop Computers</a> contributes |
| - | financially. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li>AOE media, a <a href="http://www.aoemedia.com/typo3-development.html"> |
| - | TYPO3 development agency</a> contributes financially. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.analog.com/en/">Analog Devices, Inc.</a> provided |
| - | a <a href="http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=bf537_quick_start"> |
| - | Blackfin development board</a> free of charge. |
| - | <a href="http://www.analog.com/blackfin">Blackfin</a> |
| - | is a NOMMU processor, and its availability for testing is invaluable. |
| - | If you are an embedded device developer, |
| - | please note that Analog Devices has entire Linux distribution available |
| - | for download for this board. Visit |
| - | <a href="http://blackfin.uclinux.org/">http://blackfin.uclinux.org/</a> |
| - | for more information. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.timesys.com/">TimeSys</a><br> |
| - | Embedded Linux development, cross-compilers, real-time, KGDB, tsrpm and cygwin. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net/">Penguru Consulting</a><br> |
| - | Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br> |
| - | Embedded open source consulting in Europe. |
| - | </li> |
| - | |
| - | </ul> |
| - | |
| - | <p>If you wish to be a sponsor, or if you have already contributed and would |
| - | like your name added here, email <a href="mailto:[email protected]">Denys</a>.</p> |
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| - | <h3>Accessing Source</h3> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <h3>Patches</h3> |
| - | |
| - | <p>You can <a href="downloads/">download</a> fixes for particular releases |
| - | of busybox, e.g. downloads/fixes-<em>major</em>-<em>minor</em>-<em>patch</em>/ |
| - | |
| - | <h3>Anonymous Subversion Access</h3> |
| - | |
| - | We allow anonymous (read-only) Subversion (svn) access to everyone. To |
| - | grab a copy of the latest version of BusyBox using anonymous svn access: |
| - | |
| - | <pre> |
| - | svn co svn://busybox.net/trunk/busybox</pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | The <em>stable branches</em> can be obtained with |
| - | <pre> |
| - | svn co svn://busybox.net/branches/busybox_1_NN_stable |
| - | </pre> |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | If you are not already familiar with using Subversion, I recommend you visit <a |
| - | href="http://subversion.tigris.org/">the Subversion website</a>. You might |
| - | also want to read online or buy a copy of <a |
| - | href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/">the Subversion Book</a>. If you are |
| - | already comfortable with using CVS, you may want to skip ahead to the <a |
| - | href="http://svnbook.red-bean.com/en/1.1/apa.html">Subversion for CVS Users</a> |
| - | part of the Subversion Book. |
| - | |
| - | <p> |
| - | |
| - | Once you've checked out a copy of the source tree, you can update your source |
| - | tree at any time so it is in sync with the latest and greatest by entering your |
| - | BusyBox directory and running the command: |
| - | |
| - | <pre> |
| - | svn update</pre> |
| - | |
| - | Because you've only been granted anonymous access to the tree, you won't be |
| - | able to commit any changes. Changes can be submitted for inclusion by posting |
| - | them to the BusyBox mailing list. For those that are actively contributing |
| - | <a href="developer.html">Subversion commit access</a> can be made available. |
| - | |
| - | <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |
| - | |
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| - | /* A sample style sheet for displaying the Subversion directory listing |
| - | that is generated by mod_dav_svn and "svnindex.xsl". */ |
| - | |
| - | body{ |
| - | margin: 0; |
| - | padding: 0; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | a { |
| - | color: navy; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .header { |
| - | padding-top: 5px; |
| - | text-align: center; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .footer { |
| - | margin-top: 8em; |
| - | padding: 0.5em 1em 0.5em; |
| - | border: 1px solid; |
| - | border-width: 1px 0; |
| - | clear: both; |
| - | border-color: rgb(30%,30%,50%) navy rgb(75%,80%,85%) navy; |
| - | background: rgb(88%,90%,92%); |
| - | font-size: 80%; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .svn { |
| - | margin: 3em; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .rev { |
| - | margin-right: 3px; |
| - | padding-left: 3px; |
| - | text-align: left; |
| - | font-size: 120%; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .dir a { |
| - | text-decoration: none; |
| - | color: black; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .file a { |
| - | text-decoration: none; |
| - | color: black; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .path { |
| - | margin: 3px; |
| - | padding: 3px; |
| - | background: #FFCC66; |
| - | font-size: 120%; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .updir { |
| - | margin: 3px; |
| - | padding: 3px; |
| - | margin-left: 3em; |
| - | background: #FFEEAA; |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .file { |
| - | margin: 3px; |
| - | padding: 3px; |
| - | margin-left: 3em; |
| - | background: rgb(95%,95%,95%); |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .file:hover { |
| - | margin: 3px; |
| - | padding: 3px; |
| - | margin-left: 3em; |
| - | background: rgb(100%,100%,90%); |
| - | /* border: 1px black solid; */ |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .dir { |
| - | margin: 3px; |
| - | padding: 3px; |
| - | margin-left: 3em; |
| - | background: rgb(90%,90%,90%); |
| - | } |
| - | |
| - | .dir:hover { |
| - | margin: 3px; |
| - | padding: 3px; |
| - | margin-left: 3em; |
| - | background: rgb(100%,100%,80%); |
| - | /* border: 1px black solid; */ |
| - | } |
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| - | <?xml version="1.0"?> |
| - | |
| - | <!-- A sample XML transformation style sheet for displaying the Subversion |
| - | directory listing that is generated by mod_dav_svn when the "SVNIndexXSLT" |
| - | directive is used. --> |
| - | <xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0"> |
| - | |
| - | <xsl:output method="html"/> |
| - | |
| - | <xsl:template match="*"/> |
| - | |
| - | <xsl:template match="svn"> |
| - | <html> |
| - | <head> |
| - | <title> |
| - | <xsl:if test="string-length(index/@name) != 0"> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="index/@name"/> |
| - | <xsl:text>: </xsl:text> |
| - | </xsl:if> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="index/@path"/> |
| - | </title> |
| - | <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/svnindex.css"/> |
| - | </head> |
| - | <body> |
| - | <div class="header" style="font-family: lucida, helvetica; font-size: 248%"> |
| - | <xsl:text>BUSYBOX</xsl:text> |
| - | </div> |
| - | <div class="header"> |
| - | <a href="http://www.busybox.net"><img src="/images/busybox1.png" border="0" /></a> |
| - | </div> |
| - | <div class="svn"> |
| - | <xsl:apply-templates/> |
| - | </div> |
| - | <div class="footer"> |
| - | <xsl:text>Powered by </xsl:text> |
| - | <xsl:element name="a"> |
| - | <xsl:attribute name="href"> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@href"/> |
| - | </xsl:attribute> |
| - | <xsl:text>Subversion</xsl:text> |
| - | </xsl:element> |
| - | <xsl:text> </xsl:text> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@version"/> |
| - | </div> |
| - | </body> |
| - | </html> |
| - | </xsl:template> |
| - | |
| - | <xsl:template match="index"> |
| - | <div class="rev"> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@name"/> |
| - | <xsl:if test="@base"> |
| - | <xsl:if test="@name"> |
| - | <xsl:text>:  </xsl:text> |
| - | </xsl:if> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@base" /> |
| - | </xsl:if> |
| - | <xsl:if test="@rev"> |
| - | <xsl:if test="@base | @name"> |
| - | <xsl:text> — </xsl:text> |
| - | </xsl:if> |
| - | <xsl:text>Revision </xsl:text> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@rev"/> |
| - | </xsl:if> |
| - | </div> |
| - | <div class="path"> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@path"/> |
| - | </div> |
| - | <xsl:apply-templates select="updir"/> |
| - | <xsl:apply-templates select="dir"/> |
| - | <xsl:apply-templates select="file"/> |
| - | </xsl:template> |
| - | |
| - | <xsl:template match="updir"> |
| - | <div class="updir"> |
| - | <xsl:text>[</xsl:text> |
| - | <xsl:element name="a"> |
| - | <xsl:attribute name="href">..</xsl:attribute> |
| - | <xsl:text>Parent Directory</xsl:text> |
| - | </xsl:element> |
| - | <xsl:text>]</xsl:text> |
| - | </div> |
| - | </xsl:template> |
| - | |
| - | <xsl:template match="dir"> |
| - | <div class="dir"> |
| - | <xsl:element name="a"> |
| - | <xsl:attribute name="href"> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@href"/> |
| - | </xsl:attribute> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@name"/> |
| - | <xsl:text>/</xsl:text> |
| - | </xsl:element> |
| - | </div> |
| - | </xsl:template> |
| - | |
| - | <xsl:template match="file"> |
| - | <div class="file"> |
| - | <xsl:element name="a"> |
| - | <xsl:attribute name="href"> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@href"/> |
| - | </xsl:attribute> |
| - | <xsl:value-of select="@name"/> |
| - | </xsl:element> |
| - | </div> |
| - | </xsl:template> |
| - | |
| - | </xsl:stylesheet> |
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| - | <!--#include file="header.html" --> |
| - | |
| - | |
| - | <h3>External Tiny Utilities</h3> |
| - | |
| - | This is a list of tiny utilities whose functionality is not provided by |
| - | busybox. If you have additional suggestions, please send an e-mail to our |
| - | dev mailing list. |
| - | |
| - | <br><br> |
| - | |
| - | <table> |
| - | <tr> |
| - | <th>Feature</th> |
| - | <th>Utilities</th> |
| - | </tr> |
| - | |
| - | <tr> |
| - | <td>SSH</td> |
| - | <td><a href="http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/">Dropbear</a> has both an ssh server and an ssh client that together come in around 100k. It has no external |
| - | dependencies (I.E. it does not depend on OpenSSL, using a built-in copy of |
| - | LibTomCrypt instead). It's actively maintained, with a quiet but responsive |
| - | mailing list.</td> |
| - | </tr> |
| - | |
| - | <tr> |
| - | <td>SMTP</td> |
| - | <td><a href="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/">ssmtp</a> is an extremely simple Mail Transfer Agent.</td> |
| - | </tr> |
| - | |
| - | <tr> |
| - | <td>ntp</td> |
| - | <td><a href="http://doolittle.icarus.com/ntpclient/">ntpclient</a> is a |
| - | tiny ntp client. BusyBox has rdate to set the date from a remote server, but |
| - | if you want a daemon to repeatedly adjust the clock over time, try that.</td> |
| - | </table> |
| - | |
| - | <p>In a gui environment, you'll probably want a web browser. |
| - | <a href="http://www.konqueror.org/embedded/">Konqueror Embedded</a> requires QT |
| - | (or QT Embedded), but not KDE. The <a href="http://www.dillo.org/">Dillo</a> |
| - | requires GTK+, but not Gnome. Or you can try the <a href="http://links.twibright.com/">graphical |
| - | version of links</a>.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <h3>SCRIPTING LANGUAGES</h3> |
| - | <p>Although busybox has built-in support for shell scripts, plenty of other |
| - | small scripting languages are available on the net. A few examples:</p> |
| - | <table> |
| - | <tr> |
| - | <th>language</th> |
| - | <th>description</th> |
| - | </tr> |
| - | <tr> |
| - | <td> <a href="http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0003.html">microperl</a> </td> |
| - | <td> A small standalone perl interpreter that can be built from the perl source |
| - | s via "make -f Makefile.micro". If you really feel the need for perl on an embe |
| - | dded system, this is where to start. |
| - | </tr> |
| - | <tr> |
| - | |
| - | <td><a href="http://www.lua.org/pil/">Lua</a></td> |
| - | <td>If you just want a small embedded scripting language to write <em>new</em> |
| - | code in, this Brazilian import is lightweight, fairly popular, and has |
| - | a complete book about it online.</td> |
| - | </tr> |
| - | |
| - | <tr> |
| - | <td><a href="http://www.star.le.ac.uk/%7Etjg/rc/">rc</a></td> |
| - | <td>The PLAN9 shell. Not compatible with conventional bourne shell syntax, |
| - | but fairly lightweight and small.</td> |
| - | </tr> |
| - | |
| - | </tr> |
| - | <tr> |
| - | <td><a href="http://www.forth.org/">forth</a></td> |
| - | <td>A well known language for fast and small programs, decades old but still |
| - | in use for everything from OpenBIOS to computer controlled engine timing.</td> |
| - | </tr> |
| - | </table> |
| - | |
| - | <p>For more information, you probably want to look at |
| - | <a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a> and |
| - | <a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo">TinyGentoo</a>, which |
| - | build and use tiny utilities for all sorts of things.</p> |
| - | |
| - | <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |
| - | |