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2004-10-13Make certain clients of bb_make_directory default to honoringEric Andersen
the user's umask
2004-10-08egor duda writes:Eric Andersen
Hi! I've created a patch to busybox' build system to allow building it in separate tree in a manner similar to kbuild from kernel version 2.6. That is, one runs command like 'make O=/build/some/where/for/specific/target/and/options' and everything is built in this exact directory, provided that it exists. I understand that applyingc such invasive changes during 'release candidates' stage of development is at best unwise. So, i'm currently asking for comments about this patch, starting from whether such thing is needed at all to whether it coded properly. 'make check' should work now, and one make creates Makefile in build directory, so one can run 'make' in build directory after that. One possible caveat is that if we build in some directory other than source one, the source directory should be 'distclean'ed first. egor
2004-08-26Improve the setuid situation a bit, and make it more apparentEric Andersen
when people really ought to make busybox setuid root. -Erik
2004-07-30Fix incorrect arguments being passed to mknodEric Andersen
2004-07-30Fixup getty, login, etc so the utmp and wtmp are updated, allowingEric Andersen
the 'who' and 'last' applets among other things to work as expected. -Erik
2004-07-30Fix up brain damage with the way major and minor are used toEric Andersen
create a dev_t
2004-07-26BusyBox has no business hard coding the number of major and minor bits for aEric Andersen
dev_t. This is especially important now that the user space concept of a dev_t and the kernel concept of a dev_t are divergant. The only bit of user space allowed to know the number of major and minor bits is include/sys/sysmacros.h (i.e. part of libc). When used with a current C library and a 2.6.x kernel, this fix should allow BusyBox to support wide device major/minor numbers. -Erik
2004-07-24Patch by Paul Whittaker, make busybox dc compatable with GNU dc. Glenn L McGrath
the following example was broken, echo "1 1 +" | dc
2004-07-20Avoid a naming conflict with include/bits/fcntl.hEric Andersen
2004-07-20Include some documentation posted to the list by vodzEric Andersen
2004-06-05Woops, the previous commit was an accident, its supplied in the patch,Glenn L McGrath
dont commit yet as we are in feature freeze
2004-06-05Device table support for makedevs, the previous behaviour can beenGlenn L McGrath
selected at configure time.
2004-04-30BugfixesGlenn L McGrath
1) a non NULL terminated buffer that can mess up output, spotted by Ian Latter 2) in miscutils/strings.c: get rid of useless pointer dereference in third part of for(;;), spotted by Larry Doolittle 3) bug when reading from a pipe and being invoked as strings "cat Readme | strings" is broken "cat Readme | busybox strings" works spotted by Ian Latter and fixed by Tito.
2004-04-14Larry Doolittle writes:Eric Andersen
This is a bulk spelling fix patch against busybox-1.00-pre10. If anyone gets a corrupted copy (and cares), let me know and I will make alternate arrangements. Erik - please apply. Authors - please check that I didn't corrupt any meaning. Package importers - see if any of these changes should be passed to the upstream authors. I glossed over lots of sloppy capitalizations, missing apostrophes, mixed American/British spellings, and German-style compound words. What is "pretect redefined for test" in cmdedit.c? Good luck on the 1.00 release! - Larry
2004-04-05Tito, farmatito at tiscali dot it writes:Eric Andersen
Hi to all, I discovered a little bug in hdparm.c (really two little bugs...I've made...sigh! Mea culpa). Some vars were modified only locally and this could lead to wrong results to be displayed with the -I switch and maybe with others. Attached is a patch that fix it ( +88b). Also attached is second patch that reduces the size a little bit: text data bss dec hex filename 27984 624 900 29508 7344 hdparm.o (without bug-fix) 28072 624 900 29596 739c hdparm.o (with bug-fix) 28141 624 900 29665 73e1 hdparm.o (original) but maybe this one can wait as we are in a feature freeze. Ciao, Tito
2004-03-20Tito noticed a printf that should have been a bb_error_msg.Eric Andersen
2004-03-19Fix broken arg parsing (was not passing pointer to items so p, argc, and argvEric Andersen
were only modified locally). Fix error reporting to properly describe why ioctls fail.
2004-03-15Remove trailing whitespace. Update copyright to include 2004.Eric Andersen
2004-02-22Patch from Florian Schirmer. compile fix for debug buildsGlenn L McGrath
2004-02-22Fixup braces (patch from Thomas Geulig), run through indent and manuallyGlenn L McGrath
adjust.
2004-02-14Avoid naming conflict with symbol in newer glibc headersEric Andersen
2004-02-04Bug fix from Tito.Glenn L McGrath
2003-12-23Fix compile error, the indenting really needs to be fixed hereGlenn L McGrath
2003-12-20New applet, rx, by Christopher HooverGlenn L McGrath
2003-12-19Tito writes:Eric Andersen
Hi to all, here is a new patch for bb's devfsd. The news are: 1) Size reduction for the basic setup with no options compiled in from : text data bss dec hex filename 10591 392 543 11526 2d06 devfsd.o rw-r--r-- 1 root root 18536 Dec 18 21:52 devfsd.o to: text data bss dec hex filename 9303 392 543 10238 27fe devfsd.o rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16528 Dec 18 22:02 devfsd.o With this setup you should not expect much output from devfsd ( just at start or with -v) and if some error occurs it only exits 1. To have more output enable: " Increases logging (and size)" (+1568 b). 2) The option "Adds function names to program output" was removed from config menu and now to enable debug output you can use bb's standard option: "Build BusyBox with Debugging symbols". Be careful as with this option enabled a lot of data are outputted to /dev/log and/or to stderr. 3) A new option: "Enables the -fg and -np option" was added to config menu (+128 b). BTW: option "Adds support for MODLOAD keyword in devsfd.conf" adds 268 b. 4) The following keywords in devsfd.conf are supported: "CLEAR_CONFIG", "INCLUDE", "OPTIONAL_INCLUDE", "RESTORE", "PERMISSIONS", "EXECUTE", "COPY", "IGNORE", "MKOLDCOMPAT", "MKNEWCOMPAT","RMOLDCOMPAT", "RMNEWCOMPAT". But only if they are written UPPERCASE!!!!!!!! 5)Help text in usage.h was modified. 6)Something that I have forgotten.......... I've tested this for the last week on my box and it seems to work as expected. Thanks in advance and please apply. Ciao, Tito
2003-12-15Get vfork_daemon_rexec working under uclinuxRuss Dill
2003-12-12Fix compile when CONFIG_FEATURE_HDPARM_GET_IDENTITY is disabledEric Andersen
2003-11-30Patch from Tito, size optimisation, cleanup noise when in debuggingGlenn L McGrath
mode, adds support for MODLOAD keyword in devfsd.conf, provides a cleaned up version of example/devfsd.conf
2003-11-28Correct Matteo's email addressGlenn L McGrath
2003-11-07Patch from Steven Scholz to send the output from 'time'Eric Andersen
to stderr, rather than stdout, so that things like ~ # time bunzip2 -c /tmp/test.bz2 > /dev/null real 0m 29.44s user 0m 29.30s sys 0m 0.12s operate as expected.
2003-10-22the dc applet now needs libmEric Andersen
-Erik
2003-10-22Goetz Bock writes:Eric Andersen
Dear list, during my quest do pack busybox into an RPM, I've fixed a small bug (missing \n) in dc's usage. And added two additional operations: mod and exp/power. Feel free to drop them.
2003-10-22last_patch116 from vodz:Eric Andersen
Stephane, >Using busybox+uclibc, crond syslog messages look like: > >Oct 9 09:04:46 soekris cron.notice crond[347]: ^Icrond 2.3.2 dillon, >started, log level 8 Thanks for testing. >The attached patch corrects the problem. Your patch is not correct. Correct patch attached. Also. Last patch have - add "Broken pipe" message to ash.c - busybox ash synced with dash_0.4.18 --w vodz
2003-10-22Tito writes:Eric Andersen
Hi to all, I'm sorry but I didn't spot this big fat bug until now, Matteo Croce emailed me about it. Please apply this patch as the devfsd applet is broken and works only on a system booted with a standard devfsd ( the test I mostly did :-( ), but if used at boot time it DOESN'T WORK. Thanks in advance and please apply Tito
2003-10-22Andreas Mohr writes:Eric Andersen
the busybox menuconfig triggered my "inacceptable number of spelling mistakes" upper level, so I decided to make a patch ;-) I also improved some wording to describe some things in a better way. Many thanks for an incredible piece of software! Andreas Mohr, random OSS developer
2003-10-17old gccTim Riker
2003-10-09Do not use kernel headersEric Andersen
2003-10-09New applet, devfsd, by Matteo Croce and TitoGlenn L McGrath
2003-10-09Patch from Steven Scholz, fix some warningsGlenn L McGrath
2003-10-09Patch from Tito, size optimisation and fix error in exit code of -VGlenn L McGrath
option
2003-09-15Patch from Tito, Reduces the size of busybox's strings applet from 1900 toGlenn L McGrath
1788 bytes (for strings.o).
2003-09-15Update Matteo Croce's email addressGlenn L McGrath
2003-09-03more crond+crontab integrating with loginutil libbb functions and deletedGlenn L McGrath
patch from Thomas Gleixner to init. Viodz last_patch_108
2003-09-02move all "-/bin/sh" "/bin/sh" and "sh" to libbb/messages.c file as oneGlenn L McGrath
constant. Vodz last_patch_107
2003-08-30save a couple of bytesGlenn L McGrath
2003-08-29"A little patch for the strings applet of the busybox development treeGlenn L McGrath
that substitutes two lines of code with a libbb function saving a couple of bytes." - Tito
2003-08-28"Typo and/or thinko: scanning till the end of NUL terminated stringGlenn L McGrath
should check the byte pointed at not the pointer itself." -junkio@
2003-08-08Implement a minimalist 'last' which allows the LEAF project toEric Andersen
no longer need dumtp. Remove the 'dumtp' applet. -Erik
2003-08-08quiet some noiseEric Andersen
2003-08-06Patch from Steven Scholz:Eric Andersen
should we rename the define into CONFIG_FEATURE_HDPARM_HDIO_DMA and use it for "set" and "get" ??? Since although CONFIG_FEATURE_HDPARM_HDIO_GET_DMA is _not_ set I still can use "hdparm -d 1 /dev/hda" to switch the DMA on. Is this desireable or meant to be like that? So how about the applied patch?