From c397792ab361f5f13ae519f80cc16f3818e66202 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bernhard Reutner-Fischer Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 16:08:06 +0000 Subject: - tweak markup. No relevant changes --- docs/busybox.net/fix.html | 2 +- docs/busybox.net/footer.html | 16 +- docs/busybox.net/header.html | 14 +- docs/busybox.net/news.html | 542 ++++++++++++++++++++-------------------- docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html | 2 +- 5 files changed, 291 insertions(+), 285 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/fix.html b/docs/busybox.net/fix.html index 45621cde7..7bd7fe0f4 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/fix.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/fix.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@

If you found a regression or severe bug in busybox, and you have a patch for it, and you want to see it added to "hot fixes", please rediff your patch against corresponding unmodified busybox source and send it to - the mailing list. + the mailing list.

diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/footer.html b/docs/busybox.net/footer.html index 2243b6947..066709237 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/footer.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/footer.html @@ -11,32 +11,36 @@ diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/header.html b/docs/busybox.net/header.html index f19de9eec..057b27adc 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/header.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/header.html @@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ body { background-color: #DEE2DE; color: #000000; + font-family: lucida, helvetica, arial; + font-size: 100%; } :link { color: #660000 } :visited { color: #660000 } @@ -18,7 +20,7 @@ - +

- + + Copyright © 1999-2008 Erik Andersen
Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to
Denys Vlasenko vda.linux@googlemail.com
+

+ alt="This site created with the vi editor" />

+ alt="This site is kindly hosted by OSL" />

@@ -31,7 +33,7 @@

@@ -83,15 +85,7 @@
- unscd - - - - diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html index 0d9083215..feb0a7c56 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html @@ -14,129 +14,129 @@

New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir) -

Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression): +

Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):

ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1" -
ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd! -
ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2 -
ash: fix segfault in "command -v" -
ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator -
ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading -
ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before -
hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all -
hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not -
hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case -
hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites -
hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code) -
hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements -
hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case -
hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"') -
hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names -
libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets +
ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"
ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd!
ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2
ash: fix segfault in "command -v"
ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator
ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading
ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before
hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all
hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not
hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case
hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites
hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code)
hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements
hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case
hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"')
hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names
libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets

Other changes: + Other changes:

libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364) -
libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174) -
libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help" -
libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32() -
libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read) -
libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector -
libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir) -
lineedit: fix use-after-free -
libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too -
bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1]) -
open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor -
open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit -
arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564) -
ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code -
awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading. -
build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op -
bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net) -
b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854) -
comm: almost total rewrite -
cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard) -
cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files -
cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG -
cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k -
cpio: support some long options -
crond: use execlp instead of execl -
cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544) -
envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases -
findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary -
fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir) -
fuser: a bit of safety in scanf -
grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes -
halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT -
httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de -
ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks -
ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com) -
ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com) -
inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found -
insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing -
install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa) -
install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584) -
lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies -
ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable -
man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com -
man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given -
man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable -
man: fix missed NULL termination of an array -
man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode -
man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de) -
man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config -
mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection -
mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist -
mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it -
mdev: support for serializing hotplug -
mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization -
mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com) -
modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras) -
modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads() -
modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one -
mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime" -
mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com) -
mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime" -
mount: testsuite for "-o mand" -
msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884) -
mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints -
netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu) -
nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594) -
od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104) -
pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054) -
printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214) -
printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite -
printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184) -
sendmail: updates from Vladimir: -
sendmail: do not discard all headers -
sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes -
sendmail: fixed mail recipient address -
sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed -
sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified -
sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat) -
ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too -
ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore -
ssd: fix -a without -x case -
ssd: use $PATH -
tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0 -
tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection -
taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy -
tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "") -
tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way -
telnetd: fix issue file printing -
test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does -
testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e -
time: don't segfault with no arguments -
touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile) -
tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354 -
tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374) -
tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374) -
unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard) -
vi: fix reversed checks for underflow -
vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid -
xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414) -
other fixes and code size reductions in many applets +
libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364)
libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174)
libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help"
libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()
libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)
libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector
libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)
lineedit: fix use-after-free
libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too
bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])
open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor
open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit
arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)
ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code
awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading.
build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op
bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)
b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)
comm: almost total rewrite
cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard)
cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files
cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG
cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k
cpio: support some long options
crond: use execlp instead of execl
cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544)
envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases
findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary
fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir)
fuser: a bit of safety in scanf
grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes
halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT
httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de
ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks
ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)
ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com)
inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found
insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing
install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa)
install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584)
lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies
ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable
man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com
man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given
man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable
man: fix missed NULL termination of an array
man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode
man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de)
man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config
mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection
mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist
mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it
mdev: support for serializing hotplug
mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization
mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)
modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)
modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()
modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one
mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"
mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)
mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime"
mount: testsuite for "-o mand"
msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884)
mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints
netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)
nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594)
od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104)
pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054)
printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214)
printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite
printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184)
sendmail: updates from Vladimir:
sendmail: do not discard all headers
sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes
sendmail: fixed mail recipient address
sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed
sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified
sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat)
ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too
ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore
ssd: fix -a without -x case
ssd: use $PATH
tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0
tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection
taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy
tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "")
tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way
telnetd: fix issue file printing
test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does
testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e
time: don't segfault with no arguments
touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile)
tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354
tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374)
tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374)
unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard)
vi: fix reversed checks for underflow
vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid
xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414)
other fixes and code size reductions in many applets

The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact @@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk, bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi.

11 July 2008 -- HOWTO is updated

@@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't work for you.

25 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.0 (unstable), BusyBox 1.10.4 (stable)

BusyBox 1.11.0. @@ -181,41 +183,43 @@

Changes since previous release:

build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX -
ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes -
hush: lots and lots of fixes -
msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead) -
msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed -
udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels -
mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp -
diff: make it work on non-seekable streams -
openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one -
mdev: fix block/char device detection -
ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons) -
crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines -
start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund) -
date: make it accept ISO date format -
echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo) -
httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR -
printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo -
syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate -
ls: support Unicode in names -
ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa) -
mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat) -
libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again -
other fixes and code size reductions in many applets +
build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX
ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes
hush: lots and lots of fixes
msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead)
msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed
udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels
mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp
diff: make it work on non-seekable streams
openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one
mdev: fix block/char device detection
ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons)
crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines
start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund)
date: make it accept ISO date format
echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo)
httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR
printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo
syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate
ls: support Unicode in names
ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa)
mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat)
libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again
other fixes and code size reductions in many applets

The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.

12 June 2008 -- Sponsors!

We want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project: +

AOE media, a - TYPO3 development agency contributes financially. + TYPO3 development agency contributes financially.
Analog Devices, Inc. provided a Blackfin development board free of charge. @@ -226,8 +230,9 @@ for download for this board. Visit http://blackfin.uclinux.org/ for more information. +

5 June 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.3 (stable)

BusyBox 1.10.3. @@ -238,6 +243,7 @@ Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, ip, mdev and syslogd.

8 May 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.2 (stable)

BusyBox 1.10.2. @@ -250,6 +256,7 @@

Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please report if you encounter any problems with it.

19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)

BusyBox 1.10.1. @@ -259,6 +266,7 @@

Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. +

21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)

BusyBox 1.10.0. @@ -289,131 +297,132 @@ iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 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. - +

Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. - +

Changes since previous release: +

globally: add -Wunused-parameter -
globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations -
adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>) -
adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134 -
ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947 -
ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142 -
build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case -
build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host -
build system: make it do without "od -t" -
build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376 -
build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU -
cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470 -
crontab: almost complete rewrite -
dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets -
dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed -
eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth) -
fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels -
fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>) -
fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/ -
fuser: substantial rewrite -
getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> -
getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>) -
halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled -
httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530 -
httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked -
httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/" -
httpd: fix for POST upload -
httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>) -
hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure -
hush: more correct handling of piping -
hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU -
hush: report [v]fork failures -
hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed -
hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness -
inetd: make "udp nowait" work -
inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable -
init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>) -
init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n" -
init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing -
init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words -
init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de) -
ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var) -
last: do not go into endless loop on read error -
less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1) -
less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now -
less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars -
less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption -
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 -
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! -
libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too -
libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets -
libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error -
libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it> -
libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now! -
login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended -
microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible -
microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t -
mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>) -
mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected -
mount: add another mount helper call method -
mount: allow and ignore _netdev option -
mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) -
mount: optional support for -vv verbosity -
mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command -
mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835) -
mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root -
mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143 -
mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make -
msh: create testsuite (based on hush one) -
msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin -
msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing -
msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time) -
msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed -
msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway -
msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters -
netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc -
nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt] -
nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com> -
od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly -
patch: don't trash permissions of patched file -
ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time -
ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns -
reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414 -
rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com> -
run-parts: add --reverse -
script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output -
sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214 -
sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591 -
stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>) -
switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425 -
syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls -
syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead -
syslogd: fix shmat error check -
syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436 -
syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574 -
syslogd: tighten up hostname handling -
tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages) -
tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end -
tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992 -
tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> -
tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket -
telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell" -
test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args" -
trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected -
udhcp: make file paths configurable -
udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports -
udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE -
udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>) -
udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>) -
umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint -
umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro -
umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604 -
unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com> -
unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge) -
unzip: handle short reads correctly -
vi: many fixes -
zcip: don't chdir to root -
zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket) +
globally: add -Wunused-parameter
globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations
adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>)
adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134
ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947
ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142
build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case
build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host
build system: make it do without "od -t"
build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376
build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU
cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470
crontab: almost complete rewrite
dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets
dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed
eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth)
fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels
fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>)
fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/
fuser: substantial rewrite
getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com>
getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>)
halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled
httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530
httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked
httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/"
httpd: fix for POST upload
httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>)
hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure
hush: more correct handling of piping
hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU
hush: report [v]fork failures
hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed
hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness
inetd: make "udp nowait" work
inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable
init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>)
init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n"
init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing
init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words
init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)
ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var)
last: do not go into endless loop on read error
less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1)
less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now
less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars
less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption
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
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!
libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too
libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets
libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error
libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>
libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now!
login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended
microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible
microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t
mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>)
mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected
mount: add another mount helper call method
mount: allow and ignore _netdev option
mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>)
mount: optional support for -vv verbosity
mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command
mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835)
mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root
mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143
mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make
msh: create testsuite (based on hush one)
msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin
msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing
msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time)
msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed
msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway
msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters
netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc
nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt]
nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com>
od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly
patch: don't trash permissions of patched file
ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time
ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns
reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414
rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com>
run-parts: add --reverse
script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output
sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214
sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591
stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>)
switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425
syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls
syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead
syslogd: fix shmat error check
syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436
syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574
syslogd: tighten up hostname handling
tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages)
tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end
tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992
tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com>
tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket
telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell"
test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args"
trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected
udhcp: make file paths configurable
udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports
udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE
udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>)
udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>)
umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint
umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro
umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604
unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>
unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge)
unzip: handle short reads correctly
vi: many fixes
zcip: don't chdir to root
zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)

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