BusyBox

From 766c0129754a81f7e3a94b7c798f8d6d26280120 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Andersen Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 22:43:07 +0000 Subject: Web site updates. -Erik --- docs/busybox.net/index.html | 258 ++++++++------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+), 215 deletions(-) (limited to 'docs/busybox.net/index.html') diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/index.html b/docs/busybox.net/index.html index d7ceabd3f..7140470b0 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/index.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/index.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ BusyBox - + @@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ Erik Andersen, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by

BusyBox is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE +

NEW!

+BusyBox now has a mailing list mailing list! +To subscribe, go and visit this page. @@ -70,6 +74,12 @@ BusyBox is licensed under the

Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox. +
BusyBox now has its own publically browsable + CVS tree, + anonymous + CVS access, and + for those that are actively contributing there is even + CVS write access.

@@ -86,155 +96,35 @@ BusyBox is licensed under the

19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix -
- Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd. - For example, with the following test app: -
```
-	#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);
-	}
-
```
- 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). -
- Karl M. Hegbloom has created a - fix for the problem. - Thanks Karl! - - -
18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!) -
- 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 - changelog. - Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive - documentation, complete with examples and full usage information. - -
- 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. -
- - You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs here. - -
9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release -
- 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. -
- The pre-release can be found here. - Please let me know ASAP if you find any bugs. - -
28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release -
- 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). -
- 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. -
- 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. - - -
11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released -
- - This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many - bugs have been fixed. See the -changelog 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. - -
19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released -
- - 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 here. - -
7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released +
21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released
- 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 here. - -
11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website -
- 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. - -
10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released + 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 changelog for + details). +
+ Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own + mailing list, + publically browsable + CVS tree, + anonymous + CVS access, and + for those that are actively contributing there is even + CVS write access. + I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox. +
+ Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release + of BusyBox! + + + +
Old News
- 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 here. -
5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released -
- This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, - and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. + For the old news, visit the old news page.

@@ -259,74 +149,6 @@ Current documentation for BusyBox includes: - - - - - - Related Software - - - - - -

ash - is a very small Bourne shell. If you need a shell for your embedded systems, this is it. -
- -
ae - is a tiny full-screen text editor with both modal (vi-like) and modeless - (emacs-like) modes, determined by an ae.rc config file. It makes a nice editor - if people that don't know "vi" will need to work on your embedded system. -
- -
elvis-tiny - is based on a 1991 Minix version of the elvis "vi" clone. It behaves as one would - expect a minimalist vi to behave, and is very small. -
- -
nano - A small GPLed pico clone that makes a nice editor for people that don't know "vi". -
- -
iproute - Much more flexible replacement for ifconfig, route, etc. It is quite small, and for - most networking applications, it is all you need. It also provides support for extremely - advanced networking and provides Quality of Service(QoS) support, but most people will - just need to use the "ip" command and will not even need to install the rest. -
- -
Pump - This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. When compiled properly, it - gives you dhcp client support for about 35k. -
- -
sash - The Stand Alone SHell. This is a small shell (not Bourne shell compatible) - that is similar to busybox in that it provides a number of common utilities as built-ins. -
- -
NewLib - This is a small C library intended for use on embedded systems. If you are finding - GNU libc is a bit too big for your applications, try NewLib and it may help. -
- -
asmutils - asmutils is similar to BusyBox in that it provides a number of common application - for embedded systems that are very tiny. In fact, they are a _lot_ smaller than the - equivalent apps in busybox -- but the price you pay for the size is reduced portability - (x86 only) and interfaces that are tied directly to a particular kernel (no libc involved). -
- -
TinyLogin - is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords, - and similar tasks, and which nicely complements BusyBox. -
- -

- @@ -373,6 +195,12 @@ Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to you. Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox

Other cool embedded software. +

+ +

opensource.lineo.com. +

Lineo is sponsoring BusyBox development.

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