From 0e59dca1baa5e37a5ed3d28c27845f8d2373a29a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Landley Date: Wed, 29 May 2019 20:00:04 -0500 Subject: Release 0.8.1. --- main.c | 2 +- www/news.html | 176 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 177 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/main.c b/main.c index 5f591904..2b1fdd61 100644 --- a/main.c +++ b/main.c @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ #ifndef TOYBOX_VENDOR #define TOYBOX_VENDOR "" #endif -#define TOYBOX_VERSION "0.8.0"TOYBOX_VENDOR +#define TOYBOX_VERSION "0.8.1"TOYBOX_VENDOR #endif // Populate toy_list[]. diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index 08191ea3..f824468e 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -8,6 +8,182 @@ a development environment. See the links on the left for details.

News

+

May 21, 2019

 +
+

"I like the cover," he said. "'Don't Panic.' It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

+
+ +

Toybox 0.8.1 +(git commit) +is out.

+ +

Android is now using toybox as part of a "hermetic" build +(meaning Android is building under toybox, which is halfway to Android +building under Android). See Android's build-tools and soong repositories to follow along with development, or check the list for the current status.

+ +

New commands: Isaac Dunham added mcookie, which is used by +X11. Elliott Hughes added devmem, which replaces toolbox's "r".

+ +

Promoted: tar, gunzip, and zcat were cleaned +up and moved out of pending. +Tar is a near-rewrite with support for --owner --group and --sparse, +capable of autodetecting "wget blah.tar.bz2 -O - | tar xv", a --restrict option +that only allows files to extract into a single subdirectory, and so on.

+ +

Added to pending: +Jarno Mäkipää contributed a new vi implementation. Makepost added +man.

+ +

Updates: Elliott added find -wholename/-iwholename, -printf, +and -context, grep --exclude-dir, and echo -E. +Rob added blkid -U and -L, mount now has UUID= support via blkid -U, +you can now specify TZ="blah" in the date -d input string (although +why the double quotes are required is an open question), and sed now +understands ,+N relative ranges. Makepost added rm -v. +The human_readable fields in ps/top/iotop now use all +available space to show more precision, iotop displays swap bandwidth +properly (it was showing a signed field as unsigned), and +touch -t and -d autodetect the time format.

+ +

Cleanups: In pending Rob did some bc cleanup, +Colin Davidson did some arp cleanup, +Uros Prestor fixed route argument parsing, and +in bc Daniel Rosenberg fixed bc_vec_concat()'s allocation and +Gavin Howard fixed an overflow bug in bc_num_ulong().

+ +

Elliott made scan_key() detect cursor keys and such with several more +terminal types, made more better about directories and non-tty output, +cleaned up inconsistent uses of ARRAY_LEN(), taught file +to recognize a c-sky ELF machine, and fixed timezone and daylight +savings time issues in date and its tests. +Rob simplified netcat and ping using new lib/net.c infrastructure. +When run as non-PID 1 (for a chroot) oneit's exit code now indicates +which signal it's exiting due to. +Hadrian Węgrzynowski #defined constants for mkpathat. +Date now uses the current time for unspecified fields (instead of zeroing +them), and should set the weekday properly. +Sort's -k2.3,4.5 syntax is now documented and behaves more closely to +other implementations (silly as that behavior is). +Significant speedup to sed s/a/b/g on a megabyte long line (it was +O(n^2) and now it's quite snappy).

+ +

Several cases of warning about stdout failing to write were silenced +because things like piping the output to head means stdout is a special +case: its output is often discarded and that's fine. And xprintf() +and friends only checks stdout for errors so it can exit early ("yes | head" +should not spin endlessly) without actually flushing anything. +There's an ongoing design debate about line buffering stdin and stdout +that'll have to be resolved next dev cycle.

+ +

Bugs: +Elliott sent in a lot of fixes for building AOSP with toybox: +support for more date formats, sed substitution of empty capture groups +and an endless loop with -EPIPE, fixed find -path/-ipath, made loggit() +only feed LOG_AUTH to syslog when we have a tty, gave grep a bunch +of --longname synonyms for short options, added getfattr --only-values, +and timeout --foreground --preserve-status and --signal.

+ +

Top got a lot of tweaks: it no longer collates thread's CPU usage into the +parent thread (in -H mode), hides the cursor in interactive mode, updates the +display properly in batch mode, and accepts ENTER +as a synonym for SPACE when refreshing the display. The header lines +now abbreviate long numbers with units (via human_readable()), +more reliably spans the terminal width, and says "Thread" instead +of "Task" when it's showing threads. The task/thread count now adds up +(understanding more kernel states and treating unknown ones as "sleeping"). +Top now treats -o "" as an error (previously it displayed an empty screen).

+ +

William Djupström pointed out login needs to chown() the tty, and made it +clear the environment when -p is absent. +Vidar Holen fixed inverted find -exec exit status. +Rob made chgrp() stop relying on libc's printf("%s", NULL) printing "(null)" +because a newly added gcc bug turns that into a build break, and +fixed an outright embarassing xstrndup() bug. +Liwugang fixed a segfault when stat's format string had a trailing %. +A missing else in grep meant -x was sometimes ignored.

+ +

Infrastructure: +in the build scripts/portability.sh now tests that the compiler it's trying +to use exists up front. We no longer link against librt because on glibc that's +pulling in libpthread for some unknown reason.

+ +

TOYFLAG_ARGFAIL() lets commands return custom exit values when option parsing +fails (because AOSP build scripts cared), so timeout --unknown returns 125 +and so on: chroot, diff, cmp, env, grep, nohup, and sort also use it now with +various values.

+ +

New FLAG() macros: FLAG(x) expands to (toys.optflags&FLAG_x) and returns +zero if the command line argument's bit isn't set and nonzero if it is +(meaning -x was or wasn't encountered on the command line this time by +lib/args.c). Lots of commands got converted to use them.

+ +

New lib/env.c with reset_env(), xsetenv(), and xunsetenv() which frees +the old environment variable when it wasn't inherited from exec(). This +lets long-running loops reset environment variables without memory leaks.

+ +

New xnotify() plumbing in lib/portability.c with Linux and BSD versions +(which should also work on MacOS X).

+ +

New xparsedate() and xvali_date() functions allow date, tar --mtime, and +touch to understand the same date formats, +xpopen_both() now knows how to use existing filehandles for the child's +stdin/stdout, and no longer redirects stderr (which hides errors), +new nanomove(), nanodiff(), union socksaddr, xrecvwait(), +and human_readable_long() to show more than 3 digits of output.

+ +

Taught xgetaddrinfo() to return a wildcard address for a NULL host, +xconnbind() sets SO_REUSEADDR by default, +fileunderdir() returns the abspath to the file now (since we had to work +it out anyway), and +xabspath() uses O_PATH now (because Android's SELinux rules got more aggressive).

+ +

Several new xsendfile() variants, including sendfile_len() to copy +a specific amount of data and xsendfile_pad() to append zeroes to the +output when there isn't enough input.

+ +

regexec0() is now using libc's REG_STARTEND supported by every libc out +there _except_ musl. (It originated in BSD and was adopted by glibc, bionic, +and uClibc 15 years ago, and is also supported in macosx. Musl's maintainer +turned down +the feature request as an invalid use case he didn't think they should +be trying to do.)

+ +

Docs: +the license page now has an SPDX identifier, and links to more +history/context. The actual LICENSE file had its title line removed +so github could recognize it as 0BSD. (We're still waiting for +"a while" to pass before github actually does, though.)

+ +

A new www/doc/mount.txt file describes how mount works under the covers.

+ + + +

New paragraph in the code style part of design.html explaining that +"char* a, b;" is not how C works, and since you wind up with "char *a, b;" +anyway you might as well say that.

+ +

Given dreamhost's tendency to repeatedly delete the mailing list +archive, the nav bar on the left links to a backup web archive now too.

+ +

The FAQ now says why we do time based releases.

+ +

Testing: Added VERBOSE=nopass to not show passing tests. +The test suite now does an rm -rf on testdir between each command so +debris files don't accumulate. +New skipnot function skips the next test if a command line fails, and +toyonly function only runs command when we're testing the toybox version +of command. (This isn't the same as TEST_HOST, the host version could be +toybox.) +The find -newer test calls "sleep .1" to avoid intermittently failing with an +identical timestamp. +Elliott added the start of a file.test rogues gallery. +No longer call lsattr in "make tests" because the behavior differs by +filesystem and it needs fixing somehow.

+

February 8, 2019

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