From 0c284d35e533c9d49dbfe2cfe3d68e680e79a66d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Landley Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 03:26:33 -0500 Subject: Web page updates. --- www/news.html | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 60 insertions(+) (limited to 'www/news.html') diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index f2733a72..a66ed6a8 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -8,6 +8,66 @@ a development environment. See the links on the left for details.

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October 12, 2017

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Would it save you a lot of time if I just gave up and went +mad now?

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- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Toybox 0.7.5 +(git commit) +is out.

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This is another mostly bugfix release. I delayed it a bit trying to get some +of the many half-finished projects (dd, ping, lsof, iconv, cut, sysconf, +the cp --parents option...) finished/promoted/tested, but decided adding big +things at the end of the dev cycle would be too destabilizing.

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A couple new features slipped in anyway. Ilya Kuzmich added head -c +and strings -t (and corrected strings' output in a couple places). Elliott +Hughes taught file to recognize Macintosh (Mach-O) binaries.

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NOTE: the chrt command is broken when built against musl-libc +because that project's maintainer decided he didn't like the system calls +it depends on, so he +removed +them from his libc. The prebuilt binaries are built against musl, +so the chrt command there will always say -ENOSYS. (It works fine built against +glibc, and presumably bionic or uClibc.)

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Bugfixes: Remounting (mount -o remount,rw) should work properly now, +and we fixed another place ps was segfaulting when /proc +entries vanished out from under us (a hard to hit race condition +mostly noticeable in long-running "top" exiting; error value was treated +as a pointer). Elliott Hughes fixed a -Wformat warning in expr.c, +and made xargs split the command +line at ARG_MAX (which is 1/4 the stack size ulimit, which normal users +can arbitrarily increase but execve() will complain if they don't). +Josh Gao made netcat -l exit after handling a request, and reported a +seq bug (seq "1000000 10000001" output 1e+06, fixed now). Zach Riggle fixed a +broken URL in the README. Rob fixed env -0 checking the flag wrong so +it didn't work in combination with other flags (typo).

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Plumbing: +Replaced mbrtowc() with a new utf8towc() that doesn't have a context +struct or care about locale. A bugfix in comma_scan() (wasn't removing an entry at the end +of the list) is why remount _sometimes_ worked (depending on argument +order), xgetaddrinfo() is now separate from xconnect(), +atolx_range() learned the w (word=2) suffix, and b is now (block=512) instead +of (byte=1).

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Build: Patrick Oppenlander added a workaround for a bug in config2help.c +that resulted in segfaults on newer toolchains. (It was actually a use +after free error; the build infrastructure isn't nearly as heavily audited as +code that gets installed on the target; oops.) A new GITHASH +environment variable can force the build version from +the command line, and the build checks for .git in the top directory +before asking git what our version is (so it isn't confused by ../../.git +in an enclosing directory). Added a build #warning about musl intentionally +breaking chrt (as with nommu fork() musl now provides a broken +stub function so compile-time probes for its existence think it's there, and +you can't run the result to test behavior when cross compiling).

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June 19, 2017

It is a well-known fact that those people who most want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job.

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