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Toybox combines the most common Linux command line utilities together +

Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable that's simple, small, fast, reasonably standards-compliant, and powerful enough to turn Android into a development environment. See the links on the left for details.

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September 17, 2013 +

"Think of a number," said the computer, "any number." +Arthur told the computer the telephone number of King's Cross railway +station passenger inquiries, on the grounds that it must have some function, +and this might turn out to be it. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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Toybox 0.4.6 is based on +commit 1068.

+ +

This release adds +several new commands: Felix Janda wrote paste and fallocate, Kyungwan Han +submitted eject, Strake contributed grep, Ashwini Sharma added pmap (and +a testsuite entry for grep), Lukasz Skalski sent pwdx, Isaac Dunham posted +acpi, and I did timeout and umount.

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The ls command now has a --color=auto option (suggested by Rich Felker). +The multiplexer now has a --help option so you can say "./toybox --help blah" +instead of using the built-in "help" command. (Which is a shell built-in. +Try it on your command line, it's like man for shell builtins. But a certain +other project has conditioned people to expect --help, so...) I forget who +heehooman at gmail is but they pointed out unshare needed PID and UID +namespace support.

+ +

Pending

+ +

A lot of new commands in toys/pending, to the point the next release should +probably just focus on cleanup and review of this backlog. We've got klogd, +dhcp, dhcpd, watch, route, and ps from +Ashwini Sharma (and an fdisk wrapper but no fdisk.fstype engines yet), +syslogd, pgrep, and pkill from Madhur Verma, netstat by Ranjan Kumar, +test by Felix Janda, lspci by Isaac Dunham, nl, su, and renice by strake (I.E. +M. Farkas-Dyck), and sysvinit by Kyungwan Han.

+ +

Some cleanup work on existing pending commands that aren't +ready to promote yet: I did a few more rounds on ifconfig +and Isaac Dunham's did several cleanups to xzcat, Felix Janda cleaned up +logger and syslogd...

+ +

Also some cleanup work on commands that predate the pending directory, +but weren't quite polished when they went in, most prominently du, +expand, and touch.

+ +

Infrastructure

+ +

The new scripts/single.sh builds a standalone command without the +multiplexer, although not all commands can be built that way yet (NEWTOY yes, +OLDTOY no) and the space savings aren't anything to write home about. (If a +command needs the option parsing logic at all, it needs all of it.) If +you're curious, you can do:

+ +
+make defconfig
+make
+mkdir singles
+for i in $(./toybox)
+do
+  echo $i
+  PREFIX=singles/ scripts/single.sh $i || break
+done
+
+

(And then wait a long time and watch almost half the builds fail.)

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+ +

There is now libbuf analogous to toybuf, another global 4k buffer this +time for use by lib/ code instead of command code.

+ +

The lib directory got split up a bit, lib/pending.c contains functions +not yet used by anything outside of toys/pending/*, and lib/xwrap.c contains +functions that wrap other functions and handle failures (via error_exit). +This leaves lib/lib.c containing actual new functions.

+ +

General improvements and bug fixes to argument parsing. The [-abc] exclude +logic should now clear arguments slots when disabling options. Bare --longopts +should work now and be able to report errors using their name, the new ; +option allows optional arguments to longopts only suppliable with = (I.E. +--color and --color=auto but not --color auto).

+ +

I'm gradually weaning the code off of itoa()/utoa() because sprintf +does this already. In this case "simple" probably means "let libc do it +for us".

+ +

Rewrote for_each_pid_with_name_in() and renamed it to just names_to_pid(). +It shouldn't get confused trying to compare absolute and relative paths quite +so much anymore.

+ +

lib/llist.c grew a new dlist_pop() function for removing a doubly +linked list entry while maintaining a circular list; tail and patch are +using it now.

+ +

The musl guys suggested a new optimization flag +(-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables) +that shaves about 10% off the binary size by removing a C++ism that crept +into gcc's idea of C. While I don't normally try to micromanage the compiler, +"-fstop-being-stupid" is a thing you have to hit gcc with from time to time.

+ +

Bugfixes

+ +

Felix Janda and I did a largeish rewrite of tail to +finally make it work right (we think). Still need to implement tail -f +someday (the tricky bit is making -f follow multiple files at once). +Felix also reported a bug in xpidfile.

+ +

Juhani Haverinen pointed out that +python 3 doesn't work with config2help.py, so the detection logic looks +for python2 (until I get around to rewriting that in C). Elie De Brauwer +then fixed our first attempt at this, and also fixed uname's help string.

+ +

Ashwini Sharma +pointed out the build was making a FLAG_ macro for " " which broke some +configurations. (That's a control character, not a command line option.)

+ +

Jacek Bukarewicz pointed out a bug in chdir permission handling, and +a way to make env segfault. Both should be fixed now.

+ +

The new function xexec_optargs() +replaces calls to xexec(toys.optargs) to avoid freeing and reusing optargs +during option parsing screwing stuff up (such as netcat's exec mode).

+ +

The stat command's %a output was padded with leading zeroes, which +didn't match anybody else's behavior and thus made the test suite hiccup +between TEST_HOST and testing toybox. (If you go "TEST_HOST=1 scripts/test.sh +command" it sanity checks the tests against the host implementation.)

+ +

Last release, "mkdir sub/sub && chmod 007 sub/sub && rm -rf sub" didn't +delete sub and didn't exit with an error either. Neither was correct, rm +should now be fixed.

+ +

July 26, 2013

Georgi Chorbadzhiyski maintains a git mirror of the repository on github, automatically updated from the mercurial every 6 hours. The mirror is read only, but you can generate patches against it and post them to the list.

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July 2, 2013

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