From 8390c65cea50f76af7efc80e14c71ed0e440d343 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Landley Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2012 09:16:45 -0600 Subject: Web page update for release. --- www/news.html | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 51 insertions(+) (limited to 'www') diff --git a/www/news.html b/www/news.html index b6662fbd..1ed7ae9b 100755 --- a/www/news.html +++ b/www/news.html @@ -1,6 +1,57 @@

News

+
December 15, 2012 +

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a +thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly +go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." +

- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

+ +

Toybox 0.4.2 is based on +commit 749 and is +just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal +Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's +a new stable version.

+ +

The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch +(from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a +bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8 +support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option. +Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof. +The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports +-fenq.

+ +

Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library, +and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel +features we depend on start to drop out).

+ +

The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per +level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more +than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out, +or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an +earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README, +the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory +(so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).

+ +

Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist(). +Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with +full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to +stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing +it).

+ +

The open group broke their website so the +old links to POSIX 2008 +now need to start with +pubs. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while +I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.

+ +

(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant +because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current +implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option +to do it Posix's way, which is more brittle and needs extra security checks, +but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024 +filehandles, so drilling down over 1000 nested subdirectories).

+
November 13, 2012

"Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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