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authorDenis Vlasenko2007-01-11 17:20:00 +0000
committerDenis Vlasenko2007-01-11 17:20:00 +0000
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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html b/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html
index c751f75..c07be90 100644
--- a/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html
+++ b/docs/busybox.net/FAQ.html
@@ -82,7 +82,7 @@ have additions to this FAQ document, we would love to add them,
to determine which applet to run, as shown above.
</p>
<p>
- BusyBox also has a feature called the
+ BusyBox also has a feature called the
<a name="standalone_shell">"standalone shell"</a>, where the busybox
shell runs any built-in applets before checking the command path. This
feature is also enabled by "make allyesconfig", and to try it out run
@@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ within each applet. More build coverage testing.</p></li>
<hr />
<p>
-<h2><a name="external">where can i find other small utilities since busybox
+<h2><a name="external">where can i find other small utilities since busybox
does not include the features i want?</a></h2>
<p>
we maintain such a <a href="tinyutils.html">list</a> on this site!
@@ -941,7 +941,7 @@ text console scrolling...)</p>
<p>So will data always be read from the far end of a pipe at the
same chunk sizes it was written in? Nope. Don't rely on that. For one
-counterexample, see <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc896.html">rfc 896
+counterexample, see <a href="http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc896.html">rfc 896
for Nagle's algorithm</a>, which waits a fraction of a second or so before
sending out small amounts of data through a TCP/IP connection in case more
data comes in that can be merged into the same packet. (In case you were
@@ -1089,7 +1089,7 @@ aaronl :Aaron Lehmann
beppu :John Beppu
dwhedon :David Whedon
erik :Erik Andersen
-gfeldman :Gennady Feldman
+gfeldman :Gennady Feldman
jimg :Jim Gleason
kraai :Matt Kraai
markw :Mark Whitley
diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html
index 5492d67..cdffd48 100644
--- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html
+++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html
@@ -28,7 +28,7 @@
<li>grep: added -r, fixed -h
<li>watch: make it exec child like standard one does (was totally
incompatible)
- <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
+ <li>tar: fix limitations which were preventing bbox tar usage
on big directories: long names and linknames, pax headers
(Linux kernel tarballs have that). Fixed a number of obscure bugs.
Raised max file limit (now 64Gb). Security fixes (/../ attacks).
diff --git a/docs/sigint.htm b/docs/sigint.htm
index 6fe76bb..e230f4d 100644
--- a/docs/sigint.htm
+++ b/docs/sigint.htm
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ scripts using <code>Control-C</code>. Or have interactive applications
that don't behave right when sending SIGINT. Examples are emacs'es
that die on Control-g or shellscript statements that sometimes are
executed and sometimes not, apparently not determined by the user's
-intention.
+intention.
</td></tr><tr><th valign=top align=left>Required knowledge: </th>
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ just exit.
<p>Now imagine the user hits C-c while a shellscript is executing its
first program. The following programs receive SIGINT: program1 and
-also the shell executing the script. program1 exits.
+also the shell executing the script. program1 exits.
<p>But what should the shell do? If we say that it is only the
innermost's programs business to react on SIGINT, the shell will do
@@ -351,7 +351,7 @@ that do not properly communicate the required information up to the
calling program.
<p>Unless a program messes with signal handling, the system does this
-automatically.
+automatically.
<p>There are programs that want to exit on SIGINT, but they don't let
the system do the automatic exit, because they want to do some
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ Notes:
special numeric value. People often assume this since the manuals for
shells often list some return value for exactly this. But this is just
a convention for your shell script. It does not work from one UNIX API
-program to another.
+program to another.
<P>All that happens is that the shell sets the "$?" variable to a
special numeric value for the convenience of your script, because your
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ comments the scripts echo.
<tr valign=top align=left>
<td>IUE</td>
<td>The shell executing a script exits immediately if it receives
-SIGINT.</td>
+SIGINT.</td>
<td>4.4BSD ash (ash), NetBSD, FreeBSD prior to 3.0/22.8</td>
<td>The editor session is lost and subsequent commands are not
executed.</td>
@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ will further commands from the script be executed. </td>
signal (either it had the default handler for SIGINT or it killed
itself). </td>
<td>bash (Linux /bin/sh), most commercial /bin/sh, FreeBSD /bin/sh
-from 3.0/2.2.8.</td>
+from 3.0/2.2.8.</td>
<td>The editor continues as normal and subsequent commands are
executed. </td>
<td>The editor continues as normal and subsequent commands are
@@ -615,7 +615,7 @@ child exits, but only if the child exited with signal status. If
the child did a normal exit (even if it received SIGINT, but catches
it), the script will continue. </td>
<td>The child must be implemented right, or the user will not be able
-to break shell scripts reliably.</td>
+to break shell scripts reliably.</td>
</tr>
</table>
diff --git a/docs/tar_pax.txt b/docs/tar_pax.txt
index 8a3f1e7..e56c27b 100644
--- a/docs/tar_pax.txt
+++ b/docs/tar_pax.txt
@@ -4,197 +4,197 @@ for everything (filename, uid, filesize etc) which can overflow.
pax Header Block
-The pax header block shall be identical to the ustar header block
-described in ustar Interchange Format, except that two additional
+The pax header block shall be identical to the ustar header block
+described in ustar Interchange Format, except that two additional
typeflag values are defined:
x
- Represents extended header records for the following file in
+ Represents extended header records for the following file in
the archive (which shall have its own ustar header block).
g
- Represents global extended header records for the following
-files in the archive. Each value shall affect all subsequent files
-that do not override that value in their own extended header
-record and until another global extended header record is reached
-that provides another value for the same field. The typeflag g
-global headers should not be used with interchange media that
+ Represents global extended header records for the following
+files in the archive. Each value shall affect all subsequent files
+that do not override that value in their own extended header
+record and until another global extended header record is reached
+that provides another value for the same field. The typeflag g
+global headers should not be used with interchange media that
could suffer partial data loss in transporting the archive.
-For both of these types, the size field shall be the size of the
-extended header records in octets. The other fields in the header
-block are not meaningful to this version of the pax utility.
-However, if this archive is read by a pax utility conforming to
-the ISO POSIX-2:1993 standard, the header block fields are used to
-create a regular file that contains the extended header records as
-data. Therefore, header block field values should be selected to
+For both of these types, the size field shall be the size of the
+extended header records in octets. The other fields in the header
+block are not meaningful to this version of the pax utility.
+However, if this archive is read by a pax utility conforming to
+the ISO POSIX-2:1993 standard, the header block fields are used to
+create a regular file that contains the extended header records as
+data. Therefore, header block field values should be selected to
provide reasonable file access to this regular file.
-A further difference from the ustar header block is that data
-blocks for files of typeflag 1 (the digit one) (hard link) may be
-included, which means that the size field may be greater than
+A further difference from the ustar header block is that data
+blocks for files of typeflag 1 (the digit one) (hard link) may be
+included, which means that the size field may be greater than
zero.
pax Extended Header
-An extended header shall consist of one or more records, each
+An extended header shall consist of one or more records, each
constructed as follows:
"%d %s=%s\n", <length>, <keyword>, <value>
-The <length> field shall be the decimal length of the extended
-header record in octets, including length string itself and the
+The <length> field shall be the decimal length of the extended
+header record in octets, including length string itself and the
trailing <newline>.
[skip]
atime
- The file access time for the following file(s), equivalent to
-the value of the st_atime member of the stat structure for a file,
-as described by the stat() function. The access time shall be
-restored if the process has the appropriate privilege required to
-do so. The format of the <value> shall be as described in pax
+ The file access time for the following file(s), equivalent to
+the value of the st_atime member of the stat structure for a file,
+as described by the stat() function. The access time shall be
+restored if the process has the appropriate privilege required to
+do so. The format of the <value> shall be as described in pax
Extended Header File Times.
charset
- The name of the character set used to encode the data in the
+ The name of the character set used to encode the data in the
following file(s).
- The encoding is included in an extended header for information
-only; when pax is used as described in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, it
-shall not translate the file data into any other encoding. The
+ The encoding is included in an extended header for information
+only; when pax is used as described in IEEE Std 1003.1-2001, it
+shall not translate the file data into any other encoding. The
BINARY entry indicates unencoded binary data.
- When used in write or copy mode, it is implementation-defined
+ When used in write or copy mode, it is implementation-defined
whether pax includes a charset extended header record for a file.
comment
- A series of characters used as a comment. All characters in
+ A series of characters used as a comment. All characters in
the <value> field shall be ignored by pax.
gid
- The group ID of the group that owns the file, expressed as a
-decimal number using digits from the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard.
-This record shall override the gid field in the following header
-block(s). When used in write or copy mode, pax shall include a gid
-extended header record for each file whose group ID is greater
+ The group ID of the group that owns the file, expressed as a
+decimal number using digits from the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard.
+This record shall override the gid field in the following header
+block(s). When used in write or copy mode, pax shall include a gid
+extended header record for each file whose group ID is greater
than 2097151 (octal 7777777).
gname
- The group of the file(s), formatted as a group name in the
-group database. This record shall override the gid and gname
-fields in the following header block(s), and any gid extended
-header record. When used in read, copy, or list mode, pax shall
-translate the name from the UTF-8 encoding in the header record to
-the character set appropriate for the group database on the
-receiving system. If any of the UTF-8 characters cannot be
-translated, and if the -o invalid= UTF-8 option is not specified,
-the results are implementation-defined. When used in write or copy
-mode, pax shall include a gname extended header record for each
-file whose group name cannot be represented entirely with the
+ The group of the file(s), formatted as a group name in the
+group database. This record shall override the gid and gname
+fields in the following header block(s), and any gid extended
+header record. When used in read, copy, or list mode, pax shall
+translate the name from the UTF-8 encoding in the header record to
+the character set appropriate for the group database on the
+receiving system. If any of the UTF-8 characters cannot be
+translated, and if the -o invalid= UTF-8 option is not specified,
+the results are implementation-defined. When used in write or copy
+mode, pax shall include a gname extended header record for each
+file whose group name cannot be represented entirely with the
letters and digits of the portable character set.
linkpath
- The pathname of a link being created to another file, of any
-type, previously archived. This record shall override the linkname
-field in the following ustar header block(s). The following ustar
-header block shall determine the type of link created. If typeflag
-of the following header block is 1, it shall be a hard link. If
-typeflag is 2, it shall be a symbolic link and the linkpath value
-shall be the contents of the symbolic link. The pax utility shall
-translate the name of the link (contents of the symbolic link)
-from the UTF-8 encoding to the character set appropriate for the
-local file system. When used in write or copy mode, pax shall
-include a linkpath extended header record for each link whose
-pathname cannot be represented entirely with the members of the
+ The pathname of a link being created to another file, of any
+type, previously archived. This record shall override the linkname
+field in the following ustar header block(s). The following ustar
+header block shall determine the type of link created. If typeflag
+of the following header block is 1, it shall be a hard link. If
+typeflag is 2, it shall be a symbolic link and the linkpath value
+shall be the contents of the symbolic link. The pax utility shall
+translate the name of the link (contents of the symbolic link)
+from the UTF-8 encoding to the character set appropriate for the
+local file system. When used in write or copy mode, pax shall
+include a linkpath extended header record for each link whose
+pathname cannot be represented entirely with the members of the
portable character set other than NUL.
mtime
- The file modification time of the following file(s),
-equivalent to the value of the st_mtime member of the stat
-structure for a file, as described in the stat() function. This
-record shall override the mtime field in the following header
-block(s). The modification time shall be restored if the process
-has the appropriate privilege required to do so. The format of the
+ The file modification time of the following file(s),
+equivalent to the value of the st_mtime member of the stat
+structure for a file, as described in the stat() function. This
+record shall override the mtime field in the following header
+block(s). The modification time shall be restored if the process
+has the appropriate privilege required to do so. The format of the
<value> shall be as described in pax Extended Header File Times.
path
- The pathname of the following file(s). This record shall
-override the name and prefix fields in the following header
-block(s). The pax utility shall translate the pathname of the file
-from the UTF-8 encoding to the character set appropriate for the
+ The pathname of the following file(s). This record shall
+override the name and prefix fields in the following header
+block(s). The pax utility shall translate the pathname of the file
+from the UTF-8 encoding to the character set appropriate for the
local file system.
- When used in write or copy mode, pax shall include a path
-extended header record for each file whose pathname cannot be
-represented entirely with the members of the portable character
+ When used in write or copy mode, pax shall include a path
+extended header record for each file whose pathname cannot be
+represented entirely with the members of the portable character
set other than NUL.
realtime.any
- The keywords prefixed by "realtime." are reserved for future
+ The keywords prefixed by "realtime." are reserved for future
standardization.
security.any
- The keywords prefixed by "security." are reserved for future
+ The keywords prefixed by "security." are reserved for future
standardization.
size
- The size of the file in octets, expressed as a decimal number
-using digits from the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard. This record shall
-override the size field in the following header block(s). When
-used in write or copy mode, pax shall include a size extended
-header record for each file with a size value greater than
+ The size of the file in octets, expressed as a decimal number
+using digits from the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard. This record shall
+override the size field in the following header block(s). When
+used in write or copy mode, pax shall include a size extended
+header record for each file with a size value greater than
8589934591 (octal 77777777777).
uid
- The user ID of the file owner, expressed as a decimal number
-using digits from the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard. This record shall
-override the uid field in the following header block(s). When used
-in write or copy mode, pax shall include a uid extended header
-record for each file whose owner ID is greater than 2097151 (octal
+ The user ID of the file owner, expressed as a decimal number
+using digits from the ISO/IEC 646:1991 standard. This record shall
+override the uid field in the following header block(s). When used
+in write or copy mode, pax shall include a uid extended header
+record for each file whose owner ID is greater than 2097151 (octal
7777777).
uname
- The owner of the following file(s), formatted as a user name
-in the user database. This record shall override the uid and uname
-fields in the following header block(s), and any uid extended
-header record. When used in read, copy, or list mode, pax shall
-translate the name from the UTF-8 encoding in the header record to
-the character set appropriate for the user database on the
-receiving system. If any of the UTF-8 characters cannot be
-translated, and if the -o invalid= UTF-8 option is not specified,
-the results are implementation-defined. When used in write or copy
-mode, pax shall include a uname extended header record for each
-file whose user name cannot be represented entirely with the
+ The owner of the following file(s), formatted as a user name
+in the user database. This record shall override the uid and uname
+fields in the following header block(s), and any uid extended
+header record. When used in read, copy, or list mode, pax shall
+translate the name from the UTF-8 encoding in the header record to
+the character set appropriate for the user database on the
+receiving system. If any of the UTF-8 characters cannot be
+translated, and if the -o invalid= UTF-8 option is not specified,
+the results are implementation-defined. When used in write or copy
+mode, pax shall include a uname extended header record for each
+file whose user name cannot be represented entirely with the
letters and digits of the portable character set.
-If the <value> field is zero length, it shall delete any header
-block field, previously entered extended header value, or global
+If the <value> field is zero length, it shall delete any header
+block field, previously entered extended header value, or global
extended header value of the same name.
-If a keyword in an extended header record (or in a -o
-option-argument) overrides or deletes a corresponding field in the
-ustar header block, pax shall ignore the contents of that header
+If a keyword in an extended header record (or in a -o
+option-argument) overrides or deletes a corresponding field in the
+ustar header block, pax shall ignore the contents of that header
block field.
-Unlike the ustar header block fields, NULs shall not delimit
-<value>s; all characters within the <value> field shall be
-considered data for the field. None of the length limitations of
-the ustar header block fields in ustar Header Block shall apply to
+Unlike the ustar header block fields, NULs shall not delimit
+<value>s; all characters within the <value> field shall be
+considered data for the field. None of the length limitations of
+the ustar header block fields in ustar Header Block shall apply to
the extended header records.
pax Extended Header File Times
-Time records shall be formatted as a decimal representation of the
-time in seconds since the Epoch. If a period ( '.' ) decimal point
-character is present, the digits to the right of the point shall
-represent the units of a subsecond timing granularity. In read or
-copy mode, the pax utility shall truncate the time of a file to
-the greatest value that is not greater than the input header
-file time. In write or copy mode, the pax utility shall output a
-time exactly if it can be represented exactly as a decimal number,
-and otherwise shall generate only enough digits so that the same
-time shall be recovered if the file is extracted on a system whose
+Time records shall be formatted as a decimal representation of the
+time in seconds since the Epoch. If a period ( '.' ) decimal point
+character is present, the digits to the right of the point shall
+represent the units of a subsecond timing granularity. In read or
+copy mode, the pax utility shall truncate the time of a file to
+the greatest value that is not greater than the input header
+file time. In write or copy mode, the pax utility shall output a
+time exactly if it can be represented exactly as a decimal number,
+and otherwise shall generate only enough digits so that the same
+time shall be recovered if the file is extracted on a system whose
underlying implementation supports the same time granularity.
Example from Linux kernel archive tarball: