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Diffstat (limited to 'Changelog')
| -rw-r--r-- | Changelog | 46 |
1 files changed, 44 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -1,4 +1,41 @@ 0.42 + + * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting + busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is + optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT + * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the + {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do + not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with + the way umount was originally written. + * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot + to be more consistent with sysvinit + * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased + the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent + + - Randolph Chung + + + * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been + extensively rewritten from the original cp.c. + * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that + this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks + hard links. + * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks. + * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere. + * busybox: File name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes. + - Always check exit status. + - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'. + * utility.c + - recursiveAction was overriding the value of + followLinks thus ignoring it. + - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers + - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed. + * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in + one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little. + + -Karl M. Hegbloom + + * Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional. * You no longer _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options. * Tar could inadvertently change permissions and ownership on @@ -16,11 +53,11 @@ for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one. * Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would - always dereference before. -beppu + always dereference before. -beppu * Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory. Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp> * Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> - * added (and documented) "-n" option for head - + * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head - * Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> * Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the @@ -42,6 +79,11 @@ Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>. * cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the files pointed to by the symlinks. + * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>: + - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly + - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed when run without arguments + - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv + - added "skip" and "seek" to dd. -Erik Andersen |