From 4e4c5db66a63e0482e2e4a06c8bec637b7088d7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Denis Vlasenko
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 2009 11:11:19 +0000
Subject: website: textual fixes in 1.14.0 announcement text
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docs/busybox.net/news.html | 51 +++++++++++++++++++---------------------------
1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/news.html b/docs/busybox.net/news.html
index 8f756f0..4946da1 100644
--- a/docs/busybox.net/news.html
+++ b/docs/busybox.net/news.html
@@ -44,10 +44,10 @@
New applets:
- flash_eraseall: by Sebastian Andrzej Siewior (bigeasy AT linutronix.de)
- - acpid,mkdosfs (aka mkfs.vfat),tunctl: by Vladimir
- - ftpd: by Adam Tkac
+ - acpid, mkdosfs, tunctl: by Vladimir
+ - ftpd: by Adam Tkac (vonsch AT gmail.com)
- timeout: by Roberto Foglietta
- - ionice: adapted from Linux kernel' example by Walter Harms
+ - ionice: adapted from Linux kernel example by Walter Harms
- mkpasswd: synonym to cryptpw. mkpasswd is in Debian, OTOH cryptpw was added to busybox earlier. Trying to make both camps happy by making those two applets just aliases. They are command-line compatible
@@ -55,16 +55,18 @@
lash and msh are deprecated, please migrate to hush.
-
hush had many, many fixes and features added: here documents, arithmetic evaluation, function support, and all this works on NOMMU too, safely: 100kb-sized `command` and heredocs. Here document support, arithmetic evaluation, improved ${var} ops, other fixes are by Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org).
+
hush had many, many fixes and features added: here documents, arithmetic evaluation, function support, and all this works on NOMMU too, safely, including 100kb-sized `command` and here documents. Here document support, arithmetic evaluation, improved ${var} operations, other fixes are by Mike Frysinger (vapier AT gentoo.org).
Other changes:
- libbb: unify concurrent-safe update of /etc/{passwd,group,[g]shadow}. By Tito (farmatito AT tiscali.it)
- - libbb/sha1/256/512: major code shrink
+ - libbb/sha{1,256,512}: major code shrink
- libbb/lineedit: make history saving/loading concurrent-safe
- libbb: shrink linked list ops. By xmaks AT email.cz
- - libbb: str2sockaddr shuld accept [IPv6] addr without port - wget 'ftp://[::1]/file' needs that to work
+ - libbb: str2sockaddr should accept [IPv6] addr without port - wget 'ftp://[::1]/file' needs that to work
- libbb: make bb_info_msg do atomic, unbuffered writes
+ - util-linux/volumeid: abort early on read failures. Should help with probing missing fdd's
+ - util-linux/volumeid: fix bug 249 "findfs finds the wrong partition"
- adduser: allow adding to group 0; don't _create_ /etc/shadow, only append data if it exists
- ash: fix mishandled ^C
- ash: fix "ash -c 'exec 1>&0'" complaining that fd 0 is busy
@@ -72,7 +74,6 @@
- ash: fix a case where we close wrong descriptor
- ash: fix bad interaction between ash -c '....&' and bash compat
- ash: fix miscalculation of memory needed for eval tree. Found by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)
- - ash: in dotrap(), do not clear gotsig[] for SIGINT if there is no handler for it, otherwise raise interrupt gets confused later
- ash: make dot command search current directory first, as bash does
- ash: make evaltree save/restore int suppression depth. Hopefully this fixes bug 189
- ash: printf builtin with no arguments should not exit
@@ -84,16 +85,16 @@
- chat: recognize RECORD directive
- cksum, printenv: report errors via exitcode
- cpio: add -p, -0 and -L options
- - crond,crontab: make cron directory location configurable
+ - crond, crontab: make cron directory location configurable
- crond: correct more of logfile to 0666 (as usual, umask allows user to remove unwanted bits)
- crond: put tasks in separate process groups
- dc: fix the "base 2" patch omission of base not being set
- depmod: accept and ignore -r. Linux kernel build needs this
- depmod: fix -b option. By timo.teras AT iki.fi
- - udhcpd,dumpleases: write and use 64-bit current time in lease file. without it, determination of remaining lease time is unreliable
- - udhcpd: remember and record hostnames
- - dhcprelay: fix usage text. Simplify and make code more readable
- - dumpleases: fix -a option; show hostnames
+ - udhcpd, dumpleases: write and use 64-bit current time in lease file. Without it, determination of remaining lease time is unreliable
+ - udhcpd: remember hostnames of clients
+ - dumpleases: fix -a option
+ - dumpleases: show hostnames
- udhcpc: fix a problem where we don't open listening socket fast enough
- udhcpc: stop filtering environment passed to the script
- udhcpd: add code which rejects lease files with suspicious or old timestamp
@@ -102,7 +103,7 @@
- dpkg: better and shorter code to compare versions. Taken from "official" dpkg by Eugene T. Bordenkircher (eugebo AT gmail.com)
- du: fix "du /dir /dir" case
- env: support -uVAR=VAL
- - expand: fix incorrect expansion exactly on tab boundary; shrink the code
+ - expand, unexpand: fix incorrect expansion in some cases
- expr: a bit more robust handling of regexps with groups. Closes bug 87
- find: support --mindepth
- getty: fix handling of speed 0; stop using non-portable way of setting speeds
@@ -119,7 +120,6 @@
- init: test for vt terminal with VT_OPENQRY, assume that anything else is TERM=vt102, not TERM=linux. Closes bug 195
- inotifyd: add x, o, and u events
- inotifyd: fix buffer overflow and "unreaped zombies" problem
- - inotifyd: exit if x event happened for all files
- inotifyd: conserve resourses by closing unused inotify descriptors
- insmod/modprobe: do not pass NULL to kernel as module parameter
- ip: in "ip rule add from all table 1", "all" is taken as 0.0.0.0/32, whereas "any" and "default" would be 0.0.0.0/0. They must be all 0.0.0.0/0. Closes bug 57
@@ -134,14 +134,11 @@
- mdev: ignore events with "$SUBSYSTEM" == "firmware" && "$ACTION" == "remove"
- mdev: provide $SUBSYSTEM. By Vladimir
- modprobe/insmod for 2.4: support compressed modules. By Guenter (lists AT gknw.net)
- - modprobe: emit "can't open 'modules.dep': (errno)" instead of "module not found"
- modprobe: rework/speedup by Timo Teras (timo.teras AT iki.fi)
- modutils-24: fix bad interaction of xzalloc with xrealloc_vector
- - mount: support "-O option"
- - mount: stop trying to mount swap partitions
- - mount: fix CIFS support
+ - mount: support "-O option", stop trying to mount swap partitions, fix CIFS support
- mountpoint: add -n option. By Vladimir
- - nslookup: allow usage of IPv6 addresses or hostnames for DNS server name; allow for port specification. Tested to work: "nslookup google.com [::1]:5353". glibc + IPv6 address of DNS server still does not work
+ - nslookup: allow usage of IPv6 addresses or hostnames for DNS server name; allow for port specification. Tested to work on uclibc svn: "nslookup google.com [::1]:5353". glibc + IPv6 address of DNS server still does not work
- popmaildir: fix several grave bugs with using memory past end of malloc block
- printf: fix 1.12.0 breakage (from %*d fix), it was misinterpreting "*"
- printf: make integer format strings print long long-sized values
@@ -154,7 +151,7 @@
- sysctl: fix another corner case with "dots and slashes"
- sysctl: fix broken -p [file]. Closes bug 231
- sysctl: support recursing if name is a directory: "sysctl net.ipv4.conf". Patch by xmaks AT email.cz
- - syslogd: comment out file locking; make signal handling syncronous
+ - syslogd: make signal handling syncronous
- syslogd: create logfile with 0666 (affected by umask as usual), not 0600
- tail: fix tail +N syntax not working. Closes bug 221
- tar: do not change new tarfile's mode, GNU tar doesn't do it
@@ -164,21 +161,15 @@
- tftp: when we infer local name from remote (-r [/]path/path/file), strip path. This mimics wget and is generally more intuitive
- timeout: fix parsing of -t NUM on MMU
- top: make it work again on 2.4 kernels. Closes bug 125
- - tr: fix overflow in expand and complement, fix stop after [:class:]
- - tr: support -C as synonym to -c
- - tr: support [:xdigit:], fix handling of ranges and [x]'s
+ - tr: fix overflow in expand and complement, fix stop after [:class:], fix handling of ranges and [x]'s
+ - tr: support -C as synonym to -c, support [:xdigit:]
- traceroute: rewrite. Do not emit raw IP packets, instead send UDP or ICMP packets and rely on the kernel to form IP headers, select source IP and interface
- - uname: add support for -i and -o, fix printing of unknown -p value with -a option
- - uname: support long options
- - unexpand: fix incorrect expansion
+ - uname: add support for -i and -o, fix printing of unknown -p value with -a option, support long options
- unzip: fix thinko with le/be conv and size. Closes bug 129
- vi: fix several instances of major goof: when text grows, text[] might get reallocated! We were keeping around pointers to old place
- vi: speedup and code shrink. By Walter Harms
- - volume_id: abort early on read failures. Should help with probing missing fdd's
- - volumeid: fix bug 249 "findfs finds the wrong partition"
- wget: --post-data support. By Harald Kuthe (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de)
- - wget: fix --header handling
- - wget: more robust EINTR detection
+ - wget: fix --header handling, more robust EINTR detection
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