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@@ -83,15 +85,7 @@
- unscd - - - -
New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir) -
Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression): +
Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):
-
-
- ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1" -
- ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd! -
- ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2 -
- ash: fix segfault in "command -v" -
- ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator -
- ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading -
- ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before -
- hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all -
- hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not -
- hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case -
- hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites -
- hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code) -
- hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements -
- hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case -
- hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"') -
- hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names -
- libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets +
- ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1" +
- ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd! +
- ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2 +
- ash: fix segfault in "command -v" +
- ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator +
- ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading +
- ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before +
- hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all +
- hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not +
- hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case +
- hush: fix "while false; ..." exitcode; add testsuites +
- hush: support "case...esac" statements (~350 bytes of code) +
- hush: support "break [N]" and "continue [N]" statements +
- hush: support "for if in do done then; do echo $if; done" case +
- hush: support "for v; do ... done" syntax (implied 'in "$@"') +
- hush: support $_NUMBERS variable names +
- libbb: unified config parser (by Vladimir). This change affected many applets
Other changes: + Other changes:
-
-
- libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364) -
- libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174) -
- libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help" -
- libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32() -
- libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read) -
- libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector -
- libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir) -
- lineedit: fix use-after-free -
- libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too -
- bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1]) -
- open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor -
- open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit -
- arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564) -
- ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code -
- awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading. -
- build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op -
- bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net) -
- b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854) -
- comm: almost total rewrite -
- cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard) -
- cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files -
- cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG -
- cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k -
- cpio: support some long options -
- crond: use execlp instead of execl -
- cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544) -
- envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases -
- findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary -
- fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir) -
- fuser: a bit of safety in scanf -
- grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes -
- halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT -
- httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de -
- ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks -
- ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com) -
- ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com) -
- inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found -
- insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing -
- install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa) -
- install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584) -
- lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies -
- ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable -
- man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com -
- man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given -
- man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable -
- man: fix missed NULL termination of an array -
- man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode -
- man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de) -
- man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config -
- mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection -
- mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist -
- mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it -
- mdev: support for serializing hotplug -
- mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization -
- mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com) -
- modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras) -
- modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads() -
- modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one -
- mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime" -
- mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com) -
- mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime" -
- mount: testsuite for "-o mand" -
- msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884) -
- mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints -
- netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu) -
- nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594) -
- od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104) -
- pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054) -
- printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214) -
- printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite -
- printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184) -
- sendmail: updates from Vladimir: -
- sendmail: do not discard all headers -
- sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes -
- sendmail: fixed mail recipient address -
- sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed -
- sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified -
- sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat) -
- ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too -
- ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore -
- ssd: fix -a without -x case -
- ssd: use $PATH -
- tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0 -
- tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection -
- taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy -
- tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "") -
- tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way -
- telnetd: fix issue file printing -
- test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does -
- testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e -
- time: don't segfault with no arguments -
- touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile) -
- tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354 -
- tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374) -
- tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374) -
- unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard) -
- vi: fix reversed checks for underflow -
- vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid -
- xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414) -
- other fixes and code size reductions in many applets +
- libbb: dump: do not use uninitialized memory (closes bug 4364) +
- libbb: fix bb_strtol[l]'s check for "-" (closes bug 4174) +
- libbb: fix --help to not affect "test --help" +
- libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32() +
- libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read) +
- libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector +
- libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir) +
- lineedit: fix use-after-free +
- libunarchive: refactor handling of archived files. "tar f file.tar.lzma" now works too +
- bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1]) +
- open_transformer: don't leak file descriptor +
- open_transformer: fix bug of calling exit instead of _exit +
- arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564) +
- ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code +
- awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading. +
- build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op +
- bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net) +
- b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854) +
- comm: almost total rewrite +
- cpio: fix -m to actually work as expected (by Pascal Bellard) +
- cpio: internalize archive_xread_all_eof, add a few paranoia checks for corrupted cpio files +
- cpio: make long opts depend only on ENABLE_GETOPT_LONG +
- cpio: on unpack, limit filename length to 8k +
- cpio: support some long options +
- crond: use execlp instead of execl +
- cut: fix buffer overflow (closes bug 4544) +
- envdir: fix "envdir" (no params at all) and "envdir dir" cases +
- findfs: make it use setuid-ness of busybox binary +
- fsck: use getmntent_r instead of open-coded parsing (by Vladimir) +
- fuser: a bit of safety in scanf +
- grep: option to use GNU regex matching instead of POSIX one. This fixes problems with NULs in files being scanned, but costs +800 bytes +
- halt: signal init regardless of ENABLE_INIT +
- httpd: add homedir directive specially for (and by) Walter Harms wharms AT bfs.de +
- ifupdown: /etc/network/interfaces can have comments with leading blanks +
- ifupdown: fixes for custom MAC address (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com) +
- ifupdown: fixes for shutdown of DHCP-managed interfaces (by Wade Berrier wberrier AT gmail.com) +
- inetd: do not trash errno in signal handlers; in CHLD handler, stop looping through services when pid is found +
- insmod: users report that "|| defined(__powerpc__)" is missing +
- install: do not chown intermediate directories with install -d (by Natanael Copa) +
- install: fix long option not taking params (closes bug 4584) +
- lpd,lpr: send/receive ACKs after filenames, not only after file bodies +
- ls: fix a bug where we may use uninintialized variable +
- man: add handling of "man links", by Ivana Varekova varekova AT redhat.com +
- man: fix a case when a full pathname to manpage is given +
- man: fix inverted cat/man bool variable +
- man: fix missed NULL termination of an array +
- man: mimic "no manual entry for 'bogus'" message and exitcode +
- man: support cat pages too (by Jason Curl jcurlnews AT arcor.de) +
- man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config +
- mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection +
- mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist +
- mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it +
- mdev: support for serializing hotplug +
- mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization +
- mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com) +
- modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras) +
- modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads() +
- modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one +
- mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime" +
- mount: support nfs mount option "nordiplus" (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com) +
- mount: support "relatime" / "norelatime" +
- mount: testsuite for "-o mand" +
- msh: fix "while... continue; ..." (closes bug 3884) +
- mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints +
- netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu) +
- nmeter: fix read past the end of a buffer (closes bug 4594) +
- od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (closes bug 4104) +
- pidof/killall: allow find_pid_by_name to find running processes started as scripts_with_name_longer_than_15_bytes.sh (closes bug 4054) +
- printf: do not print garbage on "%Ld" (closes bug 4214) +
- printf: fix %b, fix several bugs in %*.*, fix compat issues with aborting too early, support %zd; expand testsuite +
- printf: protect against bogus format specifiers (closes bug 4184) +
- sendmail: updates from Vladimir: +
- sendmail: do not discard all headers +
- sendmail: do not ignore CC; accept to: and cc: case-insensitively. +20 bytes +
- sendmail: fixed mail recipient address +
- sendmail: fixed SEGV if sender address is missed +
- sendmail: use HOSTNAME instead of HOST when no server is explicitly specified +
- sleep: if FANCY && DESKTOP, support fractional seconds, minutes, hours and so on (coreutils compat) +
- ssd: CLOSE_EXTRA_FDS in MMU case too +
- ssd: do not stat -x EXECUTABLE, it is not needed anymore +
- ssd: fix -a without -x case +
- ssd: use $PATH +
- tar: fix handling of tarballs with symlinks with size field != 0 +
- tar: handle autodetection for tiny .tar.gz files too, simplify autodetection +
- taskset: fix some careless code in both fancy and non-fancy cases. -5 bytes for fancy, +5 for non-fancy +
- tee: fix infinite looping on open error (echo asd | tee "") +
- tee: "-" is a name for stdout, handle it that way +
- telnetd: fix issue file printing +
- test: fix parser to prefer binop over unop, as coreutils does +
- testsuite: uniformly use $ECHO with -n -e +
- time: don't segfault with no arguments +
- touch: support -r REF_FILE if ENABLE_DESKTOP (needed for blackfin compile) +
- tr: fix "access past the end of a string" bug 4354 +
- tr: fix "tr [=" case (closes bug 4374) +
- tr: fix yet another access past the end of a string (closes bug 4374) +
- unlzma: fix memory leak (by Pascal Bellard) +
- vi: fix reversed checks for underflow +
- vi: using array data after it fell out of scope is stupid +
- xargs: fix -e default to match newer GNU xargs, add SUS mandated -E (closes bug 4414) +
- other fixes and code size reductions in many applets
The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact @@ -152,6 +152,7 @@ Bugfix-only release for 1.11.x branch. It contains fixes for awk, bunzip2, cpio, ifupdown, ip, man, start-stop-daemon, uname and vi.
+@@ -160,6 +161,7 @@ and tested on a fresh Fedora 9 install. Please report if it doesn't work for you.
+BusyBox 1.11.0. @@ -181,41 +183,43 @@
Changes since previous release:
-
-
- build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX -
- ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes -
- hush: lots and lots of fixes -
- msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead) -
- msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed -
- udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels -
- mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp -
- diff: make it work on non-seekable streams -
- openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one -
- mdev: fix block/char device detection -
- ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons) -
- crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines -
- start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund) -
- date: make it accept ISO date format -
- echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo) -
- httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR -
- printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo -
- syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate -
- ls: support Unicode in names -
- ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa) -
- mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat) -
- libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again -
- other fixes and code size reductions in many applets +
- build system: reinstate CONFIG_CROSS_COMPILE_PREFIX +
- ash: optional bash compatibility features added; other fixes +
- hush: lots and lots of fixes +
- msh: fix the case where the file has exec bit but can't be run directly (runs "$SHELL file" instead) +
- msh: fix exit codes when command is not found or can't be execed +
- udhcpc: added workaround for buggy kernels +
- mount: fix mishandling of proto=tcp/udp +
- diff: make it work on non-seekable streams +
- openvt: made more compatible with "standard" one +
- mdev: fix block/char device detection +
- ping: add -w, -W support (James Simmons) +
- crond: add handling of "MAILTO=user" lines +
- start-stop-daemon: make --exec follow symlinks (Joakim Tjernlund) +
- date: make it accept ISO date format +
- echo: fix echo -e -n "msg\n\0" (David Pinedo) +
- httpd: fix several bugs triggered by relative path in -h DIR +
- printf: fix printf -%s- foo, printf -- -%s- foo +
- syslogd: do not error out on missing files to rotate +
- ls: support Unicode in names +
- ip: support for the LOWER_UP flag (Natanael Copa) +
- mktemp: make argument optional (coreutil 6.12 compat) +
- libiproute: fix option parsing, so that "ip -o link" works again +
- other fixes and code size reductions in many applets
The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
+We want to thank the following companies which are providing support for the BusyBox project: +
- AOE media, a - TYPO3 development agency contributes financially. + TYPO3 development agency contributes financially.
- Analog Devices, Inc. provided a Blackfin development board free of charge. @@ -226,8 +230,9 @@ for download for this board. Visit http://blackfin.uclinux.org/ for more information. +
BusyBox 1.10.3. @@ -238,6 +243,7 @@ Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for dnsd, fuser, hush, ip, mdev and syslogd.
+BusyBox 1.10.2. @@ -250,6 +256,7 @@
Please note that mdev was backported from current svn trunk. Please report if you encounter any problems with it.
+BusyBox 1.10.1. @@ -259,6 +266,7 @@
Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp. +
BusyBox 1.10.0. @@ -289,131 +297,132 @@ iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308 findfs, ifenslave (closes bug 115), lpd (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), lpr+lpq (by Walter Harms), script (by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com>), sendmail (Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>), tac, tftpd. - +
Made NOMMU-compatible: crond, crontab, ifupdown, inetd, init, runsv, svlogd, tcpsvd, udpsvd. - +
Changes since previous release: +
-
-
- globally: add -Wunused-parameter -
- globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations -
- adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>) -
- adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134 -
- ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947 -
- ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142 -
- build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case -
- build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host -
- build system: make it do without "od -t" -
- build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376 -
- build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU -
- cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470 -
- crontab: almost complete rewrite -
- dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets -
- dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed -
- eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth) -
- fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels -
- fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>) -
- fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/ -
- fuser: substantial rewrite -
- getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> -
- getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>) -
- halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled -
- httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530 -
- httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked -
- httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/" -
- httpd: fix for POST upload -
- httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>) -
- hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure -
- hush: more correct handling of piping -
- hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU -
- hush: report [v]fork failures -
- hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed -
- hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness -
- inetd: make "udp nowait" work -
- inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable -
- init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>) -
- init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n" -
- init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing -
- init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words -
- init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de) -
- ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var) -
- last: do not go into endless loop on read error -
- less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1) -
- less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now -
- less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars -
- less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption -
- less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages -
- less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern! -
- libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too -
- libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets -
- libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error -
- libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it> -
- libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now! -
- login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended -
- microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible -
- microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t -
- mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>) -
- mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected -
- mount: add another mount helper call method -
- mount: allow and ignore _netdev option -
- mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) -
- mount: optional support for -vv verbosity -
- mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command -
- mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835) -
- mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root -
- mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143 -
- mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make -
- msh: create testsuite (based on hush one) -
- msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin -
- msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing -
- msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time) -
- msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed -
- msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway -
- msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters -
- netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc -
- nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt] -
- nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com> -
- od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly -
- patch: don't trash permissions of patched file -
- ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time -
- ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns -
- reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414 -
- rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com> -
- run-parts: add --reverse -
- script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output -
- sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214 -
- sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591 -
- stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>) -
- switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425 -
- syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls -
- syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead -
- syslogd: fix shmat error check -
- syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436 -
- syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574 -
- syslogd: tighten up hostname handling -
- tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages) -
- tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end -
- tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992 -
- tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> -
- tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket -
- telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell" -
- test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args" -
- trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected -
- udhcp: make file paths configurable -
- udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports -
- udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE -
- udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>) -
- udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>) -
- umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint -
- umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro -
- umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604 -
- unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com> -
- unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge) -
- unzip: handle short reads correctly -
- vi: many fixes -
- zcip: don't chdir to root -
- zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket) +
- globally: add -Wunused-parameter +
- globally: add optimization barrier to all "G trick" locations +
- adduser/addgroup: check username for invalid chars (by Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it>) +
- adduser: optional support for long options. Closes bug 2134 +
- ash: handle "A=1 A=2 B=$A; echo $B". Closes bug 947 +
- ash: make ash -c "if set -o barfoo 2>/dev/null; then echo foo; else echo bar; fi" work. Closes bug 1142 +
- build system: don't use "gcc -o /dev/null", old gcc can delete /dev/null in this case +
- build system: fixes for cross-compiling on an OS X host +
- build system: make it do without "od -t" +
- build system: pass CFLAGS to link stage too. Closes bug 1376 +
- build system: add CONFIG_NOMMU +
- cp: add ENABLE_FEATURE_VERBOSE_CP_MESSAGE. Closes bug 1470 +
- crontab: almost complete rewrite +
- dnsd: properly set _src_ IP:port on outgoing UDP packets +
- dpkg: fix bug where existence check was reversed +
- eject: add -s for SCSI- and USB-devices (Nico Erfurth) +
- fdisk: fix a case where break was reached only for DOS labels +
- fsck: don't kill pid -1! (Roy Marples <roy at marples.name>) +
- fsck_minix: fix bug in map_block2: s/(blknr >= 256 * 256)/(blknr < 256 * 256)/ +
- fuser: substantial rewrite +
- getopt: add support for "a+" specifier for nonnegative int parameters. By Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov at gmail.com> +
- getty: don't try to detect parity on local lines (Joakim Tjernlund <Joakim.Tjernlund at transmode.se>) +
- halt: write wtmp entry if wtmp support is enabled +
- httpd: "HEAD" support. Closes bug 1530 +
- httpd: fix bug 2004: wrong argv when interpreter is invoked +
- httpd: fix bug where we did chdir("") if CGI path had only one "/" +
- httpd: fix for POST upload +
- httpd: support for "I:index.xml" syntax (Peter Korsgaard <jacmet AT uclibc.org>) +
- hush: fix a case where none of pipe members could be started because of fork failure +
- hush: more correct handling of piping +
- hush: reinstate `cmd` handling for NOMMU +
- hush: report [v]fork failures +
- hush: set CLOEXEC on script file being executed +
- hush: try to add a bit more of vfork-friendliness +
- inetd: make "udp nowait" work +
- inetd: make inetd IPv6-capable +
- init: add FEATURE_KILL_REMOVED (Eugene Bordenkircher <eugebo AT gmail.com>) +
- init: allow last line of config file to be not terminated by "\n" +
- init: do not die if "/dev/null" is missing +
- init: fix bug 1111: restart actions were not splitting words +
- init: wait for orphaned children too while waiting for sysinit-like processes (harald-tuxbox AT arcor.de) +
- ip route: "ip route" was misbehaving (extra argv+1 ate 1st env var) +
- last: do not go into endless loop on read error +
- less,klogd,syslogd,nc,tcpudp: exit on signal by killing itself, not exit(1) +
- less: "examine" command will not bomb out on bad file name now +
- less: fix bug where backspace wasn't actually deleting chars +
- less: make it a bit more resistant against status line corruption +
- less: improve search when data is not supplied fast enough by stdin - now will try reading for 1-2 seconds before declaring that there is no match. This fixes a very common annoyance with long manpages +
- less: update line input so that it doesn't interfere with screen update. Makes "man bash", [enter], [/], <enter search pattern>, [enter] more usable - manpage now draws even as you enter the pattern! +
- libbb: filename completion matches dangling symlinks too +
- libbb: fix getopt state corruption for NOFORK applets +
- libbb: full_read/write now will report partial data counts prior to error +
- libbb: intrduce and use safe_gethostname. By Tito <farmatito AT tiscali.it> +
- libbb: introduce and use nonblock_safe_read(). Yay! Our shells are immune from this nasty O_NONBLOCK now! +
- login,su: avoid clearing environment with some options, as was intended +
- microcom: read more than 1 byte from device, if possible +
- microcom: split -d (delay) option away from -t +
- mktemp: support -p DIR (Timo Teras <timo.teras at iki.fi>) +
- mount: #ifdef out MOUNT_LABEL code parts if it is not selected +
- mount: add another mount helper call method +
- mount: allow and ignore _netdev option +
- mount: make -f work even without mtab support (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn at axis.com>) +
- mount: optional support for -vv verbosity +
- mount: plug a hole where FEATURE_MOUNT_HELPERS could allow execution of arbitrary command +
- mount: recognize "dirsync" (closes bug 835) +
- mount: sanitize environment if called by non-root +
- mount: support for mount by label. Closes bug 1143 +
- mount: with -vv -f, say what mount() calls we were going to make +
- msh: create testsuite (based on hush one) +
- msh: don't use floating point in "times" builtin +
- msh: fix Ctrl-C handling with line editing +
- msh: fix for bug 846 ("break" didn't work second time) +
- msh: glob0/glob1/glob2/glob3 were just a sorting routine, removed +
- msh: instead of fixing "ls | cd", "cd | ls" etc disallow builtins in pipes. They make no sense there anyway +
- msh: stop trying to parse variables in "msh SCRIPT VAR=val param". They are passed as ordinary parameters +
- netstat: print control chars as "^C" etc +
- nmeter: fix bug where %[mf] behaves as %[mt] +
- nohup: compat patch by Christoph Gysin <mailinglist.cache at gmail.com> +
- od: handle /proc files (which have filesize 0) correctly +
- patch: don't trash permissions of patched file +
- ps: add conditional support for -o [e]time +
- ps: fix COMMAND column adjustment; overflow in USER and VSZ columns +
- reset: call "stty sane". Closes bug 1414 +
- rmdir: optional long options support for Debian users. By Roberto Gordo Saez <roberto.gordo AT gmail.com> +
- run-parts: add --reverse +
- script: correctly handle buffered "tail" of output +
- sed: "n" command must reset "we had successful subst" flag. Closes bug 1214 +
- sort: -z outputs NUL terminated lines. Closes bug 1591 +
- stty: fix mishandling of control keywords (Ralf Friedl <Ralf.Friedl AT online.de>) +
- switch_root: stop at first non-option. Closes bug 1425 +
- syslogd: avoid excessive time() system calls +
- syslogd: don't die if remote host's IP cannot be resolved. Retry resolutions every two minutes instead +
- syslogd: fix shmat error check +
- syslogd: optional support for dropping dups. Closes bug 436 +
- syslogd: send "\n"-terminated messages over the network. Fully closes bug 1574 +
- syslogd: tighten up hostname handling +
- tail: fix "tail -c 20 /dev/huge_disk" (was taking ages) +
- tar: compat: handle tarballs with only one zero block at the end +
- tar: autodetection of gz/bz2 compressed tarballs. Closes bug 992 +
- tar: real support for -p. By Natanael Copa <natanael.copa at gmail.com> +
- tcpudp: narrow down time window where we have no wildcard socket +
- telnetd: use login always, not "sometimes login, sometimes shell" +
- test: fix mishandling of "test ! arg1 op arg2 more args" +
- trylink: instead of build error, disable --gc-sections if GLIBC and STATIC are selected +
- udhcp: make file paths configurable +
- udhcp: optional support for non-standard DHCP ports +
- udhcp: set correct op byte in the packet for DHCPDECLINE +
- udhcpc: filter unwanted packets in kernel (Cristian Ionescu-Idbohrn <cristian.ionescu-idbohrn AT axis.com>) +
- udhcpc: fix wrong options in decline and release packets (Jonas Danielsson <jonas.danielsson AT axis.com>) +
- umount: do not complain several times about the same mountpoint +
- umount: do not try to free loop device or erase mtab if remounted ro +
- umount: instead of non-standard -D, use -d with opposite meaning. Closes bug 1604 +
- unlzma: shrink by Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard AT ads-lu.com> +
- unzip: do not try to read entire compressed stream at once (it can be huge) +
- unzip: handle short reads correctly +
- vi: many fixes +
- zcip: don't chdir to root +
- zcip: open ARP socket before openlog (else we can trash syslog socket)
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