the busybox menuconfig triggered my "inacceptable number of spelling mistakes"
upper level, so I decided to make a patch ;-)
I also improved some wording to describe some things in a better way.
Many thanks for an incredible piece of software!
Andreas Mohr, random OSS developer
Hello Rob,
Here's a patch to your bunzip-3.c file. Nice work btw.
One minor bug fix... checking for error return when read()ing.
Some size/performance optimizations as well. One instance of
memset() seems unnecssary. You might want to take a look.
Anyway, on my machine, decompressing linux-2.6.0-test7.tar.bz2
to /dev/null gave the following times:
bunzip-3.c bzcat (system) bunzip-3.c (patched)
real 0m24.420s 0m22.725s 0m20.701s
user 0m23.930s 0m22.170s 0m20.180s
sys 0m0.070s 0m0.080s 0m0.140s
Size of the patched version is comparable (slightly larger or
smaller depending on compiler flags).
Manuel
The API for using partial writes, as described in my last message, sucked.
So here's a patch against my last patch that changes things so that
write_bunzip_data calls read_bunzip_data itself behind the scenes whenever
necessary. So usage is now just start_bunzip(), write_bunzip_data() until it
returns a negative number, and then the cleanup at the end of
uncompressStream.
It adds 32 bytes to the executable, but it should allow the caller (tar) to be
simplified enough to compensate. Total -Os stripped exe size now 6856 bytes.
Rob
P.S. I attached the whole C file so you don't have to keep incremental
patches straight if you don't want to. :)
P.S. In the version I'm banging on now, I've simplified the license to just
LGPL. I read the OSL a bit more closely and the patent termination clause
would have bit IBM in their counter-suit of SCO if the code in question had
been OSL instead of GPL, and I've decided I just don't want to beta-test
legal code right now.
Erik,
The format for /proc/meminfo has changed between 2.4 and 2.6, quite considerably.
In addition to the removal of the two-line summary that was present in 2.4,
MemShared was also removed. Presently (at least in busybox CVS HEAD), top fails
to parse this correctly and spews forth a:
top: failed to read 'meminfo'
message. This patch switches around some of the semantics a little to do sane
parsing for both 2.4 and 2.6. Also, in the event that the summary gets yanked
from 2.4, this patch will deal with that as well. With this patch, I'm able
to run top correctly on 2.6.0-test7 (tested on sh).
Please apply.
procps/top.c | 60 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------
1 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
Hi Eric
I have written a small patch for the Busybox syslogd. With this patch
one can limit the size of the messagfile. As soon as the limit is
reached the syslogd can rotate or purge the messagefile(s) on his own.
There is no necessity to use an external rotatescript.
Even if logread does something similar, its very handy to have some
messagefile after your box crash.
I wrote this patch initial vor BB 0.6x where no cron daemon was avail.
Now I adapted it for the new Version and i hope it is still useful. At
least I still use it :-)
bye
Arnd
Moving on to building diffutils, busybox sed needs this patch to get
past the first problem. (Passing it a multi-line command line argument
with -e works, but if you don't use -e it doesn't break up the multiple
lines...)
`echo "README" | xargs ls -al`
Dont specify a path for the default behaviour of echo
args allocated space for an extra ptr
Use defines for the different options
- env vars CONTENT_TYPE, CONTENT_LENGTH, HTTPD_REFERER, REMOTE_USER and
AUTH_TYPE(Basic always).
- POST data pipied now (previous version have loading into memory may be
big size data and reducing with hardcoded limit)
- removed $CGI_foo environment variables, else my have rubbish
enviroment if POST data have big binary file
Need to chdir after the tar file is opened, so make common tar filename
parsing and send the file descriptor rather than filename to
writeTarFile.
Modify the verboseFlag operation to determine wether to display on
stderr or stdout at display time, simpler than doing it in tar_main.
Add follow mode to logread, ala "tail -f /var/log/messages"
Note: output to a slow serial terminal can have side effects
on syslog because of the semaphore. In such case, define
RC_LOGREAD.
The construct certain vintages of GCC (the one I have trouble
with is 3.2.3) have trouble with looks like the following:
static struct st a;
static struct st *p = &a;
struct st { int foo; };
static void init(void) { a.foo = 0; }
The problem disappears if we move the struct declaration up to
let the compiler know the shape of the struct before the first
definition uses it, like this:
struct st { int foo; }; /* this has been moved up */
static struct st a;
static struct st *p = &a;
static void init(void) { a.foo = 0; }
