trylink: explain how to modify link and drastically decrease amount
of padding (unfortunately, needs hand editing ATM).
*: add ALIGN1 / ALIGN2 to global strings and arrays of bytes and shorts
size saving: 0.5k
correct_password: explain in detail why it is ok to use bb_banner
fsck_minix: make it print bb version, not it's own (outdated/irrelevant) one
Marginal size difference:
text data bss dec hex filename
679119 2700 15632 697451 aa46b busybox_old
679091 2700 15632 697423 aa44f busybox_unstripped
FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL => FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE
FEATURE_EXEC_PREFER_APPLETS => FEATURE_PREFER_APPLETS
Make SH_STANDALONE depend on PREFER_APPLETS.
getopt.c: more randomconfig-induced fixes
and now this fact is recorded in applets.h, not ash.c.
Several fixes to "--help + STANDALONE_SHELL" scenarios.
function old new delta
run_current_applet_and_exit - 355 +355
arith 2064 2073 +9
refresh 1148 1156 +8
getopt32 1068 1073 +5
telnet_main 1510 1514 +4
md5_sha1_sum_main 565 566 +1
xstrtoul_range_sfx 255 251 -4
packed_usage 22523 22514 -9
tryexec 255 203 -52
static.safe_applets 152 - -152
.rodata 131320 131128 -192
run_applet_by_name 869 506 -363
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 1/1 grow/shrink: 5/5 up/down: 382/-772) Total: -390 bytes
./busybox ash -c 'i=20000; while test $i != 0; do touch z; i=$((i-1)); done'
runs more than twice as fast with STANDALONE_SHELL versus without.
executable if we asked to exec someting with argv[0] == known_applet"
Use it in init. Also respect PATH in init, remove explicit "/sbin" etc
from exec. Patch by Gabriel L. Somlo <somlo@cmu.edu>
things like xasprintf() into xfuncs.c, remove xprint_file_by_name() (it only
had one user), clean up lots of #includes... General cleanup pass. What I've
been doing for the last couple days.
And it conflicts! I've removed httpd.c from this checkin due to somebody else
touching that file. It builds for me. I have to catch a bus. (Now you know
why I'm looking forward to Mercurial.)
untangle them:
Rewrite u_signal_names() into get_signum() and get_signame(), plus trim the
signal list to that required by posix (they can specify the numbers for
the rest if they really need them). (This is preparatory cleanup for adding
a timeout applet like Roberto Foglietta wants.)
Export the itoa (added due to Denis Vlasenko, although it's not quite his
preferred implementation) from xfuncs.c so it's actually used, and remove
several other redundant implementations of itoa and utoa() in the tree.
moved the contents of libbb/bb_echo.c back into coreutils/echo.c,
which is a more reasonable place for them than libbb. this
forces anyone who wants echo and test to be builtin to ash to
also have them available as applets. their cost is very small,
and the number of people who wouldn't want them as applets is
also very small.
added warning about shell builtins vs. CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL,
which conflicts with their use.
thanks to nathanael copa for debugging help.
some string size optimization in test.c may have been lost with
this commit, but this is a good new baseline.
Summary 0000242: ash: read -t broken
this also implements -n and -s options to read. (they're configured
together because most of their code is in common, and separating them
seemed silly.
If we exec /proc/self/exe and only fall back to /bin/busybox if /proc isn't
there, then we have a reasonable chance of having the standalone shell work
even if busybox isn't installed in /bin on the system in question.
Still won't work in a chroot environment, but it's an improvement.
CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_EDITING was defined *and*
CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_TAB_COMPLETION was undefined.
Vladimir N. Oleynik writes:
Its declare always, also if CONFIG_FEATURE_COMMAND_TAB_COMPLETION
undefined.
Patch to CVS version attached.
--w
vodz
On Wed Aug 18, 2004 at 06:52:57PM +0800, Matt Johnston wrote:
> I've come across some strange-seeming behaviour when running programs
> under Busybox (1.0.0-rc3) ash. If the child process sets stdin to be
> non-blocking and then exits, the parent ash will also exit. A quick strace
> shows that a subsequent read() from stdin returns EAGAIN (as would be
> expected):
Thanks!
Patch attached.
--w
vodz
With job control enabled, ash fails to tcsetpgrp back to initialpgrp
upon exit. exitshell() should call setjobctl(0) to do this.
Context: I am using a lightweight menu system (replimenu[.sf.net]) on my
console, which invokes "/bin/sh -i -c /bin/login", where /bin/sh and
/bin/login are busybox applets. /bin/sh is ash, with
CONFIG_ASH_JOB_CONTROL=y as the sole suboption. The shell of the user
concerned (nobody) is also /bin/sh (ash). When the user /bin/sh exits
(and thereby login and its parent sh), replimenu receives EIO when it
tries to read from the terminal.
The updated patch adds a config option to explicitely enable 64 bit
arithmetic.
Also it removes the arith prototype from libbb.h as it is not used
outside of ash.
Bastian
this patch has been slightly modified by Erik for cleanliness.
This is a bulk spelling fix patch against busybox-1.00-pre10.
If anyone gets a corrupted copy (and cares), let me know and
I will make alternate arrangements.
Erik - please apply.
Authors - please check that I didn't corrupt any meaning.
Package importers - see if any of these changes should be
passed to the upstream authors.
I glossed over lots of sloppy capitalizations, missing apostrophes,
mixed American/British spellings, and German-style compound words.
What is "pretect redefined for test" in cmdedit.c?
Good luck on the 1.00 release!
- Larry
Just upgraded from 0.6 to 1.00-pre8
Dot command handling handled args correctly (same as bash) in 0.60,
but failed in 1.00:
I fixed this by reverting the dotcmd function back to previous 0.60
instantiation,
please consider using the older version.
Thanks
Peter
have checked in. Vladimir writes:
Your patch have many problem.
1. You always added + time(). This cannot reset RANDOM=value for debuging
with
replay sequential.
2. Hmm. I examine bash 2.04 source. This pseudorandom generator use low bits
of
counter value. You use high bits. This make bad pseudorandom values after
have
0-value. For example, if + time() do remove, your generator always return 0
after
first generate 0.
3. Memory leak per call. Use ash-unlike unecessary bb_strdup function.
4. Unsupport show last $RANDOM value for "set" and "export" command.
5. Bloat code. Busybox-unlike patch - added unstandart feature as default
hardcode.
Last patch attached.
Erik, why you apply Paul patch with have 5-th point problem? :(
Last patch have ash change xwrite() to fresh libbb/bb_full_write interfase
(haved loop after EINTR).
--w
vodz
Here's a follow-up replacement to the patch I sent earlier, this adjusts some
of the semantics of the dynamic variable setting. Namely, dynamic vars can hook
a set handler (which RANDOM uses to adjust the seed). They'll only lose their
dynamic status if they're unset.
I've used the same approach that bash does to come up with the random number,
mostly just for consistency.
For example:
$ echo $RANDOM
13759
$ echo $RANDOM
20057
$ echo $RANDOM
1502
$ export RANDOM=42
$ echo $RANDOM
24179
$ echo $RANDOM
2046
$ unset RANDOM
$ echo $RANDOM
$ export RANDOM=42
$ echo $RANDOM
42
$
Richard,
>I have a problem, which I can reproduce now. I am using pre7 version of
>busybox, and the tab completion works fine. I mean, with an empty command
>line I press the TAB twice, and ash shows me the available commands. But
>when i process the profile file below, as
> $ . /etc/profile
>then it stops working, and the double-tab lists the directories available
>from the cwd, and not the commands. Has someone else meet this problem
>before, or am i doing something wrong?
>
>This is my '/etc/profile':
>- ---
># System profile
>
>PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/sbin
>export PATH
>trap ":" INT QUIT TERM
>
>export PS1="\h \w # "
Thanks. Patch attached.
--w
vodz
- synced with dash 0.4.21
- better handle trap "cmds..." SIGINT (strange, i make bad hack for ash
and cmdedit, but this work only with this...)
- may be haven`t problem with Ctrl-D
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; }
"If the shell is compiled with -DJOBS, this is all fine -- find wasn't
stopped (it was killed), so it correctly uses WTERMSIG instead of WSTOPSIG.
However, if the shell _isn't_ compiled with -DJOBS (which it isn't in d-i),
only WSTOPSIG is used, which extracts the high byte instead of the low
byte from the status code. Since the status code is 13 (SIGPIPE), "st"
suddenly gets the value 0, which is equivalent to SIGEXIT. Thus, ash prints
out "EXIT" on find's exit."
unless it had #!/bin/sh in the first line
"It correctly locates the script, tries to execute it via execve which
fails. After that it tries to hand it over to /bin/sh which fails too,
since ash
- neither provides the absolute pathname to /bin/sh
- nor tries to lookup the script via PATH if called as "sh script"
"
Last patch have synced form Manuel Nova III xxreadtoken() function,
corrected (C) form dash debian/copyright, removed my small mistake
with IFS_BROKEN (thanks by Herbert), and synced cmdedit.c from
current CVS (removed libc5 support, your email correction, my (C) year
corertion).
config system
- added a new config option to allow persistant history lists. This is
currently only used by ash, but the calls ({load,save}_history) could
be added to the other shells as well.
When alias support is not configured, ash believes that command parameters
that look like dd's "if=/dev/zero" are requests to set a temporary
environment variable whilst dd is running, even though it appears after the
command name. This is caused by the re-use of the checkalias global variable
to indicate when both alias checking and environment variable checking. The
failure to reset this flag is due to the reset action being performed only
inside the feature check CHECK_ASH_ALIAS. Hence ash works as expected when
aliases are configured in, and fails when not.
Example script using 'date' with different settings of TZ:
# TZ=Europe/London
# export TZ
# date
Thu May 30 17:18:49 BST 2002
# TZ=America/New_York date
Thu May 30 12:19:10 EDT 2002
# date
Thu May 30 17:19:12 BST 2002
# date TZ=America/New_York
Thu May 30 12:19:30 EDT 2002 <----- wrong, should be BST time (or error!)
# date
Thu May 30 17:19:35 BST 2002
Attached is a patch against revision 1.52 of ash.c which moves the checks so
that checkalias is updated regardless of whether CONFIG_ASH_ALIAS is set.
With this patch applied, the command shown above which should generate an
error does generate an error.
I have tested this patch with the 'dd' command too and that now works
correctly.
This diff does 2 things:
1) removes an unnecessary function. saves 64 bytes on i386
2) allows you to disable checking of mail (actually, it's now disabled
by default). this would be a nice CML1 option, but for now it's a
#(define|undef) in the C file like the other internal ash options.
this saves an additional 352 bytes if you leave mail disabled.
so that the table implementations of copynode, calcsize, and cmdtxt are
used. Hopefully this will result in wider testing. ;-) If it breaks,
just unset the appropriate defines.
and copynode() table implementations. Commit the fix but keep them disabled
until others check them out. Uncomment "//#define CMDTXT_TABLE",
"//#define CALCSIZE_TABLE", and "//#define COPYNODE_TABLE" to try them out.
Saves over 600 bytes on i386.
math suport, cleaner math syntax error checking, moves redundant signal
string tables (from kill and ash) into libbb and provides a few
cleanups elsewhere.
was written by Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> for busybox. This
patch makes a few trivial changes to Aaron's code so that it can be
used (in theory) by the other shells as well...
-Erik
1) ping cleanup (compile fix from this patch already applied).
2) traceroute call not spare ntohl() now (and reduce size);
3) Fix for functions not declared static in insmod, ash, vi and mount.
4) a more simple API cmdedit :))
5) adds "stopped jobs" warning to ash on Ctrl-D and fixes "ignoreeof" option
6) reduce exporting library function index->strchr (traceroute), bzero->memset (syslogd)
together by vodz, but uses newer sources, has the removed features
commented out instead of simply deleted (so they could be re-enabled)
and the builtins all work. This adds 72k.
-Erik
