19 April 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.10.1.
(svn,
patches,
how to add a patch)
Bugfix-only release for 1.10.x branch. It contains fixes for
fuser, init, less, nameif, tail, taskset, tcpudp, top, udhcp.
How to build static busybox against uclibc
The email address gpl@busybox.net is the recommended way to contact
the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
21 March 2008 -- BusyBox 1.10.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.10.0.
(svn,
patches,
how to add a patch)
Sizes of busybox-1.9.2 and busybox-1.10.0 (with almost full config, static uclibc build):
text data bss dec hex filename
781405 679 7500 789584 c0c50 busybox-1.9.2
773551 640 7372 781563 becfb busybox-1.10.0
Top 10 stack users:
busybox-1.9.2: busybox-1.10.0:
echo_dg 4116 bb_full_fd_action 4112
bb_full_fd_action 4112 find_list_entry2 4096
discard_dg 4108 readlink_main 4096
discard_dg 4096 ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900
echo_stream 4096 iproute_list_or_flush 3680
discard_stream 4096 insmod_main 3152
find_list_entry2 4096 fallbackSort 2952
readlink_main 4096 do_iproute 2492
ipaddr_list_or_flush 3900 cal_main 2464
iproute_list_or_flush 3680 readhere 2308
New applets: brctl, chat (by Vladimir Dronnikov <dronnikov AT gmail.com>),
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)