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<B>B u s y B o x</B>
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<ul>
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<p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
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<hr>
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<li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
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<br>
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BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
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release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
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contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
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22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
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There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
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the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
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0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
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deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
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<p>
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There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
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one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
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added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
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compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
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functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
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all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
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maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
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compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
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for letting me use their system!).
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<p>
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You can read the
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
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complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
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<p>Have Fun!
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<p>
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<li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
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<p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
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"http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
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image</a>. Here's how you use it:
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<ol>
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<li> <a href= "http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
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Download the image</a>
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<li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
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of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
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<li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
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</ol>
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<p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
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mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
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cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
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umount /mnt
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gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
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mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
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</pre>
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<li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
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<br>
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This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
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and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
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shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
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expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
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smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
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<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
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<p>
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lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
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now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
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long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
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Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
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environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
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this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
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framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
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business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
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currently in progress at
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<a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
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<p>
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<li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
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<br>
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Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
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things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
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For a list of the most interesting changes
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you might want to look at the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
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<p>
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Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
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work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
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out of town.
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<p>
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<em>Special Note</em><br>
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BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
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shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
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Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
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shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
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construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
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Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
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progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
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and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
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release of BusyBox.
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<p>
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<li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
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<br>
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This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
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rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
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update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
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optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
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that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
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now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
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shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
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woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
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<p>
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The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
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the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
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<p>
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Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
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this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
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<p>
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<p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
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<br>
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This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
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syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
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apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
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renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
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There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
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more correct option parsing.
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See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
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for complete details.
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<p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
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<br>
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This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
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and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
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people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
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completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
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BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
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See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
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for complete details.
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<p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
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<br>
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This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
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point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
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release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
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mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
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telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
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the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
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details).
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<p>
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Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
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<a href="http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
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publically browsable
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<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
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anonymous
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<a href="http://busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
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for those that are actively contributing there is even
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<a href="http://busybox.net/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
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I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
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<p>
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Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
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a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
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we are just skipping 0.44.
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<p>
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Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
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of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
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<p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
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Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
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For example, with the following test app:
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<pre>
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#include <syslog.h>
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int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
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{
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openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
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while(1) {
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syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
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sleep(delay);
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}
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closelog();
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return(0);
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};
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int main(void)
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{
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if (fork()==0)
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do_log("A", 2);
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do_log("B", 3);
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}
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it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
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from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
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while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
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<p>
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Karl M. Hegbloom has created a
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<a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>.
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Thanks Karl!
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<p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
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I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
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good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
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so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
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have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
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freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
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rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
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More details are available in the
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<a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
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Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
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<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
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Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
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and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
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Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
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Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
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There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
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<p>
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You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
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<p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
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Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
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do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
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to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
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5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
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tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
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at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
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the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
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of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
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enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
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changes I still want to make.
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<p>
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The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
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Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
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<p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
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I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
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lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
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He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
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it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
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fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
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and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
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(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
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down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
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(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
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contrary).
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<p>
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Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
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labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
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<p>
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So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
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Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
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to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
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include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
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re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
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accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
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problems.
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<p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
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<br>
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This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
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bugs have been fixed. See the
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<a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
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Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
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filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
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behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
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loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
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Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
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their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
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on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
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<p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
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<br>
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This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
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mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
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logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
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support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
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The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
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<p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
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<br>
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This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
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syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
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New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
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In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
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in some cases produced serious security problems.
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As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
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<p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
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I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
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to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
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will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
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contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
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what arguments its apps support, etc.
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<p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
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<br>
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This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
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the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
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changelog can be found <a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
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<p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
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<br>
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This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
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and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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<li> <a href="http://busybox.net/">Take me back to http://busybox.net/</a>.
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<p>
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<li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
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Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
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The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
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by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
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<li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html">
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Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
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<li> <a href="http://busybox.net/software.html">Cool embedded software</a>.
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Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to
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<a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a><BR>
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The Busybox logo is copyright 1999,2000,2001 Erik Andersen.
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