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| 0.61.pre
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| 
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|     Development Version
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| 
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| 
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| 
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|     New Applets:
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- Merged several applets from tinylogin,
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| 	    namely adduser, addgroup, deluser, delgroup, getty.
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| 
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| 
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|     Other Changes:
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| 
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik, Manuel Novoa III, Aaron Lehmann
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| 	    -- a whole bunch of ash size optimizations
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| 	    -- Fix for ash leading redirections (i.e. '2>/dev/null ls rubbish')
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| 	* Rodney Brown  <RDBrown@mira.net> 
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| 	    -- Optimized gzip.c, shrinking it by ~1.5k
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| 	* Matt Kraai
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| 	    -- Fix sed s/[/]// handling (closes: #1208).
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| 	    -- Fix `-/bin/sh' invocation (closes: #1209).
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| 	    -- Fix ash exec (noted by Arne Bernin).
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| 	    -- Fix tar segfault when include list is empty and exclude list is
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| 	       not.
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| 	    -- Fix sed s/$/@/ handling (noted by Joshua Hudson).
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| 	    -- Fix opt type in dpkg (closes: #118975).
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| 	* Magick
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| 	    -- made init run inittab command's in the order they show up
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| 		in the inittab file (FIFO instead of LIFO).
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik
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| 	    -- reverse resolve network name and cache in route and ifconfig
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| 		applets, fix print nslookup server name if compile without
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| 		uClibc, fix route crashe 'route add', fix warnings compile
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| 		networking and pwd_grp applets
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| 
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, --not yet released--
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| 
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| 
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| 
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| 0.60.1
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| 
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|     Stable Release
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| 
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| 
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|     New Applets & New Features:
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| 	none.  :)
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| 
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|     Known Problems (to be fixed in 0.60.2)
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| 	* msh can segfault on constructs such as
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| 		for i in `ls *.c` ; do echo $i ; done
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| 	  due to a memory allocation problem.  This only seems to cause
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| 	  problems when the backtick expands to be several k in size.
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| 
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| 
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|     Bugfixes:
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| 	* Matt Kraai
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| 	    -- Fixed msh to support underscores in variable names.
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| 	    -- Fixed a sed problem with unsatisfied backrefs (the problem was
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| 		noted by Martin Bene).
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| 	    -- Removed CONFIG_SH define entirely.  Now one simply picks the shell
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| 		or shells they want as CONFIG_<foo> in Config.h
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| 	    -- Fixed head to use ferror(3) to check for errors, not errno.
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| 	* Shu-Hao Chang <shuhao_chang@trend.com.tw>
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| 	    -- Fixed sed handling of multiple -e commands
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| 	* Magick <magick@linux-fan.com>
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| 	    -- Fixed an init bug with AskFirst and /dev/null
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| 	* Jaspreet Singh <jsingh@somanetworks.com>
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| 	    -- Fixed both a segfault and cosmetic bug in route
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| 	* Erik Andersen
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| 	    -- Made the insmod options CONFIG_FEATURE_NEW_MODULE_INTERFACE and 
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| 		CONFIG_FEATURE_OLD_MODULE_INTERFACE mutually exclusive
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| 	    -- xgetcwd.c now includes sys/param.h to ensure PATH_MAX is defined
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| 	    -- Fixed a potential segfault with lash + CONFIG_FEATURE_CLEAN_UP
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| 	    -- Removed uint64_t from dos2unix, avoiding C lib compat. problems.
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| 	* Glenn McGrath
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| 	    -- Rewrite of tftp (commands match atftp, accepts -b, can use 
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| 		non-standard ports, and is smaller).
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| 	    -- Fixed unarchive exclude list handling
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| 	* Manuel Novoa III
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| 	    -- rewrite of simplify_path so it behaves itself (fixing some
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| 		problems with mount and other applets).
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| 	    -- Fixed ifconfig 'broadcast +' handling and disabled it by default
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| 	* Matthias ? <matthias@corelatus.com>
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| 	    -- Fixed syslogd to log all messages from a single connection, not
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| 		just the first.
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| 	 
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| 	 
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, 23 August 2001
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| 
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| 
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| 0.60.0
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| 
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|     Note: 
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| 
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| 	For this release I have bumped the version number to 0.60.0.  This
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| 	reflects the fact that this release is intended to form a new stable
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| 	BusyBox release series.  If you need to rely on a stable version of
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| 	BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 0.60.x series.  If bugs
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| 	show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 0.60.2, etc...  This is also
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| 	intended to deal with the fact that the BusyBox build system will be
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| 	getting a major overhaul for the next release and I don't want that to
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| 	break products that people are shipping.  To avoid that, the new build
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| 	system will be released as part of a new BusyBox development series
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| 	that will have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number.  Once things
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| 	stabablize and the new build system is working for everyone, then I
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| 	will release that as a new stable release series. 
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| 
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|     Critical Bugfixes:
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| 	* Matt Kraai 
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| 	    -- Fixed wget output file opening (wget failed in 0.52).
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| 	    -- Fixed a memory leak in syslogd (found by Adam Slattery).
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik, Matt Kraai, Erik Andersen
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| 	    -- several nasty bugs in ash and msh.  msh could not assign
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| 		any variables and had debug code still enabled.  ash
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| 		had several compile errors (depending on selected options)
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| 		and variable assignment problems as well.
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| 
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|     New Applets:
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| 	* David McCullough <davidm@lineo.com> -- modprobe
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik -- traceroute
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- pidof
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| 
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|     New Scripts:
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| 	* David Schleef, Erik Andersen, Stuart Hughes -- depmod.pl
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| 	    This is a replacement for the depmod program from the modutils 
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| 	    package, but is fully cross platform and is designed to run on 
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| 	    your host system (not on the target).
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| 
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|     Other Changes:
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| 	* Erik Andersen 
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| 	    -- fixed busybox.spec so it should now work on redhat systems
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| 	    -- fixed dos2unix and unix2dos so they should work once again
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| 	    -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly.  Busybox
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| 		should now work on uClinux systems without needing and source
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| 		code changes (applets that won't work on uClinux systems are 
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| 		now automagicaly disabled).
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| 	    -- various things (cleanups, libc compatibility work, etc, etc)
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| 	* Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com>
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| 	    -- Fixed for sed, where it failed to preserve whether or not the 
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| 		line was previously altered when running a subst command.
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| 	* Matt Kraai 
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| 	    -- Made tar read 20 512byte blocks at a time (like GNU tar)
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| 	    -- Allow msh.c assignments with the export and readonly commands.
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| 	    -- Added CONFIG_FEATURE_DEVFS to enable devfs device names.
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| 	    -- Better devfs support
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| 	    -- Don't save/restore vi readonly flag if vi is compiled read-only.
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| 	    -- Reworked rdate option handling (is now smaller).
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| 	    -- Size reduction in ping
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| 	    -- Always write dd counts to stderr
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| 	    -- Allow multiple shells to be enabled
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| 	* Aaron Lehmann 
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| 	    -- slimmed down md5sum 
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| 	    -- contributed a nice new (hand written, not lex/yacc) Posix math 
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| 		support for ash, which is once again a full posix shell.
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| 	* Felix von Leitner <leitner@convergence.de> -- patches to make busybox 
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| 	    work with dietlibc.
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| 	* David McCullough
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| 	    -- Adjustments to make busybox more uClinux friendly
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| 	* Glenn McGrath 
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| 	    -- Fixed gzip so when a filename is '-' it will use stdin/stdout
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| 	    -- dpkg rewrite.  Should now be compatable with the real dpkg, 
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| 		but needs more testing.
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| 	    -- Updates to archiving tools (gunzip/gzip/cpio/ar/etc) 
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| 	    -- Rewrote uuencode, will allow base64 encoding to be used by wget
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik 
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| 	    -- Fixed tr to support 'tr a-z A-Z' syntax,
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| 	    -- Many ash corrections, optimizations, and cleanups.
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| 	    -- optimizations for traceroute, md5sum, chown, ping
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| 	    -- cmdedit updates and API change
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| 	    -- Namespace cleanup (i.e. adding 'static' private function calls)
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| 	    -- added "stopped jobs" warning to ash on exit
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| 	* Adam Slattery
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| 	    -- Fixed ping compile problem
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| 	* Robert J. Osborne <rj@resourceinternational.com>
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| 	    -- fixed a vi bug with delete and escape sequences on empty files.
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| 
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| 
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, 31 July 2001
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| 
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| 
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| 
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| 0.52
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| 	
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|     Critical Bugfixes:
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| 	* Glenn McGrath -- Fixed gunzip, zcat when reading from stdin
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| 	* Marc Karasek and Kanoj (kernel serial.c maintainer) -- fixed init
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| 	    problem on serial consoles with 2.4.3+ kernels.
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| 	
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|     New Applets:
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| 	* Laurence Anderson -- rpm2cpio applet, this obsoletes rpmunpack 
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| 	    which has now been removed from BusyBox 
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| 	* Laurence Anderson and Glenn McGrath -- cpio applet, currently 
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| 	    only supports unpacking the ascii cpio format.
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik and Erik Andersen -- added ash, the most correct
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| 	    busybox shell.
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| 	* Larry Doolittle -- hush, small shell designed specifically
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| 	    for busybox.  Quite usable but still a work in progress.
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- msh, minix shell.  A very small but capable shell
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| 	    that only uses vfork, so it can be used on uClinux systems.
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| 
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|     Other Changes:
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|     	* Sterling Huxley -- Several bugfixes for the vi applet.
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| 	* Glenn McGrath -- Restructure unarchiving code to make more code
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| 	    common to the ar, cpio, dpkg, dpkg-deb applets.
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| 	    tar applet has not yet been assimilated...
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- Rewrote cp, dirname, mkdir, mv, and rm.
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| 	* Paul J.Y. Lahaie <pjlahaie@linuxcare.com> -- Fixed an endian-ness
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| 	    bug in md5sum (in 0.51, md5sum on big endian machines was broken)
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| 	* Mark Whitley -- rewrote cut, major updates to grep and sed. 
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- bunches of insmod fixes.  It should now always 
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| 	    work (no more segfault or missing symbols problems).
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| 	* Bernhard Kuhn <kuhn@lpr.e-technik.tu-muenchen.de> and Jinux Kim
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| 	    added uClinux/m68k insmod support.
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| 	* Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote make_human_readable so ls, du, and df
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| 	    should work as expected.  Eliminated use of floats.
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| 	* Aaron Lehmann <aaronl@vitelus.com> -- Scrubbed gzip.c
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| 	* Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au> -- fixed an hard to spot
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| 	    bug breaking gunzip checksum checking.
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| 	* Gennady Feldman -- Fixed 'syslog -C' 
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| 	* Gernot Poerner <gp@it-netservice.de> -- Added mount bind support.
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| 	* Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org>  -- wget arbitrary header support
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| 	* John Beppu -- updated the automagical doc generator
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| 	* Zillions of other bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.
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| 
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| 
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| 
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, 7 July 2001
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| 
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| 
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| 0.51
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|     Critical Bugfixes:
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
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| 	    when pressing <Enter> on an empty line.
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| 	* Gennady Feldman -- Fixed a bug that could crash the shell in 0.50
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| 	    when performing an 'export' in the shell.
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| 	* Gennady Feldman -- fixed a syslogd bug where syslogd could cause
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| 	    the init process to block (which can break systems badly).
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| 
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|     New Applets:
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| 	* Sterling Huxley -- contributed a new vi applet!  This is a very
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| 	    functional vi implementation in Only 22k.
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- added env applet
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| 	
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|     Other changes:
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- Split utility.c into libbb, which provides a
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| 	    much cleaner was for us to include shared functionality.
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- Reorganized how and when busybox includes 
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| 	    syscalls, aiding portability and (in this case) making the
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| 	    busybox work on ia64 systems.
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- dpkg.c cleanup to use the updated gunzip interface.
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- Cleanups for libc5, glibc, and uClibc.
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| 	* Erik Andersen and Matt Kraai -- Cleanups for the human-readable
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| 	    output from ls, du, and df.
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| 	* Laurence Anderson <laurence@zxmail.com> -- Fixed wget HTTP 1.1
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| 	    support and added chunked encoding so it is now RFC compliant.
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| 	* John Beppu -- The busybox.pod documentation is now automagically
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| 	    generated from the source code.  This makes it _much_ simpler.  
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| 	    Now to update the docs, just update the usage message...
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| 	* Dirk Behme <dirk.behme@de.bosch.com> -- Adjusted MIPS insmod 
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| 	    support a bit for Mips RS3.
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| 	* Christophe Boyanique -- egrep invoked the "init" applet in 0.50!
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| 	* Larry Doolittle -- Added -Wshadow and fixed a number of shadowed
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| 	    variables
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| 	* David Douthitt -- fixed 'find -print' 
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| 	* Gennady Feldman -- fixes for the syslogd circular buffer code 
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| 	* Jeff Garzik -- a number of structural cleanups, fixes for -Wshadow 
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| 	    bugs, and similar problems.
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- Added a new 'shutdown' action to busybox init.  Now
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| 	    you can specify arbitrary behavior for 'ctrlaltdel' so now
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| 	    pressing CTL-ALT-DEL can do something else (or nothing).
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| 	* Andreas Neuhaus <andy@fasta.fh-dortmund.de> -- fix for merging
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| 	    kernel command line environment variables into child environment
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| 	    for init.c
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| 	* Glenn McGrath -- Fixed problems with dpkg and dpkg-deb applets
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| 	* Glenn McGrath -- Don't try to automount devfs 
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik -- optimizations for more.c
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik -- Added locale support to the shell, and fixed
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| 	    locale support in several other places
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik -- moved struct applet from busybox.c to applets.c
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik -- A size optimization for rdate
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed printf applets's locale handling
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik -- More cmdedit updates
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik -- Fixed `du' applet so it continues running 
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| 	    after permission errors.
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| 	* Vladimir Oleynik -- Reduced stack usage in recursive_action()
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| 	* Pierre Peiffer <pierre.peiffer@sxb.bsf.alcatel.fr> -- made
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| 		find_pid_by_name() cope with swapped out processes.
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| 	* Jari Ruusu <jari.ruusu@pp.inet.fi> -- updates so that setting
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| 	    D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 now works as expected. 
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| 	* Anthony Towns <aj@azure.humbug.org.au> -- fixed a bug with 
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| 	    sed address range handling
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| 	* Dmitry Zakharov <dmit@crp.bank.gov.ua> -- a number of updates
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| 	    to wget: support for ftp downloads, basic HTTP basic auth, handling
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| 	    of http redirects, when attempting to continue an aborted download
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| 	    but server doesn't support restarts then reopen output file in
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| 	    write mode, bugfix: when content-length not given, wget didn't
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| 	    download anything, if -c is not specified, it no longer default to
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| 	    restarting an aborted download. 
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| 
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| 
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, 10 April 2001
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| 
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| 
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| 0.50
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- added ifconfig interface status reporting 
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- Debian packaging updates
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- lash environment variable expansion rewritten,
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| 	    with lots of help/fixes/testing from Larry Doolittle.
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- Fix use of busybox with dmalloc debugging lib
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- fixed ls behavior for broken or very narrow terminals
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- stub umount2 and pivot_root if they are not available
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- libc5 fixes
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- make init work with devfsd
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- fixed df for nfs and dos where blksize = 512
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- Make sure libpwd.a is linked _last_ so it 
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| 	    overrides the system pwd/grp 
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| 	* Christophe Boyanique -- added an optional egrep alias for grep.
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| 	* Christophe Boyanique -- added optional 'rm -i' support.
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| 	* Kenneth Chalmers and Erik Andersen -- fixed ln so it
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| 	    behaves when given no arguments (prints usage) and when
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| 	    given just one arg (tries to make a link in the cwd).
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| 	* Magnus Damm -- added a tftp applet  
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| 	* Magnus Damm -- powerpc support for busybox insmod.
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| 	* David Douthitt -- fixed a build error in df.c when 
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| 	    CONFIG_FEATURE_HUMAN_READABLE was disabled
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| 	* John Beppu -- wrote autodocifier.pl, which will be used to auto-
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| 	    generate the documentation from the source code, making life
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| 	    much simpler for all.
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| 	* Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> -- Fixed an 'inner scope var
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| 	    masking outer scope var with same name' bug that prevented 
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| 	    the loopback device from being unmounted if mount() failed.
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| 	* Larry Doolittle -- rewrote ifconfig to make it smaller 
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| 	* Larry Doolittle and Erik Andersen -- cleanups to pristine source
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| 	* Larry Doolittle -- many bugfixes resulting from regression testing
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| 	* Gennady Feldman -- split syslogd.c into syslogd and klogd
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| 	* Gennady Feldman -- make syslogd single threaded -- no more forking
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| 	* Jeff Garzik -- getopt-ified rmmod.
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| 	* Jeff Garzik -- glibc 2.2 warning cleanups
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| 	* Jeff Garzik -- namespace pollution cleanup (staticified variables).
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| 	* Erik Gustavsson <cyrano@algonet.se> -- allow env variables set on the
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| 	    kernel command line to be inherited into init and its children.
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| 	* Erik Habbinga -- fixed an uninitialized substitution delimiter in sed.
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| 	* Chris Jaeger -- Makefile cleanup to make option setting less error-prone
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| 	* Chris Jaeger <cjaeger@ensim.com> -- Carefully check NFS_MOUNT_VERSION
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| 	    depending on what kernel is being used.
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| 	* Quinn Jensen <jensenq@lineo.com> -- MIPS support for busybox insmod.
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| 	* Evin Robertson -- new pivot_root applet 
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| 	* Kent Robotti -- usage message cleanups
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| 	* Kent Robotti -- reworked dos2unix/unix2dos
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| 	* Evin Robertson and Manuel Novoa III -- reworked how usage messages 
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| 	    are stored to save several k of space.
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- Keep trying if an NFS mount fails 
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- fixed insmod so it won't try to insmod directories.
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- added nc listening support
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| 	* Matt Kraai and David Douthitt -- reworked fine to support -type, 
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| 	    -perm, -mtime, and other improvements.
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- added find_applet_by_name and saved some memory thereby
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- added chomp to reduce redundant code elsewhere
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- Removed trailing \n chars from error_msg{,_and_die} messages. 
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| 	* John Lombardo -- fixed OOM in insmod.
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| 	* Glenn McGrath -- bypass /proc in mount, now uses sysfs. 
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| 	* Glenn McGrath -- several updates to dpkg and dpkg-deb. 
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| 	* Manuel Novoa III -- several size optimizations: parse_mode, 
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| 	    process_escape_sequence, format, and get_kernel_revision. 
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| 	* Manuel Novoa III -- rewrote ifconfig again to make it smaller still 
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| 	* Manuel Novoa III -- added ifconfig -a, updated interface reporting
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- Fixed a bug where init set PATH incorrectly 
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- cleanups to route, cmdedit, mkdir, 
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| 	    mkfs_minix, mkswap, chmod_chown_chgrp and utility.c
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- many fixes to cmdedit. so tab completion
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| 	    is now working and general editing is much improved, and to
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| 	    improve complex prompt handling.
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- added route status reporting.
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed wget to use xfopen
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- new stty applet 
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- fixed find, it used to stop on perm errors.
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- locale forced to posix for scripts 
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik -- saved 128 bytes by moving error checking 
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| 	    for several my_* functions into utility.c
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| 	* Bjorn Wesen -- new ifconfig and route applet (taken from 
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| 	    work done by Axis Communications).
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| 	* Mark Whitley -- Added a 'How to contribute to Busybox' doc
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| 	    and updated the style guide.
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| 	* Mark Whitley -- implemented grep -A, -B, and -C
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| 	* Mark Whitley -- overhauled the test suite.
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| 
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| 
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, 15 March 2001
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| 	
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| 0.49
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| 
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- new sort.c
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- new tail.c
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| 	* Glenn McGrath -- new 'dpkg-deb' applet
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| 	* Glenn McGrath -- new ar code
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| 	* spoon -- new watchdog applet
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| 	* Vladimir N. Oleynik <dzo@simtreas.ru> -- fixed cmdedit.c so now 
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| 	    scrolling and tab completion in lash work properly.  Also several
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| 	    byte saving optimizations.
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| 	* Erik Andersen -- disabled many less commonly used applets by default
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| 	* Mark Whitley -- more thrashing about to get clean perror_msg usage
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| 	* Matt Kraai -- new command line munging
 | |
| 	* Larry Doolittle -- keep some locales from messing up busybox.sh
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai -- cleaned up dd and tail with new parse_number routine
 | |
| 	* Mark Whitley -- remove debugging messages from deallocvt
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai and Mark Whitley -- new document "How to Add a New Applet 
 | |
| 	    to BusyBox"
 | |
| 	* David Douthitt -- fixed "grep -qv" bug
 | |
| 	* Larry Doolittle -- fixed insmod bug with old kernels
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai -- logger remixed to use getopt, selection of stdin made 
 | |
| 	    util-linux compatible
 | |
| 	* Erik Andersen -- many more internal symbols classified static to 
 | |
| 	    avoid namespace pollution
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai -- nc listening support
 | |
| 	* Erik Andersen -- made sed understand arbitrary regexp delimiters
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai et al. -- more tar improvements and bug fixes, now 
 | |
| 	    handles regexp file exclusion
 | |
| 	* Larry Doolittle -- new script (multibuild.pl) to automate build rule
 | |
| 	    checking
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai -- update/cleanup of the docs on how to use init
 | |
| 	* Erik Andersen -- renamed all sh.c symbols per the style guide, 
 | |
| 	    better if-then-else-fi handling
 | |
| 	* Erik Andersen -- cleaner division of labor between cmdedit.c and sh.c
 | |
| 	* Larry Doolittle -- shell data structure cleanup, fixed buglets
 | |
| 	    in read, exec, and piped builtins
 | |
| 	* Erik Andersen -- md5sum was broken in 0.48.  Now fixed (and doesn't 
 | |
| 	    use getline, shrinking static compiles (since nothing else used it).
 | |
| 	* ?? -- squashed memory leak in shell prompt handling
 | |
| 	* Mark Whitley -- Updates to style guide
 | |
| 	* Mark Whitley -- Big cleanup in utility.c: style guide compliance,
 | |
| 	    de-macro-ifying some variables and functions
 | |
| 	* Erik Andersen -- ls now honors CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH so it can find
 | |
| 	    the width and height of the console.
 | |
| 	* Erik Andersen -- insmod now ignores -L and accepts the -o option.
 | |
| 	* Erik Andersen -- updates so you can now select from the Makefile
 | |
| 	    whether or not to use the system's passwd and group functions.
 | |
| 	    Since most systems use GNU libc, this can save you from having to
 | |
| 	    install the /etc/nsswitch.conf configuration file and the required
 | |
| 	    libnss_* libraries.  Adds 1.5k.  You can now, also, disable this, 
 | |
| 	    causing busybox to use the system's pwd.h and grp.h functions.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	 -Erik Andersen, 27 January 2001
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.48
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	* Glenn McGrath -- tar now supports uncompressing tar files,
 | |
| 	    define CONFIG_FEATURE_TAR_GZIP to use the -z option.
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai -- fix all usage of TRUE and FALSE so all apps now
 | |
| 	    return EXIT_SUCCESS or EXIT_FAILURE to the system.
 | |
| 	    Now TRUE and FALSE are set to the C standard where TRUE=1.
 | |
| 	* me -- Fixed uname problem causing the kernel version to be
 | |
| 	    mis-detected (causing problems with poweroff, init,
 | |
| 	    and other things).  
 | |
| 	* Alcove, Julien Gaulmin <julien.gaulmin@alcove.fr> and 
 | |
| 	    Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@alcove.fr> -- insmod support on ARM 
 | |
| 	    and StrongArm, and suport for lsmod on older 2.0.x kernels.
 | |
| 	* Kent Robotti -- Renamed unrpm to original rpmunpack, so you can use 
 | |
| 	    an included shell script called unrpm as a front end to it.  There's
 | |
| 	    also a shell script called undeb included for debian packages.  
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai -- fix an infinite loop with ls -aR
 | |
| 	* Larry Doolittle -- Shaved off about 100 bytes and 200 bytes heap 
 | |
| 	    from date.c.  Also document the "-d" option in the usage message.
 | |
| 	* Gennady Feldman -- fixed dd to use blocksize when reading/writing, 
 | |
| 	    (it was reading the whole thing and then writing it out).  Also 
 | |
| 	    updated usage information (was missing conv=notrunc) and added 
 | |
| 	    conv=sync feature.
 | |
| 	* Larry Doolittle (in collaboration with Matt Kraai) -- allow for a 
 | |
| 	    pristine source directory -- where all the .o files and such are 
 | |
| 	    not placed into the source tree.  Thanks Larry!
 | |
| 	* Larry Doolittle -- use the applet definitions in applets.h 
 | |
| 	    to autogenerate the applet function and usage prototypes.
 | |
| 	* Sebastien Huet, Arne Bernin, and Kent Robotti -- Add in tar -X and
 | |
| 	    fixed a bug breaking tar --exclude.  
 | |
| 	* Jonas Holmberg -- echo option handling made GNU-echo compatible
 | |
| 	* Aleksey Demidov <asd@ixcelerator.com> -- date option handling made 
 | |
| 	    GNU-date compatible
 | |
| 	* me -- Progress meter (optional) in wget
 | |
| 	* Doolittle/me -- programs invoked by full path name take
 | |
| 	    precedence over applets unless CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_BUILTINS_ALWAYS_WIN
 | |
| 	* Gaute B Strokkenes <gs234@cam.ac.uk> -- applets found using a
 | |
| 	    binary search instead of linear search.  Much faster!
 | |
| 	* new applets: cmp readlink
 | |
| 	* Mark Whitley -- Removed advertising clause of Berkeley license
 | |
| 	    according to decision by the Regents of the University of
 | |
| 	    California; included reference
 | |
| 	* tail's confusing special treatment of single digit options removed;
 | |
| 	    people should use -n instead
 | |
| 	* Larry Doolittle -- \r handled now in echo and tr
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai -- rewrite of uniq
 | |
| 	* Mark Whitley -- remix of xargs
 | |
| 	* Jim Gleason <jimg@lineo.com> -- fixed tar so it no longer breaks 
 | |
| 	    hard links.
 | |
| 	* Matt Kraai -- logger now logs all arguments, not just the first
 | |
| 	* Gennady Feldman -- syslogd no longer logs to localhost if compiled
 | |
| 	    for remote logging...
 | |
| 	* Richard June <rjune@ims1.imagestream-is.com> -- support for 'gzip -d'
 | |
| 	* various artists -- Other good stuff that I forgot to document.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	 -Erik Andersen, 13 December 2000
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.47
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	* A bug in syslogd was fixed that allowed it to potentially fork-bomb
 | |
| 	    your system.  Anyone using 0.46 syslogd should upgrade.
 | |
| 	* Renamed busybox.defs.h to the more sensible "Config.h"
 | |
| 	* Improved portability between different libcs.
 | |
| 	* Many apps ported to use getopt()
 | |
| 	* Common handling of '--help'
 | |
| 	* All usage messages centralized.
 | |
| 	* Added a bunch of new commands:
 | |
| 	    * 'rdate' contributed by Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
 | |
| 	    * 'wget' contributed by Chip Rosenthal <chip@unicom.com>, 
 | |
| 		    <crosenth@covad.com> and Covad Communications
 | |
| 	    * 'getopt' from "Alfred M. Szmidt" <ams@trillian.itslinux.org>
 | |
| 	    * dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, and unrpm.c (and lots of help
 | |
| 		debugging) thanks to Kent Robotti <robotti@metconnect.com>.
 | |
| 	    * 'renice' command, thanks to Dave Cinege <dcinege@psychosis.com>
 | |
| 	    * 'xargs' (written by me)
 | |
| 	    * 'expr' contributed by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>, based
 | |
| 		on GNY expr
 | |
| 	* lsmod now uses the query_module syscall, rather then /proc (me)
 | |
| 	* syslogd can now log messages to remote hosts -- patch thanks
 | |
| 	    to Gyepi Sam <gyepi@praxis-sw.com>
 | |
| 	* chroot can now call the builtin shell - Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
 | |
| 	* 'make install' now creates relative symlinks, and added a new
 | |
| 	    'make install-hardlinks' target to (tada) install hardlinks.
 | |
| 	* Rewrite of 'tail' to make it simpler, smaller, and more robust.  
 | |
| 	    It now weighs only 2.25k (3k when full featured).  The code is
 | |
| 	    cleaner too, thanks to Allen Soard <esp-software@mail.hypermart.net>
 | |
| 	* Add optional ls file sorting, thanks to a patch from 
 | |
| 	    Sterling Huxley <sterling@europa.com>
 | |
| 	* Fixed chmod option parsing so things like 'chmod -r /tmp/file'
 | |
| 	    now work (previously it thought -r was an option).  Doh!
 | |
| 	* Fixed tar handling of stdin and stdout
 | |
| 	* Renamed "internal.h" to the more sensible "busybox.h"
 | |
| 	* Preliminary support for GNU HURD.
 | |
| 	* Updated my devps and devmtab kernel patches for the latest 2.2.x
 | |
| 	    kernel, for those wanting to go proc-less.
 | |
| 	* Tons of other bugfixes.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	 -Erik Andersen, 25 September 2000
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.46
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	* Better portability.  Now should compile cleanly with libc5, 
 | |
| 	    GNU libc 2.0 and 2.1, and various Linux kernels including 
 | |
| 	    2.0.x, 2.2.x, and to 2.4.0-test*. (patch for 2.4.x kernels
 | |
| 	    to make /proc/mounts behave included in the kernel-patches dir). 
 | |
| 	* Fixed a _horrible_ bug where 'tar -tvf' could unlink
 | |
| 	    local files that matched tarball contents!!!  Fix thanks 
 | |
| 	    to Marius Groeger <mgroeger@sysgo.de>
 | |
| 	* Fixed a nasty bug in tar when could mess up saved symlinks.
 | |
| 	* Fixed tar creation support when reading from stdin ('tar -cf - . ') 
 | |
| 	    thanks to Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@transmeta.com>
 | |
| 	* Updates to handle Linux 2.4.0 kernels (kludged around the
 | |
| 	    "none" entries in /proc/mounts, added a hack to make sysinfo
 | |
| 	    work with both old and new kernels).
 | |
| 	* Fixed insmod module option parsing for options lacking an '='.
 | |
| 	    Fix thanks to Marc Nijdam <marc_nijdam@hp.com>
 | |
| 	* Fixed segfault with 'cut -f 1 -d:' and added 'cut -s' suport.
 | |
| 	    Fix thanks to Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
 | |
| 	* Several fixes from Marius Groeger <mag@sysgo.de>
 | |
| 	    - Added support for "sh -c command args..."
 | |
| 	    - Fixed globbing, i.e. 'echo * *' and 'echo "******"' now work.
 | |
| 	    - Added shell environment variable substitution 
 | |
| 	    - Added the "read" shell builtin.
 | |
| 	* Fixed cursor editing in cmdedit.c. The following keyboard sequence 
 | |
| 	    used to create an infinite loop: ls, cursor up, left, down.
 | |
| 	* Added support for being a login shell, so things like
 | |
| 	    '-su' or '-sh' (stuff where argv[0][0]=='-') will now always 
 | |
| 	    invoke the shell.  Now you can use BusyBox as a login shell.
 | |
| 	* ls.c now ignores '-g', since some ftp clients like that sort 
 | |
| 	    of thing.  Patch thanks to David Vrabel <dvrabel@arcom.co.uk>
 | |
| 	* Fix to init.c from Stuart Menefy <Stuart.Menefy@st.com> so that
 | |
| 	    it always sets the controlling terminal before running any programs
 | |
| 	* Several fixes from Matt Kraai <kraai@alumni.carnegiemellon.edu>
 | |
| 	    - Fixed tr so it recognizes standard escape sequences.  
 | |
| 		Merged common escape seq. code from tr and echo into utility.c.
 | |
| 	    - Major work in updating/cleaning up the docs, and getting the
 | |
| 		new SGML based docs into shape.
 | |
| 	    - cleanup of ar.c
 | |
| 	    - BusyBox should now poweroff when asked to do so.
 | |
| 	    - Fixed 'ln -n' and 'ln -s' so they both work properly.
 | |
| 	* Reorganized signal names in kill.c for better architecture support 
 | |
| 	    -- patch thanks to simon wood <simon@mungewell.uklinux.net>
 | |
| 	* In 0.43, backspace and delete worked properly, but with 0.45, 
 | |
| 	    it just echoed a ^? for backspace, and ^H for control-h.  This
 | |
| 	    was due to a broken macro in init.c, that is now fixed.
 | |
| 	* Removed sfdisk from BusyBox.  It was buggy, fat, and we really
 | |
| 	    couldn't maintain it very well, so including it was not really
 | |
| 	    very appropriate.  Those wanting an fdisk are invited to
 | |
| 	    grab a copy from util-linux.
 | |
| 	* Added 'dumpkmap' to allow people to dump a binary keymap, which can 
 | |
| 	    then be loaded in by 'loadkmap' -- submitted by
 | |
| 	    Arne Bernin <arne@matrix.loopback.org>
 | |
| 	* Fixed NFS so it supports 2.4.x kernels and NFSv3.
 | |
| 	* Brand, new versions of grep and sed which use libc regex routines,
 | |
| 	    thanks to Mark Whitley <markw@lineo.com>.  The hand-tooled 
 | |
| 	    "regexp.[ch]" files have been removed. Much help on these from 
 | |
| 	    Matt Kraai as well.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	 -Erik Andersen, 11 July 2000
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.45
 | |
| 	* Now compiles vs libc5 (which can save lots of space for 
 | |
| 	    embedded systems).
 | |
| 	* Added CONFIG_FEATURE_TRIVIAL_HELP which compiles out most all of the
 | |
| 	    help messages (i.e --help).  Saves 17k over a full compile.
 | |
| 	* Added cut and tr from minix, since due to the license change, 
 | |
| 	    we can now use minix code.  Minix tr saves 4k. 
 | |
| 	* insmod now works.  It costs 29k, but imagine an initrd with a 
 | |
| 	    staticly linked busybox containing only insmod and sh, a few /dev 
 | |
| 	    entries, and a kernel module or two...  It doesn't get smaller
 | |
| 	    then this folks (I pity the fool that writes insmod in asm ;-).
 | |
| 	    Many kudos go to Ron Alder <alder@lineo.com> for finishing this off!
 | |
| 	* Added a mini ar archive utility, especially written for BusyBox by 
 | |
| 	    Glenn McGrath <bug1@netconnect.com.au>
 | |
| 	* Added mktemp, contributed by Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>
 | |
| 	* Added setkeycodes, for those that have wierd keyboard buttons.
 | |
| 	* Added md5sum, uuencode and uudecode -- thanks to Alfred M. Szmidt 
 | |
| 	    <ams@trillian.itslinux.org> for contributing these.
 | |
|         * Added 'grep -v' option (inverted search) and updated 
 | |
| 	    docs accordingly.  -beppu
 | |
| 	* Wrote which
 | |
| 	* Replaced the telnet implementation with one written by 
 | |
| 	    Tomi Ollila <too@iki.fi> It works great and costs 3k.
 | |
| 	* BusyBox sh (lash) now supports being used as a standalone shell.  When
 | |
| 	    CONFIG_FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE_SHELL is defined, all the busybox commands may
 | |
| 	    be invoked as shell internals.  Best used when compiling staticly 
 | |
| 	    (i.e. DOSTATIC=true)
 | |
| 	* BusyBox sh (lash) internals now behave as expected wrt pipes 
 | |
| 	    and redirects. 
 | |
| 	* Fixed ping warnings -- fix from Sascha Ziemann <szi@aibon.ping.de>
 | |
| 	* Fixed update segfault
 | |
| 	* Fixed mknod -- minor number was always 0
 | |
| 	* Fixed tar option parsing, so both "tar xvf foo.tar" and 
 | |
| 	    "tar -xvf foo.tar" now work (i.e. no "-" before options) 
 | |
| 	    (this was very broken in 0.43).
 | |
| 	* Several contributions from Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
 | |
| 	    * cp/mv now accepts the -f flag
 | |
| 	    * tail can now accept -<num> commands (e.g. -10) for better 
 | |
| 		compatibility with the standard tail command
 | |
| 	    * added a simple id implementation; doesn't support sup. groups yet
 | |
| 	* logname used getlogin(3) which uses utmp.  Now it doesn't. 
 | |
| 	* whoami used getpwuid(3) which uses libc NSS.  Now it behaves. 
 | |
| 	* Add support for "noatime" and "nodiratime" mount flags to mount.
 | |
| 	* Changed 'umount -f' to mean force, and actually use umount2.
 | |
| 	* Changed 'umount -l' to mean "Do not free loop device".
 | |
| 	* Fixed basename to support stripping of suffixes.  Patch thanks
 | |
| 	    to xiong jianxin <jxiong@uiuc.edu>
 | |
| 	* cp -fa now works as expected for symlinks (it didn't before)
 | |
| 	* zcat now works (wasn't working since option parsing was broken)
 | |
| 	* Renamed "mnc" to the more correct "nc" (for netcat).
 | |
| 	* Makefile intelligence updates
 | |
| 	* Changed the way init parses /etc/inittab entries to avoid problems
 | |
| 	    with commands that contain colons in them.  Fix thanks to 
 | |
| 	    Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
 | |
| 	* Fixed a warning in utility.c due to char being unsigned on Linux/PPC, 
 | |
| 	    Fix thanks to Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
 | |
| 	* Made "killall" complain (not error and exit) about processes that it 
 | |
| 	    cannot find by name -- Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org> 
 | |
| 	* Fixed more and ps to have sensible terminal width defaults, thanks 
 | |
| 	    to Pavel Roskin.
 | |
| 	* Fixed all fatalError() calls lacking a "\n", thanks to Pavel Roskin.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a segfault in yes when no args were given -- Pavel Roskin.
 | |
| 	* Simplified freeramdisk and added argument checking -- Pavel Roskin. 
 | |
| 	* Fixed segfault caused by "touch -c"
 | |
| 	* Fixed segfault caused by "rm -f"
 | |
| 	* Fixed segfault caused by "ln -s -s" and similar abuses. Further fixes
 | |
| 	    and "--" support from Pavel Roskin.
 | |
| 	* Fixed segfault caused by "cp -a -a" and similar abuses.
 | |
| 	* Implemented "rm -- <foo>". Implementation fixed by Pavel Roskin.
 | |
| 	* "which" rewritten to use stat(). Fixes to improve its compatability
 | |
| 	    with traditional implementations -- Pavel Roskin.
 | |
| 	* "mount" now reports errors from nfsmount() and assumes NFS mount
 | |
| 	    if ':' is present in the device name - Pavel Roskin
 | |
| 	* Fixed exit status for killall - Pavel Roskin
 | |
| 	* Fixed 'swapon -a' and 'swapoff -a', which were broken.
 | |
| 	* Fixed 'mount -a' so it works as expected.
 | |
| 	* Implemented 'ls -R' (enabled by enabling CONFIG_FEATURE_LS_RECURSIVE)
 | |
| 	* Implemented "ping -s", fixed error messages and argument parsing -
 | |
| 	    Pavel Roskin
 | |
| 	* Syslogd will not go to background if "-n" is given. Better help
 | |
| 	    and argument checking -- Pavel Roskin
 | |
| 	* Fixed a small bug that could cause tar to emit warning messages
 | |
| 	    and not extract the first file in a directory in some cases
 | |
| 	    of nested directories.  Thanks to Kevin Traas <kevin@netmaster.com>
 | |
| 	    for helping track this one down.
 | |
| 	* More doc updates
 | |
| 	* Fixed grep "Line too long" problem -- John Beppu
 | |
| 	* Fixed 'grep -q -i B some_file' so it works
 | |
| 	* math takes input from stdin if no args are given.  -- John Beppu
 | |
| 	* math was renamed to dc.  Although it deviates from dc's behaviour,
 | |
| 	    this will probably be remedied in the future.  -- John Beppu
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	 -Erik Andersen, June 21, 2000
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.44
 | |
| 	Previously, an erronous announcement of BusyBox 0.44 was made, so to 
 | |
| 	avoid possible confusion, we are skipping straight to 0.45, and calling
 | |
| 	it good.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	 -Erik Andersen
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.43
 | |
| 	* Major update to the provided documentation.
 | |
| 	* Busybox now includes a shell!  It currently costs 7.5 k (plus an
 | |
| 	    additional 2.5 k if you compile in command line editing).  Handles
 | |
| 	    job control, has the usual set of builtins, and does everything
 | |
| 	    except for handling programming statements (if, while, etc...)
 | |
| 	* Busybox can now work perfectly when /proc is disabled, thereby 
 | |
| 	    saving a bunch of memory (kernel /proc support is not thin).  This
 | |
| 	    is done by making use of some nice kernel patches I wrote up to
 | |
| 	    support the features that busybox requires and that /proc usually
 | |
| 	    provides.  To enable this, turn on CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_DEVPS_PATCH and
 | |
| 	    patch your kernel with the devps patch in the kernel-patches/
 | |
| 	    directory. 
 | |
| 	* Wrote basename, dirname, killall, and uptime.
 | |
| 	* tar has been completely rewritten by me.  Both tar creation and 
 | |
| 	    extraction are now well behaved.  Costs 7.6k with all optional
 | |
| 	    tar features enabled, and 5k for just tar extraction support. 
 | |
| 	* Added freeramdisk, which will free up all memory associated
 | |
| 	    with a ram disk.  Contributed by Emanuele Caratti <wiz@iol.it>
 | |
| 	    and then adjusted a bit by me.
 | |
| 	* Added tr from John Lombardo <john@deltanet.com> 
 | |
| 	* Added echo and test (from me).
 | |
| 	* Added usleep contributed by Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>
 | |
| 	* BusyBox's bss size has been majorly reduced (was 384668, is now 28740).
 | |
| 	* Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
 | |
| 	    - When `tail' fails to open a file it now exits.
 | |
| 	    - When `syslogd' is given the `-n' option it should still use 
 | |
| 		fork() for running klogd.
 | |
| 	* nslookup types are now changed to u_int32_t (instead of uint32_t)
 | |
| 	    changed per a patch from Pascal Bellard <pascal.bellard@ascend.com>
 | |
| 	* Fixed "du" so it gives the same answers as GNU "du" (busybox du used 
 | |
| 	    to count hard-linked files more then once).  Many thanks to 
 | |
| 	    Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de> for the fix.
 | |
| 	* Removed /proc dependancies for init and free (while maintaining 
 | |
| 	    exactly the same functionality).  /proc takes up 90k of kernel 
 | |
| 	    space, so it is nice to avoid using it at all costs.
 | |
| 	* init no longer tries to mount /proc (unless there is less the 1 meg 
 | |
| 	    free).  Use of /proc (or not) is policy that should be set up in 
 | |
| 	    /etc/fstab (or in hardcoded scripts), not in init.
 | |
| 	* Fixed rebooting when init runs as an initrd.
 | |
| 	* Fixes and updates from Karl M. Hegbloom  <karlheg@debian.org>
 | |
| 	    - update.c rewritten to look more like update-2.11
 | |
| 	    - moveed the inode hash out of du.c and into utility.c to make 
 | |
| 		it a common resource that can be used by other apps.
 | |
| 	    - cp_mv.c now checks inodes to see if a source and dest are
 | |
| 		the same, and prints an error (instead of endlessly looping).
 | |
| 	    - mv now attempts to do a rename, and will fall back to doing
 | |
| 		a copy only if the rename fails.
 | |
| 	    - Syslogd now supports multiple concurrent connections
 | |
| 	* Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
 | |
| 	    - Fixes to sort.  Removed "-g", fixed and added "-r"
 | |
| 	    - Fixes to the makefile for handling "strip"
 | |
| 	* An initial telnet implementation was added by 
 | |
| 	    Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug where "sed 's/foo/bar/g'" (i.e. a script w/o a "-e")
 | |
| 	* ps now supports CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH, and can adjust its width
 | |
| 	    to match the terminal (defaults to width=79 when this is off).
 | |
| 	* ps now accepts (and ignores) all options except for "--help" (which
 | |
| 		as would be expected displays help).
 | |
| 	* Fixed mount'ing loop devices when the filesystem type was not 
 | |
| 	    specified.  It used to revert to non-loop after the first try.
 | |
| 	* all mallocs now use xmalloc (and so are OOM error safe), and
 | |
| 	    the common error handling saves a few bytes.  Thanks to 
 | |
| 	    Bob Tinsley <bob@earthrise.demon.co.uk> for the patch.
 | |
| 	* Fix "+" parsing bug in date, from "Merle F. McClelland" <mfm@cts.com>.
 | |
| 	* Fix symlink following bug in chmod -R and friends.  
 | |
| 	* Now allows SYSV style 'chown foo:bar' in addition to 'chown foo.bar'
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug in the busybox globbing routine such that 'find /dir -name [i]' 
 | |
| 	    no longer segfaults.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	-Erik Andersen
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.42
 | |
| 
 | |
|         * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting 
 | |
| 	  busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is 
 | |
| 	  optionally compiled in with CONFIG_FEATURE_REMOUNT
 | |
| 	* Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
 | |
| 	  {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
 | |
| 	  not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
 | |
| 	  the way umount was originally written.
 | |
| 	* Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
 | |
| 	  to be more consistent with sysvinit
 | |
| 	* Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
 | |
| 	  the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
 | |
| 
 | |
|         - Randolph Chung
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	* cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
 | |
| 	    extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
 | |
| 	* Fixed cp and mv so if the source and destination are a the
 | |
| 	    same directory it will print an error and continue.
 | |
| 	* Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
 | |
| 	    this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
 | |
| 	    hard links.
 | |
| 	* ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
 | |
| 	* include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere.  busybox: File
 | |
| 	* name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
 | |
| 	    - Always check exit status.
 | |
| 	    - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
 | |
| 	* utility.c 
 | |
| 	    - recursiveAction was overriding the value of followLinks thus
 | |
| 	      ignoring it.
 | |
| 	    - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
 | |
| 	    - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
 | |
| 	* messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
 | |
| 	    one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	-Karl M. Hegbloom
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	* changed fsck_minix.c to reduce its .bss size significantly
 | |
| 	  -beppu -piptigger
 | |
| 	* Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional.  You no longer
 | |
| 	* _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options.  Tar could inadvertently
 | |
| 	* change permissions and ownership on
 | |
| 	    certain directories pointed to by symlinks.
 | |
| 	* Made grep and grep -h do the right thing wrt printing
 | |
| 	    the file name (it failed to print files names in many cases).
 | |
| 	* Fix a namespace aliasing problem wereby if du was built in, the 
 | |
| 	    symlink for both du and dutmp would be installed, or then rm was
 | |
| 	    built in, the symlinks for both rm and rmmod would be installed.
 | |
| 	* Added a closelog() to init.c after loging -- fix thanks to 
 | |
| 	    Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
 | |
| 	* Rewrote and simplified logger.  Added the "-t" option, and made it
 | |
| 	    behave itself a bit better.
 | |
| 	* Optional support contributed by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> 
 | |
| 	    for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
 | |
| 	    allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
 | |
| 	* Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
 | |
| 	    always dereference before.  -beppu
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
 | |
| 	    Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
 | |
| 	* Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
 | |
| 	* Added (and documented) "-n" option for head
 | |
| 	* Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also 
 | |
| 	    contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
 | |
| 	* Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
 | |
| 	    end of line if there are no more application names).
 | |
| 	* Fixed a stupid bug in "head" option handling ("head -n" 
 | |
| 	    would segfault).
 | |
| 	* Moved commonly used functions "xmalloc()" and "exit()"
 | |
| 	    to utility.c (with proper #ifdef's).
 | |
| 	* Created a tiny tail implementation, removing -c, -q, -v, and making
 | |
| 	    tail -f work only with a single file.  This reduced tail from 6k to
 | |
| 	    2.4k.  The bigger/more featured tail can still be had by disabling
 | |
| 	    CONFIG_FEATURE_SIMPLE_TAIL in busybox.defs.h
 | |
| 	* Ping now falls back to doing the right thing if /etc/protocols
 | |
| 	    turns up missing.
 | |
| 	* Fixed mount and umount.  Previously they could leak loop device 
 | |
| 	    allocations, causing the system to quickly run out.  Fix for umount
 | |
| 	    by Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>, and mount was fixed by me.
 | |
| 	* ls formatting on eight charactor user names fixed by 
 | |
| 	    Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
 | |
| 	* cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
 | |
| 	    files pointed to by the symlinks.
 | |
| 	* Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>:
 | |
| 	    - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
 | |
| 	    - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed if run without arguments
 | |
| 	    - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
 | |
| 	    - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
 | |
| 	    - ls no longer messus up output when combining files and
 | |
| 	      directories on the command line 
 | |
| 	* swapoff -a was not working.  Now it is.  
 | |
| 	* init did not cleanly unmount filesystems on reboot.  Now it does.  
 | |
| 	* "sed -ne s/foo/bar/" worked but "sed -n -e s/foo/bar/" didn't.
 | |
| 	    Now both work.
 | |
| 	* Some architectures (PowerPc) assume chars are unsigned, so they could
 | |
| 	    not distinguish between EOF and '\0xFF' in sed.  Sed now uses ints.
 | |
| 	* Began converting error handling to use some common routines
 | |
| 	    in utility.c
 | |
| 	* syslogd now has better message handling and ignores SIGHUP.
 | |
| 	* install.sh had a bug preventing installation to the specified
 | |
| 	    target directory.  Fix from Gilbert Coville <gilbert@mvista.com>
 | |
| 	* You can now spefify alternative strip commands -- change 
 | |
| 	    also from Gilbert Coville.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	-Erik Andersen
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.41
 | |
| 	* New Apps: wc, hostid, logname, tty, whoami, yes -- all contributed 
 | |
| 	    by Edward Betts <edward@debian.org>
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug in both cp and mv preventing 'cp foo/README bar'
 | |
| 	    type commands (file in a directory to another directory) from
 | |
| 	    working.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a logger bug that caused garbage to be written to the syslog 
 | |
| 	    (unless you used busybox syslog, which hid the bug).  Thanks to
 | |
| 	    Alex Holden <alex@linuxhacker.org> for the fix.
 | |
| 	* /bin/true and /bin/false were echoing a blank line when run.  
 | |
| 	    Now fixed.
 | |
| 	* mkdir -p would print an error when asked to mkdir an existing dir
 | |
| 	    with no interveining subdirectories.
 | |
| 	* Fixed "syslogd -O" so that it works.  Added -o loop option for mount,
 | |
| 	* and support in umount for loop
 | |
| 	  devices. Support is toggled by MOUNT_LOOP feature -- Ben Collins
 | |
| 	  <bcollins@debian.org>
 | |
| 	* Several fixes from Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it> compile in
 | |
| 	* fullWrite() not only if CONFIG_TAR is defined, but also
 | |
| 		if CONFIG_CP or CONFIG_MV are (fullWrite() is referenced by copyFile())
 | |
| 	    * add some compiler optimizations to further reduce executable size
 | |
| 		(as a side note, on my machines the largest code is generated
 | |
| 		by gcc 2.95.2 with -Os ! The smallest by plain gcc 2.7.2.3 with
 | |
| 		-O2 -m386 ...)
 | |
| 	    * Compile now won't fail if busybox.def.h defines 
 | |
| 		CONFIG_FEATURE_INITRD but not CONFIG_INIT.  (init_main used to be
 | |
| 		referenced, but not compiled)
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug in setting TERM for serial console support.  TERM now
 | |
| 	    defaults to "ansi" for serial consoles.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug in handling the CONSOLE env. variable for serial
 | |
| 	* consoles.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	-Erik Andersen, Jan 15, 2000
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.40
 | |
| 	* New Apps: sort, uniq. -beppu New Apps: lsmod, rmmod -erik New Apps:
 | |
| 	* fbset contributed by Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.  New App::
 | |
| 	* loadacm contributed by Peter Novodvorsky <petya@logic.ru>
 | |
| 	    for loading application character maps for Unicode fonts.
 | |
| 	* Major init re-work.  init now supports inittab (slightly different
 | |
| 	    but similar to sysvinit), allowing me to get all the policy out of
 | |
| 	    init and into the conf file.  It works just fine without inittab
 | |
| 	    being present, but if you dont like the default behavior you can
 | |
| 	    now do something about it.  Init is much cleaner as a result.
 | |
| 	* Fixed an bug in syslogd causing it to stop after 20 minutes. -erik
 | |
| 	* Fixed an embarrasing segfault in head	-beppu Fixed the embarrasing
 | |
| 	* failure of 'logger -p'. -erik Added the -s option to du -beppu
 | |
| 	* Re-worked the source tree a bit so it will compile under glibc 2.0.7 
 | |
| 	    with the 2.0.x Linux kernel.
 | |
| 	* Added 'grep -q' thanks to a patch from "Konstantin Boldyshev" 
 | |
| 	    <konst@voshod.com>.
 | |
| 	* Grep -i previously failed on UPPER CASE patterns due to a silly 
 | |
| 	    regexp implementation bug that is now fixed.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug where tar would set, and then clear SGID and SUID bits.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug where tar would not set the user and group on device
 | |
| 	    special files.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug where tar would not restore the time to files.  Fixed a
 | |
| 	* major security problem with tar -- it changed ownership 
 | |
| 	    of any file pointed to by a symlink to 777 (like say libc....)
 | |
| 	    Ouch!!!
 | |
| 	* cp and mv were very broken when moving directories.  I have rewritten 
 | |
| 	    them so they should now work as expected. 
 | |
| 	* sed now supports addresses (numeric or regexp, with negation) and 
 | |
| 	    has an append command, thanks to Marco Pantaleoni <panta@prosa.it>
 | |
| 	* Fixed dmesg.  It wasn't parsing its options (-n or -s) properly.
 | |
| 	* Some cosmetic fixes to ls output formatting to make it behave more
 | |
| 	    like GNU ls.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a stupid segfault in kill.  Several fixes from Friedrich Vedder
 | |
| 	* <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>:
 | |
| 	    - Added gunzip -t, removed gunzip.c dead code,
 | |
| 	    - fixed several typos
 | |
| 	    - Glibc 2.0.7 and libc5 compile fixes
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug where 'mknod --help' would segfault.
 | |
| 	    
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	-Erik Andersen, Jan 07, 2000
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.39 
 | |
| 	* New Apps: ping, hostname, and mkfifo contributed by Randolph Chung
 | |
| 	    <tausq@debian.org>.  3 items off the TODO list!
 | |
| 	* I wrote free (just calls "cat /proc/meminfo").  Added tail, based on
 | |
| 	* tail from GNU textutils-1.19, but adjusted
 | |
| 	    to suit my evil purposes.  Costs 6k.  I'll make it smaller
 | |
| 	    sometime.
 | |
| 	* on reboot, init called 'umount -a -n', which caused errors
 | |
| 	    when CONFIG_MTAB was not enabled.  Changed to 'umount -a', which does
 | |
| 	    the right thing.
 | |
| 	* init will now try to run /sbin/getty if it is present (for easy
 | |
| 	    integration with the about-to-be-released tinylogin.)
 | |
| 	* kill now behaves itself properly, added 'kill -l' to list signals 'ls
 | |
| 	* -l' was failing on long directories, since my_getid was leaking 
 | |
| 	    one file descriptor per file.  Oops.
 | |
| 	* Fixed rebooting from init.  I'd accidently left some debugging code
 | |
| 	* in
 | |
| 	    which blocked reboots.
 | |
| 	* Fixed reboot, halt (and added poweroff) such that they handle it when
 | |
| 	    init is not at PID 1 (like when running in an initrd).
 | |
| 	* Added a prelinary du implementation.  Some parameter parsing
 | |
| 	    stuff still needs to be added. -beppu (John Beppu
 | |
| 	    <beppu@lineo.com>)
 | |
| 	* Implemented tee.  -beppu Implemented head. -beppu
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	-Erik Andersen, Dec 10, 1999
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.38
 | |
| 	* Fixed a segfault in 'umount -a' when a badly formed /etc/fstab
 | |
| 	    file existed.
 | |
| 	* df will not exit on error, but will stat all mounted filesystems.
 | |
| 	* Fixed tar so uid/gid/permissions on extracted tarballs will be 
 | |
| 	    correct.
 | |
| 	* Fixed find -name so it properly uses shell wildcard patterns 
 | |
| 	    (i.e. `*', `?', and `[]') instead of regular expressions, which
 | |
| 	    was causing some confusing and unexpected behavior.
 | |
| 	* Added klogd to syslogd, so now the log will contain both system and
 | |
| 	    kernel messages.
 | |
| 	* syslogd now creates the /dev/log socket to make sure it is there, and
 | |
| 	    is actually a socket with the right permissions.
 | |
| 	* I've taken a first step to making busybox not need the /proc 
 | |
| 	    filesystem.  Most apps don't need it.  Those that _require_ it, 
 | |
| 	    will complain if you enable them when you disable 
 | |
| 	    CONFIG_FEATURE_USE_PROCFS.
 | |
| 	   
 | |
| 	-Erik Andersen, Dec 5, 1999
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.37
 | |
| 	* Wrote a micro syslogd, and a logger util (to log things to the syslog
 | |
| 	    from the command line or scripts)  With both compiled in, costs 4k.
 | |
| 	* Fixed 'make install' so symlinks are installed in their proper
 | |
| 	* locations.  Changed the build system slightly so that features can
 | |
| 	* now be enabled
 | |
| 	    or disabled from the busybox.defs.h header file, without trying to
 | |
| 	    compile in a source file named after that featue (unless that file
 | |
| 	    exists).
 | |
| 	* Several options are now moved into busybox.defs.h Now 'rm -R' and 'rm
 | |
| 	* -r' both work.  dd now properly handles input beyond 1 block from
 | |
| 	* stdin.  Fixed a bug where tar unpacked everything a directories.
 | |
| 	* Moved some code 
 | |
| 	    from createPath into mkdir where it belonged, thereby making tar
 | |
| 	    work properly.
 | |
| 	* Fixed an off-by-one bug in cat.  Given a list of file it wouldn't cat
 | |
| 	* out the
 | |
| 	    last file in the list.
 | |
| 	* Fixed 'ls -ln' so numeric group/uid are presented properly, and fixed
 | |
| 	* 'ls -l' 
 | |
| 	    so when uid/gid is not in /etc/{passwd,group} the numeric group/uid
 | |
| 	    are presented properly.  
 | |
| 	* Also added a TODO.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	-Erik Andersen, Nov 25, 1999
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.36
 | |
| 	* fixed dd so it properly defaults to stdin and stdout when no 
 | |
| 	    if= and of= are set (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
 | |
| 	* Don't try to close the file descriptor of a pipein tar. (fix also
 | |
| 	* from
 | |
| 	    Eric Delaunay).
 | |
| 	* Made createPath be quiet (again thanks to Eric Delaunay).  If
 | |
| 	* CONFIG_CONSOLE_CMD_IF_RC_SCRIPT_EXITS is defined, then whatever
 | |
| 	    command you define it as will be run if the init script exits.
 | |
| 	* Updated install.sh to make it more robust (thanks to Adam Di Carlo)
 | |
| 	* NFS support added to mount by Eric Delaunay.  It costs 10k when
 | |
| 	* compiled
 | |
| 	    in, but that is still a big win for those that use NFS.
 | |
| 	* Made 'rm -f' be silent for non-existant files (thanks to Eric
 | |
| 	* Delaunay).  changed zcat.c to gunzip.c.  It now obeys the principle
 | |
| 	* of least surprise 
 | |
| 	    and acts as god intended gunzip and zcat to act.  They answer
 | |
| 	    --help and obey the '-c' flag.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug in mv which caused it to not move files when the
 | |
| 	* destination
 | |
| 	    was a directory.
 | |
| 	* Fixed a decimal-instead-of-octal bug causing mkdir to make
 | |
| 	* directories
 | |
| 	    with very wrong permissions.
 | |
| 	* chmod would overwrite file permissions instead of modifying them.
 | |
| 	    Now it properly modifies permissions.
 | |
| 	* Init now sends warnings destined for the console to /dev/console to
 | |
| 	* ensure
 | |
| 	    they show up on whatever the active console it.  Otherwise
 | |
| 	    important messages (for example that the system is rebooting) were
 | |
| 	    not seen when switched to a different VT.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	-Erik Andersen, Nov 17, 1999
 | |
| 	
 | |
| 0.35
 | |
| 	* gzip now obeys the principle of least surprise and acts like god
 | |
| 	* intended 
 | |
| 	    (i.e. it accepts a file name, answers --help, and obeys the '-c'
 | |
| 	    flag and only then outputs to stdout).
 | |
| 	* Fixed more.c to compile autowidth on sparc and set initial winsize 
 | |
| 	    to 0,0 in case the TIOCGWINSZ ioctl fails.  Fix thanks to Eric
 | |
| 	    Delaunay.
 | |
| 	* Fixed tar so it now works as expected (it had TRUE/FALSE backwards)
 | |
| 	* tar now accepts --help chmod, chown, and chgrp usage now works
 | |
| 	* General usage (i.e. --help) cleanups for most apps umount now parses
 | |
| 	* options correctly tar can now unpack tarballs containing device
 | |
| 	* special files, 
 | |
| 	    sockets, and fifos (though it can't pack them up) thanks to Matt
 | |
| 	    Porter.  Creating archives containing these is still left to the
 | |
| 	    interested student.
 | |
| 	* fixed up the license in more.c to properly point to Bruce Perens.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	-Erik Andersen, Nov  11, 1999
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.34
 | |
| 	* ls -l now displays link names outside the current directory,
 | |
| 	    Patch thanks to Eric Delaunay
 | |
| 	* init now properly handles sparc serial consoles and does a
 | |
| 	    better job of finding the real console device rather than using
 | |
| 	    /dev/console which doesn't support job control. Patch also thanks
 | |
| 	    to Eric Delaunay.
 | |
| 	* more started to read from stdin after the last file was finished, and 
 | |
| 	    options were not parsed correctly (fix thanks to Eric Delaunay).
 | |
| 	* more will now use the terminal size if CONFIG_FEATURE_AUTOWIDTH is on.
 | |
| 	* rm wouldn't remove a symlink unless the symlink was valid.  This was
 | |
| 	    a side effect of the busybox 0.32 recursiveAction() fix.  Things
 | |
| 	    should now work correctly.
 | |
| 	* grep wouldn't grep stdin.  Now it does.  sed wouldn't sed stdin.  Now
 | |
| 	* it does.  sed was appending a \n to the end of lines with
 | |
| 	* replacements.
 | |
| 	    Now it doesn't do that.
 | |
| 	* ls -l now bypasses libc6 nss when displaying user/group names.
 | |
| 	    Now uses my_getpwuid and my_getgrgid.
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	 -Erik Andersen, Nov  8, 1999
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.33
 | |
| 	* Fixed a bug where init could hang instead of rebooting.
 | |
| 	* Removed some debugging noise from init.c
 | |
| 	* Fixed ln so it works now (it was very broken).
 | |
| 	* Fixed df so it won't segfault when there is no /etc/fstab,
 | |
| 	* If CONFIG_MTAB is not defined, df and mount will whine if /etc/fstab
 | |
| 	    is not installed (since they cannot fixup "/dev/root" to 
 | |
| 	    state the real root device name)
 | |
| 	* merged some redundant code from mtab.c/df.c into utility.c
 | |
| 
 | |
| 	 -Erik Andersen, Nov  5, 1999
 | |
| 
 | |
| 0.32
 | |
| 	* More changes -- If you have any problems please let me know ASAP at
 | |
| 	    andersee@debian.org
 | |
| 	* usage() now prints the BusyBox version.  This will help folks
 | |
| 	    realize that they are not in Kansas anymore.
 | |
| 	* Fixed mkdir -m option so that it works.  kill segfaulted w/o any
 | |
| 	* arguments.  Now it doesn't do that.  kill wasn't properly accepting
 | |
| 	* signal names.  It does now.  Added new apps chvt and deallocvt (I
 | |
| 	* should probably add open) Major rewrite of init.c.  Code is now
 | |
| 	* readable by mere mortals IMHO.  Wrote sed -- weighs only 1.8k (5.8k
 | |
| 	* with full regular expressions!).  Fixed a stupid seg-fault in sync
 | |
| 	* Fixed mount -- mount -a failed to parse and apply mount options Fixed
 | |
| 	* umount -n (patch thanks to Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>)
 | |
| 	* umount -a no longer umounts /proc Added CONFIG_MTAB, allowing (at the
 | |
| 	* cost of ~1.5k and the need for a rw /etc)
 | |
| 	    folks to use a real /etc/mtab file instead of a symlink to
 | |
| 	    /proc/mounts.  mount, and umount will add/remove entries and df
 | |
| 	    will now use /etc/mtab if CONFIG_MTAB is defined. 
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| 	* Fixed a nice bug in recursiveAction() which caused it to infinitely
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| 	    hunt through /proc/../fd/* creating new file descriptors if it
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| 	    followed the /dev/fd link over to /proc.  recursiveAction() now
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| 	    lstat's the file when followLinks==FALSE so it won't follow links
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| 	    as the name suggests.  Fix thanks to Matt Porter
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| 	    <porter@debian.org>.
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| 
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| 
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, Nov  4, 1999
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| 
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| 0.31
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| 	* I added a changelog for version 0.30.  adjusted find internals to
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| 	* make it smaller, and removed 
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| 	    some redundancy.
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| 	* Fixed a segfault in ps when /etc/passwd or /etc/group 
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| 	    are absent.  Now will warn you and carry on.
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| 	* Added in optional _real_ regular expression support (to be
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| 	    the basis for a future sed utility).  When compiled in it adds
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| 	    3.9k, but makes grep much more capable.
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| 	* Checked out using nftw(3) for recursive stuff, but unfortunatly
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| 	    it wasn't supported before GNU libc 2.1, and some folks use glibc
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| 	    2.0.7 since it is much smaller than that latest and greatest.
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| 
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, Oct 21, 1999
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| 
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| 0.30
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| 	Major changes -- lots of stuff rewritten.  If you have any problems 
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| 	with busybox, or notice any bugs -- please let me know so I can fix 
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| 	it.  These changes include:
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| 
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| 	Core Changes:
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| 	    * busybox can now invoke apps in two ways: via symlinks to the
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| 		busybox binary, and as 'busybox [function] [arguments]...'
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| 	    * When invoked as busybox, the list of currently compiled in 
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| 		functions is printed out (no this is not bloat -- the list has
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| 		to be there anyway to map invocation name to function).
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| 	    * busybox no longer parses command lines for apps or displays their
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| 		usage info.  Each app gets to handle (or not handle) this for
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| 		itself.
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| 	    * Eliminated monadic, dyadic, descend, block_device, and 
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| 		postprocess.  It was cumbersome to have so many programs
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| 		cobbled together in this way.  Without them, the app is much
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| 		more granular.
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| 	    * All shared code now lives in utility.c, and is properly
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| 		ifdef'ed to be only included for those apps requiring it.
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| 	    * Eliminated struct FileInfo (the basis of monadic, dyadic, etc)
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| 		so now each app has the function prototype of (da-dum): extern
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| 		int foo_main(int argc, char** argv); which speeds integration
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| 		of new apps.
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| 	    * Adjusted the Makefile to make it easier to 
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| 		{en|dis}able debugging.
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| 	    * Changed default compiler optimization to -Os 
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| 		(optimize for smaller binaries).
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| 
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| 	App Changes:
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| 	    * To cope with the new app function prototype and the removal of
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| 		monadic, dyadic, etc, the following apps were re-written:
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| 		    * cat - Works same as always.  chgrp, chmod, chown -
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| 		    * rewrite.  Combined into a single 
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| 			source file.  Absorbed patches from Enrique Zanardi
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| 			<ezanard@debian.org> that removes the dependency on
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| 			libc6 libnss* libraries.
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| 		    * cp - Can now do 'cp -a' can can copy devices,
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| 			pipes, symlinks, as well as recursive or non-recursive
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| 			dir copies.
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| 		    * fdflush - adjusted to remove dependancy on struct
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| 		    * FileInfo.  find - Now includes some basic regexp matching 
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| 			which will be the basic of a future mini-sed.
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| 		    * ln - Same functionality.  mkdir - Added -p flag to
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| 		    * feature set.  mv - rewrite.  rm - Added -f flag to
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| 		    * feature set.  rmdir - Same functionality.  swapon,
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| 		    * swapoff - Combined into a single binary. No longer
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| 			uses /etc/swaps.  swap{on|off} -a uses /etc/fstab
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| 			instead.
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| 		    * touch - Same functionality.  date - adjusted with a patch
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| 		    * from Matthew Grant <grantma@anathoth.gen.nz>
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| 		to accomodate glibc timezone support.  I then ripped out GNU
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| 		getopt.
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| 	    * mkswap -- new version merged from util-linux.  Can now make 
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| 			>128Meg swaps.  
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| 		* Replaced the old and star, unstar, and tarcat with the tar 
 | |
| 			implementation from sash.   Now tar behaves as god intended it
 | |
| 			to (i.e. tar -xvf <file> and tar -cf <file> <dir> work).
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| 	    * dd -- rewritten.  Can with with files, stdin, stdout.  Added the
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| 	    * following new apps: loadfont -- added from debian boot floppies
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| 	    * chroot -- added based on a patch from Paolo Molaro
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| 	    * <lupus@lettere.unipd.it> grep -- I just wrote it.  Only matches
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| 	    * simple strings ps -- I just wrote it.  Has _no_ options at all,
 | |
| 	    * but works.  fsck_minix, mkfs_minix -- added from util-linux, but
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| 	    * I ripped out
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| 			internationalization and such to make them smaller.
 | |
| 		    * sfdisk -- Added from util-linux (minus
 | |
| 		    * internationalization and such).  Probably some other
 | |
| 		    * changes that I forgot to document...
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| 
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, Oct 20, 1999
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| 
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| 0.29	
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| 	This version was a messy pre-alpha.  stay away or it will bite you.
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| 	 -Erik Andersen, Sep 24, 1999
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| 	
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| 0.28	
 | |
| 	mini-netcat (mnc) rewritten.
 | |
| 	
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| 0.27
 | |
| 	Mount now supports -a, and -t auto.
 | |
| 	Mount now updates mtab correctly for 'ro'.
 | |
| 	More checks screen rows size, outputs bytes percentage.
 | |
| 	Printf added as module.
 | |
| 0.26
 | |
| 	Touch now creates files. -c option for no create.
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