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5 <blockquote><p>This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
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10 <a href=roadmap.html>todo list</a>).</p> |
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13 and -f flags for seq, added -v and -i to killall (and fixed killall not to |
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15 Felix Janda added -m to mkdir, pwd -L and -P, and more test suite entries.</p> |
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22 a number of things it never did right in the first place. The xabspath() |
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42 disabled compiler optimization, so the binary size bloated a bit. It's back |
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| 755 | 45 <hr><b>December 15, 2012</b> |
| 46 <blockquote><p>"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a | |
| 47 thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly | |
| 48 go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." | |
| 49 </p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> | |
| 50 | |
| 51 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.2.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.2</a> is based on | |
| 52 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/749>commit 749</a> and is | |
| 53 just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal | |
| 54 Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's | |
| 55 a new stable version.</p> | |
| 56 | |
| 57 <p>The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch | |
| 58 (from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a | |
| 59 bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8 | |
| 60 support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option. | |
| 61 Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof. | |
| 62 The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports | |
| 63 -fenq.</p> | |
| 64 | |
| 65 <p>Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library, | |
| 66 and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel | |
| 67 features we depend on start to drop out).</p> | |
| 68 | |
| 69 <p>The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per | |
| 70 level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more | |
| 71 than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out, | |
| 72 or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an | |
| 73 earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README, | |
| 74 the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory | |
| 75 (so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).</p> | |
| 76 | |
| 77 <p>Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist(). | |
| 78 Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with | |
| 79 full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to | |
| 80 stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing | |
| 81 it).</p> | |
| 82 | |
| 83 <p>The open group broke their website so the | |
| 84 <a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>old links</a> to POSIX 2008 | |
| 85 now <a href=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>need to start with | |
| 86 pubs</a>. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while | |
| 87 I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.</p> | |
| 88 | |
| 89 <p>(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant | |
| 90 because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current | |
| 91 implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option | |
| 92 to do it Posix's way, which is more brittle and needs extra security checks, | |
| 93 but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024 | |
| 94 filehandles, so drilling down over 1000 nested subdirectories).</p> | |
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98 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
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103 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed usleep, Ashwini Kumar contributed du, and |
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104 Kyungwan Han contributed vconfig. Other new commands include switch_root and |
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105 md5sum, and the remaining shell wrappers are now proper commands (dos2unix, |
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108 <p>The patch command now supports -l, and gethostname is now enabled by |
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110 Felix Janda added -m support to wc (for utf8).</p> |
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113 "posix", "lsb", and "other" subdirectories (for things required by Posix-2008, |
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114 the Linux Standard Base 4.1, and commands in neither). This affects menuconfig |
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115 and the actual source layout (toys/cp.c is now toys/posix/cp.c, and so on). |
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127 <p>Bugfixes: Avery Pennarun spotted a case where ls showed uid twice instead of |
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| 529 | 266 <hr><b>March 3, 2012</b> |
| 267 | |
| 268 <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral | |
| 269 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them. | |
| 270 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking | |
| 271 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p> | |
| 272 </p></blockquote> | |
| 273 | |
| 274 <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based | |
| 275 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This | |
| 276 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt | |
| 277 binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p> | |
| 278 | |
| 279 <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I | |
| 280 have not quite been keeping up.)</p> | |
| 281 | |
| 282 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod, | |
| 283 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln, | |
| 284 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel | |
| 285 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests | |
| 286 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp. | |
| 287 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed | |
| 288 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p> | |
| 289 | |
| 290 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's | |
| 291 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new | |
| 292 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python | |
| 293 bloat-o-meter.)</p> | |
| 294 | |
| 295 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from | |
| 296 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott, | |
| 297 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano | |
| 298 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and | |
| 299 optimizations.</p> | |
| 300 | |
| 301 <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link, | |
| 302 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months | |
| 303 and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p> | |
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| 323 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2 | |
| 324 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line | |
| 325 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> | |
| 326 | |
| 327 <p>More to come...</p> | |
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