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3 <h2>Currently implemented commands:</h2> | |
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5 basename, bzcat, cat, catv, chroot, chvt, cksum, count, cp, df, dirname, dmesg, |
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6 echo, false, hello, help, mkfifo, mkswap, nc, netcat, oneit, patch, pwd, rmdir, |
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7 seq, sha1sum, sleep, sort, sync, tee, touch, toysh, true, tty, uname, which, yes |
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10 <h2>News</h2> |
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12 <p><b>January 29, 2009</b> - Released |
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13 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9</a>toybox 0.0.9</a> which is a minor packaging |
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14 fix for 0.0.8. (The previous release tarball contained a prebuilt x86-64 |
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15 kconfig/conf file, because the release script ran defconfig to |
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16 pregenerate help.h, and didn't run make clean afterwards.) The actual source |
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17 code is identical to the previous release.</p> |
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343 | 19 <p><b>January 20, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.8</a>toybox 0.0.8</a> |
20 adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.</p> | |
21 | |
22 <p>This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit | |
23 binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.</p> | |
24 | |
25 <p>This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to | |
26 produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For | |
27 example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc, | |
28 pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length. | |
29 (Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)</p> | |
30 | |
31 <p>It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several | |
32 netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a | |
33 reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.</p> | |
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319 | 35 <p><b>November 12, 2008</b> - |
36 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.7.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.7</a> | |
37 adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the | |
38 test suite, and numerous bugfixes (bunzip, chroot, cat, patch).</p> | |
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40 <p><b>May 26, 2008</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.6.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.6</a> |
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41 adds cat, rmdir, and seq. Bugfixes to cp and a new -v option. Updates mdev to |
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42 work with the 2.6.25 kernel. Updates patch to knows that a file dated |
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43 1969-12-31 means it doesn't exist, and to fail if a file it needs to create |
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44 already exists. Command line option parsing can now handle things like "echo |
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45 -nex" vs "echo -ne". Several updates to the test suite (run scripts/test.sh), |
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46 and some build fixes.</p> |
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48 <p> |
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49 <p><b>March 29, 2008</b> - |
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50 Time to release <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.5.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.5</a>, with |
277 | 51 new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.</p> |
52 | |
53 <p>More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test | |
54 scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls | |
55 make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending | |
56 on the context).</p> | |
57 | |
58 <p>Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of | |
59 the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to | |
60 the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files. | |
61 There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate | |
62 the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt | |
63 and <a href=code.html>code.html</a> for details.)</p> | |
64 | |
226 | 65 <p><b>January 2, 2008</b> - And <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2</a> is out. |
66 The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg, | |
67 help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.</p> | |
68 | |
69 <p>Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate | |
70 a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.</p> | |
71 | |
72 <p>Expect the next release in about 6 months.</p> | |
73 | |
74 <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, | |
75 put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure | |
76 documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p> | |
77 | |
78 <p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out | |
79 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's | |
80 been too long since I did something like that. This one implements | |
81 catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, | |
82 and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other | |
83 commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p> | |
84 | |
85 <p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking | |
86 and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely | |
87 checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p> | |
88 | |
89 <p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making | |
90 a little progress.</p> | |
91 | |
92 <p><b>January 31, 2007</b> - | |
93 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.2.tar.bz2>0.0.2 release</a>. | |
94 Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished | |
95 skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library. | |
96 Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck" | |
97 using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.</p> | |
98 | |
99 <p>Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side | |
100 which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing | |
101 mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p> | |
102 | |
103 <p><b>October 30, 2006</b> - | |
104 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.1.tar.bz2>0.0.1 release</a>. Implements | |
105 df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.</p> | |
106 | |
107 <p><b>September 7, 2006</b> - | |
108 Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.</p> | |
109 <!--#include file="footer.html" --> |