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3 <h2>News</h2>
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4 <hr><b>July 23, 2012</b>
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5 <blockquote><p>"Ford", Arthur said. "There's an infinite number of monkeys
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6 out here who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked
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7 out." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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9 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.0</a> is based on commit
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10 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/640>commit 640</a>.
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12 <p>The new <a href=status.html>status page</a> is calculated from
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13 the roadmap info, and should be easier to keep up to date in future.</p>
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15 <p>Andre Renaud contributed od and modinfo. Elie De Brauwer contributed
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16 taskset, bugfixes to cmp and tail, and tests for sort and tail. Kyungwan Han
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17 contributed passwd. Gaurang Shastri contributed w. Ashwini Sharma spotted a
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18 case where dirtree was adding extra slashes to a path.</p>
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20 <p>I rewrote od, cleaned up comm, documented the
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21 <a href=code.html#lib_llist>llist</a> and
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22 <a href=code.html#lib_dirtree>dirtree</a> infrastructure, added an -r option
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23 to date (and fixed a bug where -u wouldn't override /etc/localtime),
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24 fixed bugs in chmod +stw, fixed ls to show suid bits properly when the
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25 corresponding executable bit wasn't set, and worked around a longstanding
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26 glibc bug where static linking prevents stdout from automatically flushing
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27 pending output on exit.</p>
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29 <hr><b>June 25, 2012</b>
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30 <blockquote><p>"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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32 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.3.1</a> is based on commit
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33 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/607>commit 607</a>. It's
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34 mostly a bugfix release for ls -l (which was unhappy on targets other than
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35 x86-64), plus a new "date" from Andre Renaud and rewritten chgrp/chown which
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36 now support the full set of posix flags, plus a little work on the test
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37 suite and some more header tweaks towards eventual compatability with the
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38 musl libc.</p>
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40 <p>The todo list runneth over, but "release early, release often", so here
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41 it is. The roadmap and documentation are a bit behind, and I've got ~40
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42 pending submissions to review. I need to catch up...</p>
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43 </span>
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45 <hr><b>June 12, 2012</b>
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46 <blockquote><p>"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that
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47 he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the
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48 wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was
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49 muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had
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50 always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely
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51 the same reasons." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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53 <p>It's well past time for <a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.0.tar.bz2>toybox 0.3.0</a>,
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54 so here it is, based
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55 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/595>commit 595</a>, and the
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56 statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a> should
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57 actually be statically linked this time (thanks Ashwini Sharma for spotting
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58 that).</p>
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60 <p>It's hard to figure out where to cut a release, because development
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61 doesn't stop. "Long before now" is the obviuos answer, of course.
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62 The project's maintainer also moved house during this development cycle, which
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63 threw things off for a bit (so many boxes). Releases should hopefully be a bit
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64 more frequent from here on.</p>
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66 <p>The big things Rob worked on this time were the new dirtree (directory
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67 tree traversal) infrastructure, and a complete rewrite of ls using that
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68 which should now implement all 26 posix options.</p>
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70 <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski added printenv, whoami, mkdir, mkfifo, chmod, chown,
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71 chgrp, and uniq. He also added fraction and extension support to sleep (so if
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72 you need a quarter-second sleep, it can do that now), and fixed a build bug
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73 on slackware.</p>
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75 <p>Daniel Walter contributed a string to mode_t parser (in use by chmod and
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76 mkdir -m). Ilya Kuzmich contributed comm. Elie De Brauwer added mountpoint,
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77 vmstat, logname, login, and mktemp. Kevin Chase did some portability cleanups.
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78 Pere Orga fixed some documentation.</p>
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80 <p>The "tac" and "clear" commands are now normal commands instead of shell
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81 wrappers, and the header #includes have been cleaned up a bit to remove
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82 deprecated functions and attempt to increase compatability with the bionic and
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83 musl C libraries, "tail" should now use lseek() for large files, and "id" got
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84 some cleanups and bugfixes.</p>
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86 <p>The new TOYBOX_FLOAT configuration option selects whether or not
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87 to include floating point support (for embedded targets where that's
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88 problematic).</p>
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90 <p>Several random bugfixes: unshare() might actually build portably now,
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91 yes 'n' | cp -i should no longer bypass stdin and prompt via the tty, the
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92 SUID support no longer drops permissions going through the toybox
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93 multiplexer command, and a bugfix to xargs -0 means it should no longer
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94 segfault. (I have a pending bug report about xargs not doing the full
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95 posix whitespace handling that -0 obsoleted, but I'll deal with that next
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96 release.)</p>
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98 <p>The build infrastructure is now automatically generating FLAG_ macros
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99 for the options, but currently with the wrong names. Some more macro glue
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100 is necessary, which I haven't quite figured out how to do yet.</p>
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102 <p>A defconfig toybox at the start of the $PATH has successfully built
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103 Linux From Scratch (in my Aboriginal Linux project). The commands that
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104 'default n' in the config are often still broken, cleanup is ongoing.
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105 (The new dirtree stuff broke several of them that haven't been converted
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106 yet, but if I wait until everything works we won't have a release before
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107 1.0, so here's a checkpoint.)</p>
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110 <hr><b>March 3, 2012</b>
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112 <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral
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113 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them.
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114 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking
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115 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p>
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118 <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based
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119 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This
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120 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt
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121 binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p>
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123 <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I
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124 have not quite been keeping up.)</p>
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126 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod,
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127 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln,
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128 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel
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129 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests
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130 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp.
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131 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed
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132 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p>
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134 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's
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135 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new
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136 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python
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137 bloat-o-meter.)</p>
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139 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from
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140 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott,
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141 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano
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142 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and
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143 optimizations.</p>
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145 <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link,
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146 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months
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147 and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p>
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150 <hr><b>February 12, 2012</b>
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151 <blockquote><p>
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152 "for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at
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153 least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two
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154 important respects..."</p>
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155 <p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p></blockquote>
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156
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157 <p>Here's the first BSD licensed release,
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158 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.2.0</a>, more a synchronization
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159 point than anything particularly useful. 47 commands in a reasonably
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160 ready-to-use state (what "make defconfig" builds), another ten or so partially
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161 finished stubs ("make allyesconfig"), and several
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162 patches pending on the mailing list I need to review and merge.</p>
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164 <p>More to come...</p>
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166 <hr>
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167 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2
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168 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line
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169 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p>
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171 <p>More to come...</p>
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173 <hr>
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175 <p><a href=oldnews.html>Old news</a> from before the relaunch.</p>
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