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Isaac Dunham spotted that dhcp was also reimplementing daemon().

author	Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date	Sun, 20 Jul 2014 21:34:49 -0500
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1180 94eb7b9127d2 Change header and pages so each page has its own title. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1125 diff changeset	1 <html><head><title>toybox news</title>
365 8f0b24cc7cd7 Minor web page updates (put header/footer back, add a few <hr> tags). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 361 diff changeset	2 <!--#include file="header.html" -->
8f0b24cc7cd7 Minor web page updates (put header/footer back, add a few <hr> tags). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 361 diff changeset	3
1069 940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	4 <p>Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together
927 56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	5 into a single BSD-licensed executable that's simple, small, fast,
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	6 reasonably standards-compliant, and powerful enough to turn Android into
966 f1fef0c18d8c Link to Georgi's mirror on github. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 944 diff changeset	7 a development environment. See the links on the left for details.</p>
f1fef0c18d8c Link to Georgi's mirror on github. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 944 diff changeset	8
f1fef0c18d8c Link to Georgi's mirror on github. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 944 diff changeset	9 <h2>News</h2>
1264 4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	10
1387 a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	11 <hr><b>July 7, 2014</b>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	12 <blockquote><p>"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this:
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	13 most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	14 solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	15 concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	16 because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	17 unhappy." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	18
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	19 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.9.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.9</a> (<a href=/hg/toybox/shortlog/1385>commit 1385</a>) is out.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	20
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	21 <p><b>New commands</b> added to pending include:
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	22 lsattr, chattr, inotifyd, rfkill, sulogin, strings, makedevs,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	23 killall5, and tar from Ashwini Sharma, arp from Kyungwan Han,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	24 sysctl by Bilal Qureshi, partprobe from Bertold Van den Bergh,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	25 host from Rich felker, and I did nbd-client and the first 2/3 of mount.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	26
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	27 <p>Finished cleanups (commands promoted out of pending):
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	28 sysctl, rfkill, strings, mkpasswd, makedevs, partprobe, killall5,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	29 fallocate, and nbd-client.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	30
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	31 <p>(Along the way partial cleanups got made to: last, fold, lspci, ps,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	32 bootchartd, init, fsck, telnetd, telnet, vconfig, toysh, iconv, useradd,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	33 login, host, openvt, deallocvt, getty, tftpd, and modprobe. But there's
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	34 still more to do on all of those.)</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	35
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	36 <p>This time around the <a href=bin>static binaries</a> are linked against
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	37 musl instead of uClibc. (That's why there's no sparc version, musl doesn't
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	38 support that target yet.)</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	39
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	40 <p><b>Documentation:</b></p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	41
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	42 <p>The help text parser expects lower case "usage:" lines with
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	43 a blank line after them, so go through and regularize those. Expand the
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	44 "coding style" section in the docs and move it to design.html. (Not a show
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	45 stopper for incoming
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	46 contributions, just an explanation of some of the things I'll do to them
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	47 during cleanup.) The help text for the "toybox" command now includes
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	48 the shell script snippet to install symlinks to the toybox binary.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	49
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	50 <p>The <a href=cleanup.html>cleanup page</a> now has descriptions for the
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	51 full ifconfig cleanup series, among others.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	52
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	53 <p>The new toys/examples directory contains hello.c and skeleton.c. The first is
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	54 a simple hello world program in toybox style, the second is a much more
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	55 elaborate example program using showing how to use the command line option
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	56 parsing and how to provide multiple commands in the same C file.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	57
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	58 <p><b>Fixes</b>:</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	59
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	60 <p>Fix od bug reported by Samuel Holland ("od -v -b" was appending the default
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	61 output type even though an output type was specified). Ashwini Sharma reported
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	62 bugs where readfile() was incorrectly freeing its buffer, and where toy_init()
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	63 was zeroing the wrong data because the field it was using to measure (rebound)
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	64 had moved (when I moved it back I added a comment why the field needs to be
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	65 there), fixed a segfault in the dhcp client, and made a 0 length read at
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	66 the start of password entry count as EOF. Make the "we are not root" test
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	67 in the init code show the help text. Posix implies that fflush() can return
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	68 success even when the stream's error bit is set, so call both fflush() and
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	69 ferror() from xprintf().</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	70
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	71 <p>Isaac Dunham pointed out that bloatcheck couldn't deal with diff
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	72 implementations that only implement "unified diff" format, and that some
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	73 diff implementations can't handle nonseekable input (I.E. reading from
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	74 a pipe). Bugfix so "help -a" works again. Option parsing on nohup now stops
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	75 at first nonoption argument. Fix segfault in "which" if PATH wasn't set,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	76 which was actually a bug in lib function find_in_path(). Made rm -rf of
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	77 chmod 000 directories actually remove them.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	78
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	79 <p>The build now passes the same $CFLAGS to the library probe as the final
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	80 build, because arch linux is so broken it provides different sets of
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	81 libraries for static and dynamic linking.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	82
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	83 <p>It turns out sprintf("%.123s", str) is counting characters, not bytes,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	84 so globally enabling locale support opens stack smashing vulnerabilities.
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	85 So there's a new TOYFLAGS_LOCALE you set in toyflags when you want the
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	86 setup code to setlocale().</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	87
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	88 <p><b>Upgrades:</b></p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	89
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	90 <p>Isaac Dunham extended cpio to archive unreadable empty files, and I taught it
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	91 to set uid/gid and timestamp when extracting archives. Isaac also
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	92 added tests for cpio, link, and du, added lspci -i, made the pci database
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	93 parsing skip # comment lines, merged logname and whoami into id.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	94
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	95 <p>Daniel Verkamp sped up md5sum about 30% with some loop unrolling, making
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	96 it actually smaller in the process. I added -b flags to md5sum and sha1sum
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	97 for "brief" output that's just the hash with no filename. (I'm aware other
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	98 implementations use that for MSDOS "binary" mode, and don't care.)</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	99
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	100 <p>When building standalone commands (scripts/singleconfig.sh commandname),
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	101 the build now switches on all the sub-options of the command so we get
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	102 a standalone version with all the bells and whistles enabled.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	103
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	104 <p>Add -ds flags to date and document +FORMAT escapes. Add the shell NOP
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	105 command ":" as an alias for true (for toysh).</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	106
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	107 <p>Add uClibc probe for iconv() and fallocate. (The fact it didn't always
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	108 build against uClibc is why fallocate wasn't enabled in defconfig before.)</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	109
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	110 <p>The umount command now does an losetup -d on the device by default, so
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	111 we don't leak loopback devices. Bugfix to losetup so "losetup /dev/loop0
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	112 filename" actually works again.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	113
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	114 <p>Divya Kothari sent in test suite entries for ls, ln, rm, mv, printf, dd,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	115 and renice. Then a second round for lsattr/chattr, mount, chmod, pgrep/pkill,
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	116 groupadd, groupdel, and useradd. Several of these uncovered bugs, still
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	117 working to fix them.</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	118
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	119 <p>There are now free() functions for the predefined llist types and a
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	120 dlist_terminate() function to break doubly linked lists. The new
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	121 generic_signal() handler either sets "toys.signal" or writes a byte
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	122 to toys.signalfd with the signal number if signalfd isn't -1 (which it's
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	123 initialized to in toy_init).</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	124
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	125 <p>The option parsing logic can now detect when a double fits in a long and
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	126 use the more precise type for floating point arguments (the FLOAT macro
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	127 contains the type used). The human_readable() function now just outputs
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	128 decimal kilo/mega/gigabytes (so when du -u says 5.0G it means 5.0 billion
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	129 bytes). The build infrastructure now notices duplicate commands (so if you
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	130 cp toys/pending/command.c toys/other/command.c and forget to delete the
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	131 first one, the build break is now more informative).</p>
a0d26c5e3271 Release notes for 0.4.9. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1264 diff changeset	132
1264 4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	133 <hr><b>April 20, 2014</b>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	134 <blockquote><p>And to this end they built themselves a stupendous supercomputer
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	135 which was so amazingly intelligent that even before the data banks
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	136 had been connected up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	137 far as the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	138 turn it off. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	139
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	140 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.8.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.8</a> is based on
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	141 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/1262>commit 1262</a>. And
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	142 about time too.</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	143
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	144 <p>The big news is that the build no longer needs python to generate help.h,
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	145 that's now done in C. The help text generation is also collating help text
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	146 from multiple options, merging command line option blocks and usage: lines.
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	147 There's even a new <a href=help.html>help web page</a>.</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	148
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	149 <p><b>New commands:</b> Ifconfig, cpio, and su were cleaned up the rest of the
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	150 way and promoted out of pending. That saga is mostly explained on the
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	151 <a href=cleanup.html>cleanup page</a>. Vivek Bhagat's freeramdisk,
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	152 Isaac Dunham's fsfreeze, and Felix Janda's iconv are also new.</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	153
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	154 <p><b>In pending:</b>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	155 Ashwini Sharma's team submitted tcpsvd, udpsvd, telnet, telnetd, last, more,
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	156 groupdel/delgroup, arping, brctl, ftpget, ftpput, printf, reset, and added
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	157 ipv6 support to traceroute. Kyungwan Han's team submitted modprobe and getty.
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	158 Vivek Bhagat submitted openvt and deacllocvt. Samuel Holland submitted fold.
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	159 I wrote a new inflate (zip/zlib/gzip decompression) implementation in
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	160 compress.c, and still need to do a corresponding deflate (compression-side)
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	161 and plug them into gzip and zip and so on. (Right now it does zcat.)</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	162
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	163 <p>Several commands (vmstat, login, du, vconfig, mountpoint, free, chroot,
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	164 cut, touch, modinfo, expand) predate the "pending" directory, and are thus
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	165 in other directories but still need cleanup. Of these, vmstat got some
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	166 work this time (which would be much easier other vmstat implementations
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	167 documented what their output actually meant).</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	168
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	169 <p><b>Upgrades:</b> Ifconfig grew /prefix netmask support (ala 1.2.3.4/24). Grep now has -zZ to
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	170 handle null terminated data, cksum grew -H for hex output. Upgraded od so the
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	171 fields align better when producing multiple output types. Help has -a and -h
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	172 options (all commands, html output).
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	173 Bugfix to blkid building for a 32 bit target. The date command can actually
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	174 set dates now. The O_NOFOLLOW compile time probe didn't work with cross
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	175 compiling, so it's back to an #ifdef test in portability.h. Nathan McSween
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	176 sent in a bugfix to od and a portability fix in the common library code.
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	177 Ashwini Sharma spotted a bug in pidof -o, and added verbose (-v) options
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	178 to mkdir and ln, and suggested killall should have an -s option and
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	179 allow -l to take zero arguments. Ashwini Sharma and Felix Janda upgraded
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	180 tftpd. Fixed dumpleases still using toynet.h after
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	181 that was removed. Corrected killall return code and error reporting.
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	182 Isacc Dunham fixed bugs all over the tree, did cleanup on a bunch of
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	183 pending commands (getty, ftpget, init, openvt, modprobe...), and clarified
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	184 find's help text. Tom Sparrow ran three different static analyzers on
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	185 the code, which resulted in a few cleanups. The peek()/poke() functions
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	186 now use "volatile" to prevent broken compiler "optimizations" to do with
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	187 aliasing.</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	188
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	189 <p><b>Build stuff:</b> Each FOR_xxxx macro now has a complementary CLEANUP_xxxx macro, so you
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	190 can put multiple commands with different command line options in the same
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	191 .c file, so they can share infrastructure outside of lib. (This let the
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	192 bunzip logic move out of lib into bzcat.c.) See XXX for example.
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	193 i
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	194 <p>The headers #included in toys.h are now grouped by standard, and headers
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	195 not listed in Posix or LSB were moved to portability.h. The old xregcomp.h
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	196 was folded into lib.h because it's posix (and supporting oddball uClibc
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	197 configurations isn't as important as it once was).</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	198
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	199 <p>Regression tested against Ubuntu 8.04 to fix up bit-rot in defconfig
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	200 build on older systems. (We depend on Posix-2008, but not necessarily
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	201 the absolute latest build environment.)</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	202
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	203 <p><b>In lib</b>: lib/xwrap.c added xgetpwnam(), xchroot(), and lib/lib.c now has names_to_pid().
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	204 xsetuid() was replaced with xsetuser() which takes a struct passwd
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	205 and sets both gid and uid, mkpathat() got factored out into a library command,
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	206 get_int_value() became atolx_range(), and
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	207 xmsprintf() is now just xmprintf(). The bunzip2 logic moved from lib into
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	208 bzcat.c.</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	209
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	210 <p><b>Documentation</b>: new <a href=help.html>help page</a> with the
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	211 help text for all the defconfig commands, using the new help -ah output.
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	212 The <a href=code.html>source code walkthrough</a> now says more about
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	213 #including header files, and how the generated/* directory works. The
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	214 <a href=design.html>design page</a> has some new paragraphs about trading
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	215 of different kinds of simplicity, and why comments aren't a substitute for
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	216 good code. The README no longer trails off into obvious unfinished confusion
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	217 at the end. Each page on the website should now have its own title.</p>
4ac301cfb047 Release announcement for 0.4.8. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1213 diff changeset	218
1124 42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	219 <hr><b>November 18, 2013</b>
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	220 <blockquote><p>"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." -
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	221 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	222
1213 5918424045a1 Broken URL that's been pointed out to me a couple times when I'm not at a machine I can fix it from, keep forgetting... Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1180 diff changeset	223 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.7.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.7</a> is based on
1124 42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	224 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/1122>commit 1122</a>.</p>
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	225
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	226 <p>New commands: Brad Conroy submitted blkid. Elie De Brauwer submitted
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	227 reboot, halt, and poweroff. Strake's nl got cleaned up and promoted from
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	228 pending to posix. In addition, the existing chvt and vconfig got some
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	229 cleanup.</p>
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	230
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	231 <p>That said, I haven't nearly kept up with the flood of new commands going
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	232 into pending: Ashwini Sharma's team submitted
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	233 dd, dumpleases, traceroute, top, useradd, groupadd, mkpasswd, tftpd, and
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	234 an fsck wrapper (with no filesystem drivers yet). Isaac Dunham sent in cpio.</p>
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	235
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	236 <p>Bugfixes: Jeroen van Rijn added a user count to uptime. Elie De Brauwer
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	237 added -e to watch, removed a memory leak, and fixed a terminal size problem.
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	238 William Haddon made xargs call its command line once even with blank input
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	239 (the standard is vague, but builds expect it), and fixed an off by one bug
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	240 where grep didn't malloc enough space with -E (leading to a segfault).
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	241 I fixed a glitch in bunzip2 (same one as went into busybox since they're using
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	242 the code I wrote), in od to fix -t co, -J, and -c options. Add uname -o as a
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	243 synonym for -s. Build fix to never use $CC without prefixing it with
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	244 $CROSS_COMPILE (since $HOSTCC could be different). Anca Emanuel spotted
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	245 a typo in the web page.</p>
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	246
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	247 <p>The compile-time command line option parsing got rewritten (ported from
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	248 bash to C), which should speed up builds a bit and allow code controlled by
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	249 --longopts to drop out properly when disabled in the configuration. Terminal
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	250 querying got refactored. Patch's -x option is now more informative (a
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	251 debug thing if you're trying to figure out why a patch didn't apply).
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	252 The "toynet.h" file got folded into toys.h since musl supports it and
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	253 micromanging uClibc options isn't very interesting anymore. The test suite
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	254 now uses scripts/single.sh when testing a single command.</p>
42ef1d86797e Release announcement for 0.4.7. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1077 diff changeset	255
1069 940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	256 <hr><b>September 17, 2013</b>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	257 <blockquote><p>"Think of a number," said the computer, "any number."
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	258 Arthur told the computer the telephone number of King's Cross railway
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	259 station passenger inquiries, on the grounds that it must have some function,
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	260 and this might turn out to be it. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	261 </blockquote>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	262
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	263 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.6.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.6</a> is based on
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	264 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/1068>commit 1068</a>.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	265
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	266 <p>This release adds
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	267 several new commands: Felix Janda wrote paste and fallocate, Kyungwan Han
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	268 submitted eject, Strake contributed grep, Ashwini Sharma added pmap (and
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	269 a testsuite entry for grep), Lukasz Skalski sent pwdx, Isaac Dunham posted
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	270 acpi, and I did timeout and umount.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	271
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	272 <p>The ls command now has a --color=auto option (suggested by Rich Felker).
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	273 The multiplexer now has a --help option so you can say "./toybox --help blah"
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	274 instead of using the built-in "help" command. (Which is a shell built-in.
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	275 Try it on your command line, it's like man for shell builtins. But a certain
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	276 other project has conditioned people to expect --help, so...) I forget who
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	277 heehooman at gmail is but they pointed out unshare needed PID and UID
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	278 namespace support.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	279
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	280 <h3>Pending</h3>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	281
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	282 <p>A lot of new commands in toys/pending, to the point the next release should
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	283 probably just focus on cleanup and review of this backlog. We've got klogd,
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	284 dhcp, dhcpd, watch, route, and ps from
1077 f2e8247a4fd0 Typo: fdisk != fsck. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 1069 diff changeset	285 Ashwini Sharma (and an fsck wrapper but no fsck.fstype engines yet),
1069 940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	286 syslogd, pgrep, and pkill from Madhur Verma, netstat by Ranjan Kumar,
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	287 test by Felix Janda, lspci by Isaac Dunham, nl, su, and renice by strake (I.E.
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	288 M. Farkas-Dyck), and sysvinit by Kyungwan Han.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	289
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	290 <p>Some cleanup work on existing pending commands that aren't
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	291 ready to promote yet: I did a few more rounds on ifconfig
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	292 and Isaac Dunham's did several cleanups to xzcat, Felix Janda cleaned up
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	293 logger and syslogd...</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	294
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	295 <p>Also some cleanup work on commands that predate the pending directory,
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	296 but weren't quite polished when they went in, most prominently du,
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	297 expand, and touch.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	298
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	299 <h3>Infrastructure</h3>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	300
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	301 <p>The new scripts/single.sh builds a standalone command without the
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	302 multiplexer, although not all commands can be built that way yet (NEWTOY yes,
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	303 OLDTOY no) and the space savings aren't anything to write home about. (If a
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	304 command needs the option parsing logic at all, it needs all of it.) If
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	305 you're curious, you can do:</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	306
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	307 <blockquote><pre>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	308 make defconfig
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	309 make
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	310 mkdir singles
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	311 for i in $(./toybox)
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	312 do
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	313 echo $i
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	314 PREFIX=singles/ scripts/single.sh $i \|\| break
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	315 done
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	316 </pre>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	317 <p>(And then wait a long time and watch almost half the builds fail.)</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	318 </blockquote>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	319
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	320 <p>There is now libbuf analogous to toybuf, another global 4k buffer this
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	321 time for use by lib/ code instead of command code.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	322
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	323 <p>The lib directory got split up a bit, lib/pending.c contains functions
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	324 not yet used by anything outside of toys/pending/*, and lib/xwrap.c contains
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	325 functions that wrap other functions and handle failures (via error_exit).
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	326 This leaves lib/lib.c containing actual new functions.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	327
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	328 <p>General improvements and bug fixes to argument parsing. The [-abc] exclude
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	329 logic should now clear arguments slots when disabling options. Bare --longopts
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	330 should work now and be able to report errors using their name, the new ;
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	331 option allows optional arguments to longopts only suppliable with = (I.E.
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	332 --color and --color=auto but not --color auto).</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	333
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	334 <p>I'm gradually weaning the code off of itoa()/utoa() because sprintf
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	335 does this already. In this case "simple" probably means "let libc do it
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	336 for us".</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	337
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	338 <p>Rewrote for_each_pid_with_name_in() and renamed it to just names_to_pid().
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	339 It shouldn't get confused trying to compare absolute and relative paths quite
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	340 so much anymore.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	341
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	342 <p>lib/llist.c grew a new dlist_pop() function for removing a doubly
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	343 linked list entry while maintaining a circular list; tail and patch are
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	344 using it now.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	345
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	346 <p>The musl guys suggested a new optimization flag
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	347 (-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables)
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	348 that shaves about 10% off the binary size by removing a C++ism that crept
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	349 into gcc's idea of C. While I don't normally try to micromanage the compiler,
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	350 "-fstop-being-stupid" is a thing you have to hit gcc with from time to time.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	351
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	352 <h3>Bugfixes</h3>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	353
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	354 <p>Felix Janda and I did a largeish rewrite of tail to
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	355 finally make it work right (we think). Still need to implement tail -f
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	356 someday (the tricky bit is making -f follow multiple files at once).
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	357 Felix also reported a bug in xpidfile.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	358
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	359 <p>Juhani Haverinen pointed out that
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	360 python 3 doesn't work with config2help.py, so the detection logic looks
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	361 for python2 (until I get around to rewriting that in C). Elie De Brauwer
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	362 then fixed our first attempt at this, and also fixed uname's help string.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	363
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	364 <p>Ashwini Sharma
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	365 pointed out the build was making a FLAG_ macro for " " which broke some
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	366 configurations. (That's a control character, not a command line option.)</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	367
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	368 <p>Jacek Bukarewicz pointed out a bug in chdir permission handling, and
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	369 a way to make env segfault. Both should be fixed now.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	370
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	371 <p>The new function xexec_optargs()
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	372 replaces calls to xexec(toys.optargs) to avoid freeing and reusing optargs
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	373 during option parsing screwing stuff up (such as netcat's exec mode).</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	374
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	375 <p>The stat command's %a output was padded with leading zeroes, which
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	376 didn't match anybody else's behavior and thus made the test suite hiccup
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	377 between TEST_HOST and testing toybox. (If you go "TEST_HOST=1 scripts/test.sh
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	378 command" it sanity checks the tests against the host implementation.)</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	379
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	380 <p>Last release, "mkdir sub/sub && chmod 007 sub/sub && rm -rf sub" didn't
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	381 delete sub and didn't exit with an error either. Neither was correct, rm
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	382 should now be fixed.</p>
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	383
940dbcc1f8ed Release announcement on web page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 966 diff changeset	384 <p>
966 f1fef0c18d8c Link to Georgi's mirror on github. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 944 diff changeset	385 <hr><b>July 26, 2013</b>
f1fef0c18d8c Link to Georgi's mirror on github. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 944 diff changeset	386 <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski maintains a <a href=https://github.com/gfto/toybox>git
f1fef0c18d8c Link to Georgi's mirror on github. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 944 diff changeset	387 mirror</a> of the repository on github, automatically updated from the
f1fef0c18d8c Link to Georgi's mirror on github. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 944 diff changeset	388 mercurial every 6 hours. The mirror is read only, but you can generate patches
f1fef0c18d8c Link to Georgi's mirror on github. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 944 diff changeset	389 against it and post them to the list.</p>
927 56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	390
944 b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	391 <hr><b>July 2, 2013</b>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	392 <blockquote><p>"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." "Very deep. You
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	393 should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	394 like you." -
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	395 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	396
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	397 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.5.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.5</a> is based on
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	398 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/941>commit 941</a>. It adds
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	399 uuencode and uudecode from Erich Plondke, and enables Luis Morales' "who" by
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	400 default. Felix Janda and I cleaned up last year's "stat" submission and
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	401 enabled it. Ivo van Poorten added "groups".
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	402 Andre Renaud added "lsusb". I implemented "split", "pivot_root", and "mv".
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	403 </p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	404
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	405 <p>The "help" command is implemented differently now (lib/help.c) and
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	406 each command can now understand --help (including both "toybox --help"
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	407 and "toybox --help command" in the multiplexer).</p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	408
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	409 <p>The "pending" directory has several commands (find, xzcat, nbd-client,
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	410 logger, expr) which work but are not enabled by default pending further cleanup.
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	411 Ifconfig is enabled, but still in pending because it's only 2/3 cleaned up.
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	412 (It's an awkward halfway state but I'm not holding up the release for it.)</p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	413
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	414 <p>I'm <a href=cleanup.html>documenting the cleanups</a> to teach
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	415 more people to do it, but the writeups aren't caught up yet. The
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	416 <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> also got updated a bit with further analysis
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	417 of other projects, and the README and about pages got updated.</p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	418
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	419 <p>Fixed _another_ "ls -C" segfault when terminal size can't be detected,
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	420 condensed the ls help text to fit on one page, implented --color, and taught
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	421 -l to print the major, minor numbers when showing block/char devices.
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	422 Argument parsing now handles "--" properly (to end option checking),
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	423 and the infrastructure can now handle bare --longopts that have no
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	424 corresponding short option (both were implemented before but didn't work).
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	425 Fixed an old bug in "patch", chmod grew -f, who grew -a. Isaac Dunham
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	426 fixed "-" vs "_" handling in modinfo, added a "firmware" output
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	427 field, added -b and -k support, and taught it that the ".ko" extension means
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	428 to look for the file at the specified path instead of under /lib. Felix Janda
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	429 moved file permission display code to lib so ls and
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	430 stat could share it. Ashwini Sharma spotted a bug in xabspath when the
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	431 last path component exists but we haven't got permissions to open it
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	432 (ala readlink -f /dev/sda as a normal user).
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	433 </p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	434
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	435 <p>In the build infrastructure, scripts/findglobals.sh finds leaked global
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	436 variables. (Leaked means they aren't part of the global union: Other than glibc
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	437 debris, toybox should define "this", "toy_list", "toybuf", and "toys", and
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	438 that's it; the rest add memory footprint to every command for the benefit of
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	439 just one command; use GLOBALS() to stick 'em in the union.) Static linking
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	440 against libraries other than the host's libc now applies to feature probes
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	441 for unshare and such. Neuter stupid internationalization support that makes
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	442 various host "sort" commands put things in an order other than alphabetical
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	443 (breaking the multiplexer's binary search on command names).
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	444
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	445 <p>You should now be able to build from a source control snapshot on a build
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	446 system that hasn't got python: if you disable CONFIG_TOYBOX_HELP. (The
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	447 release tarballs ship generated/help.h, but it's not in source control.
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	448 Eventually I should rewrite that python script in C.)</p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	449 </p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	450
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	451 <p><b>LICENSE TWEAK</b>: After <a href=http://lists.landley.net/pipermail/toybox-landley.net/2013-March/000794.html>discussion</a> on the mailing list the "2 clause
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	452 BSD" <a href=license.html>license</a> got slightly simplified so the first
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	453 paragraph now says:</p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	454
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	455 <blockquote><p>Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	456 software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.</p></blockquote>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	457
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	458 <p>It used to continue "provided that the above copyright notice and this
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	459 permission notice appear in all copies", but A) what's the point? B) does "all
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	460 copies" mean binaries, or just source code, or what? C) lots of projects
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	461 that consider BSD and GPL compatible have <a href=https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/crypto/aes_generic.c>files with
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	462 both license notices</a> on them (sometimes at <a href=http://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/shell/ash.c>opposite ends of the file</a> to make the conflict
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	463 less obvious) because "all copies must include this function" would violate
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	464 the GPL but "all copies must include this magic text blob" somehow don't?</p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	465
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	466 <p>I don't want to have to care about this anymore. The tweaked version is more
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	467 or less public domain with a liability disclaimer, but we're still calling it
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	468 BSD (sometimes "0 clause BSD") to avoid explaining.</p>
b4faf2ae39e8 This inlines CRC64, and nothing more. Isaac Dunham <idunham@lavabit.com> parents: 927 diff changeset	469
826 457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	470 <hr><b>March 21, 2013</b>
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	471 <p>Video of my ELC talk
927 56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	472 "<a href=http://youtu.be/SGmtP5Lg_t0>Why is Toybox?</a>"
826 457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	473 is up on youtube. Related materials include the
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	474 <a href=http://landley.net/talks/celf-2013.txt>talk outline</a> and an
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	475 <a href=/aboriginal/about.html#selfhost>android self-hosting writeup</a>.</p>
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	476
927 56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	477 <p>[Updated June 4] The following links jump to specific topics in the video. (Sorry about
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	478 the ads, it's The Linux Foundation.)</p>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	479
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	480 <ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	481 <li>0m29s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=0m29s>The smartphone is replacing the PC</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	482 <ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	483 <li>4m22s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=4m22s>Software needed to become self-hosting</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	484 <li>6m20s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=6m20s>Do we care if android or iphone wins?</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	485 </ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	486 <li>9m45s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=9m45s>Android not vanilla: oppose or accept?</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	487 <ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	488 <li>11m30s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=11m30s>Open source can't do User Interfaces</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	489 </ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	490 <li>15m09s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=15m09s>Android is not copyleft: oppose or accept?</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	491 <li>18m23s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=18m23s>Security issues</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	492 <li>21m15s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=21m15s>Solutions to the software problems</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	493 <ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	494 <li>22m55s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=22m55s>What toybox needs to be/do</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	495 <li>28m17s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m17s>What is toybox?</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	496 <ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	497 <li>28m58s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m58s>Why toybox started...</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	498 <li>37m50s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=37m50s>What does toybox actually implement?</a></li>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	499 </ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	500 </ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	501 </ul>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	502 </span>
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	503
56a20120a34f Misc website updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 826 diff changeset	504
826 457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	505 <hr><b>March 14, 2013</b>
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	506 <blockquote><p>"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it." -
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	507 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	508
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	509 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.4.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.4</a> is based on
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	510 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/813>commit 813</a>, adding
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	511 the "time" and "readahead" commands, plus some bugfixes.</p>
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	512
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	513 <p>The "cp" command now implements the -s symlink option, plus bugfixes
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	514 getting various corner cases right as used in actual package builds.
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	515 "id -Gn root" should now print root's groups
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	516 instead of the current user's. Several build fixes so toybox builds under
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	517 Ubuntu 8.04 again (which is about as old a build environment as you
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	518 can expect to find posix-2008 features in).</p>
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	519
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	520 <p>Unfinished commands have generally been moved to "toys/pending".
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	521 Everything else should "default y" to participate in make defconfig.
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	522 Several of those pending commands got some basic cleanup so allyesconfig
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	523 should at least compile (although defconfig is still what's useful).</p>
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	524
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	525 <p>Significant roadmap updates, checking several other multicall binaries
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	526 (klibc, sash, sbase, s6...) to see what commands they include.</p>
457d4cdc937e Update news page and link to ELC 2013 talk on toybox. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 805 diff changeset	527
805 0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	528 <hr><b>January 18, 2013</b>
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	529 <blockquote><p>This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	530
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	531 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.3.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.3</a> is based on
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	532 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/793>commit 793</a>. There
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	533 are now exactly 100 commands in defconfig (of a little over 220 on the
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	534 <a href=roadmap.html>todo list</a>).</p>
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	535
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	536 <p>Elie De Brauwer added the rev command, cleaned up tac, implemented the -s
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	537 and -f flags for seq, added -v and -i to killall (and fixed killall not to
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	538 kill itself before finishing its pid list), and added to the test suite.
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	539 Felix Janda added -m to mkdir, pwd -L and -P, and more test suite entries.</p>
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	540
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	541 <p>Rob Landley added the losetup command, and fixed the existing ls, cp, and
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	542 readlink commands. The segfault in ls
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	543 happened when it couldn't determine the screen size (last release changed the
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	544 default to -C and a screen size of 0 made column view unhappy), and cp got an
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	545 extensive rewrite bringing it up to date with the dirtree changes and fixing
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	546 a number of things it never did right in the first place. The xabspath()
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	547 code in the library now handles a symlink after ".." properly (and the test
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	548 suite checks for it).</p>
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	549
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	550 <p>Infrastructure-wise the code is better about automatically setting the
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	551 error return code properly. Now error_msg() sets the exit code to 1 if it's
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	552 still defaulting to 0, and the global exit path does a fflush(NULL) with error
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	553 bit check rather than trying to be quite so granular about flushing. (That
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	554 means if we use printf() instead of xprintf() it still exits with the right
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	555 error code, it just doesn't end the program early on an output error.)
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	556 Minor bugfix so TOYBOX_DEBUG
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	557 doesn't always warn about the lack of suid bit when toybox is built with
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	558 at least one STAYROOT command. Bugfix for the option [grouping] logic
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	559 (and then further fixes to the error reporting pointed out by Ashwini Sharma).
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	560 dirtree_handle_callback() now has a prefix like the rest of the dirtree
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	561 functions. A lot of stuff doing manual path handling was switched to using
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	562 libc basename() (including, embarassingly, the basename command), which means
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	563 it now correctly detects "/trailing/slash/" which the previous code didn't.</p>
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	564
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	565 <p>Also, last release included some accidentally checked in debug code that
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	566 disabled compiler optimization, so the binary size bloated a bit. It's back
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	567 to -Os by default now.</p>
0db28494d17d Accumulated web page changes. (Release announcement for previous release, roadmap updates, etc.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 755 diff changeset	568
755 5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	569 <hr><b>December 15, 2012</b>
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	570 <blockquote><p>"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	571 thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	572 go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	573 </p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	574
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	575 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.2.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.2</a> is based on
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	576 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/749>commit 749</a> and is
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	577 just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	578 Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	579 a new stable version.</p>
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	580
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	581 <p>The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	582 (from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	583 bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	584 support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option.
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	585 Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof.
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	586 The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	587 -fenq.</p>
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	588
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	589 <p>Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library,
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	590 and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	591 features we depend on start to drop out).</p>
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	592
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	593 <p>The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	594 level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	595 than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out,
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	596 or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	597 earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README,
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	598 the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	599 (so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).</p>
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	600
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	601 <p>Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist().
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	602 Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	603 full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	604 stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	605 it).</p>
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	606
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	607 <p>The open group broke their website so the
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	608 <a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>old links</a> to POSIX 2008
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	609 now <a href=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>need to start with
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	610 pubs</a>. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	611 I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.</p>
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	612
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	613 <p>(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	614 because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	615 implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	616 to do it Posix's way, which is more brittle and needs extra security checks,
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	617 but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	618 filehandles, so drilling down over 1000 nested subdirectories).</p>
5da97f834a06 Web page update for release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 693 diff changeset	619
693 4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	620 <hr><b>November 13, 2012</b>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	621 <blockquote><p>"Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins."
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	622 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	623
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	624 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.1</a> is based on
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	625 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/691>commit 691</a>.</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	626
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	627 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed usleep, Ashwini Kumar contributed du, and
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	628 Kyungwan Han contributed vconfig. Other new commands include switch_root and
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	629 md5sum, and the remaining shell wrappers are now proper commands (dos2unix,
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	630 unix2dos).</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	631
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	632 <p>The patch command now supports -l, and gethostname is now enabled by
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	633 default. The df command follows symlinks to get the actual device name.
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	634 Felix Janda added -m support to wc (for utf8).</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	635
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	636 <p>On the infrastructure side, the commands have now been grouped into
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	637 "posix", "lsb", and "other" subdirectories (for things required by Posix-2008,
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	638 the Linux Standard Base 4.1, and commands in neither). This affects menuconfig
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	639 and the actual source layout (toys/cp.c is now toys/posix/cp.c, and so on).
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	640 An android directory is planned (see the updated
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	641 <a href=roadmap.html#android>android roadmap analysis</a>).</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	642
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	643 <p>The FLAG_ macros for command option parsing and TT alias for the command's
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	644 global block are now automatically generated, commands should
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	645 #define FOR_commandname before #including <toys.h> to get the macros for that
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	646 command.</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	647
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	648 <p>An upgrade to the build infrastructure now allows commands with _ and -
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	649 in them, such as switch_root.</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	650
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	651 <p>Bugfixes: Avery Pennarun spotted a case where ls showed uid twice instead of
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	652 uid and gid, and that nice was using the wrong range of numbers.
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	653 The ls command also recursed inappropriately last time (not quite
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	654 properly converted for the dirtree changes last release), and now it's
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	655 fixed. Roy Tam pointed out a glitch in sh, and fixed df's percentage
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	656 calculation to match the POSIX spec. The kernel build didn't like our mktemp
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	657 and it does now. The wc command wasn't quite posix compliant (trailing spaces
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	658 break stuff). The ls command recursed inappropriately last time (not quite
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	659 properly converted for the dirtree changes last release), and now it's
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	660 fixed. The catv command wasn't displaying byte 255 correctly. Some lib
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	661 fixes (thinko in xpidfile). Fixed uname -m when running a 32 bit x86 binary
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	662 on an x86-64 host (it lies and says the system is i686, i586, or i486 depending
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	663 on what the toolchain that built the binary supported. This makes builds in
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	664 a 32 bit chroot on a 64 bit kernel break less.) The df command was checking
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	665 partitions in the wrong order (displaying undermounts instead of overmounts:
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	666 this used to work but some library code changed out from under it and it
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	667 wasn't updated to match until now). Felix Janda filled out the test suite
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	668 some more. The patch file creation logic got tweaked several times to
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	669 successfully apply more patches. Support for older (pre 2.10) glibc
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	670 versions was added to portability.h.</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	671
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	672 <p>Miscelaneous cleanups all around (mknod, sha1sum, logname), including a
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	673 rewrite of taskset to be less dependent on libc getting the headers right. All
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	674 the command headers should now point to the current relevant standards
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	675 document, where applicable.</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	676
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	677 <p>This news page had old news entries from before the relaunch moved into
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	678 a separate <a href=oldnews.html>oldnews</a> page.</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	679
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	680 <p>I forgot to create <a href=bin>static binaries</a> last time, but they're
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	681 back now.</p>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	682 </span>
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	683
651 ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	684 <hr><b>July 23, 2012</b>
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	685 <blockquote><p>"Ford", Arthur said. "There's an infinite number of monkeys
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	686 out here who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	687 out." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	688
693 4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	689 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.0</a> is based on
4a5a250e0633 Announce release, add anchor tags to roadmap, tweak downloads in header (new bin directory pointing to downloads/binaries/$CURRENT). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 657 diff changeset	690 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/640>commit 640</a>.</p>
651 ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	691
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	692 <p>The new <a href=status.html>status page</a> is calculated from
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	693 the roadmap info, and should be easier to keep up to date in future.</p>
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	694
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	695 <p>Andre Renaud contributed od and modinfo. Elie De Brauwer contributed
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	696 taskset, bugfixes to cmp and tail, and tests for sort and tail. Kyungwan Han
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	697 contributed passwd. Gaurang Shastri contributed w. Ashwini Sharma spotted a
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	698 case where dirtree was adding extra slashes to a path.</p>
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	699
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	700 <p>I rewrote od, cleaned up comm, documented the
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	701 <a href=code.html#lib_llist>llist</a> and
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	702 <a href=code.html#lib_dirtree>dirtree</a> infrastructure, added an -r option
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	703 to date (and fixed a bug where -u wouldn't override /etc/localtime),
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	704 fixed bugs in chmod +stw, fixed ls to show suid bits properly when the
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	705 corresponding executable bit wasn't set, and worked around a longstanding
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	706 glibc bug where static linking prevents stdout from automatically flushing
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	707 pending output on exit.</p>
ba40e1852ce8 Check in the updated news and status web pages. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 610 diff changeset	708
610 ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	709 <hr><b>June 25, 2012</b>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	710 <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>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	711
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	712 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.3.1</a> is based on commit
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	713 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/607>commit 607</a>. It's
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	714 mostly a bugfix release for ls -l (which was unhappy on targets other than
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	715 x86-64), plus a new "date" from Andre Renaud and rewritten chgrp/chown which
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	716 now support the full set of posix flags, plus a little work on the test
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	717 suite and some more header tweaks towards eventual compatability with the
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	718 musl libc.</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	719
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	720 <p>The todo list runneth over, but "release early, release often", so here
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	721 it is. The roadmap and documentation are a bit behind, and I've got ~40
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	722 pending submissions to review. I need to catch up...</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	723 </span>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	724
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	725 <hr><b>June 12, 2012</b>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	726 <blockquote><p>"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	727 he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	728 wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	729 muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	730 always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	731 the same reasons." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	732
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	733 <p>It's well past time for <a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.0.tar.bz2>toybox 0.3.0</a>,
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	734 so here it is, based
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	735 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/595>commit 595</a>, and the
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	736 statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a> should
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	737 actually be statically linked this time (thanks Ashwini Sharma for spotting
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	738 that).</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	739
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	740 <p>It's hard to figure out where to cut a release, because development
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	741 doesn't stop. "Long before now" is the obviuos answer, of course.
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	742 The project's maintainer also moved house during this development cycle, which
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	743 threw things off for a bit (so many boxes). Releases should hopefully be a bit
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	744 more frequent from here on.</p>
418 9be513853e6b Update web page a bit. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 365 diff changeset	745
610 ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	746 <p>The big things Rob worked on this time were the new dirtree (directory
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	747 tree traversal) infrastructure, and a complete rewrite of ls using that
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	748 which should now implement all 26 posix options.</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	749
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	750 <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski added printenv, whoami, mkdir, mkfifo, chmod, chown,
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	751 chgrp, and uniq. He also added fraction and extension support to sleep (so if
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	752 you need a quarter-second sleep, it can do that now), and fixed a build bug
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	753 on slackware.</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	754
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	755 <p>Daniel Walter contributed a string to mode_t parser (in use by chmod and
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	756 mkdir -m). Ilya Kuzmich contributed comm. Elie De Brauwer added mountpoint,
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	757 vmstat, logname, login, and mktemp. Kevin Chase did some portability cleanups.
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	758 Pere Orga fixed some documentation.</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	759
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	760 <p>The "tac" and "clear" commands are now normal commands instead of shell
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	761 wrappers, and the header #includes have been cleaned up a bit to remove
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	762 deprecated functions and attempt to increase compatability with the bionic and
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	763 musl C libraries, "tail" should now use lseek() for large files, and "id" got
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	764 some cleanups and bugfixes.</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	765
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	766 <p>The new TOYBOX_FLOAT configuration option selects whether or not
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	767 to include floating point support (for embedded targets where that's
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	768 problematic).</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	769
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	770 <p>Several random bugfixes: unshare() might actually build portably now,
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	771 yes 'n' \| cp -i should no longer bypass stdin and prompt via the tty, the
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	772 SUID support no longer drops permissions going through the toybox
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	773 multiplexer command, and a bugfix to xargs -0 means it should no longer
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	774 segfault. (I have a pending bug report about xargs not doing the full
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	775 posix whitespace handling that -0 obsoleted, but I'll deal with that next
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	776 release.)</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	777
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	778 <p>The build infrastructure is now automatically generating FLAG_ macros
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	779 for the options, but currently with the wrong names. Some more macro glue
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	780 is necessary, which I haven't quite figured out how to do yet.</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	781
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	782 <p>A defconfig toybox at the start of the $PATH has successfully built
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	783 Linux From Scratch (in my Aboriginal Linux project). The commands that
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	784 'default n' in the config are often still broken, cleanup is ongoing.
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	785 (The new dirtree stuff broke several of them that haven't been converted
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	786 yet, but if I wait until everything works we won't have a release before
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	787 1.0, so here's a checkpoint.)</p>
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	788
ce60e407829f Update news page for the past two releases. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 529 diff changeset	789
529 b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	790 <hr><b>March 3, 2012</b>
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	791
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	792 <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	793 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them.
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	794 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	795 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p>
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	796 </p></blockquote>
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	797
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	798 <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	799 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	800 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	801 binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p>
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	802
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	803 <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	804 have not quite been keeping up.)</p>
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	805
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	806 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod,
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	807 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln,
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	808 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	809 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	810 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp.
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	811 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	812 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p>
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	813
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	814 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	815 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	816 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	817 bloat-o-meter.)</p>
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	818
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	819 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	820 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott,
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	821 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	822 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	823 optimizations.</p>
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	824
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	825 <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link,
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	826 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	827 and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p>
b93517f238d1 Web page updates. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 457 diff changeset	828
297 6e65eefc37e9 Announce 0.0.6 release. (A bit early, so the next FWL release can use it.) Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 277 diff changeset	829
457 521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	830 <hr><b>February 12, 2012</b>
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	831 <blockquote><p>
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	832 "for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	833 least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	834 important respects..."</p>
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	835 <p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p></blockquote>
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	836
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	837 <p>Here's the first BSD licensed release,
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	838 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.2.0</a>, more a synchronization
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	839 point than anything particularly useful. 47 commands in a reasonably
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	840 ready-to-use state (what "make defconfig" builds), another ten or so partially
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	841 finished stubs ("make allyesconfig"), and several
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	842 patches pending on the mailing list I need to review and merge.</p>
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	843
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	844 <p>More to come...</p>
521d54da4d0c Commit the web page change that announced the release. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 418 diff changeset	845
418 9be513853e6b Update web page a bit. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 365 diff changeset	846 <hr>
9be513853e6b Update web page a bit. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 365 diff changeset	847 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2
9be513853e6b Update web page a bit. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 365 diff changeset	848 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line
9be513853e6b Update web page a bit. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 365 diff changeset	849 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p>
9be513853e6b Update web page a bit. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 365 diff changeset	850
9be513853e6b Update web page a bit. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 365 diff changeset	851 <p>More to come...</p>
9be513853e6b Update web page a bit. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 365 diff changeset	852
9be513853e6b Update web page a bit. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 365 diff changeset	853 <hr>
365 8f0b24cc7cd7 Minor web page updates (put header/footer back, add a few <hr> tags). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 361 diff changeset	854
657 7f5db1d707c0 Split off pre-relaunch news entries into a separate oldnews.html page. Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 651 diff changeset	855 <p><a href=oldnews.html>Old news</a> from before the relaunch.</p>
365 8f0b24cc7cd7 Minor web page updates (put header/footer back, add a few <hr> tags). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 361 diff changeset	856
8f0b24cc7cd7 Minor web page updates (put header/footer back, add a few <hr> tags). Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> parents: 361 diff changeset	857 <!--#include file="footer.html" -->

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