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5 seq, sha1sum, sleep, sort, sync, tee, touch, toysh, true, tty, uname, which, yes |
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11 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.2.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.9.2</a>, off by one allocation error in patch.</p> |
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13 <p>(Darn fiddly command, innit?)</p> |
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16 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.1</a> which is a bugfix |
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17 release for issues with the patch command.</p> |
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19 <p>The project is currently on hold while the developers learn Lua and |
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21 (Also note: the mailing list moved. See the links on the left. You'll |
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25 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.tar.bz2</a> which is a minor packaging |
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26 fix for 0.0.8. (The previous release tarball contained a prebuilt x86-64 |
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28 pregenerate help.h, and didn't run make clean afterwards.) The actual source |
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29 code is identical to the previous release.</p> |
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31 <p><b>January 20, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.8.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.8</a> |
| 343 | 32 adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.</p> |
| 33 | |
| 34 <p>This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit | |
| 35 binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.</p> | |
| 36 | |
| 37 <p>This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to | |
| 38 produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For | |
| 39 example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc, | |
| 40 pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length. | |
| 41 (Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)</p> | |
| 42 | |
| 43 <p>It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several | |
| 44 netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a | |
| 45 reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.</p> | |
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| 319 | 47 <p><b>November 12, 2008</b> - |
| 48 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.7.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.7</a> | |
| 49 adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the | |
| 50 test suite, and numerous bugfixes (bunzip, chroot, cat, patch).</p> | |
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52 <p><b>May 26, 2008</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.6.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.6</a> |
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53 adds cat, rmdir, and seq. Bugfixes to cp and a new -v option. Updates mdev to |
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55 1969-12-31 means it doesn't exist, and to fail if a file it needs to create |
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62 Time to release <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.5.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.5</a>, with |
| 277 | 63 new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.</p> |
| 64 | |
| 65 <p>More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test | |
| 66 scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls | |
| 67 make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending | |
| 68 on the context).</p> | |
| 69 | |
| 70 <p>Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of | |
| 71 the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to | |
| 72 the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files. | |
| 73 There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate | |
| 74 the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt | |
| 75 and <a href=code.html>code.html</a> for details.)</p> | |
| 76 | |
| 226 | 77 <p><b>January 2, 2008</b> - And <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2</a> is out. |
| 78 The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg, | |
| 79 help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.</p> | |
| 80 | |
| 81 <p>Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate | |
| 82 a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.</p> | |
| 83 | |
| 84 <p>Expect the next release in about 6 months.</p> | |
| 85 | |
| 86 <p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications, | |
| 87 put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure | |
| 88 documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p> | |
| 89 | |
| 90 <p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out | |
| 91 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's | |
| 92 been too long since I did something like that. This one implements | |
| 93 catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which, | |
| 94 and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other | |
| 95 commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p> | |
| 96 | |
| 97 <p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking | |
| 98 and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely | |
| 99 checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p> | |
| 100 | |
| 101 <p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making | |
| 102 a little progress.</p> | |
| 103 | |
| 104 <p><b>January 31, 2007</b> - | |
| 105 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.2.tar.bz2>0.0.2 release</a>. | |
| 106 Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished | |
| 107 skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library. | |
| 108 Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck" | |
| 109 using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.</p> | |
| 110 | |
| 111 <p>Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side | |
| 112 which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing | |
| 113 mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p> | |
| 114 | |
| 115 <p><b>October 30, 2006</b> - | |
| 116 Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.1.tar.bz2>0.0.1 release</a>. Implements | |
| 117 df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.</p> | |
| 118 | |
| 119 <p><b>September 7, 2006</b> - | |
| 120 Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.</p> |