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4 <p>Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together |
| 927 | 5 into a single BSD-licensed executable that's simple, small, fast, |
| 6 reasonably standards-compliant, and powerful enough to turn Android into | |
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| 1709 | 11 <hr><b>February 25, 2015</b> |
| 12 <blockquote><p>"A common mistake that people make when trying to design | |
| 13 something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of | |
| 14 complete fools."</p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> | |
| 15 | |
| 16 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.5.2.tar.gz>Toybox 0.5.2</a> | |
| 17 (<a href=/hg/toybox/shortlog/1702>commit 1702</a>) is out.</p> | |
| 18 | |
| 19 <p>New promoted commands: sed (finally fixed enough it builds Linux From | |
| 20 Scratch), printf (cleaned up and promoted), shred and | |
| 21 base64 (the Tizen guys wanted them), getenforce, setenforce, and chcon (android), | |
| 22 mix (promoted with fixes from Isaac Dunham), nsenter (from | |
| 23 Andy Lutomirski, merged into unshare).</p> | |
| 24 | |
| 25 <p>Elliott Hughes submited a bunch of patches to support Android (to | |
| 26 both toybox and Bionic libc, which he maintains). On toybox's end this | |
| 27 involved a lot of fixups to portability.[ch] and fixes to over a dozen | |
| 28 commands, plus several new ones. Other portability fixes included working | |
| 29 with buildroot's uclibc fork and building for nommu targets.</p> | |
| 30 | |
| 31 <p>The new "make change" target builds each toybox command as a standalone | |
| 32 binary. Rather a lot of commands that didn't build by themselves (mv depending | |
| 33 on cp and so on) were hit with a large rock until they built standalone. | |
| 34 This involved rewriting bits of option parsing, more elaborate dependency | |
| 35 generation, making each command have its own config | |
| 36 symbol and main() function (even when it's just a wrapper calling another | |
| 37 command's main()), and so on. Also, some commands can't be built standalone | |
| 38 at a conceptual level: "help" describes other enabled commands and "sh" | |
| 39 has a number of bulitin commands (cd, exit, set) that require the | |
| 40 multiplexer infrastructure, so "make change" filters them out.</p> | |
| 41 | |
| 42 <p>The mailing list's web archive is still screwed up. Dreamhost has | |
| 43 been trying to fix it since approximately September. There are | |
| 44 <a href=http://www.mail-archive.com/toybox@lists.landley.net/>two</a> | |
| 45 <a href=http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.toybox>other</a> less broken | |
| 46 archives, but neither has quite the same UI as mailman.</p> | |
| 47 | |
| 48 <h3>Bugfixes and tweaks</h3> | |
| 49 | |
| 50 <p>Cynt Rynt sent in tests for ifconfig, | |
| 51 Robert Thompson taught factor to accept whitespace separated arguments, | |
| 52 Hyejin Kim pointed out that some of mktemp's longopts were attached to | |
| 53 the wrong short options, | |
| 54 Luis Felipe Strano Moraes fixed a wrong free() call in bootchartd in pending. | |
| 55 Patches from Ashwini Sharma to make "df /dev/node" work, prevent du from | |
| 56 looping endlessly following symlinks, and to make expr.c | |
| 57 (in pending) understand == and regex matches. (Speaking of expr, it gets | |
| 58 priority groupings wrong but the bug was actually in the posix spec's | |
| 59 HTML conversion. They fixed the posix spec upstream for us. Still need | |
| 60 to fix the expr code, but it's in pending for a reason...)</p> | |
| 61 | |
| 62 <p>Some commands grew new option flags, such as cp --remove-destination | |
| 63 and touch -h.</p> | |
| 64 | |
| 65 <p>The parallel build has better error reporting now. When toybox needs to | |
| 66 re-exec itself to regain suid root permissions and hasn't got the suid bit, | |
| 67 it now gives the right error message ("not root" instead of "no such command"). | |
| 68 | |
| 69 <p>Added a test to "mount" to not mount the same device/directory combination | |
| 70 over itself (the OS catches this for block devices, but not for tmpfs). | |
| 71 Make blkid distinguish ext3 from ext4. Added catv back into cat (because | |
| 72 the Android guys wanted it, and they have historical usage on their side, | |
| 73 so...). Handle nanoseconds in touch.</p> | |
| 74 | |
| 75 <p>Fixed a segfault when CP_MORE was disabled (the resulting option flag list | |
| 76 no longer defined -d but still had it in option groups at the end). | |
| 77 Workaround for glibc redefining dirname() and basename() to random non-posix | |
| 78 semantics because gnu. (They could have created dirname_r() but didn't want | |
| 79 to.)</p> | |
| 80 | |
| 81 <p>Fix an ifconfig test that was preventing assigning an ipv4 address to | |
| 82 interface aliases. Several cleanup passes on hwclock but not quite | |
| 83 promoted out of pending yet.<p> | |
| 84 | |
| 85 <p>Fixed a wrong error message in rm (if you had a chmod 000 directory and | |
| 86 did rm -r on it without -f, after the prompt it would complain it was a | |
| 87 directory, which was not the problem).</p> | |
| 88 | |
| 89 <p>The gzip compression code now does "store only" output to stdout, for | |
| 90 what that's worth.</p> | |
| 91 | |
| 92 <p>Cleanup mountpoint and expand, and remove them from toys/pending/README | |
| 93 (a list of commands that predate the toys/pending directory but needed | |
| 94 another pass).</p> | |
| 95 | |
| 96 <h3>Library and infrastructure:</h3> | |
| 97 | |
| 98 <p>Reworked the option parsing infrastructure so more commands build | |
| 99 standalone (via scripts/single.sh or "make change"). The option flag bit | |
| 100 values are no longer packed, it leaves spaces where currently disabled | |
| 101 flags go, and you can #define FORCE_FLAGS so disabled flags aren't zeroed. | |
| 102 This allows multiple commands to more easily share infrastructure, even if | |
| 103 your current flag context is for a disabled command (switched off in config), | |
| 104 you can force them to stay on and as long as the flags read the same right | |
| 105 to left they'll have the same values.</p> | |
| 106 | |
| 107 <p>We've started removing use of strncpy() because it's a hugely broken | |
| 108 standard C function: the length is the maximum length to _append_, not | |
| 109 the size of the destination buffer. It memsets the remaining space it didn't | |
| 110 copy ala "memset(dest+strlen(dest), 0, len);" so | |
| 111 if you think len is the size of dest you're guaranteed to stomp memory off the | |
| 112 end). And if it runs out of space it won't null terminate because reasons. | |
| 113 (Meanwhile sprintf("%*s", len, str) is counting wide characters in your current | |
| 114 locale, so if you set a locale other than "C" it will also go past your | |
| 115 allocated buffer size. Whoever is maintining the C library standards is really | |
| 116 bad at strings.) | |
| 117 Instead we have xstrncat() which will error_exit() if src+dest+1 doesn't | |
| 118 fit in the buffer. (Because randomly truncating input data isn't necessarily | |
| 119 an improvement.) And there's always xmprintf().</p> | |
| 120 | |
| 121 <p>Similarly, strtol() doesn't return an error indicator on overflow, | |
| 122 you have to clear and then check errno. So new xstrtol() that cares | |
| 123 about overflow.</p> | |
| 124 | |
| 125 <p>The bionic and musl guys agree faccessat(AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) is not | |
| 126 supported, so stop using it.</p> | |
| 127 | |
| 128 <p>Fixed toy_exec() to detect when argc is in optargs, so we don't | |
| 129 need a separate xexec_optargs().</p> | |
| 130 | |
| 131 <hr><b>February 18, 2015</b> | |
| 132 <p>Dreamhost continues to be unable to make mailing list archives work, so | |
| 133 here's <a href=http://www.mail-archive.com/toybox@lists.landley.net/>another | |
| 134 list archive</a> with a less awkward interface than gmane.</p> | |
| 135 | |
| 136 <p>(Neither gives you the convenient historical monthly views of mailman, | |
| 137 but I still have hopes dreamhost will someday figure out what they're doing | |
| 138 wrong. They've only been trying since October. Last month they did a | |
| 139 <a href=http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2015/01/14/discussion-list-hardware-maintenance/>hardware upgrade to fix a software problem</a>, and the stale | |
| 140 data loads much faster now, so that's something.)</p> | |
| 141 | |
| 142 <p>Update (Feb 19): the archive started updating again, by discarding | |
| 143 all the pending data. So there are now _two_ giant holes in Dreamhost's | |
| 144 web archive, from Dec 15-Jan 3, and then another hole from Jan 16-Feb 18. | |
| 145 The relevant messages are in both of the other archives. Here's hoping | |
| 146 the chronic archive constipation problem won't happen a sixth time.</p> | |
| 147 | |
| 1631 | 148 <hr><b>December 30, 2014</b> |
| 149 <p>Due to Dreamhost's <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost.txt>ongoing</a> | |
| 150 <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost2.txt>inability</a> to make mailman | |
| 151 work reliably, I've added a link to a backup web archive at | |
| 152 <a href=http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.toybox>gmane</a> to the nav bar | |
| 153 on the left.</p> | |
| 154 | |
| 155 <p>You still subscribe to the list through | |
| 156 <a href=http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net>the first link</a>.</p> | |
| 157 | |
| 1709 | 158 <p>Update (January 27, 2015): they're <a href=https://twitter.com/landley/status/558428839462703104>still working on it</a>.</p> |
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162 <blockquote><p>"This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
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164 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.5.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.5.1</a> |
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165 (<a href=/hg/toybox/shortlog/1566>commit 1566</a>) is out.</p> |
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167 <p>It's an interim release, mostly bugfixes. There are several new commands, |
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168 but they're all in pending.</p> |
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173 it's feature complete according to posix, and even passes the parts of |
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174 Busybox's sed test suite that aren't explicitly testing for gnu bugs we |
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175 don't want to copy, it's not yet good enough to build Linux From Scratch. |
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176 (The ./configure stages use very long sed scripts. 20 commits worth of |
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177 implementation and debugging, just under 1000 lines of code, and there's |
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178 still more to do. We're definitely up to some of the "fiddly" commands now. |
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179 Did you know "echo hello | sed p - -" segfaults gnu sed in Ubuntu 12.04? |
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180 Yeah...)</p> |
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182 <p>Talked with the Tizen developers to follow up on their desire to |
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183 make toybox a part of the base Tizen system, and got a list of commands |
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186 <blockquote><p> |
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187 wget, sha256*, gzip, gunzip, bunzip2, rsync, zdiff*, |
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188 less, ar, arch, base64, csplit, dir, fmt, join, |
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189 nproc, shred, shuf, stdbuf, stty, test, tr, unexpand, |
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190 users, vdir, diff3, sdiff, dosfsck (fsck.vfat), awk, fdisk |
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193 <p>(Most of which was already on the todo list, but it helps prioritize.)</p> |
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195 <p>Fixed md5sum and sha1sum on big endian systems (reported by James McMechan). |
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196 Andy Lutomirski fixed unshare's help text and option parsing, |
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197 and submitted nsenter (a tool to use setns(2)) to pending. |
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198 Isaac Dunham implemented acpi -ctV options, and spotted the bug that ls -d |
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199 was inappropraitely following command line symlinks without -H or -L (it |
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200 should act like ls -l does), and ls -F handles symlinks wrong too. |
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201 Lukasz Szpakowski sent in two bugfixes to tail.c. Cynt Rynt spotted an |
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202 unnecessary assignment in lib/password.c.</p> |
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204 <p>Ashwini Sharma's team was as busy as usual, submitting tr, crontab, and |
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205 ipcrm, and hwclock to pending, more features to the pending ip.c, and a |
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206 pile of bugfixes (to chgrp, killall, ifconfig, insmod, |
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207 losetup, comm, cp, id, xwrap, netcat, modprobe, nohup...) mostly found by |
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208 static analysis. (These fixes are mostly to seldom-used codepaths like the |
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209 TOYBOX_FREE config option, but test coverage is always appreciated.) Ashwini |
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210 also suggested upgrading ln -f to leave the original target alone if link |
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211 creation fails, and reported that mv -f and -i weren't implemented (now fixed).</p> |
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218 a grep pattern snippet are easier to do. (Why you'd want to is your business, |
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223 <p>Isaac Dunham added Android support to portability.h, including compile |
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| 240 <blockquote><p>"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. | |
| 241 The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss... | |
| 242 Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the | |
| 243 difficulties." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.<p></blockquote> | |
| 244 | |
| 245 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.5.0.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.5.0</a> | |
| 246 (<a href=/hg/toybox/shortlog/1512>commit 1512</a>) is out.</p> | |
| 247 | |
| 248 <h3>New commands</h3> | |
| 249 | |
| 250 <p>The new commands are find, install, factor, and mount. Promoted commands | |
| 251 (cleaned up and moved out of "pending") are lspci, inotifyd, and blockdev.</p> | |
| 252 | |
| 253 <p>cp now implements -HL and -F to force delete of pending files, cpio now | |
| 254 ignores -m and implements -p, ls -C now has utf8 support (using wcwidth | |
| 255 instead of strlen), and umount got a number of upgrades involving | |
| 256 looking things up in /proc/mounts. Other minor cleanups happend to | |
| 257 cut, touch, free, and id.</p> | |
| 258 | |
| 259 <p>In pending: Bradley Controy submitted mix (adjusts OSS sound volume). Ashwini | |
| 260 Sharma submitted diff, userdel, blockdev, ipcs, and crond, upgraded | |
| 261 fdisk, fsck, and ftpget, and ran a static analyzer on a lot of other code. | |
| 262 Partial cleanup was done to useradd, userdel, groupadd, and groupdel.</p> | |
| 263 | |
| 264 <h3>Build infrastructure</h3> | |
| 265 | |
| 266 <p><b>Parallel builds</b></p> | |
| 267 | |
| 268 <p>The build now takes advantage of SMP, autodetecting the number of | |
| 269 processors. (Export the environment variable CPUS to pick a specific number.) | |
| 270 Other build changes: split out $LDOPTIMIZE because old compilers complain | |
| 271 about linker options passed with -c, and the entire "generated" directory now | |
| 272 gets deleted by clean (the README that was in there got merged into code.html).</p> | |
| 273 | |
| 274 <p><b>Standalone builds</b></p> | |
| 275 | |
| 276 <p>The standalone build infrastructure (scripts/single.sh) got upgraded to | |
| 277 build more commands as standalone executables. In make.sh the source file | |
| 278 selection uses a regex to find the source files with the NEWTOY/OLDTOY macro | |
| 279 for the command. It enables each command's | |
| 280 sub-options (so CP has CP_MORE), enables I18N and FLOAT support to build | |
| 281 full-featured commands, and includes --help text (at least when | |
| 282 the command doesn't use another command's help). The OLDTOY() macro | |
| 283 now produces (redundant) function prototypes so you can build an OLDTOY | |
| 284 without the NEWTOY</p> | |
| 285 | |
| 286 <p>It doesn't quite have complete coverage yet, the defconfig entries that | |
| 287 aren't building standalone yet are:</p> | |
| 288 | |
| 289 <blockquote><p>chown, egrep, fgrep, fstype, halt, mv, nc, poweroff, unix2dos, | |
| 290 whoami</p></blockquote> | |
| 291 | |
| 292 <p>The main reason for standalone build failures is NEWTOY() or OLDTOY() | |
| 293 entries that don't have their own config symbol. Another problem is entries | |
| 294 that depend on another entry in kconfig, usually because common infrastructure | |
| 295 is using one command's flags (which the other commands copy): if that command | |
| 296 is disabled, the FLAG macros become 0 so dead code elimination can remove the | |
| 297 code. It's <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/rev/1503>possible | |
| 298 to untangle</a> this, but a bit awkward. (It boils down to conflicting | |
| 299 design goals in the two contexts.)</p> | |
| 300 | |
| 301 <p>Standalone builds are used by the test suite when testing individual | |
| 302 commands. | |
| 303 | |
| 304 <p><b>Snapshot builds</b></p> | |
| 305 | |
| 306 <p>A new addition to the "generated" directory is generated/build.sh | |
| 307 containing a single compiler command line to build toybox in its current | |
| 308 configuration. Combined with the generated/*.{h,sh} files from an | |
| 309 exisiting build, this may let you build on a new system that hasn't quite | |
| 310 got enough OS bits working to run a full configureand make.</p> | |
| 311 | |
| 312 <h3>Internals</h3> | |
| 313 | |
| 314 <p>Library code: xcreate/xopen now O_CLOEXEC by default to avoid leaking | |
| 315 filehandles to child processes. DIRTREE_COMEAGAIN's second callback is now | |
| 316 done with the directory filehandle still open (new dir->again variable added | |
| 317 to distinguish first from second callback, and requesting DIRTREE_RECURSE now | |
| 318 requires passing in the specific macro value, not just a true/false). | |
| 319 Use daemon() out of libc instead of hand-rolled daemonize() in various | |
| 320 pending commands. string_to_mode() now passes through type bits so you can | |
| 321 use it to more easily modify a file's existing mode. | |
| 322 Split xpopen() into xpopen_both(), xopen(), and xrun() depending on whether | |
| 323 we want to redirect both, one, or neither of stdin/stdout.</p> | |
| 324 | |
| 325 <p>Bugfixes: Better error message when TOYBOX_SUID option can't drop priviliges | |
| 326 (which happens when you suid something _other_ than root). | |
| 327 The old pending version of nbd_client.c wasn't deleted when the | |
| 328 command was promoted (and the build would break if both were enabled), | |
| 329 toy_exec() sometimes needs to re-exec from $PATH rather than recurse | |
| 330 internally (to gain dropped root permissions or limit stack depth), | |
| 331 always call setlocale() when I18N is enabled to switch it back _off_ when | |
| 332 we run commands that expect sscanf("%n") to return bytes, | |
| 333 dirtree() had a memory leak in an error path, patch.c had some bugs in | |
| 334 error paths (didn't report problem clearly). Ashwini Sharma spotted an | |
| 335 option parsing bug where [-abc] would forget _all_ command line arguments | |
| 336 saved in the GLOBALS() block (not just the ones for options being switched | |
| 337 off), plus various minor fixes to nbd_client and cpio. | |
| 338 Lukasz Szpakowski fixed rm -f on a broken symlink (failed), and killall | |
| 339 with no arguments (segfaulted).</p> | |
| 340 | |
| 341 <p><b>Portability</b></p> | |
| 342 | |
| 343 <p>A somewhat fiddly fix to rm -rf (which needs to chmod directories to u+rwx | |
| 344 to descend into them) which hit a musl bug in faccessat() which the musl | |
| 345 maintainer refuses to fix. (He literally wants the man page changed | |
| 346 instead, despite other libcs working.) Added an #ifdef __MUSL__ section | |
| 347 to portability.h with a workaround, you may need CFLAGS=-D__MUSL__ in your | |
| 348 build if your musl build's features.h doesn't #define that. (I may do | |
| 349 a different workaround in future, but sometimes you've just got to make | |
| 350 it work so you can ship. Also, toybox grep with multiple patterns | |
| 351 requires <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1692>a patch | |
| 352 to musl's regex engine</a>, which applies to 1.1.4 but not to the current | |
| 353 musl source control.)</p> | |
| 354 | |
| 355 <p>More portability.h fixes for uClibc too. (I don't expect that to ever have | |
| 356 another release, so locally patching around posix-2008 violations is silly).</p> | |
| 357 | |
| 358 <p><b>Change to username filtering</b></p> | |
| 359 | |
| 360 <p>Posix recommends the username creation logic filter usernames to a small | |
| 361 allowed set of characters (which even Red Hat breaks by explicitly allowing | |
| 362 "$" at the end), but this prevents UTF-8 usernames. Posix' stated logic | |
| 363 is to allow filesystems to create the user's home directory, but Linux | |
| 364 filesystems can accept any character but NUL and "/". The only characters | |
| 365 we actually _need_ to filter out are ":" (field separator in passwd), | |
| 366 newline (line separator in passwd), and "/" (directory separator in | |
| 367 filesystem).</p> | |
| 368 | |
| 369 <h3>Documentation</h3> | |
| 370 | |
| 371 <p>Web pages updated: cleanup.html documents more cleanup, code.html | |
| 372 documents more code, and about.html now capitalizes "toybox" consistently | |
| 373 (it's just a word, capitalize at start of sentence).</p> | |
| 374 | |
| 375 <p>The pending/README file now lists commands that needed review/cleanup | |
| 376 before the pending directory was added.</p> | |
| 377 | |
| 378 <h3>Test Suite</h3> | |
| 379 | |
| 380 <p>Moved out of scripts/test into top level "tests" directory, and the | |
| 381 testing.sh script is now in scripts rather than mixed into the *.test files.</p> | |
| 382 | |
| 383 <p>Johan Bergström requested VERBOSE=fail to make tests (telling it to | |
| 384 stop at the first failure), and spotted a build bug where using gnu | |
| 385 sort on the host broke in non-C locales.</p> | |
| 386 | |
| 387 <p>Divya Kothari submitted tests for chmod, link, tar, bzcat, xzcat, zcat, | |
| 388 and hostname. (And more, but that's all that's merged so far.)</p> | |
| 389 | |
| 1387 | 390 <hr><b>July 7, 2014</b> |
| 391 <blockquote><p>"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: | |
| 392 most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many | |
| 393 solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely | |
| 394 concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd | |
| 395 because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were | |
| 396 unhappy." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> | |
| 397 | |
| 398 <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> | |
| 399 | |
| 400 <p><b>New commands</b> added to pending include: | |
| 401 lsattr, chattr, inotifyd, rfkill, sulogin, strings, makedevs, | |
| 402 killall5, and tar from Ashwini Sharma, arp from Kyungwan Han, | |
| 403 sysctl by Bilal Qureshi, partprobe from Bertold Van den Bergh, | |
| 404 host from Rich felker, and I did nbd-client and the first 2/3 of mount.</p> | |
| 405 | |
| 406 <p>Finished cleanups (commands promoted out of pending): | |
| 407 sysctl, rfkill, strings, mkpasswd, makedevs, partprobe, killall5, | |
| 408 fallocate, and nbd-client.</p> | |
| 409 | |
| 410 <p>(Along the way partial cleanups got made to: last, fold, lspci, ps, | |
| 411 bootchartd, init, fsck, telnetd, telnet, vconfig, toysh, iconv, useradd, | |
| 412 login, host, openvt, deallocvt, getty, tftpd, and modprobe. But there's | |
| 413 still more to do on all of those.)</p> | |
| 414 | |
| 415 <p>This time around the <a href=bin>static binaries</a> are linked against | |
| 416 musl instead of uClibc. (That's why there's no sparc version, musl doesn't | |
| 417 support that target yet.)</p> | |
| 418 | |
| 419 <p><b>Documentation:</b></p> | |
| 420 | |
| 421 <p>The help text parser expects lower case "usage:" lines with | |
| 422 a blank line after them, so go through and regularize those. Expand the | |
| 423 "coding style" section in the docs and move it to design.html. (Not a show | |
| 424 stopper for incoming | |
| 425 contributions, just an explanation of some of the things I'll do to them | |
| 426 during cleanup.) The help text for the "toybox" command now includes | |
| 427 the shell script snippet to install symlinks to the toybox binary.</p> | |
| 428 | |
| 429 <p>The <a href=cleanup.html>cleanup page</a> now has descriptions for the | |
| 430 full ifconfig cleanup series, among others.</p> | |
| 431 | |
| 432 <p>The new toys/examples directory contains hello.c and skeleton.c. The first is | |
| 433 a simple hello world program in toybox style, the second is a much more | |
| 434 elaborate example program using showing how to use the command line option | |
| 435 parsing and how to provide multiple commands in the same C file.</p> | |
| 436 | |
| 437 <p><b>Fixes</b>:</p> | |
| 438 | |
| 439 <p>Fix od bug reported by Samuel Holland ("od -v -b" was appending the default | |
| 440 output type even though an output type was specified). Ashwini Sharma reported | |
| 441 bugs where readfile() was incorrectly freeing its buffer, and where toy_init() | |
| 442 was zeroing the wrong data because the field it was using to measure (rebound) | |
| 443 had moved (when I moved it back I added a comment why the field needs to be | |
| 444 there), fixed a segfault in the dhcp client, and made a 0 length read at | |
| 445 the start of password entry count as EOF. Make the "we are not root" test | |
| 446 in the init code show the help text. Posix implies that fflush() can return | |
| 447 success even when the stream's error bit is set, so call both fflush() and | |
| 448 ferror() from xprintf().</p> | |
| 449 | |
| 450 <p>Isaac Dunham pointed out that bloatcheck couldn't deal with diff | |
| 451 implementations that only implement "unified diff" format, and that some | |
| 452 diff implementations can't handle nonseekable input (I.E. reading from | |
| 453 a pipe). Bugfix so "help -a" works again. Option parsing on nohup now stops | |
| 454 at first nonoption argument. Fix segfault in "which" if PATH wasn't set, | |
| 455 which was actually a bug in lib function find_in_path(). Made rm -rf of | |
| 456 chmod 000 directories actually remove them.</p> | |
| 457 | |
| 458 <p>The build now passes the same $CFLAGS to the library probe as the final | |
| 459 build, because arch linux is so broken it provides different sets of | |
| 460 libraries for static and dynamic linking.</p> | |
| 461 | |
| 462 <p>It turns out sprintf("%.123s", str) is counting characters, not bytes, | |
| 463 so globally enabling locale support opens stack smashing vulnerabilities. | |
| 464 So there's a new TOYFLAGS_LOCALE you set in toyflags when you want the | |
| 465 setup code to setlocale().</p> | |
| 466 | |
| 467 <p><b>Upgrades:</b></p> | |
| 468 | |
| 469 <p>Isaac Dunham extended cpio to archive unreadable empty files, and I taught it | |
| 470 to set uid/gid and timestamp when extracting archives. Isaac also | |
| 471 added tests for cpio, link, and du, added lspci -i, made the pci database | |
| 472 parsing skip # comment lines, merged logname and whoami into id.</p> | |
| 473 | |
| 474 <p>Daniel Verkamp sped up md5sum about 30% with some loop unrolling, making | |
| 475 it actually smaller in the process. I added -b flags to md5sum and sha1sum | |
| 476 for "brief" output that's just the hash with no filename. (I'm aware other | |
| 477 implementations use that for MSDOS "binary" mode, and don't care.)</p> | |
| 478 | |
| 479 <p>When building standalone commands (scripts/singleconfig.sh commandname), | |
| 480 the build now switches on all the sub-options of the command so we get | |
| 481 a standalone version with all the bells and whistles enabled.</p> | |
| 482 | |
| 483 <p>Add -ds flags to date and document +FORMAT escapes. Add the shell NOP | |
| 484 command ":" as an alias for true (for toysh).</p> | |
| 485 | |
| 486 <p>Add uClibc probe for iconv() and fallocate. (The fact it didn't always | |
| 487 build against uClibc is why fallocate wasn't enabled in defconfig before.)</p> | |
| 488 | |
| 489 <p>The umount command now does an losetup -d on the device by default, so | |
| 490 we don't leak loopback devices. Bugfix to losetup so "losetup /dev/loop0 | |
| 491 filename" actually works again.</p> | |
| 492 | |
| 493 <p>Divya Kothari sent in test suite entries for ls, ln, rm, mv, printf, dd, | |
| 494 and renice. Then a second round for lsattr/chattr, mount, chmod, pgrep/pkill, | |
| 495 groupadd, groupdel, and useradd. Several of these uncovered bugs, still | |
| 496 working to fix them.</p> | |
| 497 | |
| 498 <p>There are now free() functions for the predefined llist types and a | |
| 499 dlist_terminate() function to break doubly linked lists. The new | |
| 500 generic_signal() handler either sets "toys.signal" or writes a byte | |
| 501 to toys.signalfd with the signal number if signalfd isn't -1 (which it's | |
| 502 initialized to in toy_init).</p> | |
| 503 | |
| 504 <p>The option parsing logic can now detect when a double fits in a long and | |
| 505 use the more precise type for floating point arguments (the FLOAT macro | |
| 506 contains the type used). The human_readable() function now just outputs | |
| 507 decimal kilo/mega/gigabytes (so when du -u says 5.0G it means 5.0 billion | |
| 508 bytes). The build infrastructure now notices duplicate commands (so if you | |
| 509 cp toys/pending/command.c toys/other/command.c and forget to delete the | |
| 510 first one, the build break is now more informative).</p> | |
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599 <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." - |
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649 acpi, and I did timeout and umount.</p> |
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652 The multiplexer now has a --help option so you can say "./toybox --help blah" |
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654 Try it on your command line, it's like man for shell builtins. But a certain |
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655 other project has conditioned people to expect --help, so...) I forget who |
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656 heehooman at gmail is but they pointed out unshare needed PID and UID |
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657 namespace support.</p> |
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659 <h3>Pending</h3> |
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661 <p>A lot of new commands in toys/pending, to the point the next release should |
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662 probably just focus on cleanup and review of this backlog. We've got klogd, |
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663 dhcp, dhcpd, watch, route, and ps from |
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665 syslogd, pgrep, and pkill from Madhur Verma, netstat by Ranjan Kumar, |
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666 test by Felix Janda, lspci by Isaac Dunham, nl, su, and renice by strake (I.E. |
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667 M. Farkas-Dyck), and sysvinit by Kyungwan Han.</p> |
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669 <p>Some cleanup work on existing pending commands that aren't |
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670 ready to promote yet: I did a few more rounds on ifconfig |
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671 and Isaac Dunham's did several cleanups to xzcat, Felix Janda cleaned up |
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672 logger and syslogd...</p> |
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673 |
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674 <p>Also some cleanup work on commands that predate the pending directory, |
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675 but weren't quite polished when they went in, most prominently du, |
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676 expand, and touch.</p> |
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678 <h3>Infrastructure</h3> |
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680 <p>The new scripts/single.sh builds a standalone command without the |
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681 multiplexer, although not all commands can be built that way yet (NEWTOY yes, |
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682 OLDTOY no) and the space savings aren't anything to write home about. (If a |
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683 command needs the option parsing logic at all, it needs all of it.) If |
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684 you're curious, you can do:</p> |
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686 <blockquote><pre> |
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687 make defconfig |
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688 make |
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689 mkdir singles |
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690 for i in $(./toybox) |
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691 do |
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692 echo $i |
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693 PREFIX=singles/ scripts/single.sh $i || break |
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694 done |
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695 </pre> |
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696 <p>(And then wait a long time and watch almost half the builds fail.)</p> |
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697 </blockquote> |
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699 <p>There is now libbuf analogous to toybuf, another global 4k buffer this |
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700 time for use by lib/ code instead of command code.</p> |
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702 <p>The lib directory got split up a bit, lib/pending.c contains functions |
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703 not yet used by anything outside of toys/pending/*, and lib/xwrap.c contains |
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704 functions that wrap other functions and handle failures (via error_exit). |
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705 This leaves lib/lib.c containing actual new functions.</p> |
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707 <p>General improvements and bug fixes to argument parsing. The [-abc] exclude |
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708 logic should now clear arguments slots when disabling options. Bare --longopts |
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709 should work now and be able to report errors using their name, the new ; |
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710 option allows optional arguments to longopts only suppliable with = (I.E. |
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711 --color and --color=auto but not --color auto).</p> |
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713 <p>I'm gradually weaning the code off of itoa()/utoa() because sprintf |
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715 for us".</p> |
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717 <p>Rewrote for_each_pid_with_name_in() and renamed it to just names_to_pid(). |
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718 It shouldn't get confused trying to compare absolute and relative paths quite |
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719 so much anymore.</p> |
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721 <p>lib/llist.c grew a new dlist_pop() function for removing a doubly |
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722 linked list entry while maintaining a circular list; tail and patch are |
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723 using it now.</p> |
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725 <p>The musl guys suggested a new optimization flag |
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726 (-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables) |
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727 that shaves about 10% off the binary size by removing a C++ism that crept |
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729 "-fstop-being-stupid" is a thing you have to hit gcc with from time to time.</p> |
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731 <h3>Bugfixes</h3> |
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733 <p>Felix Janda and I did a largeish rewrite of tail to |
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734 finally make it work right (we think). Still need to implement tail -f |
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735 someday (the tricky bit is making -f follow multiple files at once). |
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736 Felix also reported a bug in xpidfile.</p> |
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738 <p>Juhani Haverinen pointed out that |
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739 python 3 doesn't work with config2help.py, so the detection logic looks |
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740 for python2 (until I get around to rewriting that in C). Elie De Brauwer |
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741 then fixed our first attempt at this, and also fixed uname's help string.</p> |
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743 <p>Ashwini Sharma |
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745 configurations. (That's a control character, not a command line option.)</p> |
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747 <p>Jacek Bukarewicz pointed out a bug in chdir permission handling, and |
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748 a way to make env segfault. Both should be fixed now.</p> |
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750 <p>The new function xexec_optargs() |
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754 <p>The stat command's %a output was padded with leading zeroes, which |
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757 command" it sanity checks the tests against the host implementation.)</p> |
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759 <p>Last release, "mkdir sub/sub && chmod 007 sub/sub && rm -rf sub" didn't |
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760 delete sub and didn't exit with an error either. Neither was correct, rm |
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761 should now be fixed.</p> |
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764 <hr><b>July 26, 2013</b> |
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765 <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski maintains a <a href=https://github.com/gfto/toybox>git |
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766 mirror</a> of the repository on github, automatically updated from the |
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767 mercurial every 6 hours. The mirror is read only, but you can generate patches |
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768 against it and post them to the list.</p> |
| 927 | 769 |
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770 <hr><b>July 2, 2013</b> |
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771 <blockquote><p>"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." "Very deep. You |
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772 should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people |
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773 like you." - |
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774 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
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775 |
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776 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.5.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.5</a> is based on |
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777 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/941>commit 941</a>. It adds |
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778 uuencode and uudecode from Erich Plondke, and enables Luis Morales' "who" by |
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779 default. Felix Janda and I cleaned up last year's "stat" submission and |
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780 enabled it. Ivo van Poorten added "groups". |
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781 Andre Renaud added "lsusb". I implemented "split", "pivot_root", and "mv". |
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782 </p> |
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783 |
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784 <p>The "help" command is implemented differently now (lib/help.c) and |
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785 each command can now understand --help (including both "toybox --help" |
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786 and "toybox --help command" in the multiplexer).</p> |
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787 |
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788 <p>The "pending" directory has several commands (find, xzcat, nbd-client, |
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789 logger, expr) which work but are not enabled by default pending further cleanup. |
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790 Ifconfig is enabled, but still in pending because it's only 2/3 cleaned up. |
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791 (It's an awkward halfway state but I'm not holding up the release for it.)</p> |
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792 |
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793 <p>I'm <a href=cleanup.html>documenting the cleanups</a> to teach |
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794 more people to do it, but the writeups aren't caught up yet. The |
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795 <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> also got updated a bit with further analysis |
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796 of other projects, and the README and about pages got updated.</p> |
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797 |
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798 <p>Fixed _another_ "ls -C" segfault when terminal size can't be detected, |
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799 condensed the ls help text to fit on one page, implented --color, and taught |
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800 -l to print the major, minor numbers when showing block/char devices. |
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801 Argument parsing now handles "--" properly (to end option checking), |
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802 and the infrastructure can now handle bare --longopts that have no |
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803 corresponding short option (both were implemented before but didn't work). |
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804 Fixed an old bug in "patch", chmod grew -f, who grew -a. Isaac Dunham |
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805 fixed "-" vs "_" handling in modinfo, added a "firmware" output |
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806 field, added -b and -k support, and taught it that the ".ko" extension means |
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807 to look for the file at the specified path instead of under /lib. Felix Janda |
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808 moved file permission display code to lib so ls and |
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809 stat could share it. Ashwini Sharma spotted a bug in xabspath when the |
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810 last path component exists but we haven't got permissions to open it |
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811 (ala readlink -f /dev/sda as a normal user). |
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812 </p> |
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813 |
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814 <p>In the build infrastructure, scripts/findglobals.sh finds leaked global |
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815 variables. (Leaked means they aren't part of the global union: Other than glibc |
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816 debris, toybox should define "this", "toy_list", "toybuf", and "toys", and |
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817 that's it; the rest add memory footprint to every command for the benefit of |
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818 just one command; use GLOBALS() to stick 'em in the union.) Static linking |
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819 against libraries other than the host's libc now applies to feature probes |
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820 for unshare and such. Neuter stupid internationalization support that makes |
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821 various host "sort" commands put things in an order other than alphabetical |
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822 (breaking the multiplexer's binary search on command names). |
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823 |
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824 <p>You should now be able to build from a source control snapshot on a build |
|
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825 system that hasn't got python: if you disable CONFIG_TOYBOX_HELP. (The |
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826 release tarballs ship generated/help.h, but it's not in source control. |
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827 Eventually I should rewrite that python script in C.)</p> |
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828 </p> |
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829 |
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830 <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 |
|
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831 BSD" <a href=license.html>license</a> got slightly simplified so the first |
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832 paragraph now says:</p> |
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833 |
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834 <blockquote><p>Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this |
|
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835 software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.</p></blockquote> |
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836 |
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837 <p>It used to continue "provided that the above copyright notice and this |
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838 permission notice appear in all copies", but A) what's the point? B) does "all |
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839 copies" mean binaries, or just source code, or what? C) lots of projects |
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840 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 |
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841 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 |
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842 less obvious) because "all copies must include this function" would violate |
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843 the GPL but "all copies must include this magic text blob" somehow don't?</p> |
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844 |
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845 <p>I don't want to have to care about this anymore. The tweaked version is more |
|
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846 or less public domain with a liability disclaimer, but we're still calling it |
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847 BSD (sometimes "0 clause BSD") to avoid explaining.</p> |
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848 |
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849 <hr><b>March 21, 2013</b> |
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850 <p>Video of my ELC talk |
| 927 | 851 "<a href=http://youtu.be/SGmtP5Lg_t0>Why is Toybox?</a>" |
|
826
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852 is up on youtube. Related materials include the |
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853 <a href=http://landley.net/talks/celf-2013.txt>talk outline</a> and an |
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854 <a href=/aboriginal/about.html#selfhost>android self-hosting writeup</a>.</p> |
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855 |
| 927 | 856 <p>[Updated June 4] The following links jump to specific topics in the video. (Sorry about |
| 857 the ads, it's The Linux Foundation.)</p> | |
| 858 | |
| 859 <ul> | |
| 860 <li>0m29s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=0m29s>The smartphone is replacing the PC</a></li> | |
| 861 <ul> | |
| 862 <li>4m22s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=4m22s>Software needed to become self-hosting</a></li> | |
| 863 <li>6m20s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=6m20s>Do we care if android or iphone wins?</a></li> | |
| 864 </ul> | |
| 865 <li>9m45s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=9m45s>Android not vanilla: oppose or accept?</a></li> | |
| 866 <ul> | |
| 867 <li>11m30s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=11m30s>Open source can't do User Interfaces</a></li> | |
| 868 </ul> | |
| 869 <li>15m09s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=15m09s>Android is not copyleft: oppose or accept?</a></li> | |
| 870 <li>18m23s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=18m23s>Security issues</a></li> | |
| 871 <li>21m15s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=21m15s>Solutions to the software problems</a></li> | |
| 872 <ul> | |
| 873 <li>22m55s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=22m55s>What toybox needs to be/do</a></li> | |
| 874 <li>28m17s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m17s>What is toybox?</a></li> | |
| 875 <ul> | |
| 876 <li>28m58s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m58s>Why toybox started...</a></li> | |
| 877 <li>37m50s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=37m50s>What does toybox actually implement?</a></li> | |
| 878 </ul> | |
| 879 </ul> | |
| 880 </ul> | |
| 881 </span> | |
| 882 | |
| 883 | |
|
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884 <hr><b>March 14, 2013</b> |
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885 <blockquote><p>"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it." - |
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886 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
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887 |
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888 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.4.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.4</a> is based on |
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927 suite checks for it).</p> |
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929 <p>Infrastructure-wise the code is better about automatically setting the |
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| 755 | 948 <hr><b>December 15, 2012</b> |
| 949 <blockquote><p>"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a | |
| 950 thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly | |
| 951 go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." | |
| 952 </p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> | |
| 953 | |
| 954 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.2.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.2</a> is based on | |
| 955 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/749>commit 749</a> and is | |
| 956 just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal | |
| 957 Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's | |
| 958 a new stable version.</p> | |
| 959 | |
| 960 <p>The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch | |
| 961 (from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a | |
| 962 bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8 | |
| 963 support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option. | |
| 964 Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof. | |
| 965 The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports | |
| 966 -fenq.</p> | |
| 967 | |
| 968 <p>Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library, | |
| 969 and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel | |
| 970 features we depend on start to drop out).</p> | |
| 971 | |
| 972 <p>The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per | |
| 973 level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more | |
| 974 than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out, | |
| 975 or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an | |
| 976 earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README, | |
| 977 the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory | |
| 978 (so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).</p> | |
| 979 | |
| 980 <p>Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist(). | |
| 981 Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with | |
| 982 full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to | |
| 983 stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing | |
| 984 it).</p> | |
| 985 | |
| 986 <p>The open group broke their website so the | |
| 987 <a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>old links</a> to POSIX 2008 | |
| 988 now <a href=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>need to start with | |
| 989 pubs</a>. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while | |
| 990 I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.</p> | |
| 991 | |
| 992 <p>(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant | |
| 993 because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current | |
| 994 implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option | |
| 995 to do it Posix's way, which is more brittle and needs extra security checks, | |
| 996 but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024 | |
| 997 filehandles, so drilling down over 1000 nested subdirectories).</p> | |
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1056 <p>This news page had old news entries from before the relaunch moved into |
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1057 a separate <a href=oldnews.html>oldnews</a> page.</p> |
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1059 <p>I forgot to create <a href=bin>static binaries</a> last time, but they're |
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1060 back now.</p> |
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1064 <blockquote><p>"Ford", Arthur said. "There's an infinite number of monkeys |
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1068 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.0</a> is based on |
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1075 taskset, bugfixes to cmp and tail, and tests for sort and tail. Kyungwan Han |
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| 1170 | |
| 1171 <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral | |
| 1172 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them. | |
| 1173 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking | |
| 1174 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p> | |
| 1175 </p></blockquote> | |
| 1176 | |
| 1177 <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based | |
| 1178 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This | |
| 1179 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt | |
| 1180 binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p> | |
| 1181 | |
| 1182 <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I | |
| 1183 have not quite been keeping up.)</p> | |
| 1184 | |
| 1185 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod, | |
| 1186 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln, | |
| 1187 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel | |
| 1188 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests | |
| 1189 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp. | |
| 1190 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed | |
| 1191 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p> | |
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| 1193 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's | |
| 1194 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new | |
| 1195 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python | |
| 1196 bloat-o-meter.)</p> | |
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| 1198 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from | |
| 1199 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott, | |
| 1200 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano | |
| 1201 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and | |
| 1202 optimizations.</p> | |
| 1203 | |
| 1204 <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link, | |
| 1205 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months | |
| 1206 and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p> | |
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| 1226 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2 | |
| 1227 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line | |
| 1228 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> | |
| 1229 | |
| 1230 <p>More to come...</p> | |
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