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Break out lib/pending.h from lib/lib.h.
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3 <p>Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together
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4 into a single BSD-licensed executable that's simple, small, fast,
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6 a development environment. See the links on the left for details.</p>
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8 <h2>News</h2>
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9 <hr><b>September 17, 2013</b>
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10 <blockquote><p>"Think of a number," said the computer, "any number."
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11 Arthur told the computer the telephone number of King's Cross railway
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12 station passenger inquiries, on the grounds that it must have some function,
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13 and this might turn out to be it. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p>
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14 </blockquote>
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16 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.6.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.6</a> is based on
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17 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/1068>commit 1068</a>.</p>
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19 <p>This release adds
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20 several new commands: Felix Janda wrote paste and fallocate, Kyungwan Han
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21 submitted eject, Strake contributed grep, Ashwini Sharma added pmap (and
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22 a testsuite entry for grep), Lukasz Skalski sent pwdx, Isaac Dunham posted
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23 acpi, and I did timeout and umount.</p>
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25 <p>The ls command now has a --color=auto option (suggested by Rich Felker).
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26 The multiplexer now has a --help option so you can say "./toybox --help blah"
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27 instead of using the built-in "help" command. (Which is a shell built-in.
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28 Try it on your command line, it's like man for shell builtins. But a certain
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29 other project has conditioned people to expect --help, so...) I forget who
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30 heehooman at gmail is but they pointed out unshare needed PID and UID
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31 namespace support.</p>
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32
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33 <h3>Pending</h3>
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34
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35 <p>A lot of new commands in toys/pending, to the point the next release should
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36 probably just focus on cleanup and review of this backlog. We've got klogd,
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37 dhcp, dhcpd, watch, route, and ps from
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38 Ashwini Sharma (and an fsck wrapper but no fsck.fstype engines yet),
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39 syslogd, pgrep, and pkill from Madhur Verma, netstat by Ranjan Kumar,
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40 test by Felix Janda, lspci by Isaac Dunham, nl, su, and renice by strake (I.E.
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41 M. Farkas-Dyck), and sysvinit by Kyungwan Han.</p>
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43 <p>Some cleanup work on existing pending commands that aren't
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44 ready to promote yet: I did a few more rounds on ifconfig
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45 and Isaac Dunham's did several cleanups to xzcat, Felix Janda cleaned up
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46 logger and syslogd...</p>
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48 <p>Also some cleanup work on commands that predate the pending directory,
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49 but weren't quite polished when they went in, most prominently du,
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50 expand, and touch.</p>
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51
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52 <h3>Infrastructure</h3>
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54 <p>The new scripts/single.sh builds a standalone command without the
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55 multiplexer, although not all commands can be built that way yet (NEWTOY yes,
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56 OLDTOY no) and the space savings aren't anything to write home about. (If a
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57 command needs the option parsing logic at all, it needs all of it.) If
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58 you're curious, you can do:</p>
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60 <blockquote><pre>
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61 make defconfig
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62 make
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63 mkdir singles
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64 for i in $(./toybox)
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65 do
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66 echo $i
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67 PREFIX=singles/ scripts/single.sh $i || break
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68 done
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69 </pre>
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70 <p>(And then wait a long time and watch almost half the builds fail.)</p>
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71 </blockquote>
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73 <p>There is now libbuf analogous to toybuf, another global 4k buffer this
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74 time for use by lib/ code instead of command code.</p>
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76 <p>The lib directory got split up a bit, lib/pending.c contains functions
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77 not yet used by anything outside of toys/pending/*, and lib/xwrap.c contains
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78 functions that wrap other functions and handle failures (via error_exit).
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79 This leaves lib/lib.c containing actual new functions.</p>
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81 <p>General improvements and bug fixes to argument parsing. The [-abc] exclude
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82 logic should now clear arguments slots when disabling options. Bare --longopts
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83 should work now and be able to report errors using their name, the new ;
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84 option allows optional arguments to longopts only suppliable with = (I.E.
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85 --color and --color=auto but not --color auto).</p>
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87 <p>I'm gradually weaning the code off of itoa()/utoa() because sprintf
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88 does this already. In this case "simple" probably means "let libc do it
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89 for us".</p>
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91 <p>Rewrote for_each_pid_with_name_in() and renamed it to just names_to_pid().
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92 It shouldn't get confused trying to compare absolute and relative paths quite
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93 so much anymore.</p>
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95 <p>lib/llist.c grew a new dlist_pop() function for removing a doubly
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96 linked list entry while maintaining a circular list; tail and patch are
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97 using it now.</p>
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99 <p>The musl guys suggested a new optimization flag
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100 (-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables)
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101 that shaves about 10% off the binary size by removing a C++ism that crept
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102 into gcc's idea of C. While I don't normally try to micromanage the compiler,
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103 "-fstop-being-stupid" is a thing you have to hit gcc with from time to time.</p>
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105 <h3>Bugfixes</h3>
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107 <p>Felix Janda and I did a largeish rewrite of tail to
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108 finally make it work right (we think). Still need to implement tail -f
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109 someday (the tricky bit is making -f follow multiple files at once).
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110 Felix also reported a bug in xpidfile.</p>
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112 <p>Juhani Haverinen pointed out that
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113 python 3 doesn't work with config2help.py, so the detection logic looks
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114 for python2 (until I get around to rewriting that in C). Elie De Brauwer
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115 then fixed our first attempt at this, and also fixed uname's help string.</p>
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117 <p>Ashwini Sharma
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118 pointed out the build was making a FLAG_ macro for " " which broke some
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119 configurations. (That's a control character, not a command line option.)</p>
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121 <p>Jacek Bukarewicz pointed out a bug in chdir permission handling, and
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122 a way to make env segfault. Both should be fixed now.</p>
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124 <p>The new function xexec_optargs()
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125 replaces calls to xexec(toys.optargs) to avoid freeing and reusing optargs
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126 during option parsing screwing stuff up (such as netcat's exec mode).</p>
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128 <p>The stat command's %a output was padded with leading zeroes, which
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129 didn't match anybody else's behavior and thus made the test suite hiccup
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130 between TEST_HOST and testing toybox. (If you go "TEST_HOST=1 scripts/test.sh
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131 command" it sanity checks the tests against the host implementation.)</p>
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133 <p>Last release, "mkdir sub/sub && chmod 007 sub/sub && rm -rf sub" didn't
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134 delete sub and didn't exit with an error either. Neither was correct, rm
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135 should now be fixed.</p>
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137 <p>
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138 <hr><b>July 26, 2013</b>
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139 <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski maintains a <a href=https://github.com/gfto/toybox>git
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140 mirror</a> of the repository on github, automatically updated from the
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141 mercurial every 6 hours. The mirror is read only, but you can generate patches
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142 against it and post them to the list.</p>
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144 <hr><b>July 2, 2013</b>
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145 <blockquote><p>"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." "Very deep. You
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146 should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people
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147 like you." -
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148 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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149
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150 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.5.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.5</a> is based on
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151 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/941>commit 941</a>. It adds
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152 uuencode and uudecode from Erich Plondke, and enables Luis Morales' "who" by
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153 default. Felix Janda and I cleaned up last year's "stat" submission and
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154 enabled it. Ivo van Poorten added "groups".
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155 Andre Renaud added "lsusb". I implemented "split", "pivot_root", and "mv".
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156 </p>
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157
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158 <p>The "help" command is implemented differently now (lib/help.c) and
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159 each command can now understand --help (including both "toybox --help"
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160 and "toybox --help command" in the multiplexer).</p>
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161
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162 <p>The "pending" directory has several commands (find, xzcat, nbd-client,
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163 logger, expr) which work but are not enabled by default pending further cleanup.
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164 Ifconfig is enabled, but still in pending because it's only 2/3 cleaned up.
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165 (It's an awkward halfway state but I'm not holding up the release for it.)</p>
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166
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167 <p>I'm <a href=cleanup.html>documenting the cleanups</a> to teach
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168 more people to do it, but the writeups aren't caught up yet. The
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169 <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> also got updated a bit with further analysis
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170 of other projects, and the README and about pages got updated.</p>
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171
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172 <p>Fixed _another_ "ls -C" segfault when terminal size can't be detected,
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173 condensed the ls help text to fit on one page, implented --color, and taught
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174 -l to print the major, minor numbers when showing block/char devices.
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175 Argument parsing now handles "--" properly (to end option checking),
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176 and the infrastructure can now handle bare --longopts that have no
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177 corresponding short option (both were implemented before but didn't work).
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178 Fixed an old bug in "patch", chmod grew -f, who grew -a. Isaac Dunham
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179 fixed "-" vs "_" handling in modinfo, added a "firmware" output
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180 field, added -b and -k support, and taught it that the ".ko" extension means
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181 to look for the file at the specified path instead of under /lib. Felix Janda
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182 moved file permission display code to lib so ls and
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183 stat could share it. Ashwini Sharma spotted a bug in xabspath when the
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184 last path component exists but we haven't got permissions to open it
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185 (ala readlink -f /dev/sda as a normal user).
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186 </p>
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187
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188 <p>In the build infrastructure, scripts/findglobals.sh finds leaked global
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189 variables. (Leaked means they aren't part of the global union: Other than glibc
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190 debris, toybox should define "this", "toy_list", "toybuf", and "toys", and
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191 that's it; the rest add memory footprint to every command for the benefit of
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192 just one command; use GLOBALS() to stick 'em in the union.) Static linking
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193 against libraries other than the host's libc now applies to feature probes
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194 for unshare and such. Neuter stupid internationalization support that makes
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195 various host "sort" commands put things in an order other than alphabetical
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196 (breaking the multiplexer's binary search on command names).
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197
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198 <p>You should now be able to build from a source control snapshot on a build
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199 system that hasn't got python: if you disable CONFIG_TOYBOX_HELP. (The
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200 release tarballs ship generated/help.h, but it's not in source control.
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201 Eventually I should rewrite that python script in C.)</p>
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202 </p>
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203
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204 <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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205 BSD" <a href=license.html>license</a> got slightly simplified so the first
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206 paragraph now says:</p>
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207
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208 <blockquote><p>Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this
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209 software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.</p></blockquote>
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210
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211 <p>It used to continue "provided that the above copyright notice and this
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212 permission notice appear in all copies", but A) what's the point? B) does "all
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213 copies" mean binaries, or just source code, or what? C) lots of projects
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214 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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215 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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216 less obvious) because "all copies must include this function" would violate
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217 the GPL but "all copies must include this magic text blob" somehow don't?</p>
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218
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219 <p>I don't want to have to care about this anymore. The tweaked version is more
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220 or less public domain with a liability disclaimer, but we're still calling it
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221 BSD (sometimes "0 clause BSD") to avoid explaining.</p>
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222
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223 <hr><b>March 21, 2013</b>
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224 <p>Video of my ELC talk
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225 "<a href=http://youtu.be/SGmtP5Lg_t0>Why is Toybox?</a>"
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226 is up on youtube. Related materials include the
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227 <a href=http://landley.net/talks/celf-2013.txt>talk outline</a> and an
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228 <a href=/aboriginal/about.html#selfhost>android self-hosting writeup</a>.</p>
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229
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230 <p>[Updated June 4] The following links jump to specific topics in the video. (Sorry about
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231 the ads, it's The Linux Foundation.)</p>
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232
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233 <ul>
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234 <li>0m29s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=0m29s>The smartphone is replacing the PC</a></li>
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235 <ul>
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236 <li>4m22s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=4m22s>Software needed to become self-hosting</a></li>
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237 <li>6m20s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=6m20s>Do we care if android or iphone wins?</a></li>
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238 </ul>
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239 <li>9m45s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=9m45s>Android not vanilla: oppose or accept?</a></li>
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240 <ul>
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241 <li>11m30s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=11m30s>Open source can't do User Interfaces</a></li>
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242 </ul>
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243 <li>15m09s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=15m09s>Android is not copyleft: oppose or accept?</a></li>
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244 <li>18m23s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=18m23s>Security issues</a></li>
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245 <li>21m15s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=21m15s>Solutions to the software problems</a></li>
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246 <ul>
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247 <li>22m55s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=22m55s>What toybox needs to be/do</a></li>
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248 <li>28m17s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m17s>What is toybox?</a></li>
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249 <ul>
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250 <li>28m58s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m58s>Why toybox started...</a></li>
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251 <li>37m50s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=37m50s>What does toybox actually implement?</a></li>
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252 </ul>
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253 </ul>
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254 </ul>
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255 </span>
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256
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257
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258 <hr><b>March 14, 2013</b>
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259 <blockquote><p>"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it." -
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260 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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261
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262 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.4.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.4</a> is based on
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263 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/813>commit 813</a>, adding
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264 the "time" and "readahead" commands, plus some bugfixes.</p>
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265
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266 <p>The "cp" command now implements the -s symlink option, plus bugfixes
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267 getting various corner cases right as used in actual package builds.
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268 "id -Gn root" should now print root's groups
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273 <p>Unfinished commands have generally been moved to "toys/pending".
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274 Everything else should "default y" to participate in make defconfig.
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275 Several of those pending commands got some basic cleanup so allyesconfig
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276 should at least compile (although defconfig is still what's useful).</p>
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278 <p>Significant roadmap updates, checking several other multicall binaries
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279 (klibc, sash, sbase, s6...) to see what commands they include.</p>
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281 <hr><b>January 18, 2013</b>
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282 <blockquote><p>This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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284 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.3.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.3</a> is based on
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285 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/793>commit 793</a>. There
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286 are now exactly 100 commands in defconfig (of a little over 220 on the
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287 <a href=roadmap.html>todo list</a>).</p>
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288
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289 <p>Elie De Brauwer added the rev command, cleaned up tac, implemented the -s
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290 and -f flags for seq, added -v and -i to killall (and fixed killall not to
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291 kill itself before finishing its pid list), and added to the test suite.
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292 Felix Janda added -m to mkdir, pwd -L and -P, and more test suite entries.</p>
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293
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294 <p>Rob Landley added the losetup command, and fixed the existing ls, cp, and
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295 readlink commands. The segfault in ls
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296 happened when it couldn't determine the screen size (last release changed the
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297 default to -C and a screen size of 0 made column view unhappy), and cp got an
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298 extensive rewrite bringing it up to date with the dirtree changes and fixing
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299 a number of things it never did right in the first place. The xabspath()
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300 code in the library now handles a symlink after ".." properly (and the test
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301 suite checks for it).</p>
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303 <p>Infrastructure-wise the code is better about automatically setting the
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304 error return code properly. Now error_msg() sets the exit code to 1 if it's
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305 still defaulting to 0, and the global exit path does a fflush(NULL) with error
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306 bit check rather than trying to be quite so granular about flushing. (That
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307 means if we use printf() instead of xprintf() it still exits with the right
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308 error code, it just doesn't end the program early on an output error.)
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309 Minor bugfix so TOYBOX_DEBUG
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310 doesn't always warn about the lack of suid bit when toybox is built with
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311 at least one STAYROOT command. Bugfix for the option [grouping] logic
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312 (and then further fixes to the error reporting pointed out by Ashwini Sharma).
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313 dirtree_handle_callback() now has a prefix like the rest of the dirtree
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314 functions. A lot of stuff doing manual path handling was switched to using
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315 libc basename() (including, embarassingly, the basename command), which means
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316 it now correctly detects "/trailing/slash/" which the previous code didn't.</p>
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318 <p>Also, last release included some accidentally checked in debug code that
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319 disabled compiler optimization, so the binary size bloated a bit. It's back
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320 to -Os by default now.</p>
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322 <hr><b>December 15, 2012</b>
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323 <blockquote><p>"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a
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324 thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly
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325 go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
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326 </p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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328 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.2.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.2</a> is based on
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329 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/749>commit 749</a> and is
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330 just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal
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331 Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's
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332 a new stable version.</p>
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333
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334 <p>The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch
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335 (from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a
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336 bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8
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337 support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option.
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338 Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof.
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339 The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports
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340 -fenq.</p>
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342 <p>Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library,
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343 and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel
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344 features we depend on start to drop out).</p>
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346 <p>The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per
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347 level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more
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348 than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out,
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349 or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an
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350 earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README,
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351 the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory
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352 (so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).</p>
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354 <p>Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist().
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355 Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with
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356 full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to
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357 stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing
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358 it).</p>
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360 <p>The open group broke their website so the
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361 <a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>old links</a> to POSIX 2008
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362 now <a href=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>need to start with
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363 pubs</a>. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while
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364 I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.</p>
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366 <p>(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant
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367 because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current
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368 implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option
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370 but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024
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371 filehandles, so drilling down over 1000 nested subdirectories).</p>
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374 <blockquote><p>"Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins."
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377 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.1</a> is based on
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378 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/691>commit 691</a>.</p>
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380 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed usleep, Ashwini Kumar contributed du, and
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381 Kyungwan Han contributed vconfig. Other new commands include switch_root and
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382 md5sum, and the remaining shell wrappers are now proper commands (dos2unix,
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385 <p>The patch command now supports -l, and gethostname is now enabled by
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386 default. The df command follows symlinks to get the actual device name.
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387 Felix Janda added -m support to wc (for utf8).</p>
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389 <p>On the infrastructure side, the commands have now been grouped into
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390 "posix", "lsb", and "other" subdirectories (for things required by Posix-2008,
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391 the Linux Standard Base 4.1, and commands in neither). This affects menuconfig
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392 and the actual source layout (toys/cp.c is now toys/posix/cp.c, and so on).
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393 An android directory is planned (see the updated
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396 <p>The FLAG_ macros for command option parsing and TT alias for the command's
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397 global block are now automatically generated, commands should
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398 #define FOR_commandname before #including <toys.h> to get the macros for that
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401 <p>An upgrade to the build infrastructure now allows commands with _ and -
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404 <p>Bugfixes: Avery Pennarun spotted a case where ls showed uid twice instead of
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405 uid and gid, and that nice was using the wrong range of numbers.
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406 The ls command also recursed inappropriately last time (not quite
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407 properly converted for the dirtree changes last release), and now it's
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408 fixed. Roy Tam pointed out a glitch in sh, and fixed df's percentage
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409 calculation to match the POSIX spec. The kernel build didn't like our mktemp
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410 and it does now. The wc command wasn't quite posix compliant (trailing spaces
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411 break stuff). The ls command recursed inappropriately last time (not quite
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413 fixed. The catv command wasn't displaying byte 255 correctly. Some lib
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414 fixes (thinko in xpidfile). Fixed uname -m when running a 32 bit x86 binary
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416 on what the toolchain that built the binary supported. This makes builds in
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417 a 32 bit chroot on a 64 bit kernel break less.) The df command was checking
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418 partitions in the wrong order (displaying undermounts instead of overmounts:
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419 this used to work but some library code changed out from under it and it
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422 successfully apply more patches. Support for older (pre 2.10) glibc
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425 <p>Miscelaneous cleanups all around (mknod, sha1sum, logname), including a
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426 rewrite of taskset to be less dependent on libc getting the headers right. All
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427 the command headers should now point to the current relevant standards
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428 document, where applicable.</p>
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430 <p>This news page had old news entries from before the relaunch moved into
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431 a separate <a href=oldnews.html>oldnews</a> page.</p>
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433 <p>I forgot to create <a href=bin>static binaries</a> last time, but they're
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434 back now.</p>
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435 </span>
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437 <hr><b>July 23, 2012</b>
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438 <blockquote><p>"Ford", Arthur said. "There's an infinite number of monkeys
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439 out here who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked
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440 out." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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442 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.0</a> is based on
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443 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/640>commit 640</a>.</p>
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445 <p>The new <a href=status.html>status page</a> is calculated from
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446 the roadmap info, and should be easier to keep up to date in future.</p>
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448 <p>Andre Renaud contributed od and modinfo. Elie De Brauwer contributed
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449 taskset, bugfixes to cmp and tail, and tests for sort and tail. Kyungwan Han
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450 contributed passwd. Gaurang Shastri contributed w. Ashwini Sharma spotted a
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451 case where dirtree was adding extra slashes to a path.</p>
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453 <p>I rewrote od, cleaned up comm, documented the
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454 <a href=code.html#lib_llist>llist</a> and
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455 <a href=code.html#lib_dirtree>dirtree</a> infrastructure, added an -r option
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456 to date (and fixed a bug where -u wouldn't override /etc/localtime),
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457 fixed bugs in chmod +stw, fixed ls to show suid bits properly when the
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458 corresponding executable bit wasn't set, and worked around a longstanding
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459 glibc bug where static linking prevents stdout from automatically flushing
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460 pending output on exit.</p>
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462 <hr><b>June 25, 2012</b>
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463 <blockquote><p>"For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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465 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.3.1</a> is based on commit
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466 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/607>commit 607</a>. It's
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467 mostly a bugfix release for ls -l (which was unhappy on targets other than
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468 x86-64), plus a new "date" from Andre Renaud and rewritten chgrp/chown which
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469 now support the full set of posix flags, plus a little work on the test
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470 suite and some more header tweaks towards eventual compatability with the
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471 musl libc.</p>
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473 <p>The todo list runneth over, but "release early, release often", so here
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474 it is. The roadmap and documentation are a bit behind, and I've got ~40
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475 pending submissions to review. I need to catch up...</p>
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476 </span>
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478 <hr><b>June 12, 2012</b>
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479 <blockquote><p>"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that
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480 he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the
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481 wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was
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482 muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had
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483 always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely
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484 the same reasons." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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486 <p>It's well past time for <a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.0.tar.bz2>toybox 0.3.0</a>,
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487 so here it is, based
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488 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/595>commit 595</a>, and the
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489 statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a> should
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490 actually be statically linked this time (thanks Ashwini Sharma for spotting
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491 that).</p>
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493 <p>It's hard to figure out where to cut a release, because development
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494 doesn't stop. "Long before now" is the obviuos answer, of course.
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495 The project's maintainer also moved house during this development cycle, which
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496 threw things off for a bit (so many boxes). Releases should hopefully be a bit
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500 tree traversal) infrastructure, and a complete rewrite of ls using that
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501 which should now implement all 26 posix options.</p>
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503 <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski added printenv, whoami, mkdir, mkfifo, chmod, chown,
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504 chgrp, and uniq. He also added fraction and extension support to sleep (so if
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505 you need a quarter-second sleep, it can do that now), and fixed a build bug
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508 <p>Daniel Walter contributed a string to mode_t parser (in use by chmod and
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509 mkdir -m). Ilya Kuzmich contributed comm. Elie De Brauwer added mountpoint,
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510 vmstat, logname, login, and mktemp. Kevin Chase did some portability cleanups.
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511 Pere Orga fixed some documentation.</p>
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513 <p>The "tac" and "clear" commands are now normal commands instead of shell
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514 wrappers, and the header #includes have been cleaned up a bit to remove
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515 deprecated functions and attempt to increase compatability with the bionic and
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516 musl C libraries, "tail" should now use lseek() for large files, and "id" got
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517 some cleanups and bugfixes.</p>
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518
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519 <p>The new TOYBOX_FLOAT configuration option selects whether or not
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520 to include floating point support (for embedded targets where that's
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521 problematic).</p>
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522
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523 <p>Several random bugfixes: unshare() might actually build portably now,
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524 yes 'n' | cp -i should no longer bypass stdin and prompt via the tty, the
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525 SUID support no longer drops permissions going through the toybox
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526 multiplexer command, and a bugfix to xargs -0 means it should no longer
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527 segfault. (I have a pending bug report about xargs not doing the full
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528 posix whitespace handling that -0 obsoleted, but I'll deal with that next
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529 release.)</p>
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530
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531 <p>The build infrastructure is now automatically generating FLAG_ macros
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532 for the options, but currently with the wrong names. Some more macro glue
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533 is necessary, which I haven't quite figured out how to do yet.</p>
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534
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535 <p>A defconfig toybox at the start of the $PATH has successfully built
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536 Linux From Scratch (in my Aboriginal Linux project). The commands that
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537 'default n' in the config are often still broken, cleanup is ongoing.
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538 (The new dirtree stuff broke several of them that haven't been converted
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539 yet, but if I wait until everything works we won't have a release before
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540 1.0, so here's a checkpoint.)</p>
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543 <hr><b>March 3, 2012</b>
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544
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545 <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral
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546 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them.
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547 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking
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548 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p>
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549 </p></blockquote>
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550
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551 <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based
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552 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This
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553 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt
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554 binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p>
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555
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556 <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I
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557 have not quite been keeping up.)</p>
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558
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559 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod,
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560 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln,
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561 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel
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562 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests
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563 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp.
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564 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed
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565 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p>
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566
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567 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's
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568 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new
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569 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python
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570 bloat-o-meter.)</p>
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571
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572 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from
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573 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott,
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574 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano
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575 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and
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576 optimizations.</p>
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577
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578 <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link,
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579 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months
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580 and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p>
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583 <hr><b>February 12, 2012</b>
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584 <blockquote><p>
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585 "for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at
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586 least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two
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587 important respects..."</p>
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588 <p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p></blockquote>
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589
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590 <p>Here's the first BSD licensed release,
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591 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.2.0</a>, more a synchronization
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592 point than anything particularly useful. 47 commands in a reasonably
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593 ready-to-use state (what "make defconfig" builds), another ten or so partially
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594 finished stubs ("make allyesconfig"), and several
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595 patches pending on the mailing list I need to review and merge.</p>
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596
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597 <p>More to come...</p>
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599 <hr>
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600 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2
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601 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line
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602 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p>
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603
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604 <p>More to come...</p>
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605
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606 <hr>
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608 <p><a href=oldnews.html>Old news</a> from before the relaunch.</p>
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610 <!--#include file="footer.html" -->