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3 <p>Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together |
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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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33 <h3>Pending</h3> |
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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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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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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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59 |
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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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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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132 |
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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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136 |
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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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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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231 the ads, it's The Linux Foundation.)</p> | |
232 | |
233 <ul> | |
234 <li>0m29s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=0m29s>The smartphone is replacing the PC</a></li> | |
235 <ul> | |
236 <li>4m22s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=4m22s>Software needed to become self-hosting</a></li> | |
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> | |
238 </ul> | |
239 <li>9m45s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=9m45s>Android not vanilla: oppose or accept?</a></li> | |
240 <ul> | |
241 <li>11m30s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=11m30s>Open source can't do User Interfaces</a></li> | |
242 </ul> | |
243 <li>15m09s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=15m09s>Android is not copyleft: oppose or accept?</a></li> | |
244 <li>18m23s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=18m23s>Security issues</a></li> | |
245 <li>21m15s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=21m15s>Solutions to the software problems</a></li> | |
246 <ul> | |
247 <li>22m55s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=22m55s>What toybox needs to be/do</a></li> | |
248 <li>28m17s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m17s>What is toybox?</a></li> | |
249 <ul> | |
250 <li>28m58s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m58s>Why toybox started...</a></li> | |
251 <li>37m50s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=37m50s>What does toybox actually implement?</a></li> | |
252 </ul> | |
253 </ul> | |
254 </ul> | |
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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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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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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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287 <a href=roadmap.html>todo list</a>).</p> |
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289 <p>Elie De Brauwer added the rev command, cleaned up tac, implemented the -s |
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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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298 extensive rewrite bringing it up to date with the dirtree changes and fixing |
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309 Minor bugfix so TOYBOX_DEBUG |
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323 <blockquote><p>"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a | |
324 thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly | |
325 go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." | |
326 </p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> | |
327 | |
328 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.2.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.2</a> is based on | |
329 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/749>commit 749</a> and is | |
330 just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal | |
331 Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's | |
332 a new stable version.</p> | |
333 | |
334 <p>The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch | |
335 (from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a | |
336 bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8 | |
337 support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option. | |
338 Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof. | |
339 The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports | |
340 -fenq.</p> | |
341 | |
342 <p>Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library, | |
343 and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel | |
344 features we depend on start to drop out).</p> | |
345 | |
346 <p>The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per | |
347 level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more | |
348 than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out, | |
349 or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an | |
350 earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README, | |
351 the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory | |
352 (so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).</p> | |
353 | |
354 <p>Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist(). | |
355 Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with | |
356 full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to | |
357 stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing | |
358 it).</p> | |
359 | |
360 <p>The open group broke their website so the | |
361 <a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>old links</a> to POSIX 2008 | |
362 now <a href=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>need to start with | |
363 pubs</a>. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while | |
364 I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.</p> | |
365 | |
366 <p>(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant | |
367 because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current | |
368 implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option | |
369 to do it Posix's way, which is more brittle and needs extra security checks, | |
370 but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024 | |
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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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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383 unix2dos).</p> |
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385 <p>The patch command now supports -l, and gethostname is now enabled by |
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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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391 the Linux Standard Base 4.1, and commands in neither). This affects menuconfig |
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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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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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545 <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral | |
546 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them. | |
547 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking | |
548 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p> | |
549 </p></blockquote> | |
550 | |
551 <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based | |
552 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This | |
553 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt | |
554 binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p> | |
555 | |
556 <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I | |
557 have not quite been keeping up.)</p> | |
558 | |
559 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod, | |
560 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln, | |
561 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel | |
562 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests | |
563 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp. | |
564 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed | |
565 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p> | |
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567 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's | |
568 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new | |
569 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python | |
570 bloat-o-meter.)</p> | |
571 | |
572 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from | |
573 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott, | |
574 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano | |
575 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and | |
576 optimizations.</p> | |
577 | |
578 <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link, | |
579 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months | |
580 and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p> | |
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597 <p>More to come...</p> |
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600 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2 | |
601 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line | |
602 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> | |
603 | |
604 <p>More to come...</p> | |
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