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3 <h2>News</h2>
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4 <hr><b>December 15, 2012</b>
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5 <blockquote><p>"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a
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6 thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly
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7 go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair."
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8 </p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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10 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.2.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.2</a> is based on
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11 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/749>commit 749</a> and is
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12 just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal
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13 Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's
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14 a new stable version.</p>
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16 <p>The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch
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17 (from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a
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18 bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8
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19 support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option.
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20 Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof.
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21 The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports
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22 -fenq.</p>
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24 <p>Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library,
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25 and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel
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26 features we depend on start to drop out).</p>
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28 <p>The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per
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29 level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more
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30 than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out,
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31 or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an
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32 earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README,
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33 the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory
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34 (so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).</p>
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36 <p>Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist().
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37 Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with
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38 full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to
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39 stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing
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40 it).</p>
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42 <p>The open group broke their website so the
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43 <a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>old links</a> to POSIX 2008
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44 now <a href=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>need to start with
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45 pubs</a>. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while
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46 I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.</p>
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48 <p>(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant
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49 because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current
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50 implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option
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51 to do it Posix's way, which is more brittle and needs extra security checks,
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52 but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024
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53 filehandles, so drilling down over 1000 nested subdirectories).</p>
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55 <hr><b>November 13, 2012</b>
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56 <blockquote><p>"Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins."
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57 - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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59 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.1</a> is based on
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60 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/691>commit 691</a>.</p>
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62 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed usleep, Ashwini Kumar contributed du, and
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63 Kyungwan Han contributed vconfig. Other new commands include switch_root and
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64 md5sum, and the remaining shell wrappers are now proper commands (dos2unix,
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65 unix2dos).</p>
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67 <p>The patch command now supports -l, and gethostname is now enabled by
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68 default. The df command follows symlinks to get the actual device name.
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69 Felix Janda added -m support to wc (for utf8).</p>
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71 <p>On the infrastructure side, the commands have now been grouped into
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72 "posix", "lsb", and "other" subdirectories (for things required by Posix-2008,
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73 the Linux Standard Base 4.1, and commands in neither). This affects menuconfig
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74 and the actual source layout (toys/cp.c is now toys/posix/cp.c, and so on).
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75 An android directory is planned (see the updated
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76 <a href=roadmap.html#android>android roadmap analysis</a>).</p>
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78 <p>The FLAG_ macros for command option parsing and TT alias for the command's
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79 global block are now automatically generated, commands should
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80 #define FOR_commandname before #including <toys.h> to get the macros for that
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81 command.</p>
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83 <p>An upgrade to the build infrastructure now allows commands with _ and -
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84 in them, such as switch_root.</p>
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86 <p>Bugfixes: Avery Pennarun spotted a case where ls showed uid twice instead of
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87 uid and gid, and that nice was using the wrong range of numbers.
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88 The ls command also recursed inappropriately last time (not quite
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89 properly converted for the dirtree changes last release), and now it's
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90 fixed. Roy Tam pointed out a glitch in sh, and fixed df's percentage
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91 calculation to match the POSIX spec. The kernel build didn't like our mktemp
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92 and it does now. The wc command wasn't quite posix compliant (trailing spaces
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93 break stuff). The ls command recursed inappropriately last time (not quite
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95 fixed. The catv command wasn't displaying byte 255 correctly. Some lib
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96 fixes (thinko in xpidfile). Fixed uname -m when running a 32 bit x86 binary
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98 on what the toolchain that built the binary supported. This makes builds in
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99 a 32 bit chroot on a 64 bit kernel break less.) The df command was checking
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101 this used to work but some library code changed out from under it and it
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102 wasn't updated to match until now). Felix Janda filled out the test suite
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103 some more. The patch file creation logic got tweaked several times to
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104 successfully apply more patches. Support for older (pre 2.10) glibc
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105 versions was added to portability.h.</p>
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107 <p>Miscelaneous cleanups all around (mknod, sha1sum, logname), including a
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108 rewrite of taskset to be less dependent on libc getting the headers right. All
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109 the command headers should now point to the current relevant standards
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110 document, where applicable.</p>
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112 <p>This news page had old news entries from before the relaunch moved into
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113 a separate <a href=oldnews.html>oldnews</a> page.</p>
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115 <p>I forgot to create <a href=bin>static binaries</a> last time, but they're
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130 <p>Andre Renaud contributed od and modinfo. Elie De Brauwer contributed
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136 <a href=code.html#lib_llist>llist</a> and
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137 <a href=code.html#lib_dirtree>dirtree</a> infrastructure, added an -r option
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145 <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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148 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/607>commit 607</a>. It's
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151 now support the full set of posix flags, plus a little work on the test
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152 suite and some more header tweaks towards eventual compatability with the
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153 musl libc.</p>
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155 <p>The todo list runneth over, but "release early, release often", so here
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156 it is. The roadmap and documentation are a bit behind, and I've got ~40
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157 pending submissions to review. I need to catch up...</p>
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158 </span>
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160 <hr><b>June 12, 2012</b>
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161 <blockquote><p>"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that
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163 wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was
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164 muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had
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165 always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely
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166 the same reasons." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote>
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168 <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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170 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/595>commit 595</a>, and the
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171 statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a> should
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172 actually be statically linked this time (thanks Ashwini Sharma for spotting
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173 that).</p>
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175 <p>It's hard to figure out where to cut a release, because development
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176 doesn't stop. "Long before now" is the obviuos answer, of course.
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177 The project's maintainer also moved house during this development cycle, which
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178 threw things off for a bit (so many boxes). Releases should hopefully be a bit
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181 <p>The big things Rob worked on this time were the new dirtree (directory
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182 tree traversal) infrastructure, and a complete rewrite of ls using that
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183 which should now implement all 26 posix options.</p>
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185 <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski added printenv, whoami, mkdir, mkfifo, chmod, chown,
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186 chgrp, and uniq. He also added fraction and extension support to sleep (so if
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187 you need a quarter-second sleep, it can do that now), and fixed a build bug
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190 <p>Daniel Walter contributed a string to mode_t parser (in use by chmod and
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191 mkdir -m). Ilya Kuzmich contributed comm. Elie De Brauwer added mountpoint,
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193 Pere Orga fixed some documentation.</p>
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195 <p>The "tac" and "clear" commands are now normal commands instead of shell
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196 wrappers, and the header #includes have been cleaned up a bit to remove
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197 deprecated functions and attempt to increase compatability with the bionic and
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198 musl C libraries, "tail" should now use lseek() for large files, and "id" got
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199 some cleanups and bugfixes.</p>
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201 <p>The new TOYBOX_FLOAT configuration option selects whether or not
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202 to include floating point support (for embedded targets where that's
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205 <p>Several random bugfixes: unshare() might actually build portably now,
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207 SUID support no longer drops permissions going through the toybox
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208 multiplexer command, and a bugfix to xargs -0 means it should no longer
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209 segfault. (I have a pending bug report about xargs not doing the full
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210 posix whitespace handling that -0 obsoleted, but I'll deal with that next
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211 release.)</p>
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213 <p>The build infrastructure is now automatically generating FLAG_ macros
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214 for the options, but currently with the wrong names. Some more macro glue
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217 <p>A defconfig toybox at the start of the $PATH has successfully built
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218 Linux From Scratch (in my Aboriginal Linux project). The commands that
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219 'default n' in the config are often still broken, cleanup is ongoing.
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220 (The new dirtree stuff broke several of them that haven't been converted
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221 yet, but if I wait until everything works we won't have a release before
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222 1.0, so here's a checkpoint.)</p>
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228 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them.
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229 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking
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230 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p>
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233 <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based
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235 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt
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238 <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I
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242 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln,
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243 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel
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244 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests
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245 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp.
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246 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed
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247 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p>
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249 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's
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250 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new
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251 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python
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252 bloat-o-meter.)</p>
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254 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from
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255 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott,
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256 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano
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257 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and
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258 optimizations.</p>
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259
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260 <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link,
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261 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months
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262 and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p>
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265 <hr><b>February 12, 2012</b>
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266 <blockquote><p>
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267 "for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at
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268 least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two
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269 important respects..."</p>
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270 <p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p></blockquote>
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272 <p>Here's the first BSD licensed release,
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273 <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.2.0</a>, more a synchronization
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274 point than anything particularly useful. 47 commands in a reasonably
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275 ready-to-use state (what "make defconfig" builds), another ten or so partially
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276 finished stubs ("make allyesconfig"), and several
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277 patches pending on the mailing list I need to review and merge.</p>
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279 <p>More to come...</p>
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281 <hr>
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282 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2
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283 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line
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284 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p>
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285
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286 <p>More to come...</p>
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288 <hr>
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290 <p><a href=oldnews.html>Old news</a> from before the relaunch.</p>
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