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230 <h3>Bugfixes</h3> |
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232 <p>Felix Janda and I did a largeish rewrite of tail to |
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233 finally make it work right (we think). Still need to implement tail -f |
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234 someday (the tricky bit is making -f follow multiple files at once). |
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235 Felix also reported a bug in xpidfile.</p> |
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236 |
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237 <p>Juhani Haverinen pointed out that |
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238 python 3 doesn't work with config2help.py, so the detection logic looks |
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239 for python2 (until I get around to rewriting that in C). Elie De Brauwer |
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240 then fixed our first attempt at this, and also fixed uname's help string.</p> |
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241 |
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242 <p>Ashwini Sharma |
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243 pointed out the build was making a FLAG_ macro for " " which broke some |
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244 configurations. (That's a control character, not a command line option.)</p> |
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245 |
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246 <p>Jacek Bukarewicz pointed out a bug in chdir permission handling, and |
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247 a way to make env segfault. Both should be fixed now.</p> |
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248 |
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249 <p>The new function xexec_optargs() |
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250 replaces calls to xexec(toys.optargs) to avoid freeing and reusing optargs |
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251 during option parsing screwing stuff up (such as netcat's exec mode).</p> |
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252 |
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253 <p>The stat command's %a output was padded with leading zeroes, which |
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254 didn't match anybody else's behavior and thus made the test suite hiccup |
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255 between TEST_HOST and testing toybox. (If you go "TEST_HOST=1 scripts/test.sh |
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256 command" it sanity checks the tests against the host implementation.)</p> |
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258 <p>Last release, "mkdir sub/sub && chmod 007 sub/sub && rm -rf sub" didn't |
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259 delete sub and didn't exit with an error either. Neither was correct, rm |
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260 should now be fixed.</p> |
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261 |
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263 <hr><b>July 26, 2013</b> |
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264 <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski maintains a <a href=https://github.com/gfto/toybox>git |
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265 mirror</a> of the repository on github, automatically updated from the |
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266 mercurial every 6 hours. The mirror is read only, but you can generate patches |
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267 against it and post them to the list.</p> |
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269 <hr><b>July 2, 2013</b> |
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270 <blockquote><p>"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." "Very deep. You |
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271 should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people |
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272 like you." - |
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273 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
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274 |
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275 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.5.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.5</a> is based on |
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276 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/941>commit 941</a>. It adds |
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277 uuencode and uudecode from Erich Plondke, and enables Luis Morales' "who" by |
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278 default. Felix Janda and I cleaned up last year's "stat" submission and |
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279 enabled it. Ivo van Poorten added "groups". |
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280 Andre Renaud added "lsusb". I implemented "split", "pivot_root", and "mv". |
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281 </p> |
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282 |
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283 <p>The "help" command is implemented differently now (lib/help.c) and |
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284 each command can now understand --help (including both "toybox --help" |
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285 and "toybox --help command" in the multiplexer).</p> |
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286 |
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287 <p>The "pending" directory has several commands (find, xzcat, nbd-client, |
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288 logger, expr) which work but are not enabled by default pending further cleanup. |
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289 Ifconfig is enabled, but still in pending because it's only 2/3 cleaned up. |
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290 (It's an awkward halfway state but I'm not holding up the release for it.)</p> |
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291 |
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292 <p>I'm <a href=cleanup.html>documenting the cleanups</a> to teach |
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293 more people to do it, but the writeups aren't caught up yet. The |
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294 <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> also got updated a bit with further analysis |
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295 of other projects, and the README and about pages got updated.</p> |
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296 |
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297 <p>Fixed _another_ "ls -C" segfault when terminal size can't be detected, |
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298 condensed the ls help text to fit on one page, implented --color, and taught |
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299 -l to print the major, minor numbers when showing block/char devices. |
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300 Argument parsing now handles "--" properly (to end option checking), |
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301 and the infrastructure can now handle bare --longopts that have no |
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302 corresponding short option (both were implemented before but didn't work). |
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303 Fixed an old bug in "patch", chmod grew -f, who grew -a. Isaac Dunham |
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304 fixed "-" vs "_" handling in modinfo, added a "firmware" output |
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305 field, added -b and -k support, and taught it that the ".ko" extension means |
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306 to look for the file at the specified path instead of under /lib. Felix Janda |
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307 moved file permission display code to lib so ls and |
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308 stat could share it. Ashwini Sharma spotted a bug in xabspath when the |
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309 last path component exists but we haven't got permissions to open it |
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310 (ala readlink -f /dev/sda as a normal user). |
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311 </p> |
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312 |
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313 <p>In the build infrastructure, scripts/findglobals.sh finds leaked global |
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314 variables. (Leaked means they aren't part of the global union: Other than glibc |
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315 debris, toybox should define "this", "toy_list", "toybuf", and "toys", and |
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316 that's it; the rest add memory footprint to every command for the benefit of |
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317 just one command; use GLOBALS() to stick 'em in the union.) Static linking |
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318 against libraries other than the host's libc now applies to feature probes |
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319 for unshare and such. Neuter stupid internationalization support that makes |
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320 various host "sort" commands put things in an order other than alphabetical |
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322 |
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323 <p>You should now be able to build from a source control snapshot on a build |
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324 system that hasn't got python: if you disable CONFIG_TOYBOX_HELP. (The |
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325 release tarballs ship generated/help.h, but it's not in source control. |
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326 Eventually I should rewrite that python script in C.)</p> |
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327 </p> |
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328 |
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329 <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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330 BSD" <a href=license.html>license</a> got slightly simplified so the first |
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331 paragraph now says:</p> |
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332 |
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333 <blockquote><p>Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this |
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334 software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.</p></blockquote> |
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335 |
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336 <p>It used to continue "provided that the above copyright notice and this |
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337 permission notice appear in all copies", but A) what's the point? B) does "all |
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338 copies" mean binaries, or just source code, or what? C) lots of projects |
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| 927 | 355 <p>[Updated June 4] The following links jump to specific topics in the video. (Sorry about |
| 356 the ads, it's The Linux Foundation.)</p> | |
| 357 | |
| 358 <ul> | |
| 359 <li>0m29s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=0m29s>The smartphone is replacing the PC</a></li> | |
| 360 <ul> | |
| 361 <li>4m22s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=4m22s>Software needed to become self-hosting</a></li> | |
| 362 <li>6m20s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=6m20s>Do we care if android or iphone wins?</a></li> | |
| 363 </ul> | |
| 364 <li>9m45s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=9m45s>Android not vanilla: oppose or accept?</a></li> | |
| 365 <ul> | |
| 366 <li>11m30s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=11m30s>Open source can't do User Interfaces</a></li> | |
| 367 </ul> | |
| 368 <li>15m09s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=15m09s>Android is not copyleft: oppose or accept?</a></li> | |
| 369 <li>18m23s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=18m23s>Security issues</a></li> | |
| 370 <li>21m15s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=21m15s>Solutions to the software problems</a></li> | |
| 371 <ul> | |
| 372 <li>22m55s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=22m55s>What toybox needs to be/do</a></li> | |
| 373 <li>28m17s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m17s>What is toybox?</a></li> | |
| 374 <ul> | |
| 375 <li>28m58s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m58s>Why toybox started...</a></li> | |
| 376 <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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| 378 </ul> | |
| 379 </ul> | |
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| 755 | 447 <hr><b>December 15, 2012</b> |
| 448 <blockquote><p>"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a | |
| 449 thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly | |
| 450 go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." | |
| 451 </p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> | |
| 452 | |
| 453 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.2.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.2</a> is based on | |
| 454 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/749>commit 749</a> and is | |
| 455 just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal | |
| 456 Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's | |
| 457 a new stable version.</p> | |
| 458 | |
| 459 <p>The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch | |
| 460 (from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a | |
| 461 bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8 | |
| 462 support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option. | |
| 463 Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof. | |
| 464 The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports | |
| 465 -fenq.</p> | |
| 466 | |
| 467 <p>Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library, | |
| 468 and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel | |
| 469 features we depend on start to drop out).</p> | |
| 470 | |
| 471 <p>The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per | |
| 472 level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more | |
| 473 than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out, | |
| 474 or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an | |
| 475 earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README, | |
| 476 the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory | |
| 477 (so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).</p> | |
| 478 | |
| 479 <p>Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist(). | |
| 480 Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with | |
| 481 full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to | |
| 482 stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing | |
| 483 it).</p> | |
| 484 | |
| 485 <p>The open group broke their website so the | |
| 486 <a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>old links</a> to POSIX 2008 | |
| 487 now <a href=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>need to start with | |
| 488 pubs</a>. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while | |
| 489 I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.</p> | |
| 490 | |
| 491 <p>(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant | |
| 492 because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current | |
| 493 implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option | |
| 494 to do it Posix's way, which is more brittle and needs extra security checks, | |
| 495 but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024 | |
| 496 filehandles, so drilling down over 1000 nested subdirectories).</p> | |
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563 <blockquote><p>"Ford", Arthur said. "There's an infinite number of monkeys |
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| 671 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them. | |
| 672 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking | |
| 673 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p> | |
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| 677 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This | |
| 678 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt | |
| 679 binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p> | |
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| 682 have not quite been keeping up.)</p> | |
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| 685 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln, | |
| 686 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel | |
| 687 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests | |
| 688 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp. | |
| 689 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed | |
| 690 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p> | |
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| 692 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's | |
| 693 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new | |
| 694 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python | |
| 695 bloat-o-meter.)</p> | |
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| 697 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from | |
| 698 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott, | |
| 699 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano | |
| 700 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and | |
| 701 optimizations.</p> | |
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| 704 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months | |
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| 725 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2 | |
| 726 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line | |
| 727 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> | |
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