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Fix wrong printf type.
| author | Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> |
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| date | Sun, 18 Aug 2013 14:04:18 -0500 |
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3 <p>Toybox combines the most 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>July 26, 2013</b> |
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10 <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski maintains a <a href=https://github.com/gfto/toybox>git |
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11 mirror</a> of the repository on github, automatically updated from the |
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12 mercurial every 6 hours. The mirror is read only, but you can generate patches |
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13 against it and post them to the list.</p> |
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15 <h2>News</h2> |
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16 <hr><b>July 2, 2013</b> |
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17 <blockquote><p>"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." "Very deep. You |
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18 should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people |
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19 like you." - |
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20 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
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21 |
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22 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.5.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.5</a> is based on |
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23 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/941>commit 941</a>. It adds |
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24 uuencode and uudecode from Erich Plondke, and enables Luis Morales' "who" by |
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25 default. Felix Janda and I cleaned up last year's "stat" submission and |
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26 enabled it. Ivo van Poorten added "groups". |
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27 Andre Renaud added "lsusb". I implemented "split", "pivot_root", and "mv". |
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28 </p> |
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29 |
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30 <p>The "help" command is implemented differently now (lib/help.c) and |
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31 each command can now understand --help (including both "toybox --help" |
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32 and "toybox --help command" in the multiplexer).</p> |
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33 |
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34 <p>The "pending" directory has several commands (find, xzcat, nbd-client, |
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35 logger, expr) which work but are not enabled by default pending further cleanup. |
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36 Ifconfig is enabled, but still in pending because it's only 2/3 cleaned up. |
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37 (It's an awkward halfway state but I'm not holding up the release for it.)</p> |
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38 |
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39 <p>I'm <a href=cleanup.html>documenting the cleanups</a> to teach |
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40 more people to do it, but the writeups aren't caught up yet. The |
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41 <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> also got updated a bit with further analysis |
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42 of other projects, and the README and about pages got updated.</p> |
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44 <p>Fixed _another_ "ls -C" segfault when terminal size can't be detected, |
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45 condensed the ls help text to fit on one page, implented --color, and taught |
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46 -l to print the major, minor numbers when showing block/char devices. |
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47 Argument parsing now handles "--" properly (to end option checking), |
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48 and the infrastructure can now handle bare --longopts that have no |
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49 corresponding short option (both were implemented before but didn't work). |
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50 Fixed an old bug in "patch", chmod grew -f, who grew -a. Isaac Dunham |
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51 fixed "-" vs "_" handling in modinfo, added a "firmware" output |
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52 field, added -b and -k support, and taught it that the ".ko" extension means |
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53 to look for the file at the specified path instead of under /lib. Felix Janda |
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54 moved file permission display code to lib so ls and |
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55 stat could share it. Ashwini Sharma spotted a bug in xabspath when the |
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56 last path component exists but we haven't got permissions to open it |
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57 (ala readlink -f /dev/sda as a normal user). |
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58 </p> |
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60 <p>In the build infrastructure, scripts/findglobals.sh finds leaked global |
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61 variables. (Leaked means they aren't part of the global union: Other than glibc |
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62 debris, toybox should define "this", "toy_list", "toybuf", and "toys", and |
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63 that's it; the rest add memory footprint to every command for the benefit of |
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67 various host "sort" commands put things in an order other than alphabetical |
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70 <p>You should now be able to build from a source control snapshot on a build |
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73 Eventually I should rewrite that python script in C.)</p> |
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76 <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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77 BSD" <a href=license.html>license</a> got slightly simplified so the first |
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80 <blockquote><p>Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this |
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81 software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.</p></blockquote> |
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83 <p>It used to continue "provided that the above copyright notice and this |
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84 permission notice appear in all copies", but A) what's the point? B) does "all |
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87 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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88 less obvious) because "all copies must include this function" would violate |
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89 the GPL but "all copies must include this magic text blob" somehow don't?</p> |
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91 <p>I don't want to have to care about this anymore. The tweaked version is more |
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92 or less public domain with a liability disclaimer, but we're still calling it |
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93 BSD (sometimes "0 clause BSD") to avoid explaining.</p> |
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95 <hr><b>March 21, 2013</b> |
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96 <p>Video of my ELC talk |
| 927 | 97 "<a href=http://youtu.be/SGmtP5Lg_t0>Why is Toybox?</a>" |
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99 <a href=http://landley.net/talks/celf-2013.txt>talk outline</a> and an |
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100 <a href=/aboriginal/about.html#selfhost>android self-hosting writeup</a>.</p> |
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| 927 | 102 <p>[Updated June 4] The following links jump to specific topics in the video. (Sorry about |
| 103 the ads, it's The Linux Foundation.)</p> | |
| 104 | |
| 105 <ul> | |
| 106 <li>0m29s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=0m29s>The smartphone is replacing the PC</a></li> | |
| 107 <ul> | |
| 108 <li>4m22s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=4m22s>Software needed to become self-hosting</a></li> | |
| 109 <li>6m20s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=6m20s>Do we care if android or iphone wins?</a></li> | |
| 110 </ul> | |
| 111 <li>9m45s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=9m45s>Android not vanilla: oppose or accept?</a></li> | |
| 112 <ul> | |
| 113 <li>11m30s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=11m30s>Open source can't do User Interfaces</a></li> | |
| 114 </ul> | |
| 115 <li>15m09s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=15m09s>Android is not copyleft: oppose or accept?</a></li> | |
| 116 <li>18m23s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=18m23s>Security issues</a></li> | |
| 117 <li>21m15s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=21m15s>Solutions to the software problems</a></li> | |
| 118 <ul> | |
| 119 <li>22m55s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=22m55s>What toybox needs to be/do</a></li> | |
| 120 <li>28m17s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m17s>What is toybox?</a></li> | |
| 121 <ul> | |
| 122 <li>28m58s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m58s>Why toybox started...</a></li> | |
| 123 <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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| 195 <blockquote><p>"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a | |
| 196 thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly | |
| 197 go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." | |
| 198 </p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> | |
| 199 | |
| 200 <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.2.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.2</a> is based on | |
| 201 <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/749>commit 749</a> and is | |
| 202 just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal | |
| 203 Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's | |
| 204 a new stable version.</p> | |
| 205 | |
| 206 <p>The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch | |
| 207 (from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a | |
| 208 bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8 | |
| 209 support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option. | |
| 210 Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof. | |
| 211 The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports | |
| 212 -fenq.</p> | |
| 213 | |
| 214 <p>Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library, | |
| 215 and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel | |
| 216 features we depend on start to drop out).</p> | |
| 217 | |
| 218 <p>The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per | |
| 219 level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more | |
| 220 than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out, | |
| 221 or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an | |
| 222 earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README, | |
| 223 the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory | |
| 224 (so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).</p> | |
| 225 | |
| 226 <p>Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist(). | |
| 227 Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with | |
| 228 full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to | |
| 229 stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing | |
| 230 it).</p> | |
| 231 | |
| 232 <p>The open group broke their website so the | |
| 233 <a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>old links</a> to POSIX 2008 | |
| 234 now <a href=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>need to start with | |
| 235 pubs</a>. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while | |
| 236 I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.</p> | |
| 237 | |
| 238 <p>(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant | |
| 239 because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current | |
| 240 implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option | |
| 241 to do it Posix's way, which is more brittle and needs extra security checks, | |
| 242 but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024 | |
| 243 filehandles, so drilling down over 1000 nested subdirectories).</p> | |
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| 417 <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral | |
| 418 without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them. | |
| 419 Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking | |
| 420 for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p> | |
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| 422 | |
| 423 <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based | |
| 424 on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This | |
| 425 time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt | |
| 426 binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p> | |
| 427 | |
| 428 <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I | |
| 429 have not quite been keeping up.)</p> | |
| 430 | |
| 431 <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod, | |
| 432 insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln, | |
| 433 realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel | |
| 434 Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests | |
| 435 for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp. | |
| 436 Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed | |
| 437 cross compiling to work more reliably.</p> | |
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| 439 <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's | |
| 440 code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new | |
| 441 code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python | |
| 442 bloat-o-meter.)</p> | |
| 443 | |
| 444 <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from | |
| 445 Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott, | |
| 446 more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano | |
| 447 Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and | |
| 448 optimizations.</p> | |
| 449 | |
| 450 <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link, | |
| 451 dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months | |
| 452 and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p> | |
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| 472 <p><b>November 15, 2011</b> - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2 | |
| 473 clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line | |
| 474 implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> | |
| 475 | |
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