| <html><head><title>toybox news</title> |
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| <p>Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together |
| into a single BSD-licensed executable that's simple, small, fast, |
| reasonably standards-compliant, and powerful enough to turn Android into |
| a development environment. See the links on the left for details.</p> |
| |
| <h2>News</h2> |
| |
| <a name="02-02-2016" /><a href="#02-02-2016"><hr><h2><b>February 2, 2016</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that |
| quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with |
| you, is that you've never actually known what the question is." |
| - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.7.0.tar.gz>Toybox 0.7.0</a> |
| (<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/releases/tag/0.7.0>git commit</a>) |
| is out.</p> |
| |
| <p>The new commands in defconfig are <b>iotop</b>, <b>top</b>, <b>pgrep</b>, |
| and <b>pkill</b> |
| (most replacing corresponding versions from pending). Added grep -ABC, |
| swapon -d (discard), mkswap -L (label) and UUID support, and find -delete. |
| Izabera added free -h and unshare -f. Josh Gao implemented tail -f. |
| Jose Bollo submitted cp --preserve=context,attr. Kylie McClain added |
| mktemp -u.</p> |
| |
| <p>In pending there's the start of a vi command, and Sameer Pradhan contributed |
| a new dhcp6. This cycle saw several rounds of route cleanup and a little dhcp |
| cleanup, but neither are complete yet. Lipi Lee did some cleanup to netstat.c |
| and Elliott Hughes removed warnings from traceroute.</p> |
| |
| <p>Lots of updates to ps: several new -o options, -k (--sort) -O and -M, |
| improved compatibility with Android's historical behavior, and |
| extensive internal code cleanup (including the removal of all |
| the magic constants).</p> |
| |
| <h3><b>Website</b></h3> |
| |
| <p>Dreamhost restored the <a href="#12-21-2015">missing 11 months</a> |
| to the mailing list archive, in the process deleting the month after |
| that. Now they've asked if I have mbox files archiving the new |
| gap (between December 20, 2015 to January 21, 2016, and presumably they |
| could also fill in the gap from December 14, 2014 to January 3, 2015 that's |
| been there since the last time they did this), |
| but due to some gmail filtering I've |
| <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2012.html#15-10-2012>never |
| been able to disable</a>, my copy of those files is spread among 3 different |
| mbox files I'd have to sort/filter/collate. (It's on the todo list.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Added a code of conduct to the README (we're |
| <a href=https://engineering.twitter.com/opensource/code-of-conduct>borrowing twitter's</a>) because somebody |
| made it necessary.</p> |
| |
| <h3><b>Bugfixes</b></h3> |
| <p>Fixed another sed bug where any ] right after [ was skipped (not just the |
| first one in the range, so [[] didn't terminate). Fixed sort -f and added test cases. |
| Assume 80 columns in "ls -m | cat", ls -L is no longer backwards, |
| and ls of files with no paths no longer uses an uninitialized (zero) dirfd. |
| Several bugfixes |
| to find (Gilad Arnold fixed -perm, Daniel K. Levy fixed "find . -exec echo {}", |
| and while we're there I fixed find --prune, made "find . -execdir |
| echo {} + -execdir ls {} +" work, and ripped out the environment size |
| measuring code that checked for a 128k limit removed back in linux 2.6.22). |
| Elliott Hughes fixed the date command's parsing of 4 digit |
| years and documented the %s escape, fixed hwclock -u, and pointed out |
| that runcon needs to exec to do its job (not recursively call another |
| command_main() in the same process). Tom Marshall reported that blkid was |
| handling ext2 wrong. Mike Moreton corrected cpio extraction's uid and gid |
| values, and added a --no-preserve-owner option. Fixed the SUID permission |
| dropping logic (which was a bit over-zealous, preventing some commands from |
| running at all).</p> |
| |
| <p>I'm told that debian-testing broke its libc so the nsenter build breaks, |
| but my attempts to install the debian-testing network cd image under |
| qemu keep breaking. Maybe someday they'll fix it enough I can actually |
| reproduce the problem. (Debootstrap under unbuntu builds an ubuntu-flavored |
| chroot in which toybox builds fine.)</p> |
| |
| <h3><b>Documentation</b></h3> |
| <p>Rewrite of the about.html page, tweaks to design.html, and a re-triage of |
| sbase in roadmap.html. Update to mkstatus.py to collate multiple span |
| tags with the same id, resulting in a larger status.html page (which |
| was previously ignoring some commands in the roadmap).</p> |
| |
| <p>Expanded the defconfig/allyesconfig/allnoconfighelp text in "make help" |
| to explain what they're for.</p> |
| |
| <h3><b>infrastructure</b></h3> |
| <ul> |
| <li><p>Expanded toys.optargs to 64 bits so a command can have more than 32 options.</p></li> |
| <li><p>Added NOEXIT() wrapper to turn xwrap() functions into warning versions |
| using the existing longjump(toys.rebound) infrastructure.</p></li> |
| <li><p>Renamed dirtree->data to dirfd and stopped storing symlink length |
| into it (this fixed a bug where following symlinks to directories |
| didn't give a valid directory filehandle, noticeable with ls -Z).</p></li> |
| <li><p>New TAGGED_ARRAY() infrastructure generates index and bitmask macros |
| for arrays of structures starting with a name string.</p></li> |
| <li><p>New lib/linestack.c for utf8 fontmetrics (draw_str() and utf8len() |
| and so on), and for tracking multiple lines of text |
| (vi, less, shell history) that need wordwrapping and scrolling up/down.</p></li> |
| <li><p>Upgrades to lib/interestingtimes.c: scan_key() now has a timeout |
| in miliseconds and recognizes more sequences including ANSI |
| window size probes. New utf8 test files in tests/files/utf8 including |
| sequence reversing, stacked combining chars, and all three types of |
| unprintable sequences (low ascii <32 ala ^X, invalid utf8 sequences ala |
| <AB><CD>, and invalid unicode code points ala U+1234).</p></li> |
| <li><p>More comma handling code in lib.c: comma_args()</p></li> |
| <li><p>Added error_msg_raw() to shut up fortify's endless static checking false |
| positives.</p></li> |
| <li><p>readfileat() can now realloc() in a loop to read long files |
| ("zcat | insmod" needed it).</p></li> |
| </ul> |
| |
| <h3><b>Roadmap</b></h3> |
| <p>We're getting close to having a self-hosting development environment |
| using toybox for the command line. The remaining busybox commands in |
| <a href=http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html>Aboriginal Linux</a> are:</p> |
| |
| <blockquote><p><b> |
| awk bunzip2 bzcat bzip2 dd diff expr fdisk ftpd ftpget ftpput gunzip gzip |
| less ping route sh sha512sum tar test tr unxz vi wget xzcat zcat |
| </b></p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p>And the remaining non-busybox commands in Aboriginal Linux's build/host |
| directory (from the distcc, genext2fs, e2fsprogs, zlib, and squashfs packagesi) |
| are:</p> |
| |
| <blockquote><p><b> |
| mke2fs fsck.ext2 resize2fs distcc genext2fs unsquashfs distccd mksquashfs tune2fs |
| </b></p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p>Squashfs and distcc are probably out of scope for toybox, but mke2fs, |
| fsck.ext2, resize2fs, genext2fs, and tune2fs should all be added to the |
| above "busybox" replacement list.</p> |
| |
| <p>Remind me to include this countdown in future releases. Once they've all |
| been replaced, the next goal is <a href=http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html#selfhost>building AOSP under itself</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>See the full <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> and <a href=status.html>status</a> |
| pages for more details.</p> |
| |
| <a name="12-21-2015" /><a href="#12-21-2015"><hr><h2><b>December 21, 2015</b></h2></a> |
| |
| <p>Yes, 11 months have gone missing from the mailing list web archive.</p> |
| |
| <p>Yesterday evening Dreamhost's mailman server went down (timing out trying |
| to connect). I poked them about it, they |
| <a href=https://twitter.com/landley/status/678781271670149121>blamed |
| DNS</a>, I explained that the hang was _after_ the DNS lookup and |
| entered the dig info into the trouble ticket showing the IPs the DNS |
| queries were returning, they reinstalled the server at that IP from what I |
| assume was their most recent backup, and that's how 11 months of messages |
| vanished out of the archive.</p> |
| |
| <p>I've <a href=https://twitter.com/landley/status/679114451975467008>continued to poke them about it</a> but I honestly believe that's the best they |
| can do. <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost.txt>Last time</a> |
| this sort of thing <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost2.txt>happened</a> |
| we went back and forth for months, so I added a link to a backup web |
| archive (in the nav bar on the left) that isn't controlled by dreamhost, |
| and thus doesn't gratuitously lose data on a regular basis. (I note |
| the earlier hole in Dreamhost's archive was never fixed either. That |
| was data never getting archived, this is a year's worth of data that |
| was in the archive until yesterday vanishing after the fact.)</p> |
| |
| <p>If you're wondering why the <a href=http://lists.landley.net>top level</a> |
| list page has been "temporarily disabled" for multiple years now... you'd have |
| to ask Dreamhost. I know I have. More than a dozen times.</p> |
| |
| <a name="03-11-2015" /><a href="#03-11-2015"><hr><h2><b>November 3, 2015</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"Alright," said Ford. "How would you react if I said that I'm |
| not from Guildford after all, but from a small planet somewhere in the vicinity |
| of Betelgeuse?" Arthur shrugged in a so-so sort of way. "I don't know," he |
| said, taking a pull of beer. "Why - do you think it's the sort of thing you're |
| likely to say?" - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.6.1.tar.gz>Toybox 0.6.1</a> |
| (<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/releases/tag/0.6.1>git commit</a>) |
| is out.</p> |
| |
| <p>We have a new <b>ps</b> command with all the -o fields posix wants (although |
| it doesn't accept BSD non-dash option syntax yet), and <b>bunzip2</b> (not just |
| bzcat but the proper extract-in-place command). |
| Sameer Pradhan added <b>hostid</b> and <b>fsync</b>. |
| Elliott Hughes added <b>flock</b>. |
| |
| <p>The people waiting for <b>human readable number support</b> (du -hH, ls -h, |
| and so on) can thank Elliott Hughes for implementing it. (Our output doesn't |
| exactly match others' because we our "binary" mode will say 1.0G instead of |
| 1024M, which is a bug in the other one we didn't emulate.)</p> |
| |
| <p>The other big news is <b>nommu support</b>, tested on the new |
| <a href=http://nommu.org/jcore>jcore</a> processor but presumaby working |
| on any nommu system. A few commands don't support nommu yet, but those |
| are disabled by dependencies on TOYBOX_FORK in menuconfig when building |
| for nommu. The roadmap now has a large section analyzing the uClinux |
| project (note that <a href=http://nommu.org>nommu.org</a> is slowly replacing |
| <a href=http://uclinux.org>uclinux.org</a> as the standard repository of |
| all knowledge and wisdom about nommu. The old site <a href=#12-02-2012>contains |
| much that is apocryphal</a>, or at least wildly inaccurate, and the new one |
| is trying to improve on that).</p> |
| |
| <p>Both "make change" and scripts/single.sh (for building standalone commands |
| without the multiplexer logic) now use the top level .config |
| for toybox global settings such as Linux Security Blanket Module selection, |
| (so make defconfig before change now).</p> |
| |
| <p>Documentation updates to the <a href=code.html>code</a> and |
| <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> pages.</p> |
| |
| <h3>pending</h3> |
| |
| <p>In the pending directory Sameer Pradhan added tftp, |
| and Elliott Hughes sent lsof. Isaac Dunham upgraded mdev, |
| reboot, init, login, and modprobe, and fixed a distro-specific build break in |
| scripts/mkflags.h. Elliott Hughes and Lipi Lee made netstat -p handle |
| command lines longer than 21 characters, and Elliott fixed netstat -e and |
| some build warnings. Yeongdeok Suh fixed a warning in dhcpd. |
| I started cleanup on pgrep/pkill.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Command updates, bugfixes, and infrastructure</h3> |
| |
| <p>The multiplexer's "command not found" error exit is now 127, so now you can't |
| distinguish between a command not being found in the multiplexer and |
| the multiplexer itself not being found by the shell, because people wanted |
| that for some reason.</p> |
| |
| <p>Elliott Hughes made date reject invalid dates rather |
| than set the clock to something weird (setting the clock 100 years into the |
| future makes most Linux desktops surprisingly unhappy, and ntpdate won't fix it |
| either), fixed several ls -l display issues (user/group field ordering, |
| make user/group/lsmcontext left aligned), did the aforementioned |
| extensive work on human readable number output, fixed ionice's default |
| class, fixed a mv overwrite bug, made df's columns auto-size, added |
| --ppid and -Z to ps, and teamed up with Daniel K. Levy to fix |
| a segfault in find's handling of -newer -group or -user.</p> |
| |
| <p>Hyejin Kim added stat -c %T support. Colin Cross worked |
| on vmstat fixing |
| a header printing bug and calculating the bi and bo columns in the right |
| units. Isabella Parakiss reported that sed -e "/x/c\" -e "y" added an extra |
| newline and that grep -w '\(x\)\1' didn't work, both now fixed. |
| Alistair Strachan fixed several problems with switch_root. Kylie McClain |
| pointed out env should be able to clear variables via NAME= syntax. |
| Dima Krasner added support for running blkid without a partition (so it shows |
| all partitions). Hyejin Kim sent in a bunch of static analysis bug reports.</p> |
| |
| <p>Isabella Parakiss reported that sed -e "/x/c\" -e "y" added an extra |
| newline and that grep -w '\(x\)\1' didn't work, both now fixed. |
| Alistair Strachan fixed several problems with switch_root. Kylie McClain |
| pointed out env should be able to clear variables via NAME= syntax. |
| Dima Krasner added support for running blkid without a partition (so it shows |
| all partitions). Hyejin Kim sent in a bunch of static analysis bug reports.</p> |
| |
| <p>Two large thinko fixes in oneit: -3 was always enabled (which would |
| eventually block if the child never read the exiting PID numbers from its file |
| descriptor #3 until the pipe filled up), and the signal handlers weren't |
| set up right (for requesting semi-graceful halt/poweroff/reboot). |
| Calling install without a mode is now 0755, and install -g 0 no longer clashes |
| with cp --preserve. Better error message for ls -r on unreadable |
| directories, and ls -Z now uses O_PATH (with the /proc/self/fd/%d |
| workaround for kernel stupidity as necessary).</p> |
| |
| <p>Date now understands @unixtime[.fraction] and uses -D for |
| the set-side format (matching busybox's extension for this). The seq -f |
| string now checks that it's got exactly one %f escape with the correct |
| attributes (and a whole bunch of test cases for it). Fixed a bug |
| in od that screwed up the position indicator on arm and mips. |
| In stat the d/h units moved from %d %D to the default string. |
| And patch can now correctly apply hunks with trailing context to the start of |
| the file.</p> |
| |
| <p>The prompt argument moved out of yesno() (the caller can print the prompt |
| themselves). Replaced toys.exithelp with help_exit(). Added new |
| XVFORK() macro, and xpopen_both() calls /proc/self/exe when passed |
| a NULL argv (see cpio -p for example usage). Replaced toys.recurse |
| with toys.stacktop so the recurse or re-exec decision is now based |
| on bytes of stack space used. Marked a bunch of command-local functions |
| static.</p> |
| |
| <p>New additions to lib/ include strlower(), xconnect(), and the |
| aforementioned help_exit(). |
| The testsuite now has some infrastructure tests based on "example" |
| commands such as toys/examples/test_human_readable.c. |
| The login command finally got a long-overdue cleanup (it's one of the |
| commands that predate the "pending" directory but were part of the reason |
| for it). Hexedit had an |
| uninitialized variable (of course gcc didn't spot it, it was too busy |
| warning about "may be used uninitialized but never actually is" variables).</p> |
| |
| <p>Tweaked makefile so |
| "make CROSS_COMPILE=prefix-" (as well as "CROSS_COMPILE=prefix- make", |
| which still works). Toybox is now installed chmod -w so broken installers |
| (like the bunzip2 package's) that try to overwrite existing binaries won't |
| knock out the whole of toybox. |
| GCC 5.2.0 stopped being able to compile Linux 2.6.12's kconfig, but |
| we added a workaround. You can now build uptime without utmpx.h. |
| Alejandro Joya pointed out that enabling smack required smack on the host |
| as well as target when cross compiling, which is now fixed.</p> |
| |
| <p>Note: toybox can autodetect nommu support when building with a uClibc |
| toolchain such as <a href=http://landley.net/aboriginal/downloads/binaries/old/1.4.3/cross-compiler-sh2eb.tar.gz>the one from Aboriginal Linux</a>, |
| but <a href=http://github.com/richfelker/musl-cross-make>with musl-libc</a> |
| you'll have to enable CONFIG_TOYBOX_MUSL_NOMMU_IS_BROKEN to work around the |
| fact they provide a non-functional fork() implementation that always returns |
| -ENOSYS, to prevent you from compile-time probing for nommu support when |
| cross-compiling. Unfortunately "preventing you from probing" seems to be |
| an explicit policy with musl, they also don't provide an "#ifdef __MUSL__" |
| because their library is perfect and you're only ever allowed to work around |
| other people's bugs, not theirs. So we have to use menuconfig to manually |
| enable musl-specific bug workarounds.</p> |
| |
| <a name="23-07-2015" /><a href="#23-07-2015"><hr><h2><b>July 23, 2015</b></h2></a> |
| <p>I recreated the <a href=downloads/toybox-0.6.0.tar.gz>0.6.0 source tarball</a> |
| (new sha1sum 08fb1c23f520c25a15f262a8a95ea5b676a98d54) |
| because I forgot to add --prefix to the git archive command when I updated |
| my release script from mercurial, so the files weren't in an enclosing |
| directory. (Ooops.)</p> |
| |
| <a name="19-07-2015" /><a href="#19-07-2015"><hr><h2><b>July 19, 2015</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p> |
| The reason why it was published in the form of a micro sub meson electronic |
| component is that if it were printed in normal book form, an interstellar |
| hitchhiker would require several inconveniently large buildings to carry it |
| around in." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy </p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.6.0.tar.gz>Toybox 0.6.0</a> |
| (<a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox/releases/tag/0.6.0>git commit</a>) |
| is out. (Yes, git. See the <a href=#05-04-2015>previous news entry</a>.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Sorry for the unusually long gap between releases. Since last release Ye |
| Olde Project Maintainer traveled to japan twice and had two more "once |
| a century" floods at home. (Probably a coincidence.) Still catching up.</p> |
| |
| <h3><b>CELF/ELC talk and Wikipedia[citation needed] article</b></h3> |
| |
| <p>I gave another State Of The Toybox talk |
| (<a href=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04XwAbtPmAg>video</a> |
| <a href=http://landley.net/talks/celf-2015.txt>outline</a>), in which I |
| repeat my <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2013.html#07-11-2013>perennial</a> |
| <a href=https://twitter.com/landley/status/557309224535851009>complaint</a> |
| that Wikipedia[citation needed] |
| <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toybox>still</a> |
| <a href=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox#Controversy_over_Toybox>says</a> |
| toybox was relicensed before its hiatus, when relicensing was why |
| the hiatus ended.</p> |
| |
| <p>Since Wikipedia[citation needed] seems unable to do the |
| <a href=#15-11-2011>most</a> |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/log/tip/LICENSE>basic</a> |
| <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#13-11-2011>research</a> on |
| this point, and has stuck to an incorrect sequence of events for years, |
| I've been gradually escalating my attempts to correct them. Toybox |
| came out of mothballs in November 2011 <b>because</b> it could be |
| relicensed. That's what opened up a new niche busybox wasn't already |
| filling with a 10 year headstart.</p> |
| |
| <a name="asterisk_back" /> |
| <p>The article has plenty of smaller issues<a href=#asterisk>*</a>, but |
| given that I gave an entire talk at Ohio LinuxFest in 2013 |
| (<a href=http://landley.net/talks/ohio-2013.txt>outline</a>, |
| <a href=https://archive.org/download/OhioLinuxfest2013/24-Rob_Landley-The_Rise_and_Fall_of_Copyleft.mp3>audio</a>) on why I switched away from GPL for |
| my projects, that one bugs me.</p> |
| |
| <h3><b>New stuff this release</b></h3> |
| |
| <p>There's a new android menu in menuconfig, and rather a lot of Linux |
| Security Module support (Smack for Tizen from Xavier Roche and José Bollo, |
| and SELinux for Android from Elliott Hughes; see |
| the Security Blanket menu under global settings in menuconfig) has |
| trickled in, although there's still more to come.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>New commands:</b> Added reset, nproc, ionice, and iorenice. |
| Elliott Hughes contributed xxd, runcon, |
| restorecon, load_policy, getenforce, setenforce, getprop, and setprop. |
| Promoted shred, nsenter, and hwclock.</p> |
| |
| <p>You can once again build catv now the flag infrastructure's been updated to |
| let it coexist with cat -v. |
| And on a long plane flight I wrote |
| hexedit, an interactive hex editor that implements the start of |
| cursor control infrastructure (for eventual use by less and vi and shell |
| command history and so on).</p> |
| |
| <p><b>New options:</b> Added sed -E as a BSD-compatible synonym for -r. |
| Upgraded oneit with -r (restart), -3 (send exiting PID values to child), |
| and signal handling. Added -v option to timeout, -m to mknod, -u to shred, |
| -t to dmesg, and -123 to head and tail. Added implicit "." to grep -r without |
| any files to work on. Hyejin Kim requested prefix support for truncate -s. |
| Greg Hackman added -inum to find. |
| Jan Cybulski added the smack side of ls -Z support. Various patches also |
| added -Z to mkdir, mknod, and mkfifo. |
| Basic cp --preserve support went in, but not yet the xattr/LSM parts.</p> |
| |
| <p>The toybox command now has a --version option, |
| which uses "git describe" if available.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Build infrastructure:</b> |
| The "make change" target now saves the output of each failed standalone |
| command build in a .bad file, and "make defconfig" is quieter now.</p> |
| |
| <p>Paul Barker submitted a large patch changing command install paths so |
| "toybox can be installed alongside busybox without confusing |
| update-alternatives". (There's some argument over |
| what the right paths should be, and I'm waiting for |
| people to tell me what else needs fixing because I have no idea. I've |
| been symlinking /bin to /usr/bin since 2002 |
| <a href=http://landley.net/writing/hackermonthly-issue022-pg33.pdf>for |
| historical reasons</a>.)</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Docs:</b> The repository link now goes to github, with another link |
| to the commit rss feed.</p> |
| |
| <p>Elliott Hughes updated the Android section of the roadmap |
| (and he would know). Redid bits of scripts/mkstatus.py to make updating |
| status.html easier, and the README is larger.</p> |
| |
| <p>More description of option parsing in code.html, which now describes the |
| FLAG_x macros, switching flag macro sets with FOR_newcommand, how |
| configuration zeroes flag macros and using FORCE_FLAGS to suppress the |
| zeroing of options shared between commands. Also added description of ";" |
| to make --longopts take an optional =value part, and more about TOYBOX_DEBUG |
| to check NEWTOY() option strings (otherwise a bad option string makes |
| lib/args.c obviously segfault, but doesn't explain why).</p> |
| |
| <p>Added a "Why 0BSD?" section to license.html when submitting zero clause bsd |
| to SPDX (according to the pending license spreadsheet, it's been approved for |
| SPDX 2.2).</p> |
| |
| <p>The old list of commands needing cleanup but not in pending was |
| removed from toys/pending/README and instead the issues were added |
| as TODO comments in the individual commands.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Bugfixes:</b> |
| Fixed mount -a segfaulting without -O (reported by Janus Troelsen), |
| and made it try a "become rw" ioctl() on the block device before falling |
| back to mounting read only (because Android expects that). |
| Fixed printf -- and printf ---. Lots of tweaks to ls -l spacing with |
| different options. Make touch -d and -t actually set time when you don't |
| specify nanoseconds. |
| Fixed a subtle bug where recursive calls (toybox commands that run other |
| toybox commands) weren't resetting all their state. (This manifested as |
| a "no }" error from "find | xargs sed", but could cause other problems.) |
| And David Halls reported another sed bug trying to compile libiconv (which |
| left extra \ at the start of lines in a generated shell script, breaking |
| the build). Output an error message for "cat /mnt".</p> |
| |
| <p>Kylie McClain reported that mktemp broke when $TMPDIR was set to an empty |
| string (which is not the same as unset), that install/find didn't support |
| numeric uid/gids, and that sort -z affects both input and output. |
| Isabella Parakiss fixed a printf.c bug. |
| David Halls fixed bugs in install -D and find -exec. Samuel Holland |
| fixed unshare -r. Hyejin Kim fixed makedevs with a count of 1, fold -w |
| range checking, an error path in scripts/mkflags.c, added -i to dhcpd, |
| and stopped su from prompting the root user for the new user's password. |
| Jan Cybulski spotted wrong indentation when combining ls -s and -i with -C and |
| -x. José Bollo fixed stat %G. Sameer Pradhan fixed a bug in mkfifo -Z.</p> |
| |
| <p>Elliott Hughes asked for a default SIGPIPE handler to disable |
| the signal handler bionic's dynamic loader installs (yes really). Still not |
| 100% sure what the correct behavior is there. (Posix is |
| (<a href=http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.standards.posix.austin.general/10915>actively unhelpful</a>, but at least they're taking |
| <a href=http://austingroupbugs.net/view.php?id=789#c1976>years to |
| make up their mind</a>. Elliott also sent patches to fix a typo in |
| useradd.test, add missing arguments to error_exit() calls and clean up |
| printf() format strings, fix an off by one error in human_readable(), |
| fix dmesg -c error reporting, fix a segfault in comma_scan where the option |
| was the last item in optlist (triggered by mount -o ro,remount), fix |
| hwclock -w, made ifconfig print lowercase MAC addresses (it was bothering |
| him), and make terminal_size() read the right environment variable |
| (LINES, not ROWS). And he suggested the test suite notice high command exit |
| values (corresponding to segfault or other signals).</p> |
| |
| <p>People are apparently using toys/pending commands, despite the police tape |
| and flashing lights, so added louder warnings to toys/pending/README. |
| Elliott Hughes fixed various problems with tar, dd, more, and top. |
| Hyejin Kim cleaned up syslogd and dumpleases. Isaac Dunham added hotplug |
| support to mdev. Yeongdeok Suh added RFC-3315 ipv6 support to dhcpd.</p> |
| |
| <p>I rewrote ps.c from scratch (in pending), but it's not ready for real use |
| yet.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Portability:</b> |
| On the portability front Bernhard Rosenkranzer fixed a problem where the |
| menuconfig code wouldn't compile in C99 mode. (This led to me documenting |
| the craptacular nature of kconfig in a README, and the plan to replace it |
| sometime before 1.0.) Some extra flags to shut up overzealous llvm warnings |
| were added (and have to be probed for because gcc complains about |
| arguments it doesn't recognize even when they switch stuff _off_ using |
| a standard syntax). Don't depend on malloc(0) to return non-null in ls. |
| David Halls fixed some mac/ios portability issues, |
| implying somebody's built at least part of toybox on a mac.</p> |
| |
| <p>Added basename_r() to lib/lib.c because the posix semantics for basename() |
| are stupid but what the gnu guys did to it was appalling. |
| Turns out bionic already had a basename_r(), but posix still doesn't. |
| Fixed it up in portability.h, but this |
| could break more stuff in future. (Correct fix is to lobby posix to add it, |
| which would probably take about 15 years...)</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Infrastructure:</b> |
| The build now checks $LDFLAGS for linker-only flags, and allows the strip |
| command to fail (binflt toolchains provide a strip that doesn't work). |
| Since time.c uses floating point, added TOYBOX_FLOAT dependency in config.</p> |
| |
| <p>There's a lib/lsm.h defining varous inline functions for linux |
| security modules stuff, if (lsm_enabled()) should turn into a compile-time |
| constant 0 and let code drop out when TOYBOX_LSM_NONE selected, but |
| testing against CFG_TOYBOX_LSM_NONE or derived symbols is still useful |
| becuase when it _is_ enabled the probe turns into a system call you |
| don't want to repeat too much.</p> |
| |
| <p>Switched a bunch of commands from signal() to xsignal(). Factored out |
| xgetgrnamid() and xgetpwnamid() into xwrap.c. Make time.c depend on |
| TOYBOX_FLOAT (since it always uses float so shouldn't be available on |
| build targets without even software float). Added readfileat() to lib/lib.c.</p> |
| |
| <p>The dirtree infrastructure now passes in full flags for the old symlink |
| field, and the new DIRTREE_SHUTUP flag disables warnings if a file vanishes |
| out from under you during traverse. New dirtree_start() wrapper to |
| create dirtree root with only two arguments.</p> |
| |
| <p>The not-curses infrastructure introduced by hexedit mostly moved to |
| lib/interestingtimes.c.</p> |
| |
| <a name="asterisk" /> |
| <a href="#asterisk_back" />Asterisk:</a> such when |
| Tim contacted me (my blog says a couple days before nov 13, 2011, I.E. |
| 11/11/11 not some specific day 2 months later) to ask if I wanted to work |
| on a new project he was proposing called |
| <a href=http://www.elinux.org/Busybox_replacement_project>BentoBox</a> |
| (because I used to do busybox, he'd forgotten toybox existed |
| until I brought it up). And don't ask me what "focuses not on compatibility |
| with its GNU counterparts" means when CP_MORE adds 7 non-posix options |
| and toys/other has 84 commands in neither posix nor LSB. I think they're |
| struggling to explain the difference having dismissed "licensing" as being |
| the reason it started up again after a long hiatus? The reason I don't think |
| GNU is special is there are a half-dozen other independent |
| implementations of the same unix command tools out there (AT&T, |
| BSD, Coherent, Minix, plan 9, busybox, toybox, and several more analyzed in |
| the <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a>, and that's ignoring the implementations |
| written for DOS or in assembly over the years). But I do care what |
| Linux From Scratch expects, and if it's |
| <a href=http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/7.6/LFS-BOOK-7.6-NOCHUNKS.html#ch-tools-gcc-pass1>calling mv -v</a> |
| then I impelement mv -v |
| even if <a href=http://landley.net/toybox/roadmap.html>posix hasn't got |
| it</a>. And I don't know why "gnu counterparts" would describe this when |
| util-linux isn't a gnu package, nor are info-zip, e2fsprogs, kmod, less, |
| procps, shadow, sysklogd, vim, zlib, sudo, dhcpcd...</p> |
| |
| <a name="05-04-2015" /><a href="#05-04-2015"><hr><h2><b>April 5, 2015</b></h2></a> |
| <p>Since <a href=https://android.googlesource.com/platform/external/toybox/>android</a> and |
| <a href=https://git.tizen.org/cgit/platform/upstream/toybox.git>tizen</a> |
| and <a href=https://github.com/kraj/meta-musl/tree/master/recipes-core/toybox>openembedded</a> |
| and <a href=https://packages.gentoo.org/package/sys-apps/toybox>gentoo</a> |
| and so on have all been using Georgi Chorbadzhiyski's git mirror rather |
| than the mercurial repository, I bit the bullet and switched the project's repo |
| <a href=https://github.com/landley/toybox>to git</a>. Georgi's |
| <a href=https://github.com/gfto/toybox>mirror</a> is now pulling from that.</p> |
| |
| <a name="25-02-2015" /><a href="#25-02-2015"><hr><h2><b>February 25, 2015</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"A common mistake that people make when trying to design |
| something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of |
| complete fools."</p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.5.2.tar.gz>Toybox 0.5.2</a> |
| (<a href=/hg/toybox/shortlog/1702>commit 1702</a>) is out.</p> |
| |
| <p>New promoted commands: sed (finally fixed enough it builds Linux From |
| Scratch), printf (cleaned up and promoted), shred and |
| base64 (the Tizen guys wanted them), getenforce, setenforce, and chcon (android), |
| mix (promoted with fixes from Isaac Dunham), nsenter (from |
| Andy Lutomirski, merged into unshare).</p> |
| |
| <p>Elliott Hughes submited a bunch of patches to support Android (to |
| both toybox and Bionic libc, which he maintains). On toybox's end this |
| involved a lot of fixups to portability.[ch] and fixes to over a dozen |
| commands, plus several new ones. Other portability fixes included working |
| with buildroot's uclibc fork and building for nommu targets.</p> |
| |
| <p>The new "make change" target builds each toybox command as a standalone |
| binary. Rather a lot of commands that didn't build by themselves (mv depending |
| on cp and so on) were hit with a large rock until they built standalone. |
| This involved rewriting bits of option parsing, more elaborate dependency |
| generation, making each command have its own config |
| symbol and main() function (even when it's just a wrapper calling another |
| command's main()), and so on. Also, some commands can't be built standalone |
| at a conceptual level: "help" describes other enabled commands and "sh" |
| has a number of bulitin commands (cd, exit, set) that require the |
| multiplexer infrastructure, so "make change" filters them out.</p> |
| |
| <p>The mailing list's web archive is still screwed up. Dreamhost has |
| been trying to fix it since approximately September. There are |
| <a href=http://www.mail-archive.com/toybox@lists.landley.net/>two</a> |
| <a href=http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.toybox>other</a> less broken |
| archives, but neither has quite the same UI as mailman.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Bugfixes and tweaks</h3> |
| |
| <p>Cynt Rynt sent in tests for ifconfig, |
| Robert Thompson taught factor to accept whitespace separated arguments, |
| Hyejin Kim pointed out that some of mktemp's longopts were attached to |
| the wrong short options, |
| Luis Felipe Strano Moraes fixed a wrong free() call in bootchartd in pending. |
| Patches from Ashwini Sharma to make "df /dev/node" work, prevent du from |
| looping endlessly following symlinks, and to make expr.c |
| (in pending) understand == and regex matches. (Speaking of expr, it gets |
| priority groupings wrong but the bug was actually in the posix spec's |
| HTML conversion. They fixed the posix spec upstream for us. Still need |
| to fix the expr code, but it's in pending for a reason...)</p> |
| |
| <p>Some commands grew new option flags, such as cp --remove-destination |
| and touch -h.</p> |
| |
| <p>The parallel build has better error reporting now. When toybox needs to |
| re-exec itself to regain suid root permissions and hasn't got the suid bit, |
| it now gives the right error message ("not root" instead of "no such command"). |
| |
| <p>Added a test to "mount" to not mount the same device/directory combination |
| over itself (the OS catches this for block devices, but not for tmpfs). |
| Make blkid distinguish ext3 from ext4. Added catv back into cat (because |
| the Android guys wanted it, and they have historical usage on their side, |
| so...). Handle nanoseconds in touch.</p> |
| |
| <p>Fixed a segfault when CP_MORE was disabled (the resulting option flag list |
| no longer defined -d but still had it in option groups at the end). |
| Workaround for glibc redefining dirname() and basename() to random non-posix |
| semantics because gnu. (They could have created dirname_r() but didn't want |
| to.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Fix an ifconfig test that was preventing assigning an ipv4 address to |
| interface aliases. Several cleanup passes on hwclock but not quite |
| promoted out of pending yet.<p> |
| |
| <p>Fixed a wrong error message in rm (if you had a chmod 000 directory and |
| did rm -r on it without -f, after the prompt it would complain it was a |
| directory, which was not the problem).</p> |
| |
| <p>The gzip compression code now does "store only" output to stdout, for |
| what that's worth.</p> |
| |
| <p>Cleanup mountpoint and expand, and remove them from toys/pending/README |
| (a list of commands that predate the toys/pending directory but needed |
| another pass).</p> |
| |
| <h3>Library and infrastructure:</h3> |
| |
| <p>Reworked the option parsing infrastructure so more commands build |
| standalone (via scripts/single.sh or "make change"). The option flag bit |
| values are no longer packed, it leaves spaces where currently disabled |
| flags go, and you can #define FORCE_FLAGS so disabled flags aren't zeroed. |
| This allows multiple commands to more easily share infrastructure, even if |
| your current flag context is for a disabled command (switched off in config), |
| you can force them to stay on and as long as the flags read the same right |
| to left they'll have the same values.</p> |
| |
| <p>We've started removing use of strncpy() because it's a hugely broken |
| standard C function: the length is the maximum length to _append_, not |
| the size of the destination buffer. It memsets the remaining space it didn't |
| copy ala "memset(dest+strlen(dest), 0, len);" so |
| if you think len is the size of dest you're guaranteed to stomp memory off the |
| end). And if it runs out of space it won't null terminate because reasons. |
| (Meanwhile sprintf("%*s", len, str) is counting wide characters in your current |
| locale, so if you set a locale other than "C" it will also go past your |
| allocated buffer size. Whoever is maintining the C library standards is really |
| bad at strings.) |
| Instead we have xstrncat() which will error_exit() if src+dest+1 doesn't |
| fit in the buffer. (Because randomly truncating input data isn't necessarily |
| an improvement.) And there's always xmprintf().</p> |
| |
| <p>Similarly, strtol() doesn't return an error indicator on overflow, |
| you have to clear and then check errno. So new xstrtol() that cares |
| about overflow.</p> |
| |
| <p>The bionic and musl guys agree faccessat(AT_SYMLINK_NOFOLLOW) is not |
| supported, so stop using it.</p> |
| |
| <p>Fixed toy_exec() to detect when argc is in optargs, so we don't |
| need a separate xexec_optargs().</p> |
| |
| <a name="18-02-2015" /><a href="#18-02-2015"><hr><h2><b>February 18, 2015</b></h2></a> |
| <p>Dreamhost continues to be unable to make mailing list archives work, so |
| here's <a href=http://www.mail-archive.com/toybox@lists.landley.net/>another |
| list archive</a> with a less awkward interface than gmane.</p> |
| |
| <p>(Neither gives you the convenient historical monthly views of mailman, |
| but I still have hopes dreamhost will someday figure out what they're doing |
| wrong. They've only been trying since October. Last month they did a |
| <a href=http://www.dreamhoststatus.com/2015/01/14/discussion-list-hardware-maintenance/>hardware upgrade to fix a software problem</a>, and the stale |
| data loads much faster now, so that's something.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Update (Feb 19): the archive started updating again, by discarding |
| all the pending data. So there are now _two_ giant holes in Dreamhost's |
| web archive, from Dec 15-Jan 3, and then another hole from Jan 16-Feb 18. |
| The relevant messages are in both of the other archives. Here's hoping |
| the chronic archive constipation problem won't happen a sixth time.</p> |
| |
| <a name="30-12-2014" /><a href="#30-12-2014"><hr><h2><b>December 30, 2014</b></h2></a> |
| <p>Due to Dreamhost's <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost.txt>ongoing</a> |
| <a href=http://landley.net/dreamhost2.txt>inability</a> to make mailman |
| work reliably, I've added a link to a backup web archive at |
| <a href=http://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.toybox>gmane</a> to the nav bar |
| on the left.</p> |
| |
| <p>You still subscribe to the list through |
| <a href=http://lists.landley.net/listinfo.cgi/toybox-landley.net>the first link</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>Update (January 27, 2015): they're <a href=https://twitter.com/landley/status/558428839462703104>still working on it</a>.</p> |
| |
| <a name="19-11-2014" /><a href="#19-11-2014"><hr><h2><b>November 19, 2014</b></h2></a> |
| |
| <blockquote><p>"This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.5.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.5.1</a> |
| (<a href=/hg/toybox/shortlog/1566>commit 1566</a>) is out.</p> |
| |
| <p>It's an interim release, mostly bugfixes. There are several new commands, |
| but they're all in pending.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Development</h3> |
| |
| <p>Finally implemented sed, which is still in pending because although |
| it's feature complete according to posix, and even passes the parts of |
| Busybox's sed test suite that aren't explicitly testing for gnu bugs we |
| don't want to copy, it's not yet good enough to build Linux From Scratch. |
| (The ./configure stages use very long sed scripts. 20 commits worth of |
| implementation and debugging, just under 1000 lines of code, and there's |
| still more to do. We're definitely up to some of the "fiddly" commands now. |
| Did you know "echo hello | sed p - -" segfaults gnu sed in Ubuntu 12.04? |
| Yeah...)</p> |
| |
| <p>Talked with the Tizen developers to follow up on their desire to |
| make toybox a part of the base Tizen system, and got a list of commands |
| to add to the roadmap. The tizen todo list is:</p> |
| |
| <blockquote><p> |
| wget, sha256*, gzip, gunzip, bunzip2, rsync, zdiff*, |
| less, ar, arch, base64, csplit, dir, fmt, join, |
| nproc, shred, shuf, stdbuf, stty, test, tr, unexpand, |
| users, vdir, diff3, sdiff, dosfsck (fsck.vfat), awk, fdisk |
| </p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p>(Most of which was already on the todo list, but it helps prioritize.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Fixed md5sum and sha1sum on big endian systems (reported by James McMechan). |
| Andy Lutomirski fixed unshare's help text and option parsing, |
| and submitted nsenter (a tool to use setns(2)) to pending. |
| Isaac Dunham implemented acpi -ctV options, and spotted the bug that ls -d |
| was inappropraitely following command line symlinks without -H or -L (it |
| should act like ls -l does), and ls -F handles symlinks wrong too. |
| Lukasz Szpakowski sent in two bugfixes to tail.c. Cynt Rynt spotted an |
| unnecessary assignment in lib/password.c.</p> |
| |
| <p>Ashwini Sharma's team was as busy as usual, submitting tr, crontab, and |
| ipcrm, and hwclock to pending, more features to the pending ip.c, and a |
| pile of bugfixes (to chgrp, killall, ifconfig, insmod, |
| losetup, comm, cp, id, xwrap, netcat, modprobe, nohup...) mostly found by |
| static analysis. (These fixes are mostly to seldom-used codepaths like the |
| TOYBOX_FREE config option, but test coverage is always appreciated.) Ashwini |
| also suggested upgrading ln -f to leave the original target alone if link |
| creation fails, and reported that mv -f and -i weren't implemented (now fixed).</p> |
| |
| <p>New config option: TOYBOX_NORECURSE prevents xexec() from making internal |
| function calls (for nommu systems with a finite stack).</p> |
| |
| <p>The "toybox" multiplexer command no longer adds a trailing space to each |
| line of command names, so things like "./toybox | tr ' \n' '|'" to create |
| a grep pattern snippet are easier to do. (Why you'd want to is your business, |
| but the output is tidier now.)</p> |
| |
| <h3>Infrastructure</h3> |
| |
| <p>Isaac Dunham added Android support to portability.h, including compile |
| probes for functions missing from bionic-libc, and annotated the commands that |
| use those functions. We haven't really tested building against bionic, |
| but in theory it's possible now.</p> |
| |
| <p>Running the test suite now color codes the PASS/SKIP/FAIL notifications |
| if output is to a tty. (And in case you missed it last time, VERBOSE=fail |
| to stop at the first failure is really useful.)</p> |
| |
| <p>In loopfiles_rw() use O_CLOEXEC instead of O_RDONLY to request the loop |
| function close filehandles for us. (Otherwise the callback function must |
| close each supplied filehandle itself.)</p> |
| |
| <p>The printf-style escape parsing ("\n" and friends) got factored out into |
| a new unescape() function.</p> |
| |
| <a name="02-10-2014" /><a href="#02-10-2014"><hr><h2><b>October 2, 2014</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"There is an art, it says, or rather, a knack to flying. |
| The knack lies in learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss... |
| Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, which presents the |
| difficulties." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.<p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.5.0.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.5.0</a> |
| (<a href=/hg/toybox/shortlog/1512>commit 1512</a>) is out.</p> |
| |
| <h3>New commands</h3> |
| |
| <p>The new commands are find, install, factor, and mount. Promoted commands |
| (cleaned up and moved out of "pending") are lspci, inotifyd, and blockdev.</p> |
| |
| <p>cp now implements -HL and -F to force delete of pending files, cpio now |
| ignores -m and implements -p, ls -C now has utf8 support (using wcwidth |
| instead of strlen), and umount got a number of upgrades involving |
| looking things up in /proc/mounts. Other minor cleanups happend to |
| cut, touch, free, and id.</p> |
| |
| <p>In pending: Bradley Controy submitted mix (adjusts OSS sound volume). Ashwini |
| Sharma submitted diff, userdel, blockdev, ipcs, and crond, upgraded |
| fdisk, fsck, and ftpget, and ran a static analyzer on a lot of other code. |
| Partial cleanup was done to useradd, userdel, groupadd, and groupdel.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Build infrastructure</h3> |
| |
| <p><b>Parallel builds</b></p> |
| |
| <p>The build now takes advantage of SMP, autodetecting the number of |
| processors. (Export the environment variable CPUS to pick a specific number.) |
| Other build changes: split out $LDOPTIMIZE because old compilers complain |
| about linker options passed with -c, and the entire "generated" directory now |
| gets deleted by clean (the README that was in there got merged into code.html).</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Standalone builds</b></p> |
| |
| <p>The standalone build infrastructure (scripts/single.sh) got upgraded to |
| build more commands as standalone executables. In make.sh the source file |
| selection uses a regex to find the source files with the NEWTOY/OLDTOY macro |
| for the command. It enables each command's |
| sub-options (so CP has CP_MORE), enables I18N and FLOAT support to build |
| full-featured commands, and includes --help text (at least when |
| the command doesn't use another command's help). The OLDTOY() macro |
| now produces (redundant) function prototypes so you can build an OLDTOY |
| without the NEWTOY</p> |
| |
| <p>It doesn't quite have complete coverage yet, the defconfig entries that |
| aren't building standalone yet are:</p> |
| |
| <blockquote><p>chown, egrep, fgrep, fstype, halt, mv, nc, poweroff, unix2dos, |
| whoami</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p>The main reason for standalone build failures is NEWTOY() or OLDTOY() |
| entries that don't have their own config symbol. Another problem is entries |
| that depend on another entry in kconfig, usually because common infrastructure |
| is using one command's flags (which the other commands copy): if that command |
| is disabled, the FLAG macros become 0 so dead code elimination can remove the |
| code. It's <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/rev/1503>possible |
| to untangle</a> this, but a bit awkward. (It boils down to conflicting |
| design goals in the two contexts.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Standalone builds are used by the test suite when testing individual |
| commands. |
| |
| <p><b>Snapshot builds</b></p> |
| |
| <p>A new addition to the "generated" directory is generated/build.sh |
| containing a single compiler command line to build toybox in its current |
| configuration. Combined with the generated/*.{h,sh} files from an |
| exisiting build, this may let you build on a new system that hasn't quite |
| got enough OS bits working to run a full configureand make.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Internals</h3> |
| |
| <p>Library code: xcreate/xopen now O_CLOEXEC by default to avoid leaking |
| filehandles to child processes. DIRTREE_COMEAGAIN's second callback is now |
| done with the directory filehandle still open (new dir->again variable added |
| to distinguish first from second callback, and requesting DIRTREE_RECURSE now |
| requires passing in the specific macro value, not just a true/false). |
| Use daemon() out of libc instead of hand-rolled daemonize() in various |
| pending commands. string_to_mode() now passes through type bits so you can |
| use it to more easily modify a file's existing mode. |
| Split xpopen() into xpopen_both(), xopen(), and xrun() depending on whether |
| we want to redirect both, one, or neither of stdin/stdout.</p> |
| |
| <p>Bugfixes: Better error message when TOYBOX_SUID option can't drop priviliges |
| (which happens when you suid something _other_ than root). |
| The old pending version of nbd_client.c wasn't deleted when the |
| command was promoted (and the build would break if both were enabled), |
| toy_exec() sometimes needs to re-exec from $PATH rather than recurse |
| internally (to gain dropped root permissions or limit stack depth), |
| always call setlocale() when I18N is enabled to switch it back _off_ when |
| we run commands that expect sscanf("%n") to return bytes, |
| dirtree() had a memory leak in an error path, patch.c had some bugs in |
| error paths (didn't report problem clearly). Ashwini Sharma spotted an |
| option parsing bug where [-abc] would forget _all_ command line arguments |
| saved in the GLOBALS() block (not just the ones for options being switched |
| off), plus various minor fixes to nbd_client and cpio. |
| Lukasz Szpakowski fixed rm -f on a broken symlink (failed), and killall |
| with no arguments (segfaulted).</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Portability</b></p> |
| |
| <p>A somewhat fiddly fix to rm -rf (which needs to chmod directories to u+rwx |
| to descend into them) which hit a musl bug in faccessat() which the musl |
| maintainer refuses to fix. (He literally wants the man page changed |
| instead, despite other libcs working.) Added an #ifdef __MUSL__ section |
| to portability.h with a workaround, you may need CFLAGS=-D__MUSL__ in your |
| build if your musl build's features.h doesn't #define that. (I may do |
| a different workaround in future, but sometimes you've just got to make |
| it work so you can ship. Also, toybox grep with multiple patterns |
| requires <a href=http://landley.net/hg/aboriginal/rev/1692>a patch |
| to musl's regex engine</a>, which applies to 1.1.4 but not to the current |
| musl source control.)</p> |
| |
| <p>More portability.h fixes for uClibc too. (I don't expect that to ever have |
| another release, so locally patching around posix-2008 violations is silly).</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Change to username filtering</b></p> |
| |
| <p>Posix recommends the username creation logic filter usernames to a small |
| allowed set of characters (which even Red Hat breaks by explicitly allowing |
| "$" at the end), but this prevents UTF-8 usernames. Posix' stated logic |
| is to allow filesystems to create the user's home directory, but Linux |
| filesystems can accept any character but NUL and "/". The only characters |
| we actually _need_ to filter out are ":" (field separator in passwd), |
| newline (line separator in passwd), and "/" (directory separator in |
| filesystem).</p> |
| |
| <h3>Documentation</h3> |
| |
| <p>Web pages updated: cleanup.html documents more cleanup, code.html |
| documents more code, and about.html now capitalizes "toybox" consistently |
| (it's just a word, capitalize at start of sentence).</p> |
| |
| <p>The pending/README file now lists commands that needed review/cleanup |
| before the pending directory was added.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Test Suite</h3> |
| |
| <p>Moved out of scripts/test into top level "tests" directory, and the |
| testing.sh script is now in scripts rather than mixed into the *.test files.</p> |
| |
| <p>Johan Bergström requested VERBOSE=fail to make tests (telling it to |
| stop at the first failure), and spotted a build bug where using gnu |
| sort on the host broke in non-C locales.</p> |
| |
| <p>Divya Kothari submitted tests for chmod, link, tar, bzcat, xzcat, zcat, |
| and hostname. (And more, but that's all that's merged so far.)</p> |
| |
| <a name="07-07-2014" /><a href="#07-07-2014"><hr><h2><b>July 7, 2014</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: |
| most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many |
| solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely |
| concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd |
| because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were |
| unhappy." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.9.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.9</a> (<a href=/hg/toybox/shortlog/1385>commit 1385</a>) is out.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>New commands</b> added to pending include: |
| lsattr, chattr, inotifyd, rfkill, sulogin, strings, makedevs, |
| killall5, and tar from Ashwini Sharma, arp from Kyungwan Han, |
| sysctl by Bilal Qureshi, partprobe from Bertold Van den Bergh, |
| host from Rich felker, and I did nbd-client and the first 2/3 of mount.</p> |
| |
| <p>Finished cleanups (commands promoted out of pending): |
| sysctl, rfkill, strings, mkpasswd, makedevs, partprobe, killall5, |
| fallocate, and nbd-client.</p> |
| |
| <p>(Along the way partial cleanups got made to: last, fold, lspci, ps, |
| bootchartd, init, fsck, telnetd, telnet, vconfig, toysh, iconv, useradd, |
| login, host, openvt, deallocvt, getty, tftpd, and modprobe. But there's |
| still more to do on all of those.)</p> |
| |
| <p>This time around the <a href=bin>static binaries</a> are linked against |
| musl instead of uClibc. (That's why there's no sparc version, musl doesn't |
| support that target yet.)</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Documentation:</b></p> |
| |
| <p>The help text parser expects lower case "usage:" lines with |
| a blank line after them, so go through and regularize those. Expand the |
| "coding style" section in the docs and move it to design.html. (Not a show |
| stopper for incoming |
| contributions, just an explanation of some of the things I'll do to them |
| during cleanup.) The help text for the "toybox" command now includes |
| the shell script snippet to install symlinks to the toybox binary.</p> |
| |
| <p>The <a href=cleanup.html>cleanup page</a> now has descriptions for the |
| full ifconfig cleanup series, among others.</p> |
| |
| <p>The new toys/examples directory contains hello.c and skeleton.c. The first is |
| a simple hello world program in toybox style, the second is a much more |
| elaborate example program using showing how to use the command line option |
| parsing and how to provide multiple commands in the same C file.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Fixes</b>:</p> |
| |
| <p>Fix od bug reported by Samuel Holland ("od -v -b" was appending the default |
| output type even though an output type was specified). Ashwini Sharma reported |
| bugs where readfile() was incorrectly freeing its buffer, and where toy_init() |
| was zeroing the wrong data because the field it was using to measure (rebound) |
| had moved (when I moved it back I added a comment why the field needs to be |
| there), fixed a segfault in the dhcp client, and made a 0 length read at |
| the start of password entry count as EOF. Make the "we are not root" test |
| in the init code show the help text. Posix implies that fflush() can return |
| success even when the stream's error bit is set, so call both fflush() and |
| ferror() from xprintf().</p> |
| |
| <p>Isaac Dunham pointed out that bloatcheck couldn't deal with diff |
| implementations that only implement "unified diff" format, and that some |
| diff implementations can't handle nonseekable input (I.E. reading from |
| a pipe). Bugfix so "help -a" works again. Option parsing on nohup now stops |
| at first nonoption argument. Fix segfault in "which" if PATH wasn't set, |
| which was actually a bug in lib function find_in_path(). Made rm -rf of |
| chmod 000 directories actually remove them.</p> |
| |
| <p>The build now passes the same $CFLAGS to the library probe as the final |
| build, because arch linux is so broken it provides different sets of |
| libraries for static and dynamic linking.</p> |
| |
| <p>It turns out sprintf("%.123s", str) is counting characters, not bytes, |
| so globally enabling locale support opens stack smashing vulnerabilities. |
| So there's a new TOYFLAGS_LOCALE you set in toyflags when you want the |
| setup code to setlocale().</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Upgrades:</b></p> |
| |
| <p>Isaac Dunham extended cpio to archive unreadable empty files, and I taught it |
| to set uid/gid and timestamp when extracting archives. Isaac also |
| added tests for cpio, link, and du, added lspci -i, made the pci database |
| parsing skip # comment lines, merged logname and whoami into id.</p> |
| |
| <p>Daniel Verkamp sped up md5sum about 30% with some loop unrolling, making |
| it actually smaller in the process. I added -b flags to md5sum and sha1sum |
| for "brief" output that's just the hash with no filename. (I'm aware other |
| implementations use that for MSDOS "binary" mode, and don't care.)</p> |
| |
| <p>When building standalone commands (scripts/singleconfig.sh commandname), |
| the build now switches on all the sub-options of the command so we get |
| a standalone version with all the bells and whistles enabled.</p> |
| |
| <p>Add -ds flags to date and document +FORMAT escapes. Add the shell NOP |
| command ":" as an alias for true (for toysh).</p> |
| |
| <p>Add uClibc probe for iconv() and fallocate. (The fact it didn't always |
| build against uClibc is why fallocate wasn't enabled in defconfig before.)</p> |
| |
| <p>The umount command now does an losetup -d on the device by default, so |
| we don't leak loopback devices. Bugfix to losetup so "losetup /dev/loop0 |
| filename" actually works again.</p> |
| |
| <p>Divya Kothari sent in test suite entries for ls, ln, rm, mv, printf, dd, |
| and renice. Then a second round for lsattr/chattr, mount, chmod, pgrep/pkill, |
| groupadd, groupdel, and useradd. Several of these uncovered bugs, still |
| working to fix them.</p> |
| |
| <p>There are now free() functions for the predefined llist types and a |
| dlist_terminate() function to break doubly linked lists. The new |
| generic_signal() handler either sets "toys.signal" or writes a byte |
| to toys.signalfd with the signal number if signalfd isn't -1 (which it's |
| initialized to in toy_init).</p> |
| |
| <p>The option parsing logic can now detect when a double fits in a long and |
| use the more precise type for floating point arguments (the FLOAT macro |
| contains the type used). The human_readable() function now just outputs |
| decimal kilo/mega/gigabytes (so when du -u says 5.0G it means 5.0 billion |
| bytes). The build infrastructure now notices duplicate commands (so if you |
| cp toys/pending/command.c toys/other/command.c and forget to delete the |
| first one, the build break is now more informative).</p> |
| |
| <a name="20-04-2014" /><a href="#20-04-2014"><hr><h2><b>April 20, 2014</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>And to this end they built themselves a stupendous supercomputer |
| which was so amazingly intelligent that even before the data banks |
| had been connected up it had started from "I think therefore I am" and got as |
| far as the existence of rice pudding and income tax before anyone managed to |
| turn it off. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.8.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.8</a> is based on |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/1262>commit 1262</a>. And |
| about time too.</p> |
| |
| <p>The big news is that the build no longer needs python to generate help.h, |
| that's now done in C. The help text generation is also collating help text |
| from multiple options, merging command line option blocks and usage: lines. |
| There's even a new <a href=help.html>help web page</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>New commands:</b> Ifconfig, cpio, and su were cleaned up the rest of the |
| way and promoted out of pending. That saga is mostly explained on the |
| <a href=cleanup.html>cleanup page</a>. Vivek Bhagat's freeramdisk, |
| Isaac Dunham's fsfreeze, and Felix Janda's iconv are also new.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>In pending:</b> |
| Ashwini Sharma's team submitted tcpsvd, udpsvd, telnet, telnetd, last, more, |
| groupdel/delgroup, arping, brctl, ftpget, ftpput, printf, reset, and added |
| ipv6 support to traceroute. Kyungwan Han's team submitted modprobe and getty. |
| Vivek Bhagat submitted openvt and deacllocvt. Samuel Holland submitted fold. |
| I wrote a new inflate (zip/zlib/gzip decompression) implementation in |
| compress.c, and still need to do a corresponding deflate (compression-side) |
| and plug them into gzip and zip and so on. (Right now it does zcat.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Several commands (vmstat, login, du, vconfig, mountpoint, free, chroot, |
| cut, touch, modinfo, expand) predate the "pending" directory, and are thus |
| in other directories but still need cleanup. Of these, vmstat got some |
| work this time (which would be much easier other vmstat implementations |
| documented what their output actually meant).</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Upgrades:</b> Ifconfig grew /prefix netmask support (ala 1.2.3.4/24). Grep now has -zZ to |
| handle null terminated data, cksum grew -H for hex output. Upgraded od so the |
| fields align better when producing multiple output types. Help has -a and -h |
| options (all commands, html output). |
| Bugfix to blkid building for a 32 bit target. The date command can actually |
| set dates now. The O_NOFOLLOW compile time probe didn't work with cross |
| compiling, so it's back to an #ifdef test in portability.h. Nathan McSween |
| sent in a bugfix to od and a portability fix in the common library code. |
| Ashwini Sharma spotted a bug in pidof -o, and added verbose (-v) options |
| to mkdir and ln, and suggested killall should have an -s option and |
| allow -l to take zero arguments. Ashwini Sharma and Felix Janda upgraded |
| tftpd. Fixed dumpleases still using toynet.h after |
| that was removed. Corrected killall return code and error reporting. |
| Isacc Dunham fixed bugs all over the tree, did cleanup on a bunch of |
| pending commands (getty, ftpget, init, openvt, modprobe...), and clarified |
| find's help text. Tom Sparrow ran three different static analyzers on |
| the code, which resulted in a few cleanups. The peek()/poke() functions |
| now use "volatile" to prevent broken compiler "optimizations" to do with |
| aliasing.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Build stuff:</b> Each FOR_xxxx macro now has a complementary CLEANUP_xxxx macro, so you |
| can put multiple commands with different command line options in the same |
| .c file, so they can share infrastructure outside of lib. (This let the |
| bunzip logic move out of lib into bzcat.c.) See XXX for example. |
| i |
| <p>The headers #included in toys.h are now grouped by standard, and headers |
| not listed in Posix or LSB were moved to portability.h. The old xregcomp.h |
| was folded into lib.h because it's posix (and supporting oddball uClibc |
| configurations isn't as important as it once was).</p> |
| |
| <p>Regression tested against Ubuntu 8.04 to fix up bit-rot in defconfig |
| build on older systems. (We depend on Posix-2008, but not necessarily |
| the absolute latest build environment.)</p> |
| |
| <p><b>In lib</b>: lib/xwrap.c added xgetpwnam(), xchroot(), and lib/lib.c now has names_to_pid(). |
| xsetuid() was replaced with xsetuser() which takes a struct passwd |
| and sets both gid and uid, mkpathat() got factored out into a library command, |
| get_int_value() became atolx_range(), and |
| xmsprintf() is now just xmprintf(). The bunzip2 logic moved from lib into |
| bzcat.c.</p> |
| |
| <p><b>Documentation</b>: new <a href=help.html>help page</a> with the |
| help text for all the defconfig commands, using the new help -ah output. |
| The <a href=code.html>source code walkthrough</a> now says more about |
| #including header files, and how the generated/* directory works. The |
| <a href=design.html>design page</a> has some new paragraphs about trading |
| of different kinds of simplicity, and why comments aren't a substitute for |
| good code. The README no longer trails off into obvious unfinished confusion |
| at the end. Each page on the website should now have its own title.</p> |
| |
| <a name="18-11-2013" /><a href="#18-11-2013"><hr><h2><b>November 18, 2013</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mindbogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the street to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space." - |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.7.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.7</a> is based on |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/1122>commit 1122</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>New commands: Brad Conroy submitted blkid. Elie De Brauwer submitted |
| reboot, halt, and poweroff. Strake's nl got cleaned up and promoted from |
| pending to posix. In addition, the existing chvt and vconfig got some |
| cleanup.</p> |
| |
| <p>That said, I haven't nearly kept up with the flood of new commands going |
| into pending: Ashwini Sharma's team submitted |
| dd, dumpleases, traceroute, top, useradd, groupadd, mkpasswd, tftpd, and |
| an fsck wrapper (with no filesystem drivers yet). Isaac Dunham sent in cpio.</p> |
| |
| <p>Bugfixes: Jeroen van Rijn added a user count to uptime. Elie De Brauwer |
| added -e to watch, removed a memory leak, and fixed a terminal size problem. |
| William Haddon made xargs call its command line once even with blank input |
| (the standard is vague, but builds expect it), and fixed an off by one bug |
| where grep didn't malloc enough space with -E (leading to a segfault). |
| I fixed a glitch in bunzip2 (same one as went into busybox since they're using |
| the code I wrote), in od to fix -t co, -J, and -c options. Add uname -o as a |
| synonym for -s. Build fix to never use $CC without prefixing it with |
| $CROSS_COMPILE (since $HOSTCC could be different). Anca Emanuel spotted |
| a typo in the web page.</p> |
| |
| <p>The compile-time command line option parsing got rewritten (ported from |
| bash to C), which should speed up builds a bit and allow code controlled by |
| --longopts to drop out properly when disabled in the configuration. Terminal |
| querying got refactored. Patch's -x option is now more informative (a |
| debug thing if you're trying to figure out why a patch didn't apply). |
| The "toynet.h" file got folded into toys.h since musl supports it and |
| micromanging uClibc options isn't very interesting anymore. The test suite |
| now uses scripts/single.sh when testing a single command.</p> |
| |
| <a name="17-09-2013" /><a href="#17-09-2013"><hr><h2><b>September 17, 2013</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"Think of a number," said the computer, "any number." |
| Arthur told the computer the telephone number of King's Cross railway |
| station passenger inquiries, on the grounds that it must have some function, |
| and this might turn out to be it. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p> |
| </blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.6.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.6</a> is based on |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/1068>commit 1068</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>This release adds |
| several new commands: Felix Janda wrote paste and fallocate, Kyungwan Han |
| submitted eject, Strake contributed grep, Ashwini Sharma added pmap (and |
| a testsuite entry for grep), Lukasz Skalski sent pwdx, Isaac Dunham posted |
| acpi, and I did timeout and umount.</p> |
| |
| <p>The ls command now has a --color=auto option (suggested by Rich Felker). |
| The multiplexer now has a --help option so you can say "./toybox --help blah" |
| instead of using the built-in "help" command. (Which is a shell built-in. |
| Try it on your command line, it's like man for shell builtins. But a certain |
| other project has conditioned people to expect --help, so...) I forget who |
| heehooman at gmail is but they pointed out unshare needed PID and UID |
| namespace support.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Pending</h3> |
| |
| <p>A lot of new commands in toys/pending, to the point the next release should |
| probably just focus on cleanup and review of this backlog. We've got klogd, |
| dhcp, dhcpd, watch, route, and ps from |
| Ashwini Sharma (and an fsck wrapper but no fsck.fstype engines yet), |
| syslogd, pgrep, and pkill from Madhur Verma, netstat by Ranjan Kumar, |
| test by Felix Janda, lspci by Isaac Dunham, nl, su, and renice by strake (I.E. |
| M. Farkas-Dyck), and sysvinit by Kyungwan Han.</p> |
| |
| <p>Some cleanup work on existing pending commands that aren't |
| ready to promote yet: I did a few more rounds on ifconfig |
| and Isaac Dunham's did several cleanups to xzcat, Felix Janda cleaned up |
| logger and syslogd...</p> |
| |
| <p>Also some cleanup work on commands that predate the pending directory, |
| but weren't quite polished when they went in, most prominently du, |
| expand, and touch.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Infrastructure</h3> |
| |
| <p>The new scripts/single.sh builds a standalone command without the |
| multiplexer, although not all commands can be built that way yet (NEWTOY yes, |
| OLDTOY no) and the space savings aren't anything to write home about. (If a |
| command needs the option parsing logic at all, it needs all of it.) If |
| you're curious, you can do:</p> |
| |
| <blockquote><pre> |
| make defconfig |
| make |
| mkdir singles |
| for i in $(./toybox) |
| do |
| echo $i |
| PREFIX=singles/ scripts/single.sh $i || break |
| done |
| </pre> |
| <p>(And then wait a long time and watch almost half the builds fail.)</p> |
| </blockquote> |
| |
| <p>There is now libbuf analogous to toybuf, another global 4k buffer this |
| time for use by lib/ code instead of command code.</p> |
| |
| <p>The lib directory got split up a bit, lib/pending.c contains functions |
| not yet used by anything outside of toys/pending/*, and lib/xwrap.c contains |
| functions that wrap other functions and handle failures (via error_exit). |
| This leaves lib/lib.c containing actual new functions.</p> |
| |
| <p>General improvements and bug fixes to argument parsing. The [-abc] exclude |
| logic should now clear arguments slots when disabling options. Bare --longopts |
| should work now and be able to report errors using their name, the new ; |
| option allows optional arguments to longopts only suppliable with = (I.E. |
| --color and --color=auto but not --color auto).</p> |
| |
| <p>I'm gradually weaning the code off of itoa()/utoa() because sprintf |
| does this already. In this case "simple" probably means "let libc do it |
| for us".</p> |
| |
| <p>Rewrote for_each_pid_with_name_in() and renamed it to just names_to_pid(). |
| It shouldn't get confused trying to compare absolute and relative paths quite |
| so much anymore.</p> |
| |
| <p>lib/llist.c grew a new dlist_pop() function for removing a doubly |
| linked list entry while maintaining a circular list; tail and patch are |
| using it now.</p> |
| |
| <p>The musl guys suggested a new optimization flag |
| (-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables) |
| that shaves about 10% off the binary size by removing a C++ism that crept |
| into gcc's idea of C. While I don't normally try to micromanage the compiler, |
| "-fstop-being-stupid" is a thing you have to hit gcc with from time to time.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Bugfixes</h3> |
| |
| <p>Felix Janda and I did a largeish rewrite of tail to |
| finally make it work right (we think). Still need to implement tail -f |
| someday (the tricky bit is making -f follow multiple files at once). |
| Felix also reported a bug in xpidfile.</p> |
| |
| <p>Juhani Haverinen pointed out that |
| python 3 doesn't work with config2help.py, so the detection logic looks |
| for python2 (until I get around to rewriting that in C). Elie De Brauwer |
| then fixed our first attempt at this, and also fixed uname's help string.</p> |
| |
| <p>Ashwini Sharma |
| pointed out the build was making a FLAG_ macro for " " which broke some |
| configurations. (That's a control character, not a command line option.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Jacek Bukarewicz pointed out a bug in chdir permission handling, and |
| a way to make env segfault. Both should be fixed now.</p> |
| |
| <p>The new function xexec_optargs() |
| replaces calls to xexec(toys.optargs) to avoid freeing and reusing optargs |
| during option parsing screwing stuff up (such as netcat's exec mode).</p> |
| |
| <p>The stat command's %a output was padded with leading zeroes, which |
| didn't match anybody else's behavior and thus made the test suite hiccup |
| between TEST_HOST and testing toybox. (If you go "TEST_HOST=1 scripts/test.sh |
| command" it sanity checks the tests against the host implementation.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Last release, "mkdir sub/sub && chmod 007 sub/sub && rm -rf sub" didn't |
| delete sub and didn't exit with an error either. Neither was correct, rm |
| should now be fixed.</p> |
| |
| <p> |
| <a name="26-07-2013" /><a href="#26-07-2013"><hr><h2><b>July 26, 2013</b></h2></a> |
| <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski maintains a <a href=https://github.com/gfto/toybox>git |
| mirror</a> of the repository on github, automatically updated from the |
| mercurial every 6 hours. The mirror is read only, but you can generate patches |
| against it and post them to the list.</p> |
| |
| <a name="02-07-2013" /><a href="#02-07-2013"><hr><h2><b>July 2, 2013</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so." "Very deep. You |
| should send that in to the Reader's Digest. They've got a page for people |
| like you." - |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.5.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.5</a> is based on |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/941>commit 941</a>. It adds |
| uuencode and uudecode from Erich Plondke, and enables Luis Morales' "who" by |
| default. Felix Janda and I cleaned up last year's "stat" submission and |
| enabled it. Ivo van Poorten added "groups". |
| Andre Renaud added "lsusb". I implemented "split", "pivot_root", and "mv". |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>The "help" command is implemented differently now (lib/help.c) and |
| each command can now understand --help (including both "toybox --help" |
| and "toybox --help command" in the multiplexer).</p> |
| |
| <p>The "pending" directory has several commands (find, xzcat, nbd-client, |
| logger, expr) which work but are not enabled by default pending further cleanup. |
| Ifconfig is enabled, but still in pending because it's only 2/3 cleaned up. |
| (It's an awkward halfway state but I'm not holding up the release for it.)</p> |
| |
| <p>I'm <a href=cleanup.html>documenting the cleanups</a> to teach |
| more people to do it, but the writeups aren't caught up yet. The |
| <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> also got updated a bit with further analysis |
| of other projects, and the README and about pages got updated.</p> |
| |
| <p>Fixed _another_ "ls -C" segfault when terminal size can't be detected, |
| condensed the ls help text to fit on one page, implented --color, and taught |
| -l to print the major, minor numbers when showing block/char devices. |
| Argument parsing now handles "--" properly (to end option checking), |
| and the infrastructure can now handle bare --longopts that have no |
| corresponding short option (both were implemented before but didn't work). |
| Fixed an old bug in "patch", chmod grew -f, who grew -a. Isaac Dunham |
| fixed "-" vs "_" handling in modinfo, added a "firmware" output |
| field, added -b and -k support, and taught it that the ".ko" extension means |
| to look for the file at the specified path instead of under /lib. Felix Janda |
| moved file permission display code to lib so ls and |
| stat could share it. Ashwini Sharma spotted a bug in xabspath when the |
| last path component exists but we haven't got permissions to open it |
| (ala readlink -f /dev/sda as a normal user). |
| </p> |
| |
| <p>In the build infrastructure, scripts/findglobals.sh finds leaked global |
| variables. (Leaked means they aren't part of the global union: Other than glibc |
| debris, toybox should define "this", "toy_list", "toybuf", and "toys", and |
| that's it; the rest add memory footprint to every command for the benefit of |
| just one command; use GLOBALS() to stick 'em in the union.) Static linking |
| against libraries other than the host's libc now applies to feature probes |
| for unshare and such. Neuter stupid internationalization support that makes |
| various host "sort" commands put things in an order other than alphabetical |
| (breaking the multiplexer's binary search on command names). |
| |
| <p>You should now be able to build from a source control snapshot on a build |
| system that hasn't got python: if you disable CONFIG_TOYBOX_HELP. (The |
| release tarballs ship generated/help.h, but it's not in source control. |
| Eventually I should rewrite that python script in C.)</p> |
| </p> |
| |
| <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 |
| BSD" <a href=license.html>license</a> got slightly simplified so the first |
| paragraph now says:</p> |
| |
| <blockquote><p>Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this |
| software for any purpose with or without fee is hereby granted.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p>It used to continue "provided that the above copyright notice and this |
| permission notice appear in all copies", but A) what's the point? B) does "all |
| copies" mean binaries, or just source code, or what? C) lots of projects |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| less obvious) because "all copies must include this function" would violate |
| the GPL but "all copies must include this magic text blob" somehow don't?</p> |
| |
| <p>I don't want to have to care about this anymore. The tweaked version is more |
| or less public domain with a liability disclaimer, but we're still calling it |
| BSD (sometimes "0 clause BSD") to avoid explaining.</p> |
| |
| <a name="21-03-2013" /><a href="#21-03-2013"><hr><h2><b>March 21, 2013</b></h2></a> |
| <p>Video of my ELC talk |
| "<a href=http://youtu.be/SGmtP5Lg_t0>Why is Toybox?</a>" |
| is up on youtube. Related materials include the |
| <a href=http://landley.net/talks/celf-2013.txt>talk outline</a> and an |
| <a href=/aboriginal/about.html#selfhost>android self-hosting writeup</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>[Updated June 4] The following links jump to specific topics in the video. (Sorry about |
| the ads, it's The Linux Foundation.)</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li>0m29s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=0m29s>The smartphone is replacing the PC</a></li> |
| <ul> |
| <li>4m22s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=4m22s>Software needed to become self-hosting</a></li> |
| <li>6m20s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=6m20s>Do we care if android or iphone wins?</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| <li>9m45s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=9m45s>Android not vanilla: oppose or accept?</a></li> |
| <ul> |
| <li>11m30s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=11m30s>Open source can't do User Interfaces</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| <li>15m09s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=15m09s>Android is not copyleft: oppose or accept?</a></li> |
| <li>18m23s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=18m23s>Security issues</a></li> |
| <li>21m15s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=21m15s>Solutions to the software problems</a></li> |
| <ul> |
| <li>22m55s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=22m55s>What toybox needs to be/do</a></li> |
| <li>28m17s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m17s>What is toybox?</a></li> |
| <ul> |
| <li>28m58s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=28m58s>Why toybox started...</a></li> |
| <li>37m50s <a href=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SGmtP5Lg_t0#t=37m50s>What does toybox actually implement?</a></li> |
| </ul> |
| </ul> |
| </ul> |
| </span> |
| |
| |
| <a name="14-03-2013" /><a href="#14-03-2013"><hr><h2><b>March 14, 2013</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"Ford, you're turning into a penguin. Stop it." - |
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.4.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.4</a> is based on |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/813>commit 813</a>, adding |
| the "time" and "readahead" commands, plus some bugfixes.</p> |
| |
| <p>The "cp" command now implements the -s symlink option, plus bugfixes |
| getting various corner cases right as used in actual package builds. |
| "id -Gn root" should now print root's groups |
| instead of the current user's. Several build fixes so toybox builds under |
| Ubuntu 8.04 again (which is about as old a build environment as you |
| can expect to find posix-2008 features in).</p> |
| |
| <p>Unfinished commands have generally been moved to "toys/pending". |
| Everything else should "default y" to participate in make defconfig. |
| Several of those pending commands got some basic cleanup so allyesconfig |
| should at least compile (although defconfig is still what's useful).</p> |
| |
| <p>Significant roadmap updates, checking several other multicall binaries |
| (klibc, sash, sbase, s6...) to see what commands they include.</p> |
| |
| <a name="18-01-2013" /><a href="#18-01-2013"><hr><h2><b>January 18, 2013</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays. - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.3.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.3</a> is based on |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/793>commit 793</a>. There |
| are now exactly 100 commands in defconfig (of a little over 220 on the |
| <a href=roadmap.html>todo list</a>).</p> |
| |
| <p>Elie De Brauwer added the rev command, cleaned up tac, implemented the -s |
| and -f flags for seq, added -v and -i to killall (and fixed killall not to |
| kill itself before finishing its pid list), and added to the test suite. |
| Felix Janda added -m to mkdir, pwd -L and -P, and more test suite entries.</p> |
| |
| <p>Rob Landley added the losetup command, and fixed the existing ls, cp, and |
| readlink commands. The segfault in ls |
| happened when it couldn't determine the screen size (last release changed the |
| default to -C and a screen size of 0 made column view unhappy), and cp got an |
| extensive rewrite bringing it up to date with the dirtree changes and fixing |
| a number of things it never did right in the first place. The xabspath() |
| code in the library now handles a symlink after ".." properly (and the test |
| suite checks for it).</p> |
| |
| <p>Infrastructure-wise the code is better about automatically setting the |
| error return code properly. Now error_msg() sets the exit code to 1 if it's |
| still defaulting to 0, and the global exit path does a fflush(NULL) with error |
| bit check rather than trying to be quite so granular about flushing. (That |
| means if we use printf() instead of xprintf() it still exits with the right |
| error code, it just doesn't end the program early on an output error.) |
| Minor bugfix so TOYBOX_DEBUG |
| doesn't always warn about the lack of suid bit when toybox is built with |
| at least one STAYROOT command. Bugfix for the option [grouping] logic |
| (and then further fixes to the error reporting pointed out by Ashwini Sharma). |
| dirtree_handle_callback() now has a prefix like the rest of the dirtree |
| functions. A lot of stuff doing manual path handling was switched to using |
| libc basename() (including, embarassingly, the basename command), which means |
| it now correctly detects "/trailing/slash/" which the previous code didn't.</p> |
| |
| <p>Also, last release included some accidentally checked in debug code that |
| disabled compiler optimization, so the binary size bloated a bit. It's back |
| to -Os by default now.</p> |
| |
| <a name="15-12-2012" /><a href="#15-12-2012"><hr><h2><b>December 15, 2012</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a |
| thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly |
| go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair." |
| </p><p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.2.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.2</a> is based on |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/749>commit 749</a> and is |
| just a resync. Linux 3.7 came out, meaning it's time to do an Aboriginal |
| Linux release, and that should use a stable version of toybox. So here's |
| a new stable version.</p> |
| |
| <p>The new commands are cut (from Jason Kyungwan Han), touch |
| (from Choubey Ji), expand (from Jonathan Clairembault, and he fixed a |
| bug in login), and rm (from Rob Landley). Felix Janda added UTF-8 |
| support infrastructure (for non-ascii character sets) with a config option. |
| Elie De Brauwer added tests for cat and sha1sum, and -so options to pidof. |
| The "ls" command defaults to -C (column view) now, and "readlink" now supports |
| -fenq.</p> |
| |
| <p>Portability work: toybox should now build against the musl C library, |
| and against older glibc versions (circa 2008, much before that and kernel |
| features we depend on start to drop out).</p> |
| |
| <p>The whole codebase got reindented from "one tab" to "two spaces" per |
| level. The option parsing logic now understands [groups] of commands (when more |
| than one in a group is selected it can switch the others off, or error out, |
| or other things). The error_exit() infrastructure can now longjmp back to an |
| earlier point instead of exiting. Each toys/* directory now has a README, |
| the first line of which is the fancy name menuconfig uses for the directory |
| (so no more hardwired directory list in scripts/genconfig.sh).</p> |
| |
| <p>Fixed a filehandle leak in getmountlist(). |
| Pass parent pointer to dirtree_add_node() so it can give error messages with |
| full path. The yesno() function now always reads from stdin and writes to |
| stderr (we can retry tty checking complexity once we've got commands needing |
| it).</p> |
| |
| <p>The open group broke their website so the |
| <a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>old links</a> to POSIX 2008 |
| now <a href=http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>need to start with |
| pubs</a>. Some of the links in the tree have been updated, others haven't while |
| I wait to see if their webmaster notices and fixes it.</p> |
| |
| <p>(I note that the current rm implementation is not technically posix compliant |
| because the standard requires infinite recursion depth and the current |
| implementation uses one filehandle per level. I can add a config option |
| to do it Posix's way, which is more brittle and needs extra security checks, |
| but am waiting for somebody to complain first. The default "ulimit -n" is 1024 |
| filehandles, so drilling down over 1000 nested subdirectories).</p> |
| |
| <a name="13-11-2012" /><a href="#13-11-2012"><hr><h2><b>November 13, 2012</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"Rule Six: The winning team shall be the first team that wins." |
| - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.1</a> is based on |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/691>commit 691</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed usleep, Ashwini Kumar contributed du, and |
| Kyungwan Han contributed vconfig. Other new commands include switch_root and |
| md5sum, and the remaining shell wrappers are now proper commands (dos2unix, |
| unix2dos).</p> |
| |
| <p>The patch command now supports -l, and gethostname is now enabled by |
| default. The df command follows symlinks to get the actual device name. |
| Felix Janda added -m support to wc (for utf8).</p> |
| |
| <p>On the infrastructure side, the commands have now been grouped into |
| "posix", "lsb", and "other" subdirectories (for things required by Posix-2008, |
| the Linux Standard Base 4.1, and commands in neither). This affects menuconfig |
| and the actual source layout (toys/cp.c is now toys/posix/cp.c, and so on). |
| An android directory is planned (see the updated |
| <a href=roadmap.html#android>android roadmap analysis</a>).</p> |
| |
| <p>The FLAG_ macros for command option parsing and TT alias for the command's |
| global block are now automatically generated, commands should |
| #define FOR_commandname before #including <toys.h> to get the macros for that |
| command.</p> |
| |
| <p>An upgrade to the build infrastructure now allows commands with _ and - |
| in them, such as switch_root.</p> |
| |
| <p>Bugfixes: Avery Pennarun spotted a case where ls showed uid twice instead of |
| uid and gid, and that nice was using the wrong range of numbers. |
| The ls command also recursed inappropriately last time (not quite |
| properly converted for the dirtree changes last release), and now it's |
| fixed. Roy Tam pointed out a glitch in sh, and fixed df's percentage |
| calculation to match the POSIX spec. The kernel build didn't like our mktemp |
| and it does now. The wc command wasn't quite posix compliant (trailing spaces |
| break stuff). The ls command recursed inappropriately last time (not quite |
| properly converted for the dirtree changes last release), and now it's |
| fixed. The catv command wasn't displaying byte 255 correctly. Some lib |
| fixes (thinko in xpidfile). Fixed uname -m when running a 32 bit x86 binary |
| on an x86-64 host (it lies and says the system is i686, i586, or i486 depending |
| on what the toolchain that built the binary supported. This makes builds in |
| a 32 bit chroot on a 64 bit kernel break less.) The df command was checking |
| partitions in the wrong order (displaying undermounts instead of overmounts: |
| this used to work but some library code changed out from under it and it |
| wasn't updated to match until now). Felix Janda filled out the test suite |
| some more. The patch file creation logic got tweaked several times to |
| successfully apply more patches. Support for older (pre 2.10) glibc |
| versions was added to portability.h.</p> |
| |
| <p>Miscelaneous cleanups all around (mknod, sha1sum, logname), including a |
| rewrite of taskset to be less dependent on libc getting the headers right. All |
| the command headers should now point to the current relevant standards |
| document, where applicable.</p> |
| |
| <p>This news page had old news entries from before the relaunch moved into |
| a separate <a href=oldnews.html>oldnews</a> page.</p> |
| |
| <p>I forgot to create <a href=bin>static binaries</a> last time, but they're |
| back now.</p> |
| </span> |
| |
| <a name="23-07-2012" /><a href="#23-07-2012"><hr><h2><b>July 23, 2012</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"Ford", Arthur said. "There's an infinite number of monkeys |
| out here who want to talk to us about this script for Hamlet they've worked |
| out." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.4.0.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.4.0</a> is based on |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/640>commit 640</a>.</p> |
| |
| <p>The new <a href=status.html>status page</a> is calculated from |
| the roadmap info, and should be easier to keep up to date in future.</p> |
| |
| <p>Andre Renaud contributed od and modinfo. Elie De Brauwer contributed |
| taskset, bugfixes to cmp and tail, and tests for sort and tail. Kyungwan Han |
| contributed passwd. Gaurang Shastri contributed w. Ashwini Sharma spotted a |
| case where dirtree was adding extra slashes to a path.</p> |
| |
| <p>I rewrote od, cleaned up comm, documented the |
| <a href=code.html#lib_llist>llist</a> and |
| <a href=code.html#lib_dirtree>dirtree</a> infrastructure, added an -r option |
| to date (and fixed a bug where -u wouldn't override /etc/localtime), |
| fixed bugs in chmod +stw, fixed ls to show suid bits properly when the |
| corresponding executable bit wasn't set, and worked around a longstanding |
| glibc bug where static linking prevents stdout from automatically flushing |
| pending output on exit.</p> |
| |
| <a name="25-06-2012" /><a href="#25-06-2012"><hr><h2><b>June 25, 2012</b></h2></a> |
| <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> |
| |
| <p><a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.1.tar.bz2>Toybox 0.3.1</a> is based on commit |
| <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/607>commit 607</a>. It's |
| mostly a bugfix release for ls -l (which was unhappy on targets other than |
| x86-64), plus a new "date" from Andre Renaud and rewritten chgrp/chown which |
| now support the full set of posix flags, plus a little work on the test |
| suite and some more header tweaks towards eventual compatability with the |
| musl libc.</p> |
| |
| <p>The todo list runneth over, but "release early, release often", so here |
| it is. The roadmap and documentation are a bit behind, and I've got ~40 |
| pending submissions to review. I need to catch up...</p> |
| </span> |
| |
| <a name="12-06-2012" /><a href="#12-06-2012"><hr><h2><b>June 12, 2012</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p>"For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that |
| he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much - the |
| wheel, New York, wars and so on - whilst all the dolphins had ever done was |
| muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had |
| always believed that they were far more intelligent than man - for precisely |
| the same reasons." - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p>It's well past time for <a href=downloads/toybox-0.3.0.tar.bz2>toybox 0.3.0</a>, |
| so here it is, based |
| on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/595>commit 595</a>, and the |
| statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt binaries</a> should |
| actually be statically linked this time (thanks Ashwini Sharma for spotting |
| that).</p> |
| |
| <p>It's hard to figure out where to cut a release, because development |
| doesn't stop. "Long before now" is the obviuos answer, of course. |
| The project's maintainer also moved house during this development cycle, which |
| threw things off for a bit (so many boxes). Releases should hopefully be a bit |
| more frequent from here on.</p> |
| |
| <p>The big things Rob worked on this time were the new dirtree (directory |
| tree traversal) infrastructure, and a complete rewrite of ls using that |
| which should now implement all 26 posix options.</p> |
| |
| <p>Georgi Chorbadzhiyski added printenv, whoami, mkdir, mkfifo, chmod, chown, |
| chgrp, and uniq. He also added fraction and extension support to sleep (so if |
| you need a quarter-second sleep, it can do that now), and fixed a build bug |
| on slackware.</p> |
| |
| <p>Daniel Walter contributed a string to mode_t parser (in use by chmod and |
| mkdir -m). Ilya Kuzmich contributed comm. Elie De Brauwer added mountpoint, |
| vmstat, logname, login, and mktemp. Kevin Chase did some portability cleanups. |
| Pere Orga fixed some documentation.</p> |
| |
| <p>The "tac" and "clear" commands are now normal commands instead of shell |
| wrappers, and the header #includes have been cleaned up a bit to remove |
| deprecated functions and attempt to increase compatability with the bionic and |
| musl C libraries, "tail" should now use lseek() for large files, and "id" got |
| some cleanups and bugfixes.</p> |
| |
| <p>The new TOYBOX_FLOAT configuration option selects whether or not |
| to include floating point support (for embedded targets where that's |
| problematic).</p> |
| |
| <p>Several random bugfixes: unshare() might actually build portably now, |
| yes 'n' | cp -i should no longer bypass stdin and prompt via the tty, the |
| SUID support no longer drops permissions going through the toybox |
| multiplexer command, and a bugfix to xargs -0 means it should no longer |
| segfault. (I have a pending bug report about xargs not doing the full |
| posix whitespace handling that -0 obsoleted, but I'll deal with that next |
| release.)</p> |
| |
| <p>The build infrastructure is now automatically generating FLAG_ macros |
| for the options, but currently with the wrong names. Some more macro glue |
| is necessary, which I haven't quite figured out how to do yet.</p> |
| |
| <p>A defconfig toybox at the start of the $PATH has successfully built |
| Linux From Scratch (in my Aboriginal Linux project). The commands that |
| 'default n' in the config are often still broken, cleanup is ongoing. |
| (The new dirtree stuff broke several of them that haven't been converted |
| yet, but if I wait until everything works we won't have a release before |
| 1.0, so here's a checkpoint.)</p> |
| |
| |
| <a name="03-03-2012" /><a href="#03-03-2012"><hr><h2><b>March 3, 2012</b></h2></a> |
| |
| <blockquote><p>"They went unnoticed at Goonhilly, passed over Cape Canaveral |
| without a blip, and Woomera and Jodrell Bank looked straight through them. |
| Which was a pity, because it was exactly the sort of thing they'd been looking |
| for all these years."</p></p>- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.</p> |
| </p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p>Here's <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.2.1</a> based |
| on <a href=http://landley.net/hg/toybox/shortlog/512>commit 512</a>. This |
| time around, there are statically linked <a href=downloads/binaries>prebuilt |
| binaries</a> for various embedded targets.</p> |
| |
| <p>It's been a busy few weeks, almost entirely due to new contributors. (I |
| have not quite been keeping up.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Elie De Brauwer contributed free, uptime, swapon, swapoff, lsmod, mknod, |
| insmod, rmmod, and fixed a bug in basename. Andre Renaud contributed ls, ln, |
| realpath, and hostname. Andres Heck contributed pidof and killall. Daniel |
| Walter wrote kill and extended id. Timothy Elliott contributed tail and tests |
| for cmp. Frank Bergmann sent a warning fix. Bryce Fricke added -i to cp. |
| Nathan McSween pointed out an optimization. Georgi Chorbadzhiyski fixed |
| cross compiling to work more reliably.</p> |
| |
| <p>(My own contribution this time around was just tightening up other people's |
| code, a build fix to unshare, some random bugfixes, and so on. My only new |
| code this time around was writing a bash replacement for the existing python |
| bloat-o-meter.)</p> |
| |
| <p>Last time (the 0.2.0 release) included the first pass at an id command from |
| Tim Bird, env and basename from Tryn Mirell, cmp and head from Timothy Elliott, |
| more bugfixes from Nathan McSween and Elie De Brauwer, and Luis Felipe Strano |
| Moraes did a first pass at the who command plus other bugfixes and |
| optimizations.</p> |
| |
| <p>(For that release I did xargs, cal, truncate, unlink, nohup, tty, wc, link, |
| dirname, unshare, and various infrastructure tweaks, but it took me 3 months |
| and those guys did their stuff in a week or so.)</p> |
| |
| |
| <a name="12-02-2012" /><a href="#12-02-2012"><hr><h2><b>February 12, 2012</b></h2></a> |
| <blockquote><p> |
| "for though it has many omissions and contains much that is apocryphal, or at |
| least wildly inaccurate, it scores over the older, more pedestrian work in two |
| important respects..."</p> |
| <p> - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy</p></blockquote> |
| |
| <p>Here's the first BSD licensed release, |
| <a href=downloads/toybox-0.2.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.2.0</a>, more a synchronization |
| point than anything particularly useful. 47 commands in a reasonably |
| ready-to-use state (what "make defconfig" builds), another ten or so partially |
| finished stubs ("make allyesconfig"), and several |
| patches pending on the mailing list I need to review and merge.</p> |
| |
| <p>More to come...</p> |
| |
| <hr> |
| <a name="15-11-2011" /><a href="#15-11-2011"><hr><h2><b>November 15, 2011</b></h2></a> |
| - Back from the dead, Toybox is now under a 2 |
| clause BSD license, and aiming to become the default command line |
| implementation of Android systems everywhere.</p> |
| |
| <p>More to come...</p> |
| |
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