21 August 2008 -- BusyBox 1.12.0 (unstable)
BusyBox 1.12.0.
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New applets: rdev (Grant Erickson), setfont, showkey (both by Vladimir)
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Most significant changes since previous release (please report is you found a regression):
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Most significant changes since previous release (please report any regression):
- ash: bash compat: "shift $BIGNUM" is equivalent to "shift 1"
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- ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to stript's fd!
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- ash: dont allow e.g. exec <&10 to attach to script's fd!
- ash: fix a bug where redirection fds were not closed afterwards. optimize close+fcntl(DUPFD) into dup2
- ash: fix segfault in "command -v"
- ash: fix very weak $RANDOM generator
- ash: prevent exec NN>&- from closing fd used for script reading
- ash: teach ash about 123>file. It could take only 0..9 before
- hush: add #defines to switch off break/continue if loops are not supported
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- hush: delete unused field in struct child. reinstate needed check for invalid syntax
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- hush: delete unused field in struct child. Reinstate needed check for invalid syntax
- hush: fix a case where "$@" must expand to no word at all
- hush: fix mishandling of a'b'c=fff as assignments. They are not
- hush: fix non-detection of builtins and applets in "v=break; ...; $v; ..." case
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- libbb: fix mishandling of "all argv are opts" in getopt32()
- libbb: getopt32() should not ever touch argv[0] (even read)
- libbb: introduce and use xrealloc_vector
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- libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Valdimir)
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- libbb: [x]fopen_for_{read,write} introduced and used (by Vladimir)
- lineedit: fix use-after-free
- arp: without -H type, assume "ether" (closes bug 4564)
- ar: reuse existing ar unpacking code
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- awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. simplify -f file reading.
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- awk: fix a case with multiple -f options. Simplify -f file reading.
- bb_strtoXXX: close bug 4174 (potential use of buf[-1])
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- build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-on
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- build system: introduce and use FAST_FUNC: regparm on i386, otherwise no-op
- bunzip2: fix an uncompression error (by Rob Landley rob AT landley.net)
- b[un]zip2, g[un]zip: unlink destination if -f is given (closes bug 3854)
- comm: almost total rewrite
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- man: teach it to use .lzma if requested by .config
- mdev: check for "/block/" substring for block dev detection
- mdev: do not complain if mdev.conf does not exist
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- mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal coreectly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it
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- mdev: if device was moved at creation, at removal correctly remove it from moved location and also remove symlinks to it
- mdev: support for serializing hotplug
- mdev, init: use shared code for fd sanitization
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- mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)
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- mkdir: fix "uname 0222; mkdir -p foo/bar" case (by Doug Graham dgraham AT nortel.com)
- modprobe: support for /etc/modprobe.d (by Timo Teras)
- modprobe: use buffering line reads (fgets()) instead of reads()
- modutils: optional modprobe-small (by Vladimir), 15kb smaller than standard one
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- mount: support for "-o mand"
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- mount: support for "-o mand" and "[no]relatime"
- mount: support nfs mount option nordiplus (by Octavian Purdila opurdila AT ixiacom.com)
- mount: support relatime / norelatime
- mount: testsuite for "-o mand"
- msh: fix "while...continue" (closes bug 3884)
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- mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink
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- mv: fix a case when we move dangling symlink across mountpoints
- netstat: optional -p support (by L. Gabriel Somlo somlo AT cmu.edu)
- nmeter: fix read past the end if a buffer (closes bug 4594)
- od, hexdump: fix bug where xrealloc may move pointer, leaving other pointers dangling (bug 4104)
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the Software Freedom Law Center to report BusyBox license violations.
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- 12 July 2008 -- BusyBox 1.11.1 (stable)
BusyBox 1.11.1.
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