A few minor updates. ;-)
Seriously though, read the Changelog for busybox 0.42,
which this is about to become...
-Erik
diff --git a/Changelog b/Changelog
index 6581b5c..7ecc4fb 100644
--- a/Changelog
+++ b/Changelog
@@ -1,4 +1,41 @@
0.42
+
+ * Fairly massive restructuring of umount.c to deal with remounting
+ busy devices read-only. Adds a -r option to control that; it is
+ optionally compiled in with BB_FEATURE_REMOUNT
+ * Added a bunch of functions to mtab.c to interact with the
+ {get,set,end}mntent interface; as it turns out, those functions do
+ not appear to be re-entrant, and that causes a lot of problems with
+ the way umount was originally written.
+ * Makes init send TERM and KILL (instead of HUP and KILL) on reboot
+ to be more consistent with sysvinit
+ * Changes to init.c to use the new -r option to umount. Also increased
+ the sleep time between the time the TERM and KILL signals are sent
+
+ - Randolph Chung
+
+
+ * cp.c, mv.c: removed, replaced by cp_mv.c which has been
+ extensively rewritten from the original cp.c.
+ * Also added a warning message to the `mv' usage string saying that
+ this is not GNU mv, and it will break hard links. cp also breaks
+ hard links.
+ * ln.c: implemented `-n' switch, no-deref symlinks.
+ * include<sys/param.h>: and use PATH_MAX everywhere.
+ * busybox: File name buffer overrun guards to prevent future crashes.
+ - Always check exit status.
+ - Purge all use of `creat()', replace with `open()'.
+ * utility.c
+ - recursiveAction was overriding the value of
+ followLinks thus ignoring it.
+ - isDirectory now takes a followLinks boolean, updated all callers
+ - copyFile had the followLinks logic reversed.
+ * messages.c: New file. Put common error message strings all in
+ one place in an attempt to shrink the binary a little.
+
+ -Karl M. Hegbloom
+
+
* Made tar creation support in busybox tar optional.
* You no longer _have_ to put a "-" in front of tar options.
* Tar could inadvertently change permissions and ownership on
@@ -16,11 +53,11 @@
for the kernel init chroot patch by Werner Almesberger, which
allows init to chroot to a new device, and umount the old one.
* Fixed bug that wouldn't let one chown a symlink -- it would
- always dereference before. -beppu
+ always dereference before. -beppu
* Fixed a bug where init could have reference already freed memory.
Found and fixed by Taketoshi Sano <kgh12351@nifty.ne.jp>
* Several contributions from Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
- * added (and documented) "-n" option for head -
+ * Added (and documented) "-n" option for head -
* Cleanup for a number of usage messages -- also
contributed Friedrich Vedder <fwv@myrtle.lahn.de>
* Cosmetic fix to busybox.c (Don't print a comma at the
@@ -42,6 +79,11 @@
Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>.
* cp could, when copying symlinks, change permissions of the
files pointed to by the symlinks.
+ * Several fixes from Pavel Roskin <pavel_roskin@geocities.com>:
+ - `chown' with 1 argument displayed the error incorrectly
+ - `fdflush', `length' and `printf' crashed when run without arguments
+ - `fdflush' tried to flush itself using *argv
+ - added "skip" and "seek" to dd.
-Erik Andersen
