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<html><head><title>toybox: old news</title>
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<h2>Old News</h2>
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<p>This project <a href=http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2006-September/024794.html>started in 2006</a>, got mothballed in 2009
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<a href=http://landley.net/notes-2009.html#18-06-2009>for</a>
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<a href=http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#31-03-2011>various</a>
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<a href=http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#08-06-2011>reasons</a>
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(during which time I
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<a href=http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2010-March/071783.html>contributed</a>
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some toybox code and design ideas to busybox</a> but retained the copyrights to
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my work), then <a href=http://landley.net/notes-2011.html#13-11-2011>relaunched</a>
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under a 2-clause BSD license in 2011.
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The following news entries predate that relaunch:</p>
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<p><b>December 1, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.1.0.tar.bz2>toybox-0.1.0</a> is out.</p>
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<p>This release is a couple build fixes and another bugfix to patch.</p>
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<p><b>April 17, 2009</b> - Another bugfix release,
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<a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.2.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.9.2</a>, off by one allocation error in patch.</p>
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<p>(Darn fiddly command, innit?)</p>
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<p><b>March 29, 2009</b> - Released
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<a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.1.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.1</a> which is a bugfix
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release for issues with the patch command.</p>
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<p>The project is currently on hold while the developers learn Lua and
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decide whether or not to port the whole thing to that language.
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(Also note: the mailing list moved. See the links on the left. You'll
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have to resubscribe.)</p>
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<p><b>January 29, 2009</b> - Released
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<a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.9.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.9.tar.bz2</a> which is a minor packaging
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fix for 0.0.8. (The previous release tarball contained a prebuilt x86-64
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kconfig/conf file, because the release script ran defconfig to
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pregenerate help.h, and didn't run make clean afterwards.) The actual source
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code is identical to the previous release.</p>
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<p><b>January 20, 2009</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.8.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.8</a>
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adds the uname, cksum, and mkswapfs commands.</p>
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<p>This uname implementation is cross compile friendly: when built as a 32 bit
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binary on an x86_64 host, it reports "i686" to confuse autoconf less.</p>
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<p>This cksum has several extra command line options which can be used to
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produce different cksum variants based on the same crc32 algorithm. For
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example, the broadcom "trx" image packaging uses a little endian crc,
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pre-inverted instead of post-inverted, and does not include the length.
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(Without these arguments, it produces the normal SUSv4 cksum output.)</p>
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<p>It also upgrades netcat with a server mode (-l option) and fixes several
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netcat bugs. It also fixed multiple bugs in "patch", works around a
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reiserfs bug in cp, and oneit can reboot on exit more reliably.</p>
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<p><b>November 12, 2008</b> -
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<a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.7.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.7</a>
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adds sort and tee commands, upgrades the internal option parsing logic and the
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test suite, and numerous bugfixes (bunzip, chroot, cat, patch).</p>
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<p><b>May 26, 2008</b> - <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.6.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.6</a>
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adds cat, rmdir, and seq. Bugfixes to cp and a new -v option. Updates mdev to
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work with the 2.6.25 kernel. Updates patch to knows that a file dated
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1969-12-31 means it doesn't exist, and to fail if a file it needs to create
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already exists. Command line option parsing can now handle things like "echo
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-nex" vs "echo -ne". Several updates to the test suite (run scripts/test.sh),
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and some build fixes.</p>
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<p><b>March 29, 2008</b> -
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Time to release <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.5.tar.bz2>toybox 0.0.5</a>, with
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new commands cp and chvt and several bugfixes.</p>
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<p>More makefile targets: "make test" runs the test suite (which needs more test
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scripts), and make install/install_flat/uninstall/uninstall_flat calls
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make/install.sh (with options --long --symlink --force --uninstall depending
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on the context).</p>
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<p>Most of the work has been behind the scenes, namely a significant rewrite of
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the build logic so adding each new command consists of adding a single C file to
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the "toys" directory, eliminating the need to touch any other files.
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There are specially formatted comments at the top of the C file to generate
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the other files, see toys/hello.c for an example. (See generated/README.txt
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and <a href=code.html>code.html</a> for details.)</p>
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<p><b>January 2, 2008</b> - And <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.4.tar.bz2</a> is out.
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The new applets this time around include basename, chroot, dirname, dmesg,
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help, mkfifo, netcat, patch, sha1sum, touch, and tty.</p>
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<p>Note that this "touch" includes -l to set the length, which can truncate
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a file or create a commpletely sparse file, good for filesystem images.</p>
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<p>Expect the next release in about 6 months.</p>
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<p><b>December 12, 2007</b> - Updated the list of implemented applications,
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put up a <a href=todo.txt>todo list</a> and <a href=code.html>infrastructure
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documentation</a>. Expect another release towards the end of the month.</p>
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<p><b>June 18, 2007</b> - Put out
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<a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2>toybox-0.0.3.tar.bz2</a> since it's
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been too long since I did something like that. This one implements
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catv, count, df, echo, false, oneit, pwd, sleep, sync, toysh, true, which,
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and yes (which is what "make defconfig" enables). There are several other
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commands not enabled by defconfig, because they don't really work yet.</p>
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<p>Most of the general infrastructure's there now, although lots of tweaking
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and optimizing is still needed. The test suite is skeletal and not entirely
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checked in yet, but I'm working on that.</p>
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<p>I don't have nearly as much time to work on this as I'd like, but I'm making
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a little progress.</p>
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<p><b>January 31, 2007</b> -
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Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.2.tar.bz2>0.0.2 release</a>.
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Implements count, yes, pwd, echo, bzcat, catv, oneit, and an unfinished
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skeleton of mke2fs. Adds argument parsing logic and bunzip code to library.
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Now configured with menuconfig. Adds "make baseline" and "make bloatcheck"
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using Matt Mackall's bloat-o-meter, and scripts/showasm.</p>
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<p>Screwing up the web page a bit, adding an index bar along the side
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which doesn't properly connect up to anything yet. (Busy implementing
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mke2fs and gene2fs.)</p>
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<p><b>October 30, 2006</b> -
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Toybox <a href=downloads/toybox-0.0.1.tar.bz2>0.0.1 release</a>. Implements
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df, a skeletal toysh, and some library functions. Proof of concept, really.</p>
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<p><b>September 7, 2006</b> -
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Project launched, first commit to mercurial archive.</p>
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