Older blog entries for kraai (starting at number 7)

18 May 2001 (updated 18 May 2001 at 21:31 UTC) »

Rewrote BusyBox copyfd function to actually work.

Applied an improvement from Aaron Lehmann to change snprintf copies to safe_strncpys in BusyBox init.

17 May 2001 (updated 18 May 2001 at 17:43 UTC) »

Fix recent releases list in GNU Free Software Directory and correct some other small typos.

Use herror instead of hstrerror in BusyBox for libc5 compatibility.

Reread The Postman Always Rings Twice (obviously not programming related, but a good book nonetheless).

16 May 2001 (updated 16 May 2001 at 15:47 UTC) »

Based on a patch from Larry Doolittle, changed all occurences of 'printf *( *"%s\n", ...)' to 'puts(...)' in BusyBox.

Cleaned up handling of gethostbyname error messages in BusyBox.

14 May 2001 (updated 14 May 2001 at 18:02 UTC) »

Created a patch for a 0.51-4 Debian BusyBox release.

Submitted a patch to fix misspellings in libiberty's partition.[ch].

11 May 2001 (updated 11 May 2001 at 17:39 UTC) »

Applied BusyBox env fixes from Jonas Holmberg and taught it not to recognize command options.

Added a check for errors in putenv to same.

Submitted a patch to fix duplicate /s in debootstrap's download paths.

Submitted a patch to fix class size comparisons in libiberty's partition.c.

10 May 2001 (updated 11 May 2001 at 02:38 UTC) »

Added BusyBox INSTALL instructions from Tomas Pospisek.

Submitted a patch to fix the i686-pc-linux-gnu GCC bootstrap, but Jeffrey Law committed his instead (which just happened to be the exact same patch).

Fixed BusyBox rm problem with dead symlinks.

9 May 2001 (updated 9 May 2001 at 21:58 UTC) »

Fixed BusyBox wget behavior when an I/O operation is interrupted by the progressmeter timer.

Added a pointer to etherconf to the Debian Installation Manual.

Updated the script used to generate the Debian package pages to handle a wider variety of URLs.

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