busybox-w32, branch long_paths

win32: add (some) long path support

2026-02-27T14:27:40+00:00

Use the longPathAware manifest entry to handle path lengths above 260. This requires the LongPathsEnabled registry key to be set at run-time. Modify (some) WIN32 API calls to use the wide-character variant. These features are controlled by the build-time configuration option FEATURE_LONG_PATHS, which is not enabled by default.

testsuite: add tests for long paths and code page handling

2026-02-27T14:27:12+00:00

Tests for long path support (> 260 chars): - ls-long-path-works, rm-removes-long-path, stat-long-path-works - ls-long-path-with-dotdot (path normalization) - ls-long-nonascii-path-works (combined test) - *-long-path-error-preserves-path (error message integrity) Tests for path format handling (per README.md): - ls-path-formats (absolute, .., backslash) - ls-mixed-slashes, ls-relative-path Tests for non-ASCII/code page handling: - ls-nonascii-path-works, rm-nonascii-path-works, stat-nonascii-path-works - ls-printable-nonascii (commit 8bd8100 regression)

ash: allow execution of busybox-w32 binary without extension

2026-02-25T09:33:36+00:00

If the busybox-w32 binary didn't have an extension the shell was unable to spawn itself: $ ls -l busybox -rwxrwxr-x 1 rmy rmy 661006 Feb 25 09:37 busybox $ ./busybox sh $ ls sh: unable to spawn shell This happened because the shell used spawnve() from the C runtime to execute itself. Microsoft insists on trying to add an extension to the name of the binary unless it has an explicit '.' as its last character. Use the internal spawnveq() instead, as it handles various quirks like the above. Adds 16-32 bytes. (GitHub issue #566)

ash: fix execution of applets via Unix-style path

2026-02-14T21:09:47+00:00

Merging of upstream changes to ash failed to ensure that applets could be executed using a Unix-style path. Move the necessary code from shellexec() to tryexec(). (GitHub issue #565)

Merge branch 'busybox' into merge

2026-02-12T12:58:38+00:00

Update default configurations; include uuid functions

2026-02-10T15:12:22+00:00

Merge branch 'busybox' into merge

2026-02-10T13:49:25+00:00

ash: fix help builtin and tab completion of builtins

2026-02-09T10:53:01+00:00

Commit 56143ea63 (ash: code shrink: eliminate pstrcmp1()) changed the layout of struct builtincmd so the name member points to the start of the name, not the flag in the first element of the string. This broke the help builtin and tab completion of builtins. Remove the unnecessary '+ 1' in ash_command_name() and helpcmd(). This patch has been submitted upstream.

Merge branch 'busybox' into merge

2026-02-09T10:52:28+00:00

main: !CONFIG_BUSYBOX: "busybox --OPT" is not a call to applet "-OPT"

2026-02-08T10:45:57+00:00

This was confusing: $ busybox --help -help: applet not found Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko