busybox-w32/miscutils, branch busybox

less: unbreak EAGAIN propagation

2026-02-27T11:25:28+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

less: make read error reporting actually visible

2026-02-27T10:57:50+00:00

function old new delta m_status_print 252 275 +23 status_print 111 122 +11 read_lines 783 775 -8 .rodata 107141 107131 -10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/2 up/down: 34/-18) Total: 16 bytes Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

less: improve O_NONBLOCK manipulations on stdin

2026-02-27T10:01:04+00:00

"less FILE" case needs it to be set just once. In other cases, manipulate it less often. function old new delta read_lines 702 783 +81 reinitialize 198 199 +1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 82/0) Total: 82 bytes Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

less: do not retry reads of stdin if got EAGAIN

2026-02-27T07:09:30+00:00

Also: fewer syscalls to set/clear O_NONBLOCK, skip trying to read keyboard if poll() told us it's not ready. function old new delta reinitialize 184 198 +14 getch_nowait 251 258 +7 sched_yield 25 - -25 read_lines 815 702 -113 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 2/1 up/down: 21/-138) Total: -117 bytes Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

*: placate warnings where strchr/strstr returns constant pointer

2026-02-15T14:15:30+00:00

Newer glibc is now smarter and can propagate const-ness from those! function old new delta readtoken1 3111 3108 -3 Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

*: whitespace cleanup

2026-02-08T07:31:13+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

*: use xasprintf_inplace() in more places

2026-02-06T10:19:11+00:00

function old new delta .rodata 107009 107018 +9 parse_stream 3075 3069 -6 buffer_print 612 603 -9 expand_args 159 144 -15 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 1/3 up/down: 9/-30) Total: -21 bytes Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

man: fix following links if run inside manpage dir

2026-02-05T13:28:20+00:00

function old new delta run_man_pipe 369 420 +51 Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

fdisk: several fixes for 4K sector size

2026-02-04T08:46:54+00:00

function old new delta bb_getsize_in_512sect - 187 +187 list_disk_name_and_sizes - 80 +80 get_geometry 511 535 +24 .rodata 107066 107088 +22 msg_building_new_label 143 142 -1 fdisk_main 4781 4775 -6 list_table 1423 1366 -57 list_disk_geometry 143 68 -75 bb_BLKGETSIZE_sectors 191 - -191 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 2/1 grow/shrink: 2/4 up/down: 313/-330) Total: -17 bytes Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

devfsd: constify, code shrink

2026-02-02T07:49:11+00:00

function old new delta static.copy_inode 613 608 -5 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ (add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 0/1 up/down: 0/-5) Total: -5 bytes text data bss dec hex filename 1087619 827 5088 1093534 10af9e busybox_old 1087654 787 5088 1093529 10af99 busybox_unstripped Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko