A mirror of https://github.com/rmyorston/busybox-w32.git https://git.lua4.win/busybox-w32/atom?h=cron_changes 2026-05-04T10:51:00+00:00 2026-05-04T10:51:00+00:00 Ron Yorston rmy@pobox.com 2026-05-04T10:51:00+00:00 urn:sha1:f26b970e4d22e1b2e3ca6209c3412fa0f683d953 I've been far too lax in applying FAST_FUNC annotations. These can make function calls smaller and faster, but only on 32-bit systems and for non-static, non-variadic functions with non-void arguments. Saves 4680 bytes in the 32-bit build; 64-bit builds are unaffected. 2026-05-03T08:53:07+00:00 mbartlett21 29034492+mbartlett21@users.noreply.github.com 2026-05-03T08:53:07+00:00 urn:sha1:c23112c3a0bbf1d07f03b3c07fe96b5b4c5271f1 * Enable crontab * Enable crond * Allow sendmail to be used in crond This also adds another option to the mingw_popen_fd function to capture stderr as well. And also added the options to support WNOHANG as well as an unused status in mingw_wait3 * Check current uid when running crond * Only show tail for mailto jobs * Use system drive for cron * crond: add missing feature check * crond: use spawn_detach for background operation 2026-04-12T10:49:29+00:00 Ron Yorston rmy@pobox.com 2026-04-12T10:49:29+00:00 urn:sha1:333c65ca71f1acb2cc6cd3920a346bb8ddf82dec Move existing code which obtains process execution times into a separate function. Use it to allow times(2) to report execution times for the current process, though not child execution times. Change TICKS_PER_SECOND from 100 to 1000 to increase the displayed resolution of process times (though the measured resolution may well be less than this). Adds 48-80 bytes. (GitHub issue #574) 2026-02-25T09:33:36+00:00 Ron Yorston rmy@pobox.com 2026-02-25T09:33:36+00:00 urn:sha1:35e590816a844e3ccc707c841b756e83987d09eb 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) 2025-10-01T07:38:49+00:00 Ron Yorston rmy@pobox.com 2025-10-01T07:38:49+00:00 urn:sha1:86d0b4937c77beba0c5b042b833f08afa61ee728 Recent versions of busybox-w32 rely on features which are only available in contemporary versions of mingw-w64 and gcc. Allow building on somewhat older toolchains. (GitHub issue #527) 2025-08-15T08:00:13+00:00 Ron Yorston rmy@pobox.com 2025-08-15T08:00:13+00:00 urn:sha1:01ff9c492111cf7d51ad074629d6e72bc69fc149 2025-02-03T11:55:28+00:00 Ron Yorston rmy@pobox.com 2025-02-03T11:55:28+00:00 urn:sha1:14ccc45d548c9dfa73594f155e920c83e2882081 Some installer programs have an entry in their manifest to indicate that they need elevated privileges. The shell in busybox-w32 was unable to run such programs. When a program fails to run with ERROR_ELEVATION_REQUIRED, try again using ShellExecuteEx() with the 'runas' verb to give it elevated privileges. Adds 272-288 bytes. (GitHub issue #481) 2024-12-31T08:21:12+00:00 Ron Yorston rmy@pobox.com 2024-12-31T08:21:12+00:00 urn:sha1:0e8bc6527c9d4b9af17e9b0f759b1ad12ae1bc35 Compiling with FEATURE_SH_NOFORK disabled resulted in an error and a warning. Fixing these doesn't change the default build. 2024-12-30T08:27:31+00:00 Ron Yorston rmy@pobox.com 2024-12-30T08:27:31+00:00 urn:sha1:becedd5bd29dd1ea3c21426568e6412d6b9a404e Alter quote_arg() to perform a single pass over the string in the case where no change is required. Based on a proposal by @avih in GitHub PR #317. Saves 16 bytes. 2024-10-13T08:27:33+00:00 Ron Yorston rmy@pobox.com 2024-10-13T08:27:33+00:00 urn:sha1:6af8061b6dfde7cf4e41a6da00bf91a7105a05eb If a process performing an exec is an orphan there's no reason for it to wait for its child's exit code. Let it exit immediately. Adds 16 bytes. (GitHub issue #461)