busybox.git/shell/Config.src, branch master

shell: update HISTFILESIZE code to be actually useful

2025-07-03T17:10:42+00:00

"HISTFILESIZE=0" in profile wasn't working as intended,
"unset HISTFILE" wasn't preventing creation of history files
Now:
HISTSIZE=n      allows to reduce in-memory history buffer
HISTFILESIZE=n  allows to reduce history file size (0: truncate it)
unset HISTFILE  allows to not save history file at all

function                                             old     new   delta
exitshell                                            138     194     +56
hush_exit                                             97     143     +46
save_history                                         266     296     +30
hush_main                                           1170    1186     +16
.rodata                                           105762  105771      +9
load_history                                         246     254      +8
size_from_HISTFILESIZE                                44      41      -3
read_line_input                                     2746    2712     -34
------------------------------------------------------------------------------
(add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 6/2 up/down: 165/-37)           Total: 128 bytes

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

nologin: make it possible to build it as single applet

2020-06-24T13:05:22+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

shell: implement optional "BASE#nnnn" numeric literals

2019-05-19T15:23:31+00:00

function                                             old     new   delta
evaluate_string                                      729     851    +122

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

hush: allow hush to run embedded scripts

2018-11-27T15:13:07+00:00

Embedded scripts require a shell to be present in the BusyBox
binary.  Allow either ash or hush to be used for this purpose.
If both are enabled ash takes precedence.

The size of the binary is unchanged in the default configuration:
both ash and hush are present but support for embedded scripts
isn't compiled into hush.

Signed-off-by: Ron Yorston 
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

restore documentation on the build config language

2018-06-06T13:16:48+00:00

Kconfig-language.txt was deleted in commit 4fa499a17b52b back in 2006.
Move to docs/ as suggested by Xabier Oneca:
  http://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox/2014-May/080914.html
Also update references to it everywhere.

Signed-off-by: Kartik Agaram 
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

config: deindent all help texts

2017-07-21T07:50:55+00:00

Those two spaces after tab have no effect, and always a nuisance when editing.

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

shell: optional support for read -t N.NNN, closes 10101

2017-07-20T14:09:31+00:00

function                                             old     new   delta
shell_builtin_read                                  1097    1277    +180
dump_procs                                           353     359      +6

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

wget: add a big explanation what TLS code implements and what does not

2017-01-30T15:27:37+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

sh: fix FEATURE_SH_STANDALONE help text: it does not enable NOFORK

2017-01-26T17:31:51+00:00

Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko

ash: explicltly group ash options

2017-01-06T16:03:18+00:00

This would makes all ash options indented inside "ash" in menuconfig.
It appears that menuconfig has a limit at tracking multiple dependency
lines like this (it looks like a "diamond problem" but I'm not sure if
it is):

               ---ASH <----------
              /                  \       ASH_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
    !NOMMU <-*----SH_IS_ASH <----[OR] <--ASH_INTERNAL_GLOB
              \                  /       ASH_RANDOM_SUPPORT
               ---BASH_IS_ASH <--        [...]

The kconfig-language document [1] states that:

> If a menu entry somehow depends on the previous entry, it can be
> made a submenu of it. First, the previous (parent) symbol must be
> part of the dependency list and then one of these two conditions
> must be true:
> - the child entry must become invisible, if the parent is set to 'n'

    [BusyBox ash used to satisfy this, but no longer does]

> - the child entry must only be visible, if the parent is visible

    [BusyBox ash configs actually satisfy this, but because of
     "diamond" above this might not be easily detected]

So I found out a direct workaround: by making ash options explicitly
depend on !NOMMU, we can tell menuconfig that rule 2 above is satisfied
without any more tracking.

               ---------------------
              /                     \
    !NOMMU <-*-----ASH <--------     \
              \                 \     \        ASH_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE
               *---SH_IS_ASH <---[OR]-[AND] <--ASH_INTERNAL_GLOB
                \                /             ASH_RANDOM_SUPPORT
                 --BASH_IS_ASH <-              [...]

So all ash options would now be indented under "ash".

[1] "Documentation/kbuild/kconfig-language.txt" in Linux kernel source

Signed-off-by: Kang-Che Sung 
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko