[BusyBox] Some problems with busybox-1.0.0-pre1

[Vladimir N. Oleynik]

Eric,

>>I run lots of comlex shell scripts w/o problems.  Perhaps you
>>should submit the script you are having problems with and/or
>>an strace or ltrace of this seg fault...
>>
> 
> I had e-mail contact with vodz about this issue. 
> We have this problem with "shorewall" (http://www.shorewall.net/), 
> which runs perfectly with a stand-alone ash/dash shell. But runs slow 
> and give segmentation faults with busybox ash. The shorewall scripts 
> are too big to do some debugging on it according to vodz, so a friend 
> of mine is trying to make a smaller script which hit the same 
> problems in bb ash (I'm very bad with shell scripting myself). 

You can tested new dash busybox applet.
This is synced from dash-0.4.17 and full ready for insert to new busybox version:
ftp://ftp.simtreas.ru/pub/my/bb/new

News:

- code is smalest!
- support ${var...} expr
- used new very strongly steal controlling terminal


--w
vodz