Scylla+Charybdis

lockrun 0.0.0-20080819-022131: Exclusively run something by placing a file lock

Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:24:35 +0200

A very first version, it works.

histogram 0.0.0-20080817-233833: Count bytes in file

Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:39:03 +0200

First version, it works.

lockdir 0.0.0-20080803-234403: Create a directory for locking purpose

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 23:43:24 +0200

First version, it works

diskus 0.3.2-20080803-190534: Disk geometry checking tool

Sun, 03 Aug 2008 19:04:52 +0200

-write mode now no more valid for read modes

I always mix this myself, so added a fatal error for this.

unbuffered 0.0.1-20080708-225517: Copy stdin to stdout and stderr, unbuffered

Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:55:34 +0200

Bugfix and option -c added, also current tinolib

It now needs some more syscalls as the dumped output is no more linebuffered, because I had to change the binding.

The bugfix is for that I forgot to count lineendings in hexdump output.

sq 0.2.1-20080607-015649: SQLITE3 query tool for shell usage

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 01:56:30 +0200

Bugfix release, echo -e sequence still was bugged

The problem is:

echo '\\0041' | { read a; echo -e "$a"; }

vs.

echo '\0041' | { read -r a; echo -e "$a"; }

I prefer the latter, but tested the first one. SIGH.

printargs 0.0.1-20080531-225835: Like "hello world" but dumps the argc array

Sat, 31 May 2008 22:58:25 +0200

Bugfix: ANSI escape fixed, the octal sequence was too long for most control characters (hadn't tested this before).

keypressed 0.0.0-20080530-190401: Nonblocking, nondestructible test for waiting data on TTYs, sockets and probably pipes

Fri, 30 May 2008 19:06:36 +0200

First very simple version

mvatom 0.4.1-20080528-164909: Move files by atomic rename instead of copy.

Wed, 28 May 2008 16:49:11 +0200

Option -c added

WARNING: This version still operates in unsafe mode! The description is already updated to upcomming version 0.5.0, which fixes a possible race condition (however I am still working on this fix).

With option -c you can define a directory where the backups are created instead of the target directory. It must be on the same filesystem as source and destination.

md5chk 0.4.1-20080528-015214: Create md5sums for easy shell usage

Wed, 28 May 2008 01:52:21 +0200
Bugfix, DEL now is an escaped character, too.
Options in help output sorted, too

dbm 0.11.0-20080519-114741: A little tool to access gdbm files from shell.

Mon, 19 May 2008 11:47:55 +0200
Functions sadd and sdir removed for re-write
The "find" function now returns FALSE in case it does not find anything. This is to more easily differ from the case when it returns a blank result, which, from shell, does look alike.
The "sadd" and "sdir" functions have proven badly designed, so they will be re-invented with another algorithm. This is an intermediate version which removes the old "sadd" and "sdir" function. If you need the old behavior, stick to version 0.10.x

cmpfast 0.2.0-20080513-175041: Fast compare two files binary

Tue, 13 May 2008 17:51:07 +0200
Better scriptable return values

socklinger 2.2.0-20080422-010236: Execute quick hack shell scripts connected to a socket.

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 01:03:17 +0200
Option -r added
Postforking now even more usable with the new option -r and the two environment variables SOCKLINGER_COUNT and SOCKLINGER_MAX. This is to be able to do statistics and cleanups to notekeeping.
When forks are guaranteed to be slow (or with a high delay setting) such that there cannot be any race condition, then you can use the environment variables to do the cleanup.
On a high fork frequency you can use option -r, such that the process slots are cycled. As each slot then is visited in a round robin fashion, you can do the notekeeping (and possible cleanups) at the beginning.

minicron 0.0.0-20080118-042430: This is a program which starts other programs after some time

Fri, 18 Jan 2008 04:25:32 +0100
That was simple.

tinohtmlparse 0.2.0-20071230-185919: Simple HTML parser to extract information from HTML files by shell

Sun, 30 Dec 2007 19:00:19 +0100
Bugfix: &and; had the wrong Entitiy code.
Also: Code now placed under the CLL.

ptybuffer 0.6.4-20071020-171424: daemonize interactive tty line driven programs with output history

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 17:14:35 +0200
CygWin compile fixes.
It shall now compile under CygWin again.

sslconnect 0.2.0-20071009-225532: Connect to destination using SSL

Tue, 09 Oct 2007 22:42:32 +0200
Timeout option should work now when idle, too.
There was a stupid bug in the code which hindered timeouts to happen when no data transfer was seen. Note that the connect timeout and SSH handshake timeout are both "timeout" seconds while the timeout due to missing activity on the socket is nearly twice this duration. (Actually it's between timeout*2-L where L varies from 1 to 2+log(timeout)/log(2), depending of the bit value of timeout.)
Note that the word stupid means me, not the bug ;)

killmem 0.1.1-20070926-153012: Protect some memory against paging until you need free memory

Wed, 26 Sep 2007 15:17:57 +0200
Out of memory situation now is handled without SIGSEV.

multiproxy 0.2.0-20070508-182130: A multiple proxy implementation

Tue, 08 May 2007 18:27:43 +0200
Added limit to maximum number of forks. Documentation changed to meet current version.

tinoseq 0.0.0-20070408-124243: An integer seq implementation

Sun, 08 Apr 2007 12:47:26 +0200
A first version
Currently not uses tinolib (but in future will as I add options).

filecache 0.0.1-20061115-052726: Manage a cache for file data

Wed, 15 Nov 2006 05:13:50 +0100
Bugfix release. Still not completed version. Options -x and -l added.
Demangling of names added. You must tell the cachedir if demangling filenames from the filesystem, else use option -e.
Example:
find out -type f -print | filecache -dxf out

Demangling runs until the end of the name or the sequence '$.'. Latter is for extensions, as you perhaps like to store all JPG style files as someting.jpg or have several "backups" of a file, like done with `mvatom -b`.

kdmktone 0.0.0-20061021-043020: Make the console beep

Sat, 21 Oct 2006 04:17:59 +0200
This actually is an old (but now improved) version.
I just created it to let my console beep.

md5backup 0.3.15-20061003-231645: Interim backup tool

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 23:04:38 +0200
This version now has two new preliminary scripts:
1. There now is a restore script bin/md5restore.sh
2. To setup networking there now is bin/sc-setup.sh
Little bit else changed. The scripts are not completely ready yet!
The restore is not capable to restore the metadata of a file. And this script is not thought to restore directories. Also be aware of the fact that sparse files are not yet backed up.
You need scylla-charybdis compiled to use sc-setup.sh

getrealpath 0.0.2-20061003-224034: Print realpath to stdout

Tue, 03 Oct 2006 22:28:14 +0200
Another fix in the source for Ubuntu

slowdown 0.2.0-20060522-020928: Slowdown processes or pipes.

Mon, 22 May 2006 02:04:41 +0200
Minor bugfix and added "slowdown 0 PID" to detach a "hung" process.
If you attach to a process with something like
slowdown 100 PID
and then kill slowdown with ^C, this very likely leaves a hung PID, because slowdown (not yet) detaches the PID and leaves it in the traced state. You now can recover from this using
slowdown 0 PID
which undoes the trace effect and (nearly) immediately returns. Note that it's likely that you don't see this hanging effect easily if you use
slowdown 1 PID
as the minimal timer resolution usually is somewhat around 15, so a faster timer is faked such that it's likely that you do not kill slowdown when the child is in traced state.

squidauthdbm 0.0.0-20050928-012719: A simple dbm driven Squid authenticator

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 01:35:46 +0200
A simple DBM driven squid authenticator

debris 0.0.6-20050815-030456: DebRIS: DEBian Remote Install Scripter

Mon, 15 Aug 2005 02:31:52 +0200
Sigh .. prefixed all functions with dris_ to avoid name clashes.

tinolib 0.1.0-20050725-053214: The library which is part of many of my programs

Mon, 25 Jul 2005 05:44:51 +0200
A current snapshot, also added compile with libdiet

gat 0.0.2-20050426-010707: VCS like Linus Torvalds' GIT with a lot of CVS features, easy, fast, secure.

Tue, 26 Apr 2005 01:14:59 +0200
Still not a working version, but evolving

mon 0.2.0-20040915-014028: Lightweight system monitor in case you have no time

Wed, 15 Sep 2004 01:36:56 +0200
Version with Network device monitor