Previously, the cpio applet included with busybox printed summary messages to stdout instead of stderr as the stand alone cpio does. Consequently nothing was returned to the shell when the busybox cpio applet ran. The updated applet include a patch that corrects this: the busybox cpio applet now prints summary messages to stderr, returning information to the shell as the standalone utility does. (BZ#615391)

As initially released, the "busybox hwclock" utility included with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 honored the current Filesystem Hierarchy Standard (FHS 2.3) and assumed the adjtime state file was at /var/lib/hwclock/adjtime. If kexec was invoked to load a second kernel over a crashed kernel, this caused "busybox hwclock" to return incorrect and inconsistent values when compared with the same command running in the first kernel prior to the crash. With this update, the config file for busybox hwclock was reverted to its old behavior. It now assumes the adjtime state file is at /etc/adjtime, as was the case in FHS 2.1, and "busybox hwclock" behaves as expected when run in an initial or reloaded kernel. (BZ#621853)

The "busybox awk" utility incorrectly treated all strings of digits with leading zeros as octal integer constants. This meant strings such as "0xffff" and "07777" were handled correctly but strings such as "0.531" were not. As a consequence, awk operations that correctly manipulated such strings as numbers were not handled correctly by busybox awk. With this update, the awk utility included with busybox correctly differentiates between hexadecimal and floating decimal strings and handles manipulations of the latter as expected. (BZ#633961)