Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem . I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release so far. Tar has been completely rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
More details are available in the changelog .
Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive documentation , complete with examples and full usage information. You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs here . I am posting this pre-release for people to poke at. This also has a pre-release of the micro shell I have been writing. The pre-release can be found here .