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Util-linux-ng 2.16 Release Notes (15-Jul-2009)
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Release highlights
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libuuid, uuidgen(1) and uuidd(8):
- the libuuid library has been moved from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng
switch_root:
- this NEW COMMAND allows to switch to another filesystem as the root
of the mount tree.
mount, umount, fsck:
- DOES NOT SUPPORT linking against obsolete libvolume_id (from udev)
libblkid:
- development files (.so, .a, ...) have been moved from /lib to /usr/lib.
Stable maintenance releases between v2.15 and v2.16
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util-linux-ng 2.15.1 [10-Jun-2009]
* https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15.1-ReleaseNotes
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15.1-ChangeLog
ChangeLog between v2.15 and v2.16
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For more details see ChangeLog files at:
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/
build-sys:
- add --disable-libblkid, remove volume_id support [Karel Zak]
- add --disable-switch_root [Karel Zak]
- add --disable-tls [Karel Zak]
- add --disable-uuidd [Karel Zak]
- add UTIL_{SET,RESTORE}_FLAGS [Karel Zak]
- check for openat() and linux for switch_root [Karel Zak]
- cleanup libuuid stuff [Karel Zak]
- complete /libs to /shlibs rename [Karel Zak]
- enable fsck by default [Karel Zak]
- fix "make -C" bug [Karel Zak]
- fix --disable-uuidd [Karel Zak]
- fix blkid.h include for old e2fsprogs [Karel Zak]
- fix exec/data install hooks [Karel Zak]
- fix headers in mkswap and libblkid [Karel Zak]
- fix libuuid Makefile.am [Karel Zak]
- fix libuuid and libblkid version-info [Karel Zak]
- fix typo from 30688dde55f637c9b984809c685b61378b82805f [Robert Förster]
- improve $libdirname definition [Karel Zak]
- improve symlinks creation in shlibs/ [Karel Zak]
- release++ (v2.16-rc1) [Karel Zak]
- release++ (v2.16-rc2) [Karel Zak]
- rename /libs to /shlibs [Karel Zak]
- rename to _execdir [Karel Zak]
- reverse shlibs installation [Kay Sievers]
buildsys:
- move $usr{bin,sbin,lib}execdir definition to ./configure [Karel Zak]
cal:
- Highlight today even when month or year specified [Rajeev V. Pillai]
- uClibc has langinfo.h but not _NL_TIME_WEEK_1STDAY. [Tom Prince]
chrt:
- don't assume SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_IDLE exist [Aurelien Jarno]
docs:
- add missing commands/projects to AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
- add v2.16 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
- refresh TODO list [Karel Zak]
- remove example.files/rc[.local] [Karel Zak]
- remove obsolete information from fstab example [Karel Zak]
- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
- update v2.16 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
- update v2.16-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
fdisk:
- (and cfdisk) fix to be consistent about maximum heads [Chris Webb]
- add simple test for doslabel stuff [Zdenek Behan]
hwclock:
- fix mismatched popen/fclose. [John Keeping]
include:
- clean up _PATH_DEV_* macros [Karel Zak]
- fix _PATH_DEV [Karel Zak]
ionice:
- Allow setting the none class [Jakob Unterwurzacher]
ldattach:
- add N_PPS support [Tilman Schmidt]
libblkid:
- add device-mapper snapshot cow device probe [Milan Broz]
- add install-hook for libuuid.[a,so] devel files [Karel Zak]
- add stdarg.h to blkidP.h [Karel Zak]
- blkid_do_safeprobe() has to be tolerant to RAIDs [Karel Zak]
- cleanup debug messages and return codes in blkid_do_probe() [Karel Zak]
- don't require udev symlinks verification for non-root users [Karel Zak]
- fix "hangs forever with partition type mdraid" [Karel Zak]
- fix #ifdefs readability [Karel Zak]
- fix $libdir in blkid.pc [Karel Zak]
- fix LVM1 probe [Milan Broz]
- fix reiserfs name [Karel Zak]
- make libuuid optional [Karel Zak]
- move to misc-utils/ directory [Karel Zak]
- update man page [Karel Zak]
libuuid:
- add --disable-libuuid and LIBUUID_VERSION [Karel Zak]
- add .gitignore [Karel Zak]
- add info about u-l-ng to man pages [Karel Zak]
- add install-hook for libuuid.[a,so] devel files [Karel Zak]
- Don't run uuidd if it would fail due to permission problems [Theodore Ts'o]
- fix $libdir in uuid.pc [Karel Zak]
- fix parallel building [Karel Zak]
- generate uuid_generate_{random,time}.3 man page links [Karel Zak]
- import UUID library from e2fsprogs [Karel Zak]
- Make sure fd's 0, 1, and 2 are valid before exec'ing uuidd [Theodore Ts'o]
- move clock state file from /var/lib to /var/run [Karel Zak]
libuuid, uuidd:
- Avoid infinite loop while reading from the socket fd [Theodore Ts'o]
losetup:
- add --set-capacity [Karel Zak]
- fix return codes of functions arounf is_associated() [Karel Zak]
- handle symlinks in /dev/loop/ [Mike Frysinger]
- suggest to use modprobe rather than insmod in losetup.8 [Karel Zak]
lscpu:
- fix cpuid code on x86/PIC [Mike Frysinger]
mount:
- (and fsck) remove libvolume_id support [Karel Zak]
- a little clean up info about loopdevs in man page [Karel Zak]
- add ext4 to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
- add ext4 to the list of filesystems in mount.8 [Karel Zak]
- add info about obsolete vfat options to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
- allow loop suid umount [Kay Sievers]
- cleanup notes about -l option in mount.8 [Karel Zak]
- fix undefined reference to `security_get_initial_context' [Karel Zak]
- move MS_{PROPAGATION,BIND,MOVE} detection [Karel Zak]
- use "none" fstype for MS_PROPAGATION mounts [Karel Zak]
- use TAG parsing function from libblkid [Karel Zak]
- when a remount to rw fails, quit and return an error [Valerie Aurora]
po:
- fix typo in French translation [Olivier Blin]
- merge changes [Karel Zak]
- refresh POTFILES.in [Karel Zak]
- update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar]
- update fi.po (from translationproject.org) [Lauri Nurmi]
- update fr.po (from translationproject.org) [Nicolas Provost]
- update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall]
raw:
- Use the RAW_SETBIND ioctl without stat'ing the raw# file [Jeff Mahoney]
- undeprecate raw [Karel Zak]
switch_root:
- add man page [Karel Zak]
- add subroot support [Daniel Drake]
- clean up argv[] usage, add -h and -V [Karel Zak]
- do recursiveRemove after our root is moved to avoid races. [Peter Jones]
- fix coding style [Karel Zak]
- fork before cleaning up the filesystem. [Peter Jones]
- new command [Karel Zak]
- rewrite to use fstatat() and unlinkat() [Karel Zak]
- use err.h, clean up return codes [Karel Zak]
- use file descriptor instead of path for recursiveRemove() [Peter Jones]
- use snprintf() rather tan str{cpy,cat}() [Karel Zak]
tests:
- add functions for work withdisk images [Karel Zak]
- add mdraid libblkid test [Karel Zak]
- don't run some mount tests for non-root users [Karel Zak]
- fix 'delete extended partition' checksum [Karel Zak]
- fix reiserfs test [Karel Zak]
- fix script that creates lscpu dumps [Karel Zak]
- move lscpu /proc and /sys dumps to tarballs [Karel Zak]
- remove broken Xen dumps for lscpu [Karel Zak]
umount:
- clean up help output [Karel Zak]
uuidd:
- Avoid closing the server socket when calling create_daemon() [Theodore Ts'o]
- fix $PIDFILE in uuidd.rc [Karel Zak]
- init /var/run/uuidd, add option for on-demand mode to .rc file [Karel Zak]
- move uuidd files from /var/lib/libuuid to /var/run/uuidd [Karel Zak]
- move uuidd.rc to misc-utils directory [Karel Zak]
- new command (UUID daemon from e2fsprogs) [Karel Zak]
uuidgen:
- new command (from e2fsprogs) [Karel Zak]
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