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authorJ William Piggott2017-09-21 03:18:13 +0200
committerKarel Zak2017-09-21 10:13:53 +0200
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Docs: grammar fixes for v2.31-ReleaseNotes
Signed-off-by: J William Piggott <elseifthen@gmx.com>
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@@ -3,69 +3,69 @@ Util-linux 2.31 Release Notes
The package build-system follows GNU Coding Standards and uses --runstatedir
instead of --localstatedir. The default is /run. Please, review your distribution
-build scripts (spec files etc.) to be sure that this change does not introduce
-any regression to your distribution.
+build scripts (spec files etc.) to be sure that this change does not introduce
+any regression to your distribution.
Release highlights
------------------
rfkill -- NEW COMMAND for enabling and disabling wireless devices. This new
-implementation is based and backwardly compatible to the original rfkill from
-Johannes Berg and Marcel Holtmann.
+implementation is based upon, and backward compatible with, the original rfkill
+from Johannes Berg and Marcel Holtmann.
The command su has been refactored and extended to create pseudo terminal for
the session (new option --pty). This new EXPERIMENTAL feature provides better
-isolation between root's terminal and unprivileged su session.
+isolation between root's terminal and an unprivileged su session.
-uuidparse -- NEW COMMAND to provide details about types, variants and time
-hashed to the UUID.
+uuidparse -- NEW COMMAND to provide variant and type details for input UUIDs.
The library libuuid and command uuidgen support hash-based UUIDs v3 (md5) and
v5 (sha1) as specified by RFC-4122. The library also provides UUID templates
for dns, url, oid, or x500.
The library libblkid has been extended to support DM-integrity, HPE (aka
-extended-XFS) and UBI superblock. The library also provides new API to hide
-already detected signatures. This allows to gather all possible magic strings
-permutation for the device, and for example command wipefs prints complete list
-of all magic strings now.
+extended-XFS) and UBI superblock. The library also provides a new API to hide
+already detected signatures. This allows the gathering of all possible magic
+string permutations for a device. For example, the command wipefs will now print
+the complete list of all magic strings.
The library libfdisk provides a new API to modify grain (a size used for
-partitioning calculation) and it is also possible to completely disable dialog
+partition calculations) and it is also possible to completely disable dialog
driven partitioning.
The library libsmartcols provides a new API to move columns. This new
-functionality is avaialable by "column --table-order" on command line.
+functionality is available by "column --table-order" on the command line.
-The command "column --table-header-repeat" allows to repeat table header
+The command "column --table-header-repeat" allows repetition of table headers
according to terminal size.
-The libfdisk has been extended to use BLKPG ioctls to inform kernel about
-changes. It means that cfdisk and fdisk do not force kernel to reread all
-partition table, but untouched partition may remain mounted and used by system.
-Tne typical use-case is resize last partition on system disk.
+The libfdisk has been extended to use BLKPG ioctls to inform the kernel about
+changes. This means that cfdisk and fdisk will not force the kernel to reread
+all of the partition table, but untouched partitions may remain mounted and used
+by the system. The typical use-case is resizing the last partition on the system
+disk.
The command cfdisk provides a new dialog to resize a partition.
The fdisk menu behavior on ^C and ^D has been improved to stop the current
-operation and return to main menu rather than immediately terminate all fdisk
+operation and return to main menu rather than immediately terminating the fdisk
program.
-The command look follows WORDLIST environment variable (if specified) to
-find word list.
+The 'look' command now follows the WORDLIST environment variable (if specified)
+to find the word list.
-The almost all --help and --version outputs have been improved (thanks to
+Almost all of the --help and --version outputs have been improved (thanks to
Ruediger Meier and others).
-The command script has been improved to follow usual semantic for stop/continue
-signals. It's possible to move all session to the background and later back to
-the foreground (e.g. shell command "fg", etc.).
+The 'script' command has been improved to follow the usual semantics for
+stop/continue signals. It's possible to move a session to the background and
+later back to the foreground (e.g. shell command "fg", etc.).
-The command setpriv supports ambient capabilities with new command line option
---ambient-caps (thanks Patrick Steinhardt) and the new command line option
---init-groups allows to initialize supplementary groups (thanks to Sebastian
-Schrader).
+The setpriv command now supports ambient capabilities with the new command line
+option --ambient-caps (thanks Patrick Steinhardt) and the new command line
+option --init-groups allows initialization of supplementary groups (thanks to
+Sebastian Schrader).
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