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authorKarel Zak2006-12-07 00:26:54 +0100
committerKarel Zak2006-12-07 00:26:54 +0100
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-util-linux 2.12r
-
-* no changes
-
-util-linux 2.12r-pre1
-
-* cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
-* umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
-
-util-linux 2.12q
-
-* updated translation: nl
-
-util-linux 2.12q-pre2
-
-* sfdisk: document -G option in --help output
-* updated translations: ca, et, fr
-
-util-linux 2.12q-pre1
-
-* new maintainer
-* sfdisk: add -G option (Andries Brouwer)
-* updated translations: de, es, ru, sv, tr
-
-util-linux 2.12p
-
-* cfdisk: fix number of new partition when partitions not in disk order
-* fdisk: fix Sun label handling in sector mode
-* mkfs: never truncate filename (not that that ever happened)
-* more: fix redraw flaw
-
-util-linux 2.12n,o
-
-* lomount: revert patch from 2.12j
-* lptune.8: -T option is obsolete
-* mkswap, mkswap.8, swapon: support labels
- (use HAVE_BLKID=no as long as the blkid library doesnt support this)
-* umount: allow user unmounting repeatedly mounted nfs mounts
-
-util-linux 2.12m
-
-* cfdisk: recognize JFS, support reiserfs labels (flavio.stanchina@tin.it)
-* mount: fix option parsing bug
-* mount.8: several updates
-* swapon.8: document -v option
-
-util-linux 2.12l
-
-* Makefile: remove cat-id-tbl.c upon make clean
-* fdisk: fixed a bug that would cause a non-update of a sun disklabel
-* fdisk: use sectorsize instead of 512 for SGI (Eric Y. Theriault)
-* fdisk: use __attribute__((packed)) for alpha, ARM: avoid unaligned accesses
-* hwclock: actually use HAVE_tm_gmtoff
-* swapon: fix priority handling
-* umount: refuse to unmount an empty string
-
-util-linux 2.12k
-
-* cfdisk: fixed a signed character bug causing problems for Spanish users
-* configure, MCONFIG: detect gcc 3.4.0 and use -mtune option (Matthew Burgess)
-* configure: do not run ./conftest (for cross compilation) (NIIBE Yutaka)
-* fsck.cramfs: try to get correct PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
-* losetup: try to give better error messages
-* readprofile: default map file is /boot/System.map
-* rdev.8: added historical info on ramdisk
-* New French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish messages
-
-util-linux 2.12j
-
-* cal: highlight today (Pádraig Brady)
-* lomount: stop reading passwd at NUL, fix lo_encrypt key_size (Wolfram Kleff)
-* losetup: add -f option to find an unused loop device
- (Alexander Wigen, Remco van Mook)
-* more: code cleanup (Joachim Henke)
-* mount: add "group" mount option (Martin Dickopp)
-* sfdisk: fix 2.6.8 BLKRRPART ioctl damage (Eric Lammerts)
-* swapon: let swapon -a skip the swapfiles marked "noauto" (Dale R. Worley)
-* umount: fix problem with empty mtab (Bryan Kadzban)
-* umount: use special umount program if it exists (Ram Pai)
-* New Danish and French messages
-
-util-linux 2.12i
-
-* MCONFIG: fix build conditions
-* chfn, chsh: add error checking
-* cytune: use local header cyclades.h
-* fdisk: fix default SGI volume header size (Eric Sandeen)
-* fstab.c: use strsignal() instead of sys_siglist[]
-* hwclock: use <sys/io.h> when available on i386
-* hwclock: dont try KDGHWCLK on archs other than __m68k__
-* sfdisk: correct typo in __attribute__used nonsense
-* sfdisk: use PACKED on __arm__ (Jeroen Dobbelaere)
-* sfdisk: fix warning printout
-
-util-linux 2.12e,f,g,h
-
-* cfdisk: avoid crash if no partition table
-* elvtune: tell user that this only works on 2.4 kernels
-* lomount: clear passwords after use
-* mount: accept comments (introduced by \;) in fstab - withdrawn again
-* mount: accept comments (specified by comment=) in fstab
-* mount: support ocfs, ocfs2
-* [u]mount: be more careful with malloc, try to avoid OOM with many mounts
-* sfdisk: __attribute__used nonsense to support gcc 3.4
-* shutdown: do not unmount various virtual filesystems
-
-util-linux 2.12c,d
-
-* mount.8: added recent ext2 mount options
-* mount: support jfs mount-by-label, improve reiserfs support
-* sfdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
-* *fdisk: use common disksize() routine
-
-util-linux 2.12b
-
-* chsh: improved error message
-* dmesg: ask kernel proper buffer size
-* losetup: handle 64-bit offsets
-* blockdev: also report BLKGETSIZE64 result
-* blockdev, elvtune, fdisk: handle new kernel _IOR,_IOW defines
-* fdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
-* fdisk: also list Solaris as possible type for 0x82
-* mount: added --rbind option
-* mount: use blkid, uuid libraries when available
-* mount: support reiserfs mount by label
-* mount: attempt to use the right definition of dev_t in struct loopinfo
-* mount.8: jfs mount options added
-* readprofile: new -s option
-* rename.1: added ref to mmv.1
-* replay: renamed to scriptreplay; correct typos
-* script: do not use locale for time delay floating point number format
-* sfdisk: error messages to stderr
-* New Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
- Ukrainian messages
-
-util-linux 2.12a
-
-* chfn, chsh, login, vipw: SElinux support
-* fdisk: fix for kernels 2.4.15-2.4.17
-* fdisk: fix when all partitions are in use
-* hwclock: add a timeout when waiting for a clock update (Göran Weinholt)
-* ipcs: compilation fix
-* ipcs: shminfo.shmall gives pages
-* login: use getutline() instead of getutid()
-* login: fix for 64-bit time_t
-* mount: efs support
-* partx: bigendian fix
-* readprofile: support for 64-bit addresses
-* setterm: fix klogctl error message (Joern Heissler)
-* setterm.1: clarification
-* sfdisk: fix check for is_ide_cdrom_or_tape
-* umount: skip proc, devfs, devpts on umount -a
-
-util-linux 2.12
-
-* losetup: cryptoloop support
-* losetup: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
-* fdisk: sgi layout fix
-* mount: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
-* mount: recognize some PCDOS floppies
-* umount: in "umount name", first try to interpret "name" as a mount point
-
-util-linux 2.12pre
-
-* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Perez)
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
-* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
-* French messages (Michel Robitaille)
-* German messages (Michael Piefel)
-* Slovenian messages (Primoz Peterlin)
-* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* cfdisk: localize the Y/N answer, improve printing localized messages
-* cfdisk: make various variables long long - some disks are close to 2 TB
-* cfdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
-* fdisk: make various variables unsigned to lengthen the life of 32-bit vars
-* fdisk: some sgi fixes (Phillip Kesling)
-* fdisk: k=1000, K=1024
-* fdisk: removed last occurrences of HDIO_REQ
-* fdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
-* hwclock: fix rtc test (Heiko Zuerker)
-* login: set a timeout on printing the timeout message (Robert Ambrose)
-* md5: x86_64 fix (mmj)
-* more: POSIX fixes
-* mount: do not supply MS_MGC_VAL when there are conflicting flags
-* mount: ncp and smb are called smbfs and ncpfs - global change
-* mount: add support for xvm mount by label (Eric Sandeen)
-* mount: correct hfs magic recognition
-* mount: keep original umask - it influences the mount call (mmj)
-* raw.8: documented unbinding of raw devices
-* readprofile: fixed off-by eight error (Werner Almesberger)
-* script: add -c option (Wayne Davison)
-* sfdisk.8: added an example of partitioning with logical partitions
-* sfdisk: only add a AA55 signature for DOS-type partition tables
-* tailf: new (Rik Faith)
-
-util-linux 2.11z
-
-* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Perez)
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
-* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
-* French messages (Michel Robitaille) - HURRAY!
-* German messages (Michael Piefel)
-* Slovenian messages (Primoz Peterlin)
-* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* getopt: replaced getopt-1.1.2 by getopt-1.1.3 (Frodo Looijaard)
-* mkcramfs: change default blocksize for ia64 and alpha
-* more.help: removed (it is built-in now, and translated)
-* mount: add -i option (inhibit calling external mount programs)
-* mount: change default: do resolve symlinks
-* readprofile: look for System.map also in /boot/System.map-`uname -r` (mmj)
-* sfdisk: also translate "start" and "end"; s/MB/MiB/
-
-util-linux 2.11y
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
-* German messages (Michael Piefel)
-* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* cfdisk: improve escape seq recognition when compiled with slang
-* fdisk: decimal units
-* hwclock/rtc.c: minor cleanup (Joachim Henke)
-* ipcs: compilation fix
-* more: kill external help file (Joachim Henke)
-* mount: fix LABEL= handling for user umount
-* mount: don't abort on read error on photocds (Gyorgy Kovesdi)
-* mount.8: add dmask and fmask vfat mount options
-* pg: compilation fix (Joachim Henke)
-* script: localized time strings (Goeran Uddeborg)
-* setterm: accept devfs name (Joachim Henke)
-* simpleinit: security: refuse initctl_fd if setting FD_CLOEXEC fails
-* umount: allow user umount after mount by label or uuid
-
-util-linux 2.11x
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
-* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
-* German messages (Michael Piefel)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* cfdisk: correct error printout
-* fdisk: allow addition of a new partition when logicals all used
- but primary free
-* hwclock: detect systime jumps backward during setting hwclock
-* mkfs.cramfs: do not mmap all files simultaneously
-* mkfs.cramfs: make blocksize settable
-* mkfs.minix: correct error printout
-* mkswap.8: now max 32 swapspaces
-* mount: new --rbind flag, for recursive loopback mounts
-* mount, umount: new -O option (Michael K. Johnson)
-* mount.8: -O and win95 options documented
-* setpwnam.c: open temp pw file with O_EXCL
-* simpleinit: fix for "spawn too fast" (Denis Vlasenko)
-* swapon: new -e option (Erik Troan)
-
-util-linux 2.11w
-
-* cfdisk, fdisk: allow slightly larger disk sizes
-* fdisk: Makefile: also for m68 (sun3) (Kaj-Michael Lang)
-* fdisk: allow to use the last partial cylinder, change display format
-* fdisk: do not ask partition number in case there is only one choice
-* fdisk: new sunlabel fix
-* login: fix possible local root exploit (Wojciech Purczynski)
-* more: bigendian fix
-
-util-linux 2.11v
-
-* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Perez)
-* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
-* Very few Russian messages (panivan@yandex.ru)
-* Slovenian messages (Primoz Peterlin)
-* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* fdisk: add -C, -H, -S command line options
-* fdisk: allow changing type 0
-* mkswap: enable use of > 2GB swapspace
-* more: translation fix
-* mount: set umask (Sebastian Krahmer)
-* mount: test both le and be version of cramfs magic (Olaf Hering)
-* mount: recognize Oracle magic
-* pg: use fseeko64 and ftello64 when available
-
-util-linux 2.11u
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* German messages (Michael Piefel)
-* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* configure: for fsck.cramfs, mkfs.cramfs: add test for libz
-* text-utils/Makefile: pg fix (Toomas Rosin)
-* po/Makefile: typo fix (Silvan Minghetti)
-* agetty: use same test as login does to find utmp entry
-* fdisk: fix for fdisk on empty disk (Michael D. Black)
-* hwclock: compilation fix on alpha
-* mount: add mount by label for jfs (Christoph Hellwig)
-* mount: add mount by label for evms (Luciano Chavez)
-* mount: allow regular files when guessing (Michal Svec)
-* partx/gpt.c: fix size computation (Matt Domsch)
-* readprofile: new option -b (David Mosberger)
-* umount: don't umount devfs upon umount -a (David Gilbert)
-
-util-linux 2.11t
-
-* fdformat: remove test on major
-* fsck.cramfs: added NLS
-* fdisk: fix device names with sundisklabels under devfs (Kaj-Michael Lang)
-* fdisk: minor polishing
-* hwclock: also handle ENOTTY ioctl return (Maciej W. Rozycki)
-* hwclock: minor polishing
-* ipcrm.8: minor polishing
-* mkfs.cramfs: added NLS
-* mkfs.cramfs: added -v (verbose) option, and made default silent
-* mount: patch for make -j (RedHat)
-* swapoff: minor polishing
-
-util-linux 2.11s
-
-* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
-* French messages: some minor corrections
-* German messages (Michael Piefel)
-* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* MCONFIG: allow "make DISABLE_NLS=yes <target>" (Peter Breitenlohner)
-* configure: don't run ./conftest - better for cross-compilation (Magnus Damm)
-* fdisk: fixes for disks with OSF/1 label
-* fsck.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
-* hwclock: improved adjtime handling (James P. Rutledge)
-* hwclock: remove shhopts stuff
-* ipcs: remove unused heading (Michael Kerrisk)
-* line: replace by C version - the sh version was broken (Gunnar Ritter)
-* login: default root path: added /usr/local/[s]bin (RedHat)
-* mkfs.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
-* mount: when no type is known, assume that prefix // implies samba (RedHat)
-* mount -a: avoid stat on devices that have noauto option (Jeroen Mostert)
-* mount by label: ignore RAID partitions (RedHat)
-* [u]mount: fstab.c fix (ejb@ql.org)
-* pg: new (Gunnar Ritter)
-* sfdisk: small BSD partition fix
-* swapoff -a: also do swapoff on all files found in /proc/swaps
-* swapon -a: skip files already found in /proc/swaps
-
-util-linux 2.11r
-
-* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
-* German messages (Michael Piefel)
-* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* MCONFIG: move $(CFLAGS) to the end to allow overrides (Kevin P. Fleming)
-* cal: tiny fix (Mitsuru Chinen)
-* fdisk: avoid <linux/hdreg.h>
-* fdisk: x86_64 patch (Mads Martin Jørgensen)
-* hwclock.8: zoneinfo is now in /usr/share
-* mkswap: report in KiB instead of bytes.
-
-util-linux 2.11q
-
-* fdisk: geometry improvement
-* login: open tty fix (Denis Vlasenko)
-* more: wide character patches (Mitsuru Chinen)
-* mount: complain on mount-by-label when label is not unique (Matt Copping)
-* partx: add GUID Partition Tables (Matt Domsch)
-
-util-linux 2.11p
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
-* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* ipcrm: make POSIX compatible (Andre Corwin Mazzone)
-* ipcrm.8: idem
-* kill: fixed Makefile
-* login: setsid fixes
-* mkswap: max size of swap space is very large (Peter Chubb)
-* mount: JFS support for mount-by-label (hch)
-* nfsmount: check for <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h> (hch)
-* readprofile: keep track of line numbers (John Levon)
-* umount: fix for MNT_DETACH
-
-util-linux 2.11o
-
-* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
-* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
-* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
-* cal: option -s: Sunday is first day of the week
-* cal.1: updated
-* cfdisk: give not only bytes but also MB or GB for clarity.
-* colrm: wide character fix (Elliot Lee)
-* *fdisk: added Darwin types (Vincent Bourgonjen)
-* fstab.5: updated
-* hexdump: -C option
-* hwclock: cmos.c: do not include <asm/io.h> on alpha
-* mount: improved detection of ufs (and slowdown of detection of iso9660)
-* mount.8: added info on * in /etc/filesystems, shortname option of vfat,
- mount --move, udf, return codes
-* raw: try /dev/raw/rawctl when /dev/rawctl fails (Thierry Vignaud)
-* rc.serial: removed - setserial is no longer in util-linux (kromJx)
-* README.admutil: removed - only of historical interest
-* README.bootutils-0.1: removed - only of historical interest
-* script: security fix
-* sfdisk: improved geometry detection; wider columns; default disks from
- /proc/partitions
-* umount: permission test owner umount
-* wall.1: added suid restriction
-
-util-linux 2.11n
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages now in UTF-8 (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* blockdev: add --report option
-* cal: fix for wide multibyte-char (Motonobu Ichimura)
-* cfdisk: recognize ext3 and reiserfs (Flavio Stanchina)
-* fsck.minix: i18n changes
-* ipc.{info,texi}: minor correction
-* login: compilation fix (Jaroslaw J. Pyszny)
-* mount.8: tmpfs mount options (Karl Eichwalder)
-* mount: recognize minix v2
-* mount: support mount-by-label also for lvm (Kirby Bohling)
-* mount: order guessing of fstypes according to seek offset
-* pivot_root: compilation fix for ia64
-* readprofile: byte order auto-detection (Werner Almesberger)
-
-util-linux 2.11m
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
-* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* fdisk: added netbsd type (Steven J. Hill)
-* more: fix for unsigned char (Rusty Russell)
-* mount: added sysv magic (Tim Launchbury)
-* setterm: fixed "setterm -foreground default"
-
-util-linux 2.11l
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* banner: removed - it is in bsdgames
-* fdisk: show partitions with empty type but some other nonzero field
-* login: copy the static struct that getpwnam() returns before calling
- PAM routines that might themselves use getpwnam(). Abort on problems.
- (Olaf Kirch)
-* mount: added jfs magic (Christoph Hellwig)
-* renice: report the correct new priority after a setpriority()
-* umount: add lazy unmount (Christoph Hellwig)
-
-util-linux 2.11k
-
- Various potential buffer overflows were pointed out by awayzzz@digibel.org.
- Fixes in agetty, hwclock, namei, readprofile, simpleinit, vipw.
- (Also added a few [f]close() calls - entirely superfluously.)
-
-* agetty: avoid possible buffer overflow
-* cfdisk: recognize xfs (Nathan Scott)
-* cytune: added close()
-* fdformat: added close()
-* fdisk: added fclose()
-* hwclock: avoid possible buffer overflow
-* mkfs.minix: added fclose()
-* mount: remove the assumption that 635 is the default mount port
-* namei: avoid possible buffer overflow
-* rdev: added closedir()
-* readprofile: avoid possible buffer overflow
-* sfdisk: added fclose()
-* simpleinit: avoid possible buffer overflow
-* swapon: added fclose()
-* umount: use tcp when mount was done using tcp (James D Strandboge)
-* vipw: avoid possible buffer overflow
-
-util-linux 2.11j
-
-* fdisk: fix for AIX label (Olaf Hering)
-* fdisk: fix for creating DOS label when BSD label is present
-* mount.8: added remark about blocksize to ext2 sb= mount option description.
-* partitiontype: new, not installed
-
-util-linux 2.11i
-
-* testincl: do not run conftest (Brian Murphy)
-* blockdev: corrected ioctl numbers now that BLKBSZGET is in 2.4.10pre3
-* cal: fixed for Hungarian locale
-* cal: fixed for multibyte locales (Pablo Saratxaga)
-* fdisk: avoid superfluous warning about DOS partitions
-* line: new, to support SCO shell scripts (Christoph Hellwig)
-* mount: added vxfs magic
-* passwd: tiny fix for ARM (Ken Cox)
-* replay: replay typescript with timings (Joey Hess)
-* script: add -t flag for timing (Joey Hess)
-
-util-linux 2.11h
-
-* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* banner: minor fix (awayzzz@digibel.org)
-* mkfs.minix: minix v2 fix
-* more.1: improved (Edward Betts)
-* mount.8: corrected description of the nwfs uni_xlate mount option
-* vipw: make temp files of mode 0600 (Bill Nottingham)
-* wall: avoid writing to /dev/:0
-
-util-linux 2.11g
-
-* MCONFIG & configure: fix for gcc 3.0
- Note that nfsmount_xdr.c may give warnings with gcc 3.0, essentially
- because of defines in <rpc/xdr.h> that use things like ntohl(*buf++)
- where ntohl(x) is a macro with several occurrences of x.
-* blockdev: support for the get/set blocksize ioctls
- [not yet in the 2.4.5 kernel]
-* fdisk: added Linux/PA-RISC type (Matt Taggart)
-* mount: minor fix (Andrey J. Melnikoff)
-* mount: added some ext3 stuff (Andrew Morton)
-* mount: added heuristics for reiserfs (Andrew Morton)
-* mount.8: added ext3 and reiserfs docs (Andrew Morton)
-
-util-linux 2.11f
-
-* Czech messages (Jiøí Pavlovskı)
-* fdisk: fix for "reorder" expert command
- (use of sfdisk afterwards is still recommended)
-* mount: minor fixes
-
-util-linux 2.11e
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* Brazilian Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes)
-* agetty: give tty mode 0600 instead of 0622
-* cal: improved manpage
-* cfdisk: add user-friendliness in case of empty disk (Matthew Wilcox)
-* dmesg: improved manpage
-* fdisk: SuperH fix (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
-* hwclock: accept alpha options in both upper and lower case
- (so as to make the man page correct)
-* hwclock: add option --noadjtime (Henrique M Holschuh)
-* login: child must have controlling tty (Michal Moskal)
-* more: don't seek unseekable input (David Whedon)
-* mount: upon request by Richard Gooch: if the mount point is specified
- as symlink, put symlink, not actual mount point in mtab.
- (This avoids the long and ugly devfs names, but may break things.
- Please complain in case of problems.)
-* mount: with mount -a -t nfs:
- if we used fallback to nfs v3, don't do so for subsequent mounts
-* mount: add heuristics for ext3 (Andrew Morton)
-* mount: added quota info to mount.8
-* mount: allow comma-separated type lists, also in fstab
-* raw: small fix for ppc
-
-util-linux 2.11d
-
-* fdisk: fix for OSF (Will Woods)
-* chsh: compilation fix (Ronald Wahl)
-
-util-linux 2.11c
-
-* Czech messages (Jiøí Pavlovskı)
-* German messages (Elrond)
-* Makefile/MCONFIG improvements (Peter Breitenlohner)
-* fdisk: added a few partition types
-* fdisk: correct partition numbering for sgi partitions (Nathan Scott)
-* fdisk: make it compile on hppa by arbitrarily treating hppa like powerpc
- (Matt Taggart)
-* fsck.minix: improved localisation (Elrond)
-* getopt: updated to version 1.1.2 (Frodo Looijaard)
-* hwclock: fixes for IA64 (Thorsten Kukuk)
-* hwclock: use /dev/vc/1 when devfs is used (Thomas Koeller)
-* hwclock: more devfs support (e.g. /dev/misc/rtc)
-* ipcs: add spaces in output (DeWitt Clinton),
- correct some error messages (Bobby de Vos)
-* login: fix TIOCNOTTY (Andreas Haumer, Adam J. Richter)
-* login: add btmp logging of unsuccessful login attempts (Erik Troan)
-* login: avoid a SIGHUP race with PAM enabled (Peter 'Luna' Runestig)
-* login: copy the static result returned by gethostbyname to avoid
- corruption by pam_authenticate via pam_ldap (Andreas Damm)
-* login: removed the REDHAT_IGNORED_MAILSIZE hack
-* login: unconditionally do vhangup
-* login: zero PAM_USER when no username was given (Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
-* look: dictionary now under /usr/share (Erik Troan)
-* mount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
-* mount: another heuristic for vfat (Michal Svec)
-* mount: xfs magic has only one endianness (Nathan Scott)
-* mount: return failure when tcp used and portmap returns 0 (H. J. Lu)
-* rdev: allow unlimited recursion to find the long devfs names
- Also, allow major,minor pair the specify device (request by Russell Coker)
-* readprofile: array bound check (Andrew Morton)
-* script: transmit window changes to child (Joey Hess)
-* sfdisk: endian fix for ppc (Gregory Geiselhart)
-* sfdisk: new feature: sign is offset from default (Byron Stanoszek)
-* sfdisk: add some default devices to list (Luca Montecchiani)
-* sfdisk: no partition table on ide tape
-* shutdown: close files, unblock signals (Richard Gooch)
-* simpleinit: block signals in handlers; add no_reboot option (Richard Gooch)
-* swapdev: deleted, it was last used with Linux 0.12.
-* umount: mips does support umount2 (Maciej W. Rozycki)
-* umount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
-* umount: fix exit status
-* wall: do not forget 80th character (Thorsten Kukuk)
-
-util-linux 2.11b:
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* umount: mips does not support umount2 (Christoph Martin)
-* fdisk: tiny fix
-* mount.8: adfs options documented, xfs corrected
-
-util-linux 2.11a:
-
-* tsort: deleted - it is part of GNU textutils 2.0
-* mount: fix rootdev() (Richard Kettlewell)
-* mount: fix gid of mtab file
-* mount: try /proc/filesystems after /etc/filesystems if the latter ends in "*"
-* fdisk: added a few system types
-
-util-linux 2.11:
-
-* Jump to 2.11 to note that libc-4.5.26 is no longer supported,
- and we require libc-4.6.27 (since now snprintf is used).
- Also, kbdrate has now been removed. Find it in kbd-1.05.
- Added -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS.
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* fdisk: avoid loop in case of extended without logical
-* ipcs: corrected interchanged report on msg_rtime/msg_stime (Arun Kumar U)
-* kill: updated manpage
-* last: very much faster with mmap (Marek Zelem)
-* login: Applied PAM patch by David MacKenzie <djm@web.us.uu.net>
-* login: do a setsid in the child (Erik Troan)
-* mount: make "mount 192.168.1.8:/ /a -o bg" work again (Bjoern Voigt)
-* mount: added constant MS_MOVE
-* readprofile: added -M option, updated manpage (Andrew Morton)
-* setsid: fork when it would fail otherwise (John Fremlin)
-* simpleinit: updated (Richard Gooch et al.)
-* vipw: also offer to edit shadow file (Erik Troan)
-* xfs docs (Nathan Scott)
-
-util-linux 2.10s:
-
-* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
-* fixes to make gcc happy (Joseph S. Myers)
-* fix for more on parisc (Richard Hirst)
-* change rdev to search subdirectories of /dev (Paul Clements)
-* ul fix (Masao Kawamura) - set columns correctly
-* cal fix (Brendan Kehoe) - don't overflow weekday array in Gaelic
-* fdisk fix (niles@scyld.com) - flush stdout
-* fdisk fix - don't forget to write out empty label
-* login: make default tty mode 0600
-* script: refuse to write typescript if that is a symlink
-* script: accept -V to output version
-* whereis: also search /usr/share/man.
-* hwclock: improve locale handling
-* hwclock: fix for Nautilus (Neoklis Kyriazis)
-* isosize: new
-
-util-linux 2.10r:
-
-* mount: support mount by uuid or label for xfs (Nathan Scott)
-* mount: added probe for minix on bigendian systems (Nathan Scott)
-* mount: added probes for cramfs, hfs, hpfs and adfs (Sepp Wijnands)
-* mount: change setup; let umount remove at most one line from /etc/mtab
-* mount: improve man page
-* more, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ul: nls improvements (Masao Kawamura)
-
-util-linux 2.10q:
-
-* mount: accept nonnumeric uid= and gid= options
-* write and wall: security improvement
-* fixed fdformat flaw (Werner Almesberger)
-* use right mountport upon umount (Glenn Lingle)
-* simpleinit / need / initctl stuff (Richard Gooch)
-* Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes et al.)
-
-util-linux 2.10p:
-
-* mount: don't set up a loop file with -o loop,remount (Marc Mutz)
-* fdisk: changes for sectorsize different from 512
-* more: standout fix (Paul Vojta)
-* more: improve usage message (Lincoln Myers)
-* logger: Added -d option to use datagrams (Gerwin Pfab)
-* cal: Added -3 option to also print prev/next month (Michael Charles Pruznick)
-* French messages (Christophe Merlet)
-* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
-
-util-linux 2.10o:
-
-* fdformat: fixed to work with kernel 2.4.0test6 (Marek Wojtowicz)
-* losetup: also return status when only showing loop device status (ewt)
-* mount: do not retry ro if mount was ro; improve error message
-* login: not installed suid
-* getopt: by default install aux files in /usr/share/misc
-
-util-linux 2.10n:
-
-* added blockdev.8
-* change to elvtune (andrea)
-* fixed overrun in agetty (vii@penguinpowered.com)
-* shutdown: prefer umounting by mount point (rgooch)
-* fdisk: added plan9
-* fdisk: remove empty links in chain of extended partitions
-* mount: define ALWAYS_STAT
-* mount: add replace, after, before, over, bind
-* umount: also free loop device when not writing mtab
-* lomount: try both /dev/loopN and /dev/loop/N
-* hwclock: handle both /dev/rtc and /dev/efirtc (Bill Nottingham)
-* script: added -f (flush) option (Ivan Schreter)
-* script: added -q (quiet) option (Per Andreas Buer)
-* getopt: updated to version 1.1.0 (Frodo Looijaard)
-* Czech messages (Jiri Pavlovsky)
-
-util-linux 2.10m:
-
-* chfn fix when PAM is used (Martin-D. Lacasse)
-* do not use LC_NUMERIC part of locale in hwclock when writing /etc/adjtime
-* mount status return from smb or ncp fix (Mark Peloquin)
-* mount new option -l: also print label when listing mounts
-* mount add heuristic for xfs (Martin K. Petersen)
-* mount UUID and label cache (Erik Troan)
-* mount improve check for `already mounted' in case of label or uuid
-* fdisk partition names more devfs-friendly
-* fdisk bsdlabel large disk support
-* setterm.1: options documented (Colin Watson)
-* rename correction
-* German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese messages
- (Roger Luethi, Beth Powell, Alvaro Antunes)
-
-util-linux 2.10l:
-
-* Merged losetup.c and lomount.c
-* ANSIfied everything
-
-util-linux 2.10k:
-
-* NFS version 4 mount support (Trond Myklebust)
-* hwclock fix (Stefan Ring)
-* Added -p option to col, as required by SUS (Joseph S. Myers)
-
-util-linux 2.10j:
-
-* fdisk fixes (Michal Jaegermann)
-
-util-linux 2.10i:
-
-* new directory partx (with code to play with, not to use)
-* minor fdisk changes
-
-util-linux 2.10h:
-
-* Added pivot_root (Werner Almesberger)
-* Added elvtune (Andrea Arcangeli)
-* Added need and extended simpleinit and shutdown (Richard Gooch)
-* Removed all #include <linux/fs.h>
-* errno fixes (Joseph S. Myers)
-* IA-64 fixes (Michael K. Johnson)
-* fdisk fixes for OSF/1 on Alpha (David Huggins-Daines)
-* fdisk sectorsize fix (Greg Hosler)
-* mount speed= option to enable mounting bad CDROMs (Marco d'Itri)
-* ipcrm deletes several things at once (Frank Zago)
-
-util-linux 2.10g:
-
-* fdisk can now sort partitions into order [untested, beware!]
-* Update of mkswap for sparc64 (jj)
-* Update of raw (Stephen Tweedie):
- Control file was /dev/raw, now /dev/rawctl
- Access files were /dev/raw*, now /dev/raw/raw*
-* Czech messages (Jiri Pavlovsky)
-* German messages (Daniel Egger)
-* losetup locks memory (Frank v Waveren)
-
-util-linux 2.10f:
-
-* Security fix for mount (okir)
-* Avoid infinite loop in namei (Brett Wuth)
-* added clock-ppc.c (from Matsuura Takanori), not merged yet
-* deleted clockB subdirectory
-* recognize mkdosfs string (Michal Svec)
-
-util-linux 2.10e:
-
-* New: rename
-* Added option to mkswap so that user can override pagesize
-* fdisk -l now reads /proc/partitions when no device was given
-* Fixed fdisk.8 (James Manning)
-* Added devpts info to mount.8 (Elrond)
-* Newline fix for logger output to stdout (Henri Spencer)
-
-util-linux 2.10d:
-
-* Do not try to mount something as udf without good reason
-* Do not loop in umount if there is a stale lock file
-* Allow fdisk twice as many cylinders
-* Fixed non-casefolding search in look (Markus Demleitner)
-
-util-linux 2.10c:
-
-* Various compilation fixes
-
-util-linux 2.10b:
-
-* Fixed smbmount problem (Andrew Tridgell)
-* Fixed ddate problem with the day after St. Tib's Day (Brad)
-* German messages (Elrond)
-* Made kill a bit more standard compliant
-* Made some more programs output a version
-
-util-linux 2.10a:
-
-* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
-* French messages and several Debian fixes (Vincent Renardias)
-* Fixed infinite loop in mkfs.minix
-
-util-linux 2.10:
-
-* Added BSD disklabel code to rescuept
-* Added blockdev utility
-* Fix losetup return code
-* Fix unit display in cfdisk
-* Do not redefine _PATH_MAILDIR (so that recent systems can have /var/mail)
-* Added --localtime option to hwclock;
- added third line (LOCAL/UTC) to /etc/adjtime.
-* Add -H option to agetty (David Holland)
-
-util-linux 2.9z:
-
-* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
-* Czech messages (Jiri Pavlovsky)
-* Added some udf stuff to mount.8
-* Added ioctl for fdisk on bsdlabels
-
-util-linux 2.9y:
-
-* Wide character support (Bruno Haible)
-* German messages and some small fixes (Elrond)
-* Small fix to owner mount option (Erik Troan)
-* Don't sleep so long in clock/kd.c (Christian T. Steigies)
-
-util-linux 2.9x:
-
-* German messages and a i18n fix (Elrond)
-* mount option: allow the owner to mount a device (RedHat)
-* ugly: let login open console with O_NONBLOCK (Maciej W. Rozycki)
-* UGLY: let login ignore mail that is precisely 523 bytes long (RedHat)
-* added mkfs.bfs, mkfs.bfs.8
-* mount now recognizes qnx4 and bfs partitions
-* rescuept now recognizes Unixware partitions
-* hwclock fix on m68k (Roman Hodek)
-* several minor things
-
-util-linux 2.9w:
-
-* Updated mount.8 (Yann Droneaud)
-* Improved makefiles
-* Fixed flaw in fdisk
-
-util-linux 2.9v:
-
-* cfdisk no longer believes the kernel's HDGETGEO
- (and may be able to partition a 2 TB disk)
-
-util-linux 2.9u:
-
-* Czech more.help and messages (Jiøí Pavlovskı)
-* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
-* fdisk fix (Klaus G. Wagner)
-* mount fix (Hirokazu Takahashi)
-* agetty: enable hardware flow control (Thorsten Kranzkowski)
-* minor cfdisk improvements
-* fdisk no longer accepts a default device
-* Makefile fix
-
-util-linux 2.9t:
-
-* national language support for hwclock
-* Japanese messages (both by Daisuke Yamashita)
-* German messages and some misc i18n fixes (Elrond)
-* Czech messages (Jiøí Pavlovskı)
-* wall fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
-* make last and wall use getutent() (Sascha Schumann)
- [Maybe this is bad: last reading all of wtmp may be too slow.
- Revert in case people complain.]
-* documented UUID= and LABEL= in fstab.5
-* added some partition types
-* swapon: warn only if verbose
-
-util-linux 2.9s:
-
-* tunelp patch (Andrea Arcangeli)
-* fixed mount race (HJLu)
-* German messages (Elrond)
-
-util-linux 2.9[pqr]:
-
-* errno->errsv patch (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
-* hwclock patch for the Award 4.50g BIOS "2094" bug. (Dave Coffin)
-* fdisk patch to correct deletion of last logical partition
-
-util-linux 2.9o:
-
-* fix to login by Ambrose C. Li
-* improvement to mcookie inspired by a patch from Rik Faith
-* more i18n by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo; pt_BR locale
-
-util-linux 2.9n:
-
-* Added -u option to logger (write to user-specified socket; Martin Schultze)
-* Added mount.smb script contributed by Greg Galperin
-* Some more national language support
-* mkfs.minix argument parsing fixed
-* write fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
-* configure adapted for the case of <scsi/scsi.h> that needs u_char.
-
-util-linux 2.9m:
-
-* Added national language support (misiek@pld.ORG.PL)
-* minor improvements in mount, fdisk, cfdisk, agetty, more
-
-util-linux 2.9l:
-
-* Added /dev/port use to hwclock again - it may be necessary for Jensen.
-
-util-linux 2.9k:
-
-* major reshuffle of hwclock stuff; added sparc and alpha code
-* fdisk fix
-* tiny shutdown fix
-
-util-linux 2.9j:
-
-* added configure
-* merged three lists of partition types in *fdisk
-* multi page display in cfdisk
-* test for getlogin() == "";
-* start fixup hwclock
-
-util-linux 2.9i:
-
-* fixed 2.9h typo in more
-* added -m: `Monday is 1st day' option to cal (Jean-Francois Bignolles)
-* changed PAM stuff in login.c (+- mjohnson)
-* added warning to cfdisk in case of multiple bootable partitions
-* added 2048-byte sector support in fdisk (Oliver Schaertel)
-
-util-linux 2.9h:
-
-* mount recognizes "uid=useruid" and "gid=usergid" in /etc/fstab.
-* documented the fact that "mount -t smb" will call /sbin/mount.smb.
-* mount gives clear error message when fstab does not end in newline.
-* swapon checks mode of file
-* cfdisk got a more specific exit status (Enrique Zanardi)
-
-util-linux 2.9g:
-
-* mount updates (locking, "users" keyword, "/etc/filesystems",
- "proto" and "vers" options in nfsmount, ...)
-
-util-linux 2.9f:
-
-* made ul handle lines of arbitrary length (Scott Maxwell)
-* killed some C/H/S nonsense in fdisk
-* fixes for archs with unsigned char type (Ambrose Li)
-* fdisk fixes for power pc (Tom Rini)
-* added a define for NCURSES_CONST
-* fixes for list of signals in kill.c
-* fixes for user name length in last.c
-
-util-linux 2.9e:
-
-* added a forgotten declaration to login.c (Christian Oyarzun)
-
-util-linux 2.9d:
-
-* fixed segfault in umount caused by Wilcox' patch (Steffen Zahn)
-* added lnz stuff to fdisk
-
-util-linux 2.9c:
-
-* refixed PAM stuff in login.c that was broken in 2.8.
-
-util-linux 2.9b:
-
-* split README into INSTALL and HISTORY
-* added a sentence to swapon.8
-* behaviour of write on non-ASCII fixed
-* hwclock adapted to survive a failing mktime()
-
-util-linux 2.9a:
-
-* added an include to lib/my_reboot.c so that __GLIBC__ is defined
-* added setlocale() to login-utils/chfn.c
-* do not recompute MAIL in login-utils/login.c
-
-util-linux 2.9:
-
-HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.9:
-
-1) Removed programs:
- - strings. There is a version in binutils.
- - frag. (Moved to historic in 2.4, crept back in 2.5. Gone again.)
-1a) Not yet removed program:
- - setfdprm. It also is in fdutils-5.2 (with an exceptionally
- ugly man page).
-1b) Removed directory:
- - bsd. (The routine getopt() is in libc. err() moved to lib.)
-2) Improvements:
- - ddate has been fixed to count down to the new, right X-day
- - look is now willing to search non-English dictionaries
- (i.e., uses locale)
- - cal now knows that Dutch day abbreviations have length 2 only
- - mcookie does not block when no random stuff is available
- - shutdown got a configuration file /etc/shutdown.conf
- - fdisk now reads SGI disk labels (thanks to Andreas Neuper)
- - mkswap now knows about new swap areas; mkswap.8 has been rewritten
- - umount knows about umount2() and forced unmounting of nfs mounts
- (however, I don't think it really works)
- - mount is now willing to handle file names with embedded spaces
- - mount can now mount things by UUID or volume name
-3) Uglifications:
- - swap.h has been replaced by a private swap_constants.h since
- <linux/swap.h> does not compile
- - reboot has become a private routine, since libc5 and glibc2 conflict
- - a mkminix-0.1 directory contains some patches to let mkfs.minix
- work under DOS. (Untested.)
-4) Numerous other small changes.
-
-0xF) Send questions and/or patches to util-linux@math.uio.no
-
-util-linux 2.9 was released by Andries Brouwer - aeb@cwi.nl
-The address util-linux@math.uio.no reaches Rik, Andries, Peter,
-Michael, Erik, Nicolai and possibly others. Hwclock stuff is
-forwarded to Bryan.
-
-util-linux 2.8:
-
-HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.8:
-
-1) New programs:
- - getopt(1) by Frodo Looijaard replaces the older bsd based version.
- Keywords: Backward compatible, supports --long options.
-1) Removed programs:
- - chroot: is no longer in util-linux. Get it free with GNU sh-utils
- - hostid: No-one could figure out the right way for this program to
- work. Another hostid program is included in poeigl
- (see the LSM, Primary-site: ftp.daimi.aau.dk /pub/linux/poe)
-2) Various portability enhancements. Among other things hwclock now works
- a lot better on non Intel architectures. Should compile with libc 4, 5
- and 6 as well as old and recent kernels. People using non-intel hardware
- are encouraged to send patches.
-3) rev now only limits linelength to memory capacity
-4) dmesg now uses a buffer that matches the kernel buffer in size (8KB)
-
-
-util-linux 2.7:
-
-HIGLIGHTS for version 2.7:
-
-1) util-linux now _requires_ ncurses. Several programs are completely
- converted to use terminfo (instead of termcap).
-
-2) Removed progams:
- - clock: Dropped entirely. Use hwclock (included).
- - sync: is in gnu fileutils.
- - setserial: Is being maintained by Ted Ts'o, he recommends
- setserial-2.12 (2.13 is bad luck)
- - clear: Included in ncurses
- - hostname, domainname, dnsdomainname: It's in net-utils.
- - lpcntl.
-
-3) Bugfixes, additions:
- - cfdisk: A much improved version. All known bugs have been fixed.
- - sfdisk: A command line fdisk type utility, formerly called fdisk-3.04.
- - SECURITY: All known holes in login, chfn, chsh and others have been
- plugged. UPGRADE NOW if you haven't already fixed them yourself.
- - Should work with libc 4, 5 and 6 (gnulibc), on m68k, intel, alpha
- and sparc.
-
-4) Problems:
- - The rpcgen that comes in NetKit-B-0.09 is broken. At least as
- packaged with RedHat 4.2 (NetKit-B-0.09-6). There are several
- ways to deal with this:
- - Don't run rpcgen, the needed pre-generated sources are included
- (nfsmount_xdr.c). You must hack mount/Makefile to do this.
- - Edit the source emitted by rpcgen so it can compile. This is very
- simple if you know C.
- - Disable the NFS parts of mount. You have to edit mount/Makefile
- to do this.
- - Use some other rpcgen.
-
-util-linux 2.6.1
-
-This release was never made public
-
-See notes for 2.6 for installation instructions.
-
-This is a incremental release containing some fixes. A new release
-will be made later fixing the outstanding bugs.
-- Things compiles and works better with recent releases of kernel,
- ncurses, and so forth: fdisk, more
-- Some fixes to make things compile out of the box on alphas.
-- There has been reported a problem with login and /etc/usertty. It
- should be fixed. If you still have problems get a recent MAKEDEV and
- use it to make new tty devices. They were renumbered sometime during
- the 1.3 phase of the kernel.
-- ipcs now displays the key of the structures.
-- A (harmless?) overflow bug was fixed in login.
-
-Outstanding bugs:
-- login/getty has a denial of service problem.
-- Several places needs a bit more polish.
-- There are a _lot_ of nonfatal warnings when compiling mount. This will
- not necesarily be fixed.
-
-
-util-linux 2.6
-
-HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.6:
-
-0) The first release with me at the helm. PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND
- UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no.
-
-1) Removed programs:
- - md5sum, dsplit: available in GNU textutils.
- - syslogd: Sysklogd is now prefered. It is available at
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/sources/sbin
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons
-
-2) Bugfixes, additions:
- - SECURITY: All known holes in mount have been fixed. UPGRADE NOW
- if you haven't already!
- - Portability enhancments to the minix filesystem utils (m68k and
- Arm patches).
- - passwd/chsh/chfn will not mess up the passwd file on a NIS machine
- - others too numerous to enumerate.
-
-3) New programs:
- - vigr (it's like vipw)
- - Introducing hwclock. A complete rewrite of the latest available
- clock source. It supports intel/CMOS, /dev/rtc and linux/m68k
- system clock interfaces. Clock supports the same things but is now
- obsolete and will not be present in the next release. Start using
- hwclock now. Please.
-
-
-util-linux 2.5
-
-HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.5:
-0) Nicolai Langfeldt is taking over maintenance of util-linux, with the
- help of a few others (Michael K. Johnson, Andries Brouwer, and Rik
- Faith).
-
- PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no
-
-1) The following packages have been removed. Please use the up-to-date,
- canonical versions of these packages from the listed places:
-
- timezone support (/usr/lib/zoneinfo, libz.a, zic, zdump):
- elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzcode95d.tar.gz
- elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzdata95h.tar.gz
- MAKEDEV-C:
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-C-1.5.tar.gz
- MAKEDEV:
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-2.2.tar.gz
- md5sum:
- prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils-1.3.tar.gz
- [The GNU version is now compatible with the Plumb/Lankester
- version.]
- ksymoops:
- Now bundled with the kernel in linux/scripts.
-
-2) update_state has been removed
-3) fdisk now supports NetBSD disklabels courtesy of Bernhard Fastenrath
- <fasten@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de> (and > 8GB disks, courtesy of
- Andries Brouwer)
-4) mount improved -- many patches from Andries Brouwer for greatly improved
- error reporting
-5) ddate, chkdupexe, and other programs have been improved and bug fixed
-6) util-linux is now a source-only distribution
-7) mcookie generates better random numbers and will use /dev/random or
- /dev/audio if available
-8) chfn, chsh, passwd, and vipw have been updated with security patches
- from Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>. Now, they all use the same
- locking, and several security holes have been patched. Further, chsh
- and chfn can be configured at compile time to require a password before
- updates and chsh can be configured to only use shells from /etc/shells.
-
-
-HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.4 (2.3 was never released):
-0) Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net> is the interim maintainer
- while Rik Faith is working on PhD work.
-1) login now makes the login tty mode 600 and places it in group "tty"
-2) wall, and write will not write dangerous escape sequences
-3) wall and write can be run setgid "tty". If util-linux is compiled for
- this option, "mesg y" will only set group write instead of group/other
- write.
-4) fdisk and cfdisk have been patched with the latest llseek.c. Although I
- had a lot of bug reports about fdisk from util-linux-2.2, I was unable
- to reproduce any of the problems. Some of the problems appeared to be
- releated to a failure to reboot the machine after changing the partition
- table, and some may have been due to a specific kernel revision problem.
- However, this doesn't seem to account for all of the bug reports -- if
- this version gives you problem, please send as complete a bug report as
- possible.
-5) chkdupexe from Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
-6) ctrlaltdel now installs into /sbin instead of /usr/sbin
-7) mkfs replacement from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
-8) lpcntl removed. Use tunelp instead.
-9) ksymoops from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
-10) mkfs.minix now clears the first 512 bytes of the file system so that
- Minix disks won't be confused with MSDOS disks (Daniel Quinlan
- (quinlan@yggdrasil.com))
-11) mkswap should now work on an Alpha running Linux
-12) frag removed. See
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/defrag-0.6.tar.gz for the
- latest version.
-13) mount patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
- (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
-14) MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV-C updated to the latest versions.
-15) Paths updated for FSSTND 1.2. This means that you may need to make
- some links. The links you need to make we system dependent. The
- ultimate goal is to rename /var/adm to /var/log and have a symbolic
- link from /var/adm to /var/log during the transition period. If you
- are running an ELF system, you probably won't have to do anything. The
- bottom line is that the following files must exist or be pointers to
- the old version (used internally by the a.out libraries):
-
- New Old
-
- /var/log/wtmp /var/adm/wtmp
- /var/log/lastlog /var/adm/lastlog
- /var/run/utmp /var/adm/utmp
-
-HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.2:
-1) This is primarily a quick bug-fix release for version 2.1
-2) mkfs wrapper added back in, since e2fsprogs only supplies an fsck wrapper
-3) selection removed, since someone appears to be maintaining it now. See
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/patches/console for recent sources.
- For the time being, I'm keeping a copy in the historic subdirectory of
- util-linux. A "make install" should work find from within that
- directory.
-4) Note that other floppy utilities are available from:
- ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
-
-
-HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.1:
-
-1) Directory structure rearrange, with configuration support for those who
- use shadow passwords and System V init (no support is provided for these
- things, but your utilities won't get overwritten if you do a "make
- install" after you properly edit MCONFIG).
-2) fdisk and cfdisk should work as expected with 2GB+ disk drives
-3) As usual, lots of stuff was updated and added, including mount, vipw,
- readprofile
-4) Some stuff was also deleted, and can now be found elsewhere:
- fsck wrapper: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/ext2fs/e2fsprogs*
- pwd, su: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sh-utils*
- ed: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ed*
- od: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils*
- uudecode/uuencode: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sharutils*
- bdflush/update: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v1.1/bdflush*
-
-
-
-PARTIAL HISTORY OF UTIL-LINUX:
-
-bsd:
- Nothing in this directory gets installed, but some BSD programs need
- this support:
- err.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
- err.h: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/2/93
- getopt.c: 4.13 (Berkeley) 2/23/91
- pathnames.h: 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/9/89 with extensive modifications for
- Linux
-
-disk-utils:
- cfdisk: 0.8 BETA (>2GB) from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu) with
- modifications for disks > 2GB.
- ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/users/martin/linux/cfdisk-0.8.tar.gz
- fdformat: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), with
- modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)).
- Later, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner.
- fdisk: A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk) fdisk 1.5 release, with
- patched from Kevin Martin for DOS and OS/2 compatibility (1.5a);
- Rik Faith (1.5b, 2.0).
- fsck.minix, mkfs.minix: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by: Rik
- Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner
- (sdh@po.cwru.edu), Dr. Wettstein
- (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu), Daniel
- Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
- mkfs: David Engel (david@ods.com) and Fred N. van Kempen
- (waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG)
- Version 1.9 from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
- mkswap: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by Mike Jagdis
- (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk. )
- Version for Alpha from
- cage.cs.arizona.edu:/pub/davidm/linux/mkswap-axp-950503.tar.gz
- setfdprm: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
- Note that more floppy utilities are available from:
- ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
- tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
- llseek.c: from Remy Card's e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz (21Mar95 version) from:
- sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
-
-games:
- banner: (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94)
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
-
-login-utils:
- agetty: W. Z. Venema, ported by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>.
- ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
- chfn: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
- chsh: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
- last: 5.11 w/year (Berkeley) 6/29/88; Port by Michael Haardt with
- changes by Peter Orbaek.
- ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
- login: 5.40 (Berkeley) 5/9/89; with ports by Michael Glad and Peter Orbaek
- ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
- mesg: 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/21/94
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
- newgrp: Michael Haardt, with modifications by Peter Orbaek.
- ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
- passwd: Peter Orbaek, with yp modifications by Alvaro Martinez
- Echevarria (alvaro@enano.etsit.upm.es)
- ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
- shutdown: Peter Orbaek, with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie, Rik
- Faith, and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com).
- ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
- simpleinit: Peter Orbaek
- ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
- vipw: 5.16 (Berkeley) 3/3/91, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
- <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
- wall: 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93 (With changes so that damaging escape
- sequences cannot be sent.)
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
-
-
-misc-utils:
- cal: 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/2/94, with modifications by Rik Faith and
- Hein@student.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein).
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
- chkdupexe: Version 1.2 from "Nicolai Langfeldt" <janl@ifi.uio.no>
- clear: Rik Faith
- ddate: Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson aka mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
- with modifications by Lee Harvey Oswald Smith, K.S.C. and
- substantial updates from Rev. Bro. Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP
- domainname: Peter Orbaek
- ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
- dsplit: David Arnstein (arnstein@netcom.com)
- gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume40/dsplit
- getopt (getoptprog): jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu:
- /pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt
- replaced by getopt-1.0.3.tar.gz from Frodo Looijaard,
- found at http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol
- hostid: Mitch DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
- ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
- hostname/dnsdomainname: Peter Tobias <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
- This version (1.6) should also be available soon in:
- nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/net-source/base/NetKit-A*
- kill: BSD version, modified by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
- logger: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
- look.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
- mcookie: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
- md5sum: Branki Lankester and Colin Plumb. The MD5 message-digest
- algorithm is in the Public Domain. This implementation
- calculates message-digest information only, and can NOT be used
- for encryption. Therefore it is exportable from the USA.
- Original sources in the MIT version of PGP 2.6.2.
- namei: Roger S. Southwick, with modifications by Steve Tell.
- reset: Rik Faith
- script: 5.13 (Berkeley) 3/5/91, with modifications by Rick Sladkey
- (jrs@world.std.com), Harald Koenig
- (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de).
- setterm: Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au), with modifications by
- Peter MacDonald, Mika Liljeberg (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI),
- John Walder (j-walder@uiuc.edu) [for dosemu].
- tsort: 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
- whereis: 5.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/91
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
- write: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
- (kashmir@umiacs.umd.edu). With changes so that damaging escape
- sequences cannot be sent.
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
-
-
-mount:
- mount, umount, swapon
-
- Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen
- Tweedie provided updates. The utilities were originally from that
- package (all appear to be by Doug Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu),
- with modifications by H. J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) on 11/25/92; Rick
- Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) in January 1993; and Stephen Tweedie
- <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> on 8 October 1993. This distribution mount now
- supports NFS stuff. I have modified the man pages. I have also added
- a small patch from Hamish Glen Coleman (t933093@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
- which restores the -o semantics.
-
- Updated with Rick Sladkey's mount-0.99.14.tar.gz package, and with
- extra patches from Rick. Adam J. Richter allowed -t option to be
- optional. Patrick J. Volkerding (volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) and
- Mitchum DSouza both provided patches that fixed the (null) problem when
- not using -t. Mitchum DSouza
- (mitch@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk) added support for loop
- device mounts. Sebastian Lederer
- (lederer@next-pc.informatik.uni-bonn.de) added support for sending an
- unmount RPC call to the server when an NFS-filesystem is unmounted.
- Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) added support for remounting
- readonly file systems readonly. Mike Grupenhoff
- <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU> added a probe of the superblock for the type
- before /proc/filesystems is checked. Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl fixed up
- error reporting.
-
- Updated with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
- (quinlan@yggdrasil.com). And more patches from Andries and others.
-
-historic/selection: The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett
- <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>, 17th June 1993, is included in the historic tree.
- Kernel patches are no longer necessary for modern kernels, but these
- were tiny so I left them in for historical reasons. The Makefile was
- modified for this distribution. With changes from Rick Sladkey.
-
-sys-utils:
- arch: Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
- chroot: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
- clock: Originally from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package, Charles Hedrick,
- hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu (V1.0); Rob Hooft, hooft@chem.ruu.nl
- (V1.1); Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
- (V1.2). With additional changes: Hamish Coleman
- (hamish@zot.apana.org.au) (V1.2a); Alan Modra
- (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (V1.3, V1.4).
- ctrlaltdel: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
- ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
- cytune: Nick Simicish (njs@scifi.emi.net) and Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
- dmesg: Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu); Rick Sladkey
- (jrs@world.std.com)
- ipcrm: From the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
- balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93. ipc.info and ipc.texi
- are also from that distribution.
- ipcs: Also from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
- balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu, with patches from Mike Jagdis
- (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk)
- kbdrate: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), with patches from
- Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and John Bowman
- (bowman@hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
- ksymoops: 1.7 from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
- rdev: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger), with
- modifications from Peter MacDonald, Stephen Tweedie
- (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk), and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com)
- readprofile: Alessandro Rubini from readprofile-2.0.tar.gz
- renice: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
- setserial: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) re-released Rick
- Sladkey's setserial in January 1993, with changes by
- Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu). I think that Theodore also
- did extensive changes for version 2.01, I can't find any
- notes about this in the documentation. However, Theodore
- Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) released version 2.10, and that
- is now included.
- setsid: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
- sln: Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc)
- sync: Nick Holloway, with thanks to James Bonfield
- tunelp: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net)
-
-
-syslogd:
- 5.45 (Berkeley) 3/2/91
-
- Most of the changes for syslogd come from Rick Sladkey
- (jrs@world.std.com), but I'd like to thank other people who sent in
- changes (which usually got forwarded to Rick): Carsten Paeth
- (calle@calle.in-berlin.de) and Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp).
-
-text-utils:
- col: 5.3 (Berkeley) 2/2/91; with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
- and Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com)
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
- colcrt: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 (Bill Joy)
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
- colrm: 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/90 (Jeff Schriebman)
- column: 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
- hexdump: 5.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
- more: 5.19 (Berkeley) 6/29/88 (Eric Shienbrood, Geoff Peck, John Foderaro)
- rev: 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/92; with modifications by Charles Hannum
- (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu), Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu),
- bjdouma@xs4all.nl
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
- strings: 5.10 (Berkeley) 5/23/91; with patches from Vitor Duarte
- <vad@fct.unl.pt>
- wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
- ul: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
- ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
-