From c3a68a8f670691c0310abc9d7c03581f77e89b1b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benno Schulenberg Date: Sat, 1 Aug 2015 10:23:10 +0200 Subject: docs: fix some grammar and punctuation in the 2.27 release notes Signed-off-by: Benno Schulenberg --- Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes | 52 +++++++++++++++---------------- 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation/releases') diff --git a/Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes b/Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes index 83c97a37c..21de1112f 100644 --- a/Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes +++ b/Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes @@ -3,51 +3,51 @@ Util-linux 2.27 Release Notes The command tailf is deprecated in favour of tail -f from coreutils. -The command unshare provides a new option --propagation= +The command unshare provides a new option --propagation=slave|shared|private|unchanged to control propagation in mount namespaces. The default is "private" now. The -new default unifies unshare behavior and makes it independent on distribution -default. The unshare supports persistent namespaces too (no process has to run +new default unifies unshare behavior and makes it independent of distribution +default. The unshare supports persistent namespaces too (no process has to run to keep namespace in existence). -The fdisk and sfdisk is possible to compile with GNU Readline support to -improve line-editing functionality. +The commands fdisk and sfdisk can be compiled with GNU readline support to +improve their line-editing functionality. -The library libsmartcols and commands findmnt, losetup, lsblk, lslocks, sfdisk -and lsipc provides output in JSON format. +The library libsmartcols and the commands findmnt, losetup, lsblk, lslocks, +sfdisk and lsipc provide output in JSON format. -The command mkfs (deprecated in favour of mkfs.) does not use hard coded +The command mkfs (deprecated in favour of mkfs.) does not use hard-coded paths, but it follows $PATH. The command script has been massively improved to be more robust and less -complex. Now all is implemented by one process which monitor the running -session by poll(), signalfd() etc. +complex. Now all is implemented by one process which monitors the running +session by poll(), signalfd(), etc. -The command sulogin supports locked root accounts if the command line option +The command sulogin supports locked root accounts if the command-line option --force is specified. Read the sulogin man page before you use it! -The command agetty reloads prompt on addresses change if network information -displayed. +The command agetty reloads the prompt on address changes if network information +is displayed. -The util-linux supports and enable colors by default, this behavior is possible -to change by --disable-colors-default to be more user friendly to color blind -people. The colors is still possible to enable by /etc/terminal-colors.d. See +util-linux now supports and enables colors by default. It is possible to change +this behavior with --disable-colors-default to be more user-friendly to colorblind +people. The colors can still be enabled by editing /etc/terminal-colors.d. See terminal-colors.d(5). -The command cfdisk displays more information about selected partition +The command cfdisk displays more information about the selected partition (partition UUID, filesystem identifiers, mountpoint, etc.). This extra window -is possible to toggle by 'x' key. +can be toggled with the 'x' key. -The fdisk provides a new command 'F' to print free unpartitioned space (gaps) -on the disk. The same functionality provides sfdisk by --list-free. The fdisk -wipes the begin of the device by default, the new option --protect-boot -disables this behavior. The new fdisk command 'i' provides more information -about a specified partition. +The command fdisk provides a new command 'F' to print free, unpartitioned space +(gaps) on the disk. The same functionality is provided by sfdisk through the +option --list-free. The fdisk command wipes the beginning of the device by +default; the new option --protect-boot disables this behavior. The new fdisk +command 'i' provides more information about a specified partition. -The command cal supports new options --twelve and --months to display next -twelve or months. +The command cal supports the new options --twelve and --months to display +the next twelve or months. The command rtcwake supports a new option --list-modes to list available modes, -and a new option --date for human readable times. rtcwake does not support +and a new option --date for human-readable times. rtcwake does not support RTC_ALM_READ and RTC_ALM_SET fallbacks any more. -- cgit v1.2.3-55-g7522