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Util-linux-ng 2.14 Release Notes (26-Mar-2008)
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Release highlights:
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 mount(8) supports new "nofail" mount option.

 mount(8) supports auto-destruction of loop devices.

 losetup(8) supports new command line option "-j" to show status of all
 loop devices associated with given file.

 losetup(8) supports unlimited number of loop devices.

 ldattach(8) command has been added to util-linux-ng. The ldattach
 daemon opens the specified device file and attaches the line discipline
 to it for processing of the sent and/or received data.

 setterm(8) supports new command line option "-blank [force|poke]" for
 TIOCL_{BLANKED,BLANK}SCREEN.

 tailf(8) has been reimplemented to use inotify.

 tailf(8) supports new command line option "-n" to specifying output lines.

 mkswap(8) supports new command line option "-U" to set UUID explicitly.

 fdisk(8) has been fixed to calculate partition size in 2^N.

 cal(8) supports highlighting an arbitrary date.

 agetty(8) makes username-in-uppercase feature optional (off by
 default). Uses who use uppercase-only terminals need to use option "-U"
 now.

 losetup(8), mount(8), umount(8), fdisk(8) and sfdisk(8) support static
 linking when compiled with --enable-static-programs.


ChangeLog between v2.13 and v2.14
---------------------------------

 For more details see ChangeLog files at:
 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.14/

agetty:
   - cleanup MAXHOSTNAMELEN  [Karel Zak]
   - make username-in-uppercase feature optional (off by default.)  [Hamish Coleman]
   - non-linux support (use pathnames.h)  [Karel Zak]
   - replace termio with termios interface  [Samuel Thibault]
   - ungettextize several debugging messages.  [Benno Schulenberg]
blockdev:
   - add --getsz to blockdev.8  [Karel Zak]
   - add missing description about option --report in manpage  [Li Zefan]
   - fix  opened file leaving unclosed  [lizf]
   - use lib/blkdev.c, fix --report  [Karel Zak]
build-sys:
   - add --enable-static-programs  [Stepan Kasal, Karel Zak]
   - add AC_CANONICAL_HOST  [Miklos Szeredi]
   - add VARSUFFIX to UTIL_CHECK_LIB  [Karel Zak]
   - add err.h check  [Karel Zak]
   - add v2.14 to NEWS  [Karel Zak]
   - autogen.sh reports versions of autotools now  [Karel Zak]
   - build arch(1) during distcheck  [Stepan Kasal]
   - cleanup "x$foo" usage  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup disk-utils/Makefile.am (use $utils_common)  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup usage of linux/major.h  [Samuel Thibault]
   - disable syscall fallbacks for non-linux systems  [Karel Zak]
   - do not add -luuid to BLKID_LIBS  [Stepan Kasal]
   - fix missing deps for swapon  [Matthias Koenig]
   - nls/locale handling in util-linux-ng general  [Mike Frysinger]
   - non-linux support  [Samuel Thibault]
   - release++  [Karel Zak]
   - remove errs.h  [Karel Zak]
   - remove files that are no longer delivered from git  [LaMont Jones]
   - remove hardcoded _GNU_SOURCE  [Karel Zak]
   - set AC_PREREQ to 2.60, increment version to 2.14  [Karel Zak]
   - simplify code around RDEV_LINKS and SETARCH_LINKS  [Stepan Kasal]
   - unify method for checking system calls and fallback handling  [Mike Frysinger, Stepan Kasal]
   - use dist_man_MANS instead of man_MANS  [Stepan Kasal]
   - use ncursesw (wide version) when possibe  [Karel Zak, Mike Frysinger]
   - use pkg-config to find the libs for static build  [Stepan Kasal]
   - use portable $(VAR =) instead of gmake-specific $(addsuffix)  [Stepan Kasal]
cal:
   - add description about option -V to manpage  [Li Zefan]
   - add support for highlighting an arbitrary date  [Pádraig Brady]
   - avoid -Wformat warnings  [Jim Meyering]
   - fix weekday alignment for certain locales  [Pádraig Brady]
   - replace errs.h with libc err.h  [Karel Zak]
cfdisk:
   - define portable {DEFAULT,ALTERNATE}_DEVICE  [Samuel Thibault]
   - display cylinders beyond 1024  [Peter Breitenlohner]
   - slightly increase the size of menu buttons  [Benno Schulenberg]
   - translate partition-type names when they are printed.  [Benno Schulenberg]
chfn:
   - add pam_end() call and cleanup PAM code  [Karel Zak]
   - fix compiler warnings in selinux stuff  [Karel Zak]
chsh:
   - should use pam_end function to terminate the PAM transaction  [Yu Zhiguo, Karel Zak]
column:
   - replace errs.h with libc err.h  [Karel Zak]
docs:
   - add a note about minix v3 to TODO file  [Karel Zak]
   - add info about .bugfix releases and branches  [Karel Zak]
   - add note about incorrect tag 2.13.1  [Karel Zak]
   - add note about static linking  [Karel Zak]
   - fix ChangeLog URL  [Pascal Terjan]
   - fix stable branche name in README.devel  [Karel Zak]
   - mark vipw(1) is deprecated in favor of vipw from shadow-utils  [Karel Zak]
   - refresh TODO list  [Karel Zak]
   - tweak a few messages for clarity  [Benno Schulenberg]
   - update AUTHORS file  [Karel Zak]
   - update TODO file  [Karel Zak]
elvtune:
   - use get_linux_version()  [Karel Zak]
fdformat:
   - install to /usr/sbin instead to /usr/bin  [Karel Zak]
fdisk:
   - better fallback for get_random_id()  [H. Peter Anvin]
   - calculate +size{K,M,G} in 2^N  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup BLK* ioctls usage  [Karel Zak]
   - doing useless ioctl when editing an image  [Pascal Terjan]
   - fix building for AVR32 and CRIS  [Imre Kaloz]
   - fix typo  [Karel Zak]
   - non-linux support (MAXPATHLEN)  [Karel Zak]
   - non-linux support (use standard uintxy_t instead __uxy)  [Samuel Thibault]
   - use more readable "GPT" name rather than "EFI GPT"  [Robert Millan]
   - use swab macros from bitops.h  [Karel Zak]
flock:
   - typo in man page  [A. Costa]
fsck.cramfs:
   - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
getopt:
   - fix path to examples in getopt.1  [Karel Zak]
   - install example scripts as SCRIPTS, not DATA  [Peter Breitenlohner]
hwclock:
   - check for ENODEV  [David Woodhouse]
   - do not create a zero adjfile  [Alain Guibert]
   - fix --rtc option  [Matthias Koenig, Karel Zak]
include:
   - <stdint.h> provides everything  [Samuel Thibault]
   - add bitops.h with swab{16,32,64} macros  [Karel Zak]
   - add mount paths to pathnames.h  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup pathnames.h  [Karel Zak]
ionice:
   - add a note about permissions to ionice.1  [Karel Zak]
ipcs:
   - add information about POSIX compatibility to ipcs.1  [Karel Zak]
kill:
   - man page is missing a description of "kill -0"  [Karel Zak]
ldattach:
   - add NLS support  [Karel Zak]
   - new command  [Tilman Schmidt]
lib:
   - add blkdev.{c,h}  [Stefan Krah, Karel Zak]
   - add linux_version.{c,h}  [Stefan Krah]
login:
   - fix a small memory leak and remove unnecessary zeroing  [Karel Zak]
   - login segfaults on EOF (rh#298461)  [Karel Zak]
   - replace termio with termios interface  [Samuel Thibault]
losetup:
   - add --associated option  [Karel Zak]
   - canonicalize loopfile name  [Karel Zak, Matthias Koenig]
   - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
   - fix errno usage  [Karel Zak]
   - remove duplicate xstrdup() and error()  [Karel Zak]
   - support unlimited number of loops  [Karel Zak]
   - use standard uintxy_t types (struct loop_info64)  [Samuel Thibault]
mesg:
   - replace errs.h with libc err.h  [Karel Zak]
mkfs.cramfs:
   - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap, Karel Zak]
   - remove unused header file  [lizf]
mkfs.minix:
   - add sectorsize check  [Matthias Koenig]
   - clean up gcc warnings  [Karel Zak]
   - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
   - device size cleanup  [Matthias Koenig]
mkswap:
   - BLKGETSIZE cleanup  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup kB vs. KiB usage in error messages  [Karel Zak]
   - fix compiler warnings  [Karel Zak]
   - linux_version() code consolidation  [Karel Zak]
   - possible to crash with SELinux relabeling support  [KaiGai Kohei]
   - set UUID for swap space (add -U option)  [Martin Schulze]
more:
   - cleanup gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
   - non-linux support  [Samuel Thibault]
   - replace CBAUD with cfgetispeed()  [Samuel Thibault]
mount:
   - "can't create lock file" message sometimes means failure, sometimes not  [Mark McLoughlin]
   - "nofail" mount option  [Matthias Koenig, Karel Zak]
   - -L|-U segfault when label or uuid doesn't exist  [Karel Zak]
   - add more details to the --version output  [Karel Zak]
   - allow auto-destruction of loop devices  [Bernardo Innocenti]
   - chain of symlinks to fstab causes use of pointer after free  [Norbert Buchmuller]
   - clean up gcc warnings (mount_mntent.c)  [Randy Dunlap]
   - clean up global variables  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup "none" fstype usage  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup KERNEL_VERSION, remove my_dev_t.h  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup canonicalize() usage  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup error() and die()  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup usage of _PATH_*  [Karel Zak]
   - doesn't drop privileges properly when calling helpers  [Ludwig Nussel]
   - don't call canonicalize(SPEC) for cifs, smbfs and nfs  [Karel Zak]
   - don't canonicalize LABEL= or UUID= spec  [Karel Zak]
   - drop the part always true from a while condition  [Pascal Terjan]
   - fix fd leak  [Matthias Koenig]
   - hint about helper program if device doesn't exist  [Karel Zak]
   - improve chmod & chown usage and clean up gcc warnings (fstab.c)  [Karel Zak]
   - improve error message when helper program not present  [LaMont Jones]
   - prevent loop mounting the same file twice  [Karel Zak, Matthias Koenig]
   - remove MS_{REPLACE,AFTER,BEFORE,OVER}  [Karel Zak]
   - remove redundant fflush  [Karel Zak]
   - remove useless if-before-my_free, define my_free as a macro  [Karel Zak]
   - use MNTTYPE_SWAP (from mntent.h)  [Karel Zak]
   - use atexit() rather than (*at_die)()  [Karel Zak]
   - use blkdev_get_size()  [Karel Zak]
   - use canonicalize in getfs_by_devname  [Karel Zak]
namei:
   - add to identify FIFO (named pipe) and update manpage  [Li Zefan]
   - cleanup tailing white-spaces  [Karel Zak]
   - non-linux support (get_current_dir_name() and PATH_MAX)  [Karel Zak, Samuel Thibault]
partx:
   - fix compiler warnings  [Karel Zak]
   - use swab macros from bitops.h  [Karel Zak]
pg:
   - fix segfault on search  [Rajeev V. Pillai]
po:
   - add eu.po (from translationproject.org)  [Mikel Olasagasti]
   - add pl.po (from translationproject.org)  [Andrzej Krzysztofowicz]
rename:
   - add description about option -V to manpage  [Li Zefan]
   - remove useless variable  [Li Zefan]
renice:
   - detect errors in arguments, add -v, -h and long options  [LaMont Jones, Karel Zak]
rev:
   - use warn() in errs.h  [Li Zefan]
rtcwake:
   - fix UTC time usage  [David Brownell]
   - fix typo  [Karel Zak]
   - fix typo SATE -> STATE  [Mike Frysinger]
   - fix verbose message  [Karel Zak]
   - include libgen.h for basename prototype  [Mike Frysinger]
   - misc cleanups  [David Brownell]
script:
   - cleanup gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
   - cleanup includes  [Samuel Thibault]
   - dies on SIGWINCH  [Karel Zak]
setarch:
   - add long options to setarch and update manpage  [Karel Zak, Li Zefan]
   - add missing alpha subarchs  [Oliver Falk]
   - adding groff symlinks to setarch manual page  [Arkadiusz Miskiewicz]
   - fix compiler warning  [LaMont Jones]
   - generate groff links in a better way  [Karel Zak]
   - tweak the help text, and gettextize a forgotten message  [Benno Schulenberg]
setterm:
   - add -blan [force|poke] options for TIOCL_{BLANKED,BLANK}SCREEN  [Samuel Thibault, Karel Zak]
   - dump by TIOCLINUX is deprecated since linux 1.1.92.  [Karel Zak]
   - opened file leaving unclosed  [Karel Zak, lizf]
   - remove unnecessaty ifndef TCGETS  [Samuel Thibault]
sfdisk:
   - allow partitioning drives of over 2^31 sectors.  [Kunihiko IMAI]
   - cleanup 83 gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
   - opened files leaving unclosed  [Karel Zak, Li Zefan]
   - remove unnecessary linux/unistd.h  [Samuel Thibault]
   - use get_linux_version()  [Karel Zak]
shutdown:
   - use _PATH_MOUNTED instead of _PATH_MTAB  [Stepan Kasal]
swapon:
   - Reinitialize software suspend areas to avoid future corruption.  [Kees Cook, Karel Zak]
   - add sundries.h  [Karel Zak]
   - clean up gcc warnings  [Randy Dunlap]
   - cleanup usage output  [Karel Zak]
   - cleanup usage()  [Karel Zak]
   - fix typo in usage()  [Karel Zak]
   - readjust the usage summaries  [Benno Schulenberg]
   - remove unnecessary myrealpath() call  [Karel Zak]
sys-utils:
   - correct setarch.8 manpage link creation  [Frédéric Bothamy]
tailf:
   - add option -n to specifying output lines  [Li Zefan]
   - clean up gcc warnings & fix use of errno  [Karel Zak]
   - inotify based reimplementation  [Karel Zak]
   - non-linux support  [Samuel Thibault]
   - opened file leaving unclosed  [lizf]
   - replace errs.h with libc err.h  [Karel Zak]
tests:
   - add "sort" to cramfs test  [Karel Zak]
   - add test for include/pathnames.h  [Karel Zak]
   - add ts-mount-noncanonical  [Karel Zak]
   - exactly define a time format in ls -l output  [Karel Zak]
   - fix blkid cache usage  [Karel Zak]
   - move test_bkdev to lib/  [Karel Zak]
   - redirect libblkid cache to BLKID_FILE  [Karel Zak]
   - rename test_sysinfo, remove tailing white-spaces  [Karel Zak]
   - use losetup -s  [Karel Zak]
umount:
   - add hint about lsof & fuser  [Karel Zak]
   - don't print duplicate error messages  [Karel Zak]
   - use atexit() rather than (*at_die)()  [Karel Zak]
wall:
   - cleanup MAXHOSTNAMELEN  [Karel Zak]

- cleanup MAXHOSTNAMELEN  [Karel Zak]