1 util-linux-ng 2.16.2: Nov 30 2009
2 * see docs/v2.16.2-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
3 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16.2-ChangeLog
5 util-linux-ng 2.16.1: Sep 7 2009
6 * see docs/v2.16.1-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
7 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16.1-ChangeLog
9 util-linux-ng 2.16: Jul 2009
10 * see docs/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
11 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16-ChangeLog
13 util-linux-ng 2.16-rc2: Jul 2 2009
14 * see docs/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
15 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16-rc2-ChangeLog
17 util-linux-ng 2.16-rc1: Jun 28 2009
18 * see docs/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
19 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/v2.16-rc1-ChangeLog
21 util-linux-ng 2.15: May 5 2009
22 * see docs/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
23 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15-ChangeLog
25 util-linux-ng 2.15-rc2: Apr 17 2009
26 * see docs/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
27 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15-rc2-ChangeLog
29 util-linux-ng 2.15-rc1: Mar 18 2009
30 * see docs/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
31 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15-rc1-ChangeLog
33 util-linux-ng 2.14: Jun 9 2008
34 * see docs/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
35 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.14/v2.14-ChangeLog
37 util-linux-ng 2.14-rc3
38 * see docs/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
39 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.14/v2.14-rc3-ChangeLog
41 util-linux-ng 2.14-rc2
42 * see docs/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
43 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.14/v2.14-rc2-ChangeLog
45 util-linux-ng 2.14-rc1
46 * see docs/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
47 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.14/v2.14-rc1-ChangeLog
51 * see docs/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
52 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13-ChangeLog
54 util-linux-ng 2.13-rc3
56 * see docs/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
57 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13-rc3-ChangeLog
59 util-linux-ng 2.13-rc2
61 * see docs/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
62 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13-rc2-ChangeLog
64 util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1
66 * see docs/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or complete changelog at
67 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.13/v2.13-rc1-ChangeLog
71 * mount: default to cifs instead of smbfs for sources
72 starting with // Lars Mueller()
73 * flock: documentation updates (H. Peter Anvin)
75 * updated translations: de, it, sl, uk
79 * getopt: updated to 1.1.4
80 * replaced all *llseek variants with lseek
81 * misc build system, code and docs cleanups and fixes
82 * updated translations: fr, it
86 * {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: updated to cramfs-1.1
87 * {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: removed PAGE_CACHE_SIZE usage
88 * umount: fix "umount -n -r" (Derick Swanepoel)
89 * misc build system and code cleanups and fixes
90 * updated translation: ca
94 * don't build fdisk on m68k (Mike Frysinger)
95 * misc build system and documentation fixes
96 * removed program: clear
100 * misc buld system fixes
101 * cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
102 * umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
103 * updated translations: da, fr, it, nl, ru, sl, tr
107 * flock: replaced with flock-2.0.2 by H. Peter Anvin
108 * misc build system fixes, libtool is no longer used
110 * updated translations: ca, fi, fr, nl, ru, tr
114 * use GNU autoconf/automake/libtool for building
116 * removed support for curses implementations other than ncurses
117 * removed programs: arch, passwd, rescuept, setfdprm, sln
118 * removed mkminix-0.1/
119 * misc fixes and documentation updates
120 * new translation: vi
121 * updated translations: ca, de, fi, fr, it, nl, ru, tr
125 * updated translation: nl
127 util-linux 2.12q-pre2
129 * sfdisk: document -G option in --help output
130 * updated translations: ca, et, fr
132 util-linux 2.12q-pre1
135 * sfdisk: add -G option (Andries Brouwer)
136 * updated translations: de, es, ru, sv, tr
140 * cfdisk: fix number of new partition when partitions not in disk order
141 * fdisk: fix Sun label handling in sector mode
142 * mkfs: never truncate filename (not that that ever happened)
143 * more: fix redraw flaw
147 * lomount: revert patch from 2.12j
148 * lptune.8: -T option is obsolete
149 * mkswap, mkswap.8, swapon: support labels
150 (use HAVE_BLKID=no as long as the blkid library doesnt support this)
151 * umount: allow user unmounting repeatedly mounted nfs mounts
155 * cfdisk: recognize JFS, support reiserfs labels (flavio.stanchina@tin.it)
156 * mount: fix option parsing bug
157 * mount.8: several updates
158 * swapon.8: document -v option
162 * Makefile: remove cat-id-tbl.c upon make clean
163 * fdisk: fixed a bug that would cause a non-update of a sun disklabel
164 * fdisk: use sectorsize instead of 512 for SGI (Eric Y. Theriault)
165 * fdisk: use __attribute__((packed)) for alpha, ARM: avoid unaligned accesses
166 * hwclock: actually use HAVE_tm_gmtoff
167 * swapon: fix priority handling
168 * umount: refuse to unmount an empty string
172 * cfdisk: fixed a signed character bug causing problems for Spanish users
173 * configure, MCONFIG: detect gcc 3.4.0 and use -mtune option (Matthew Burgess)
174 * configure: do not run ./conftest (for cross compilation) (NIIBE Yutaka)
175 * fsck.cramfs: try to get correct PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
176 * losetup: try to give better error messages
177 * readprofile: default map file is /boot/System.map
178 * rdev.8: added historical info on ramdisk
179 * New French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish messages
183 * cal: highlight today (Pádraig Brady)
184 * lomount: stop reading passwd at NUL, fix lo_encrypt key_size (Wolfram Kleff)
185 * losetup: add -f option to find an unused loop device
186 (Alexander Wigen, Remco van Mook)
187 * more: code cleanup (Joachim Henke)
188 * mount: add "group" mount option (Martin Dickopp)
189 * sfdisk: fix 2.6.8 BLKRRPART ioctl damage (Eric Lammerts)
190 * swapon: let swapon -a skip the swapfiles marked "noauto" (Dale R. Worley)
191 * umount: fix problem with empty mtab (Bryan Kadzban)
192 * umount: use special umount program if it exists (Ram Pai)
193 * New Danish and French messages
197 * MCONFIG: fix build conditions
198 * chfn, chsh: add error checking
199 * cytune: use local header cyclades.h
200 * fdisk: fix default SGI volume header size (Eric Sandeen)
201 * fstab.c: use strsignal() instead of sys_siglist[]
202 * hwclock: use <sys/io.h> when available on i386
203 * hwclock: dont try KDGHWCLK on archs other than __m68k__
204 * sfdisk: correct typo in __attribute__used nonsense
205 * sfdisk: use PACKED on __arm__ (Jeroen Dobbelaere)
206 * sfdisk: fix warning printout
208 util-linux 2.12e,f,g,h
210 * cfdisk: avoid crash if no partition table
211 * elvtune: tell user that this only works on 2.4 kernels
212 * lomount: clear passwords after use
213 * mount: accept comments (introduced by \;) in fstab - withdrawn again
214 * mount: accept comments (specified by comment=) in fstab
215 * mount: support ocfs, ocfs2
216 * [u]mount: be more careful with malloc, try to avoid OOM with many mounts
217 * sfdisk: __attribute__used nonsense to support gcc 3.4
218 * shutdown: do not unmount various virtual filesystems
222 * mount.8: added recent ext2 mount options
223 * mount: support jfs mount-by-label, improve reiserfs support
224 * sfdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
225 * *fdisk: use common disksize() routine
229 * chsh: improved error message
230 * dmesg: ask kernel proper buffer size
231 * losetup: handle 64-bit offsets
232 * blockdev: also report BLKGETSIZE64 result
233 * blockdev, elvtune, fdisk: handle new kernel _IOR,_IOW defines
234 * fdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
235 * fdisk: also list Solaris as possible type for 0x82
236 * mount: added --rbind option
237 * mount: use blkid, uuid libraries when available
238 * mount: support reiserfs mount by label
239 * mount: attempt to use the right definition of dev_t in struct loopinfo
240 * mount.8: jfs mount options added
241 * readprofile: new -s option
242 * rename.1: added ref to mmv.1
243 * replay: renamed to scriptreplay; correct typos
244 * script: do not use locale for time delay floating point number format
245 * sfdisk: error messages to stderr
246 * New Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
251 * chfn, chsh, login, vipw: SElinux support
252 * fdisk: fix for kernels 2.4.15-2.4.17
253 * fdisk: fix when all partitions are in use
254 * hwclock: add a timeout when waiting for a clock update (Göran Weinholt)
255 * ipcs: compilation fix
256 * ipcs: shminfo.shmall gives pages
257 * login: use getutline() instead of getutid()
258 * login: fix for 64-bit time_t
260 * partx: bigendian fix
261 * readprofile: support for 64-bit addresses
262 * setterm: fix klogctl error message (Joern Heissler)
263 * setterm.1: clarification
264 * sfdisk: fix check for is_ide_cdrom_or_tape
265 * umount: skip proc, devfs, devpts on umount -a
269 * losetup: cryptoloop support
270 * losetup: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
271 * fdisk: sgi layout fix
272 * mount: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
273 * mount: recognize some PCDOS floppies
274 * umount: in "umount name", first try to interpret "name" as a mount point
278 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Perez)
279 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
280 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
281 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
282 * French messages (Michel Robitaille)
283 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
284 * Slovenian messages (Primoz Peterlin)
285 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
286 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
287 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
288 * cfdisk: localize the Y/N answer, improve printing localized messages
289 * cfdisk: make various variables long long - some disks are close to 2 TB
290 * cfdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
291 * fdisk: make various variables unsigned to lengthen the life of 32-bit vars
292 * fdisk: some sgi fixes (Phillip Kesling)
293 * fdisk: k=1000, K=1024
294 * fdisk: removed last occurrences of HDIO_REQ
295 * fdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
296 * hwclock: fix rtc test (Heiko Zuerker)
297 * login: set a timeout on printing the timeout message (Robert Ambrose)
298 * md5: x86_64 fix (mmj)
300 * mount: do not supply MS_MGC_VAL when there are conflicting flags
301 * mount: ncp and smb are called smbfs and ncpfs - global change
302 * mount: add support for xvm mount by label (Eric Sandeen)
303 * mount: correct hfs magic recognition
304 * mount: keep original umask - it influences the mount call (mmj)
305 * raw.8: documented unbinding of raw devices
306 * readprofile: fixed off-by eight error (Werner Almesberger)
307 * script: add -c option (Wayne Davison)
308 * sfdisk.8: added an example of partitioning with logical partitions
309 * sfdisk: only add a AA55 signature for DOS-type partition tables
310 * tailf: new (Rik Faith)
314 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Perez)
315 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
316 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
317 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
318 * French messages (Michel Robitaille) - HURRAY!
319 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
320 * Slovenian messages (Primoz Peterlin)
321 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
322 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
323 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
324 * getopt: replaced getopt-1.1.2 by getopt-1.1.3 (Frodo Looijaard)
325 * mkcramfs: change default blocksize for ia64 and alpha
326 * more.help: removed (it is built-in now, and translated)
327 * mount: add -i option (inhibit calling external mount programs)
328 * mount: change default: do resolve symlinks
329 * readprofile: look for System.map also in /boot/System.map-`uname -r` (mmj)
330 * sfdisk: also translate "start" and "end"; s/MB/MiB/
334 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
335 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
336 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
337 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
338 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
339 * cfdisk: improve escape seq recognition when compiled with slang
340 * fdisk: decimal units
341 * hwclock/rtc.c: minor cleanup (Joachim Henke)
342 * ipcs: compilation fix
343 * more: kill external help file (Joachim Henke)
344 * mount: fix LABEL= handling for user umount
345 * mount: don't abort on read error on photocds (Gyorgy Kovesdi)
346 * mount.8: add dmask and fmask vfat mount options
347 * pg: compilation fix (Joachim Henke)
348 * script: localized time strings (Goeran Uddeborg)
349 * setterm: accept devfs name (Joachim Henke)
350 * simpleinit: security: refuse initctl_fd if setting FD_CLOEXEC fails
351 * umount: allow user umount after mount by label or uuid
355 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
356 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
357 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
358 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
359 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
360 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
361 * cfdisk: correct error printout
362 * fdisk: allow addition of a new partition when logicals all used
364 * hwclock: detect systime jumps backward during setting hwclock
365 * mkfs.cramfs: do not mmap all files simultaneously
366 * mkfs.cramfs: make blocksize settable
367 * mkfs.minix: correct error printout
368 * mkswap.8: now max 32 swapspaces
369 * mount: new --rbind flag, for recursive loopback mounts
370 * mount, umount: new -O option (Michael K. Johnson)
371 * mount.8: -O and win95 options documented
372 * setpwnam.c: open temp pw file with O_EXCL
373 * simpleinit: fix for "spawn too fast" (Denis Vlasenko)
374 * swapon: new -e option (Erik Troan)
378 * cfdisk, fdisk: allow slightly larger disk sizes
379 * fdisk: Makefile: also for m68 (sun3) (Kaj-Michael Lang)
380 * fdisk: allow to use the last partial cylinder, change display format
381 * fdisk: do not ask partition number in case there is only one choice
382 * fdisk: new sunlabel fix
383 * login: fix possible local root exploit (Wojciech Purczynski)
384 * more: bigendian fix
388 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Perez)
389 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
390 * Very few Russian messages (panivan@yandex.ru)
391 * Slovenian messages (Primoz Peterlin)
392 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
393 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
394 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
395 * fdisk: add -C, -H, -S command line options
396 * fdisk: allow changing type 0
397 * mkswap: enable use of > 2GB swapspace
398 * more: translation fix
399 * mount: set umask (Sebastian Krahmer)
400 * mount: test both le and be version of cramfs magic (Olaf Hering)
401 * mount: recognize Oracle magic
402 * pg: use fseeko64 and ftello64 when available
406 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
407 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
408 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
409 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
410 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
411 * configure: for fsck.cramfs, mkfs.cramfs: add test for libz
412 * text-utils/Makefile: pg fix (Toomas Rosin)
413 * po/Makefile: typo fix (Silvan Minghetti)
414 * agetty: use same test as login does to find utmp entry
415 * fdisk: fix for fdisk on empty disk (Michael D. Black)
416 * hwclock: compilation fix on alpha
417 * mount: add mount by label for jfs (Christoph Hellwig)
418 * mount: add mount by label for evms (Luciano Chavez)
419 * mount: allow regular files when guessing (Michal Svec)
420 * partx/gpt.c: fix size computation (Matt Domsch)
421 * readprofile: new option -b (David Mosberger)
422 * umount: don't umount devfs upon umount -a (David Gilbert)
426 * fdformat: remove test on major
427 * fsck.cramfs: added NLS
428 * fdisk: fix device names with sundisklabels under devfs (Kaj-Michael Lang)
429 * fdisk: minor polishing
430 * hwclock: also handle ENOTTY ioctl return (Maciej W. Rozycki)
431 * hwclock: minor polishing
432 * ipcrm.8: minor polishing
433 * mkfs.cramfs: added NLS
434 * mkfs.cramfs: added -v (verbose) option, and made default silent
435 * mount: patch for make -j (RedHat)
436 * swapoff: minor polishing
440 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
441 * French messages: some minor corrections
442 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
443 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
444 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
445 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
446 * MCONFIG: allow "make DISABLE_NLS=yes <target>" (Peter Breitenlohner)
447 * configure: don't run ./conftest - better for cross-compilation (Magnus Damm)
448 * fdisk: fixes for disks with OSF/1 label
449 * fsck.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
450 * hwclock: improved adjtime handling (James P. Rutledge)
451 * hwclock: remove shhopts stuff
452 * ipcs: remove unused heading (Michael Kerrisk)
453 * line: replace by C version - the sh version was broken (Gunnar Ritter)
454 * login: default root path: added /usr/local/[s]bin (RedHat)
455 * mkfs.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
456 * mount: when no type is known, assume that prefix // implies samba (RedHat)
457 * mount -a: avoid stat on devices that have noauto option (Jeroen Mostert)
458 * mount by label: ignore RAID partitions (RedHat)
459 * [u]mount: fstab.c fix (ejb@ql.org)
460 * pg: new (Gunnar Ritter)
461 * sfdisk: small BSD partition fix
462 * swapoff -a: also do swapoff on all files found in /proc/swaps
463 * swapon -a: skip files already found in /proc/swaps
467 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
468 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
469 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
470 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
471 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
472 * MCONFIG: move $(CFLAGS) to the end to allow overrides (Kevin P. Fleming)
473 * cal: tiny fix (Mitsuru Chinen)
474 * fdisk: avoid <linux/hdreg.h>
475 * fdisk: x86_64 patch (Mads Martin Jørgensen)
476 * hwclock.8: zoneinfo is now in /usr/share
477 * mkswap: report in KiB instead of bytes.
481 * fdisk: geometry improvement
482 * login: open tty fix (Denis Vlasenko)
483 * more: wide character patches (Mitsuru Chinen)
484 * mount: complain on mount-by-label when label is not unique (Matt Copping)
485 * partx: add GUID Partition Tables (Matt Domsch)
489 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
490 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
491 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
492 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
493 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
494 * ipcrm: make POSIX compatible (Andre Corwin Mazzone)
496 * kill: fixed Makefile
497 * login: setsid fixes
498 * mkswap: max size of swap space is very large (Peter Chubb)
499 * mount: JFS support for mount-by-label (hch)
500 * nfsmount: check for <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h> (hch)
501 * readprofile: keep track of line numbers (John Levon)
502 * umount: fix for MNT_DETACH
506 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
507 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
508 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
509 * cal: option -s: Sunday is first day of the week
511 * cfdisk: give not only bytes but also MB or GB for clarity.
512 * colrm: wide character fix (Elliot Lee)
513 * *fdisk: added Darwin types (Vincent Bourgonjen)
516 * hwclock: cmos.c: do not include <asm/io.h> on alpha
517 * mount: improved detection of ufs (and slowdown of detection of iso9660)
518 * mount.8: added info on * in /etc/filesystems, shortname option of vfat,
519 mount --move, udf, return codes
520 * raw: try /dev/raw/rawctl when /dev/rawctl fails (Thierry Vignaud)
521 * rc.serial: removed - setserial is no longer in util-linux (kromJx)
522 * README.admutil: removed - only of historical interest
523 * README.bootutils-0.1: removed - only of historical interest
524 * script: security fix
525 * sfdisk: improved geometry detection; wider columns; default disks from
527 * umount: permission test owner umount
528 * wall.1: added suid restriction
532 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
533 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
534 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
535 * Turkish messages now in UTF-8 (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
536 * blockdev: add --report option
537 * cal: fix for wide multibyte-char (Motonobu Ichimura)
538 * cfdisk: recognize ext3 and reiserfs (Flavio Stanchina)
539 * fsck.minix: i18n changes
540 * ipc.{info,texi}: minor correction
541 * login: compilation fix (Jaroslaw J. Pyszny)
542 * mount.8: tmpfs mount options (Karl Eichwalder)
543 * mount: recognize minix v2
544 * mount: support mount-by-label also for lvm (Kirby Bohling)
545 * mount: order guessing of fstypes according to seek offset
546 * pivot_root: compilation fix for ia64
547 * readprofile: byte order auto-detection (Werner Almesberger)
551 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
552 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
553 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
554 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
555 * fdisk: added netbsd type (Steven J. Hill)
556 * more: fix for unsigned char (Rusty Russell)
557 * mount: added sysv magic (Tim Launchbury)
558 * setterm: fixed "setterm -foreground default"
562 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
563 * banner: removed - it is in bsdgames
564 * fdisk: show partitions with empty type but some other nonzero field
565 * login: copy the static struct that getpwnam() returns before calling
566 PAM routines that might themselves use getpwnam(). Abort on problems.
568 * mount: added jfs magic (Christoph Hellwig)
569 * renice: report the correct new priority after a setpriority()
570 * umount: add lazy unmount (Christoph Hellwig)
574 Various potential buffer overflows were pointed out by awayzzz@digibel.org.
575 Fixes in agetty, hwclock, namei, readprofile, simpleinit, vipw.
576 (Also added a few [f]close() calls - entirely superfluously.)
578 * agetty: avoid possible buffer overflow
579 * cfdisk: recognize xfs (Nathan Scott)
580 * cytune: added close()
581 * fdformat: added close()
582 * fdisk: added fclose()
583 * hwclock: avoid possible buffer overflow
584 * mkfs.minix: added fclose()
585 * mount: remove the assumption that 635 is the default mount port
586 * namei: avoid possible buffer overflow
587 * rdev: added closedir()
588 * readprofile: avoid possible buffer overflow
589 * sfdisk: added fclose()
590 * simpleinit: avoid possible buffer overflow
591 * swapon: added fclose()
592 * umount: use tcp when mount was done using tcp (James D Strandboge)
593 * vipw: avoid possible buffer overflow
597 * fdisk: fix for AIX label (Olaf Hering)
598 * fdisk: fix for creating DOS label when BSD label is present
599 * mount.8: added remark about blocksize to ext2 sb= mount option description.
600 * partitiontype: new, not installed
604 * testincl: do not run conftest (Brian Murphy)
605 * blockdev: corrected ioctl numbers now that BLKBSZGET is in 2.4.10pre3
606 * cal: fixed for Hungarian locale
607 * cal: fixed for multibyte locales (Pablo Saratxaga)
608 * fdisk: avoid superfluous warning about DOS partitions
609 * line: new, to support SCO shell scripts (Christoph Hellwig)
610 * mount: added vxfs magic
611 * passwd: tiny fix for ARM (Ken Cox)
612 * replay: replay typescript with timings (Joey Hess)
613 * script: add -t flag for timing (Joey Hess)
617 * Turkish messages (NilgĂĽn Belma BugĂĽner)
618 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
619 * banner: minor fix (awayzzz@digibel.org)
620 * mkfs.minix: minix v2 fix
621 * more.1: improved (Edward Betts)
622 * mount.8: corrected description of the nwfs uni_xlate mount option
623 * vipw: make temp files of mode 0600 (Bill Nottingham)
624 * wall: avoid writing to /dev/:0
628 * MCONFIG & configure: fix for gcc 3.0
629 Note that nfsmount_xdr.c may give warnings with gcc 3.0, essentially
630 because of defines in <rpc/xdr.h> that use things like ntohl(*buf++)
631 where ntohl(x) is a macro with several occurrences of x.
632 * blockdev: support for the get/set blocksize ioctls
633 [not yet in the 2.4.5 kernel]
634 * fdisk: added Linux/PA-RISC type (Matt Taggart)
635 * mount: minor fix (Andrey J. Melnikoff)
636 * mount: added some ext3 stuff (Andrew Morton)
637 * mount: added heuristics for reiserfs (Andrew Morton)
638 * mount.8: added ext3 and reiserfs docs (Andrew Morton)
642 * Czech messages (Jiøà Pavlovský)
643 * fdisk: fix for "reorder" expert command
644 (use of sfdisk afterwards is still recommended)
649 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
650 * Brazilian Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes)
651 * agetty: give tty mode 0600 instead of 0622
652 * cal: improved manpage
653 * cfdisk: add user-friendliness in case of empty disk (Matthew Wilcox)
654 * dmesg: improved manpage
655 * fdisk: SuperH fix (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
656 * hwclock: accept alpha options in both upper and lower case
657 (so as to make the man page correct)
658 * hwclock: add option --noadjtime (Henrique M Holschuh)
659 * login: child must have controlling tty (Michal Moskal)
660 * more: don't seek unseekable input (David Whedon)
661 * mount: upon request by Richard Gooch: if the mount point is specified
662 as symlink, put symlink, not actual mount point in mtab.
663 (This avoids the long and ugly devfs names, but may break things.
664 Please complain in case of problems.)
665 * mount: with mount -a -t nfs:
666 if we used fallback to nfs v3, don't do so for subsequent mounts
667 * mount: add heuristics for ext3 (Andrew Morton)
668 * mount: added quota info to mount.8
669 * mount: allow comma-separated type lists, also in fstab
670 * raw: small fix for ppc
674 * fdisk: fix for OSF (Will Woods)
675 * chsh: compilation fix (Ronald Wahl)
679 * Czech messages (Jiøà Pavlovský)
680 * German messages (Elrond)
681 * Makefile/MCONFIG improvements (Peter Breitenlohner)
682 * fdisk: added a few partition types
683 * fdisk: correct partition numbering for sgi partitions (Nathan Scott)
684 * fdisk: make it compile on hppa by arbitrarily treating hppa like powerpc
686 * fsck.minix: improved localisation (Elrond)
687 * getopt: updated to version 1.1.2 (Frodo Looijaard)
688 * hwclock: fixes for IA64 (Thorsten Kukuk)
689 * hwclock: use /dev/vc/1 when devfs is used (Thomas Koeller)
690 * hwclock: more devfs support (e.g. /dev/misc/rtc)
691 * ipcs: add spaces in output (DeWitt Clinton),
692 correct some error messages (Bobby de Vos)
693 * login: fix TIOCNOTTY (Andreas Haumer, Adam J. Richter)
694 * login: add btmp logging of unsuccessful login attempts (Erik Troan)
695 * login: avoid a SIGHUP race with PAM enabled (Peter 'Luna' Runestig)
696 * login: copy the static result returned by gethostbyname to avoid
697 corruption by pam_authenticate via pam_ldap (Andreas Damm)
698 * login: removed the REDHAT_IGNORED_MAILSIZE hack
699 * login: unconditionally do vhangup
700 * login: zero PAM_USER when no username was given (Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
701 * look: dictionary now under /usr/share (Erik Troan)
702 * mount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
703 * mount: another heuristic for vfat (Michal Svec)
704 * mount: xfs magic has only one endianness (Nathan Scott)
705 * mount: return failure when tcp used and portmap returns 0 (H. J. Lu)
706 * rdev: allow unlimited recursion to find the long devfs names
707 Also, allow major,minor pair the specify device (request by Russell Coker)
708 * readprofile: array bound check (Andrew Morton)
709 * script: transmit window changes to child (Joey Hess)
710 * sfdisk: endian fix for ppc (Gregory Geiselhart)
711 * sfdisk: new feature: sign is offset from default (Byron Stanoszek)
712 * sfdisk: add some default devices to list (Luca Montecchiani)
713 * sfdisk: no partition table on ide tape
714 * shutdown: close files, unblock signals (Richard Gooch)
715 * simpleinit: block signals in handlers; add no_reboot option (Richard Gooch)
716 * swapdev: deleted, it was last used with Linux 0.12.
717 * umount: mips does support umount2 (Maciej W. Rozycki)
718 * umount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
719 * umount: fix exit status
720 * wall: do not forget 80th character (Thorsten Kukuk)
724 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
725 * umount: mips does not support umount2 (Christoph Martin)
727 * mount.8: adfs options documented, xfs corrected
731 * tsort: deleted - it is part of GNU textutils 2.0
732 * mount: fix rootdev() (Richard Kettlewell)
733 * mount: fix gid of mtab file
734 * mount: try /proc/filesystems after /etc/filesystems if the latter ends in "*"
735 * fdisk: added a few system types
739 * Jump to 2.11 to note that libc-4.5.26 is no longer supported,
740 and we require libc-4.6.27 (since now snprintf is used).
741 Also, kbdrate has now been removed. Find it in kbd-1.05.
742 Added -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS.
743 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
744 * fdisk: avoid loop in case of extended without logical
745 * ipcs: corrected interchanged report on msg_rtime/msg_stime (Arun Kumar U)
746 * kill: updated manpage
747 * last: very much faster with mmap (Marek Zelem)
748 * login: Applied PAM patch by David MacKenzie <djm@web.us.uu.net>
749 * login: do a setsid in the child (Erik Troan)
750 * mount: make "mount 192.168.1.8:/ /a -o bg" work again (Bjoern Voigt)
751 * mount: added constant MS_MOVE
752 * readprofile: added -M option, updated manpage (Andrew Morton)
753 * setsid: fork when it would fail otherwise (John Fremlin)
754 * simpleinit: updated (Richard Gooch et al.)
755 * vipw: also offer to edit shadow file (Erik Troan)
756 * xfs docs (Nathan Scott)
760 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
761 * fixes to make gcc happy (Joseph S. Myers)
762 * fix for more on parisc (Richard Hirst)
763 * change rdev to search subdirectories of /dev (Paul Clements)
764 * ul fix (Masao Kawamura) - set columns correctly
765 * cal fix (Brendan Kehoe) - don't overflow weekday array in Gaelic
766 * fdisk fix (niles@scyld.com) - flush stdout
767 * fdisk fix - don't forget to write out empty label
768 * login: make default tty mode 0600
769 * script: refuse to write typescript if that is a symlink
770 * script: accept -V to output version
771 * whereis: also search /usr/share/man.
772 * hwclock: improve locale handling
773 * hwclock: fix for Nautilus (Neoklis Kyriazis)
778 * mount: support mount by uuid or label for xfs (Nathan Scott)
779 * mount: added probe for minix on bigendian systems (Nathan Scott)
780 * mount: added probes for cramfs, hfs, hpfs and adfs (Sepp Wijnands)
781 * mount: change setup; let umount remove at most one line from /etc/mtab
782 * mount: improve man page
783 * more, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ul: nls improvements (Masao Kawamura)
787 * mount: accept nonnumeric uid= and gid= options
788 * write and wall: security improvement
789 * fixed fdformat flaw (Werner Almesberger)
790 * use right mountport upon umount (Glenn Lingle)
791 * simpleinit / need / initctl stuff (Richard Gooch)
792 * Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes et al.)
796 * mount: don't set up a loop file with -o loop,remount (Marc Mutz)
797 * fdisk: changes for sectorsize different from 512
798 * more: standout fix (Paul Vojta)
799 * more: improve usage message (Lincoln Myers)
800 * logger: Added -d option to use datagrams (Gerwin Pfab)
801 * cal: Added -3 option to also print prev/next month (Michael Charles Pruznick)
802 * French messages (Christophe Merlet)
803 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
807 * fdformat: fixed to work with kernel 2.4.0test6 (Marek Wojtowicz)
808 * losetup: also return status when only showing loop device status (ewt)
809 * mount: do not retry ro if mount was ro; improve error message
810 * login: not installed suid
811 * getopt: by default install aux files in /usr/share/misc
816 * change to elvtune (andrea)
817 * fixed overrun in agetty (vii@penguinpowered.com)
818 * shutdown: prefer umounting by mount point (rgooch)
820 * fdisk: remove empty links in chain of extended partitions
821 * mount: define ALWAYS_STAT
822 * mount: add replace, after, before, over, bind
823 * umount: also free loop device when not writing mtab
824 * lomount: try both /dev/loopN and /dev/loop/N
825 * hwclock: handle both /dev/rtc and /dev/efirtc (Bill Nottingham)
826 * script: added -f (flush) option (Ivan Schreter)
827 * script: added -q (quiet) option (Per Andreas Buer)
828 * getopt: updated to version 1.1.0 (Frodo Looijaard)
829 * Czech messages (Jiri Pavlovsky)
833 * chfn fix when PAM is used (Martin-D. Lacasse)
834 * do not use LC_NUMERIC part of locale in hwclock when writing /etc/adjtime
835 * mount status return from smb or ncp fix (Mark Peloquin)
836 * mount new option -l: also print label when listing mounts
837 * mount add heuristic for xfs (Martin K. Petersen)
838 * mount UUID and label cache (Erik Troan)
839 * mount improve check for `already mounted' in case of label or uuid
840 * fdisk partition names more devfs-friendly
841 * fdisk bsdlabel large disk support
842 * setterm.1: options documented (Colin Watson)
844 * German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese messages
845 (Roger Luethi, Beth Powell, Alvaro Antunes)
849 * Merged losetup.c and lomount.c
850 * ANSIfied everything
854 * NFS version 4 mount support (Trond Myklebust)
855 * hwclock fix (Stefan Ring)
856 * Added -p option to col, as required by SUS (Joseph S. Myers)
860 * fdisk fixes (Michal Jaegermann)
864 * new directory partx (with code to play with, not to use)
865 * minor fdisk changes
869 * Added pivot_root (Werner Almesberger)
870 * Added elvtune (Andrea Arcangeli)
871 * Added need and extended simpleinit and shutdown (Richard Gooch)
872 * Removed all #include <linux/fs.h>
873 * errno fixes (Joseph S. Myers)
874 * IA-64 fixes (Michael K. Johnson)
875 * fdisk fixes for OSF/1 on Alpha (David Huggins-Daines)
876 * fdisk sectorsize fix (Greg Hosler)
877 * mount speed= option to enable mounting bad CDROMs (Marco d'Itri)
878 * ipcrm deletes several things at once (Frank Zago)
882 * fdisk can now sort partitions into order [untested, beware!]
883 * Update of mkswap for sparc64 (jj)
884 * Update of raw (Stephen Tweedie):
885 Control file was /dev/raw, now /dev/rawctl
886 Access files were /dev/raw*, now /dev/raw/raw*
887 * Czech messages (Jiri Pavlovsky)
888 * German messages (Daniel Egger)
889 * losetup locks memory (Frank v Waveren)
893 * Security fix for mount (okir)
894 * Avoid infinite loop in namei (Brett Wuth)
895 * added clock-ppc.c (from Matsuura Takanori), not merged yet
896 * deleted clockB subdirectory
897 * recognize mkdosfs string (Michal Svec)
902 * Added option to mkswap so that user can override pagesize
903 * fdisk -l now reads /proc/partitions when no device was given
904 * Fixed fdisk.8 (James Manning)
905 * Added devpts info to mount.8 (Elrond)
906 * Newline fix for logger output to stdout (Henri Spencer)
910 * Do not try to mount something as udf without good reason
911 * Do not loop in umount if there is a stale lock file
912 * Allow fdisk twice as many cylinders
913 * Fixed non-casefolding search in look (Markus Demleitner)
917 * Various compilation fixes
921 * Fixed smbmount problem (Andrew Tridgell)
922 * Fixed ddate problem with the day after St. Tib's Day (Brad)
923 * German messages (Elrond)
924 * Made kill a bit more standard compliant
925 * Made some more programs output a version
929 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
930 * French messages and several Debian fixes (Vincent Renardias)
931 * Fixed infinite loop in mkfs.minix
935 * Added BSD disklabel code to rescuept
936 * Added blockdev utility
937 * Fix losetup return code
938 * Fix unit display in cfdisk
939 * Do not redefine _PATH_MAILDIR (so that recent systems can have /var/mail)
940 * Added --localtime option to hwclock;
941 added third line (LOCAL/UTC) to /etc/adjtime.
942 * Add -H option to agetty (David Holland)
946 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
947 * Czech messages (Jiri Pavlovsky)
948 * Added some udf stuff to mount.8
949 * Added ioctl for fdisk on bsdlabels
953 * Wide character support (Bruno Haible)
954 * German messages and some small fixes (Elrond)
955 * Small fix to owner mount option (Erik Troan)
956 * Don't sleep so long in clock/kd.c (Christian T. Steigies)
960 * German messages and a i18n fix (Elrond)
961 * mount option: allow the owner to mount a device (RedHat)
962 * ugly: let login open console with O_NONBLOCK (Maciej W. Rozycki)
963 * UGLY: let login ignore mail that is precisely 523 bytes long (RedHat)
964 * added mkfs.bfs, mkfs.bfs.8
965 * mount now recognizes qnx4 and bfs partitions
966 * rescuept now recognizes Unixware partitions
967 * hwclock fix on m68k (Roman Hodek)
968 * several minor things
972 * Updated mount.8 (Yann Droneaud)
974 * Fixed flaw in fdisk
978 * cfdisk no longer believes the kernel's HDGETGEO
979 (and may be able to partition a 2 TB disk)
983 * Czech more.help and messages (Jiøà Pavlovský)
984 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
985 * fdisk fix (Klaus G. Wagner)
986 * mount fix (Hirokazu Takahashi)
987 * agetty: enable hardware flow control (Thorsten Kranzkowski)
988 * minor cfdisk improvements
989 * fdisk no longer accepts a default device
994 * national language support for hwclock
995 * Japanese messages (both by Daisuke Yamashita)
996 * German messages and some misc i18n fixes (Elrond)
997 * Czech messages (Jiøà Pavlovský)
998 * wall fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
999 * make last and wall use getutent() (Sascha Schumann)
1000 [Maybe this is bad: last reading all of wtmp may be too slow.
1001 Revert in case people complain.]
1002 * documented UUID= and LABEL= in fstab.5
1003 * added some partition types
1004 * swapon: warn only if verbose
1008 * tunelp patch (Andrea Arcangeli)
1009 * fixed mount race (HJLu)
1010 * German messages (Elrond)
1012 util-linux 2.9[pqr]:
1014 * errno->errsv patch (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
1015 * hwclock patch for the Award 4.50g BIOS "2094" bug. (Dave Coffin)
1016 * fdisk patch to correct deletion of last logical partition
1020 * fix to login by Ambrose C. Li
1021 * improvement to mcookie inspired by a patch from Rik Faith
1022 * more i18n by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo; pt_BR locale
1026 * Added -u option to logger (write to user-specified socket; Martin Schultze)
1027 * Added mount.smb script contributed by Greg Galperin
1028 * Some more national language support
1029 * mkfs.minix argument parsing fixed
1030 * write fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
1031 * configure adapted for the case of <scsi/scsi.h> that needs u_char.
1035 * Added national language support (misiek@pld.ORG.PL)
1036 * minor improvements in mount, fdisk, cfdisk, agetty, more
1040 * Added /dev/port use to hwclock again - it may be necessary for Jensen.
1044 * major reshuffle of hwclock stuff; added sparc and alpha code
1051 * merged three lists of partition types in *fdisk
1052 * multi page display in cfdisk
1053 * test for getlogin() == "";
1054 * start fixup hwclock
1058 * fixed 2.9h typo in more
1059 * added -m: `Monday is 1st day' option to cal (Jean-Francois Bignolles)
1060 * changed PAM stuff in login.c (+- mjohnson)
1061 * added warning to cfdisk in case of multiple bootable partitions
1062 * added 2048-byte sector support in fdisk (Oliver Schaertel)
1066 * mount recognizes "uid=useruid" and "gid=usergid" in /etc/fstab.
1067 * documented the fact that "mount -t smb" will call /sbin/mount.smb.
1068 * mount gives clear error message when fstab does not end in newline.
1069 * swapon checks mode of file
1070 * cfdisk got a more specific exit status (Enrique Zanardi)
1074 * mount updates (locking, "users" keyword, "/etc/filesystems",
1075 "proto" and "vers" options in nfsmount, ...)
1079 * made ul handle lines of arbitrary length (Scott Maxwell)
1080 * killed some C/H/S nonsense in fdisk
1081 * fixes for archs with unsigned char type (Ambrose Li)
1082 * fdisk fixes for power pc (Tom Rini)
1083 * added a define for NCURSES_CONST
1084 * fixes for list of signals in kill.c
1085 * fixes for user name length in last.c
1089 * added a forgotten declaration to login.c (Christian Oyarzun)
1093 * fixed segfault in umount caused by Wilcox' patch (Steffen Zahn)
1094 * added lnz stuff to fdisk
1098 * refixed PAM stuff in login.c that was broken in 2.8.
1102 * split README into INSTALL and HISTORY
1103 * added a sentence to swapon.8
1104 * behaviour of write on non-ASCII fixed
1105 * hwclock adapted to survive a failing mktime()
1109 * added an include to lib/my_reboot.c so that __GLIBC__ is defined
1110 * added setlocale() to login-utils/chfn.c
1111 * do not recompute MAIL in login-utils/login.c
1115 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.9:
1117 1) Removed programs:
1118 - strings. There is a version in binutils.
1119 - frag. (Moved to historic in 2.4, crept back in 2.5. Gone again.)
1120 1a) Not yet removed program:
1121 - setfdprm. It also is in fdutils-5.2 (with an exceptionally
1123 1b) Removed directory:
1124 - bsd. (The routine getopt() is in libc. err() moved to lib.)
1126 - ddate has been fixed to count down to the new, right X-day
1127 - look is now willing to search non-English dictionaries
1129 - cal now knows that Dutch day abbreviations have length 2 only
1130 - mcookie does not block when no random stuff is available
1131 - shutdown got a configuration file /etc/shutdown.conf
1132 - fdisk now reads SGI disk labels (thanks to Andreas Neuper)
1133 - mkswap now knows about new swap areas; mkswap.8 has been rewritten
1134 - umount knows about umount2() and forced unmounting of nfs mounts
1135 (however, I don't think it really works)
1136 - mount is now willing to handle file names with embedded spaces
1137 - mount can now mount things by UUID or volume name
1139 - swap.h has been replaced by a private swap_constants.h since
1140 <linux/swap.h> does not compile
1141 - reboot has become a private routine, since libc5 and glibc2 conflict
1142 - a mkminix-0.1 directory contains some patches to let mkfs.minix
1143 work under DOS. (Untested.)
1144 4) Numerous other small changes.
1146 0xF) Send questions and/or patches to util-linux@math.uio.no
1148 util-linux 2.9 was released by Andries Brouwer - aeb@cwi.nl
1149 The address util-linux@math.uio.no reaches Rik, Andries, Peter,
1150 Michael, Erik, Nicolai and possibly others. Hwclock stuff is
1155 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.8:
1158 - getopt(1) by Frodo Looijaard replaces the older bsd based version.
1159 Keywords: Backward compatible, supports --long options.
1160 1) Removed programs:
1161 - chroot: is no longer in util-linux. Get it free with GNU sh-utils
1162 - hostid: No-one could figure out the right way for this program to
1163 work. Another hostid program is included in poeigl
1164 (see the LSM, Primary-site: ftp.daimi.aau.dk /pub/linux/poe)
1165 2) Various portability enhancements. Among other things hwclock now works
1166 a lot better on non Intel architectures. Should compile with libc 4, 5
1167 and 6 as well as old and recent kernels. People using non-intel hardware
1168 are encouraged to send patches.
1169 3) rev now only limits linelength to memory capacity
1170 4) dmesg now uses a buffer that matches the kernel buffer in size (8KB)
1175 HIGLIGHTS for version 2.7:
1177 1) util-linux now _requires_ ncurses. Several programs are completely
1178 converted to use terminfo (instead of termcap).
1181 - clock: Dropped entirely. Use hwclock (included).
1182 - sync: is in gnu fileutils.
1183 - setserial: Is being maintained by Ted Ts'o, he recommends
1184 setserial-2.12 (2.13 is bad luck)
1185 - clear: Included in ncurses
1186 - hostname, domainname, dnsdomainname: It's in net-utils.
1189 3) Bugfixes, additions:
1190 - cfdisk: A much improved version. All known bugs have been fixed.
1191 - sfdisk: A command line fdisk type utility, formerly called fdisk-3.04.
1192 - SECURITY: All known holes in login, chfn, chsh and others have been
1193 plugged. UPGRADE NOW if you haven't already fixed them yourself.
1194 - Should work with libc 4, 5 and 6 (gnulibc), on m68k, intel, alpha
1198 - The rpcgen that comes in NetKit-B-0.09 is broken. At least as
1199 packaged with RedHat 4.2 (NetKit-B-0.09-6). There are several
1200 ways to deal with this:
1201 - Don't run rpcgen, the needed pre-generated sources are included
1202 (nfsmount_xdr.c). You must hack mount/Makefile to do this.
1203 - Edit the source emitted by rpcgen so it can compile. This is very
1204 simple if you know C.
1205 - Disable the NFS parts of mount. You have to edit mount/Makefile
1207 - Use some other rpcgen.
1211 This release was never made public
1213 See notes for 2.6 for installation instructions.
1215 This is a incremental release containing some fixes. A new release
1216 will be made later fixing the outstanding bugs.
1217 - Things compiles and works better with recent releases of kernel,
1218 ncurses, and so forth: fdisk, more
1219 - Some fixes to make things compile out of the box on alphas.
1220 - There has been reported a problem with login and /etc/usertty. It
1221 should be fixed. If you still have problems get a recent MAKEDEV and
1222 use it to make new tty devices. They were renumbered sometime during
1223 the 1.3 phase of the kernel.
1224 - ipcs now displays the key of the structures.
1225 - A (harmless?) overflow bug was fixed in login.
1228 - login/getty has a denial of service problem.
1229 - Several places needs a bit more polish.
1230 - There are a _lot_ of nonfatal warnings when compiling mount. This will
1231 not necesarily be fixed.
1236 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.6:
1238 0) The first release with me at the helm. PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND
1239 UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no.
1241 1) Removed programs:
1242 - md5sum, dsplit: available in GNU textutils.
1243 - syslogd: Sysklogd is now prefered. It is available at
1244 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/sources/sbin
1245 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons
1247 2) Bugfixes, additions:
1248 - SECURITY: All known holes in mount have been fixed. UPGRADE NOW
1249 if you haven't already!
1250 - Portability enhancments to the minix filesystem utils (m68k and
1252 - passwd/chsh/chfn will not mess up the passwd file on a NIS machine
1253 - others too numerous to enumerate.
1256 - vigr (it's like vipw)
1257 - Introducing hwclock. A complete rewrite of the latest available
1258 clock source. It supports intel/CMOS, /dev/rtc and linux/m68k
1259 system clock interfaces. Clock supports the same things but is now
1260 obsolete and will not be present in the next release. Start using
1261 hwclock now. Please.
1266 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.5:
1267 0) Nicolai Langfeldt is taking over maintenance of util-linux, with the
1268 help of a few others (Michael K. Johnson, Andries Brouwer, and Rik
1271 PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no
1273 1) The following packages have been removed. Please use the up-to-date,
1274 canonical versions of these packages from the listed places:
1276 timezone support (/usr/lib/zoneinfo, libz.a, zic, zdump):
1277 elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzcode95d.tar.gz
1278 elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzdata95h.tar.gz
1280 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-C-1.5.tar.gz
1282 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-2.2.tar.gz
1284 prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils-1.3.tar.gz
1285 [The GNU version is now compatible with the Plumb/Lankester
1288 Now bundled with the kernel in linux/scripts.
1290 2) update_state has been removed
1291 3) fdisk now supports NetBSD disklabels courtesy of Bernhard Fastenrath
1292 <fasten@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de> (and > 8GB disks, courtesy of
1294 4) mount improved -- many patches from Andries Brouwer for greatly improved
1296 5) ddate, chkdupexe, and other programs have been improved and bug fixed
1297 6) util-linux is now a source-only distribution
1298 7) mcookie generates better random numbers and will use /dev/random or
1299 /dev/audio if available
1300 8) chfn, chsh, passwd, and vipw have been updated with security patches
1301 from Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>. Now, they all use the same
1302 locking, and several security holes have been patched. Further, chsh
1303 and chfn can be configured at compile time to require a password before
1304 updates and chsh can be configured to only use shells from /etc/shells.
1307 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.4 (2.3 was never released):
1308 0) Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net> is the interim maintainer
1309 while Rik Faith is working on PhD work.
1310 1) login now makes the login tty mode 600 and places it in group "tty"
1311 2) wall, and write will not write dangerous escape sequences
1312 3) wall and write can be run setgid "tty". If util-linux is compiled for
1313 this option, "mesg y" will only set group write instead of group/other
1315 4) fdisk and cfdisk have been patched with the latest llseek.c. Although I
1316 had a lot of bug reports about fdisk from util-linux-2.2, I was unable
1317 to reproduce any of the problems. Some of the problems appeared to be
1318 releated to a failure to reboot the machine after changing the partition
1319 table, and some may have been due to a specific kernel revision problem.
1320 However, this doesn't seem to account for all of the bug reports -- if
1321 this version gives you problem, please send as complete a bug report as
1323 5) chkdupexe from Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
1324 6) ctrlaltdel now installs into /sbin instead of /usr/sbin
1325 7) mkfs replacement from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
1326 8) lpcntl removed. Use tunelp instead.
1327 9) ksymoops from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
1328 10) mkfs.minix now clears the first 512 bytes of the file system so that
1329 Minix disks won't be confused with MSDOS disks (Daniel Quinlan
1330 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com))
1331 11) mkswap should now work on an Alpha running Linux
1332 12) frag removed. See
1333 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/defrag-0.6.tar.gz for the
1335 13) mount patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1336 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
1337 14) MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV-C updated to the latest versions.
1338 15) Paths updated for FSSTND 1.2. This means that you may need to make
1339 some links. The links you need to make we system dependent. The
1340 ultimate goal is to rename /var/adm to /var/log and have a symbolic
1341 link from /var/adm to /var/log during the transition period. If you
1342 are running an ELF system, you probably won't have to do anything. The
1343 bottom line is that the following files must exist or be pointers to
1344 the old version (used internally by the a.out libraries):
1348 /var/log/wtmp /var/adm/wtmp
1349 /var/log/lastlog /var/adm/lastlog
1350 /var/run/utmp /var/adm/utmp
1352 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.2:
1353 1) This is primarily a quick bug-fix release for version 2.1
1354 2) mkfs wrapper added back in, since e2fsprogs only supplies an fsck wrapper
1355 3) selection removed, since someone appears to be maintaining it now. See
1356 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/patches/console for recent sources.
1357 For the time being, I'm keeping a copy in the historic subdirectory of
1358 util-linux. A "make install" should work find from within that
1360 4) Note that other floppy utilities are available from:
1361 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1362 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1363 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1366 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.1:
1368 1) Directory structure rearrange, with configuration support for those who
1369 use shadow passwords and System V init (no support is provided for these
1370 things, but your utilities won't get overwritten if you do a "make
1371 install" after you properly edit MCONFIG).
1372 2) fdisk and cfdisk should work as expected with 2GB+ disk drives
1373 3) As usual, lots of stuff was updated and added, including mount, vipw,
1375 4) Some stuff was also deleted, and can now be found elsewhere:
1376 fsck wrapper: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/ext2fs/e2fsprogs*
1377 pwd, su: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sh-utils*
1378 ed: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ed*
1379 od: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils*
1380 uudecode/uuencode: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sharutils*
1381 bdflush/update: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v1.1/bdflush*
1385 PARTIAL HISTORY OF UTIL-LINUX:
1388 Nothing in this directory gets installed, but some BSD programs need
1390 err.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
1391 err.h: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/2/93
1392 getopt.c: 4.13 (Berkeley) 2/23/91
1393 pathnames.h: 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/9/89 with extensive modifications for
1397 cfdisk: 0.8 BETA (>2GB) from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu) with
1398 modifications for disks > 2GB.
1399 ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/users/martin/linux/cfdisk-0.8.tar.gz
1400 fdformat: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), with
1401 modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)).
1402 Later, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner.
1403 fdisk: A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk) fdisk 1.5 release, with
1404 patched from Kevin Martin for DOS and OS/2 compatibility (1.5a);
1405 Rik Faith (1.5b, 2.0).
1406 fsck.minix, mkfs.minix: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by: Rik
1407 Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner
1408 (sdh@po.cwru.edu), Dr. Wettstein
1409 (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu), Daniel
1410 Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
1411 mkfs: David Engel (david@ods.com) and Fred N. van Kempen
1412 (waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG)
1413 Version 1.9 from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
1414 mkswap: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by Mike Jagdis
1415 (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk. )
1416 Version for Alpha from
1417 cage.cs.arizona.edu:/pub/davidm/linux/mkswap-axp-950503.tar.gz
1418 setfdprm: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
1419 Note that more floppy utilities are available from:
1420 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1421 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1422 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1423 llseek.c: from Remy Card's e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz (21Mar95 version) from:
1424 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
1427 banner: (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94)
1428 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1431 agetty: W. Z. Venema, ported by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>.
1432 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1433 chfn: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1434 chsh: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1435 last: 5.11 w/year (Berkeley) 6/29/88; Port by Michael Haardt with
1436 changes by Peter Orbaek.
1437 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1438 login: 5.40 (Berkeley) 5/9/89; with ports by Michael Glad and Peter Orbaek
1439 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1440 mesg: 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/21/94
1441 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1442 newgrp: Michael Haardt, with modifications by Peter Orbaek.
1443 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1444 passwd: Peter Orbaek, with yp modifications by Alvaro Martinez
1445 Echevarria (alvaro@enano.etsit.upm.es)
1446 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1447 shutdown: Peter Orbaek, with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie, Rik
1448 Faith, and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com).
1449 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1450 simpleinit: Peter Orbaek
1451 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1452 vipw: 5.16 (Berkeley) 3/3/91, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1453 <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
1454 wall: 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93 (With changes so that damaging escape
1455 sequences cannot be sent.)
1456 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1460 cal: 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/2/94, with modifications by Rik Faith and
1461 Hein@student.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein).
1462 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1463 chkdupexe: Version 1.2 from "Nicolai Langfeldt" <janl@ifi.uio.no>
1465 ddate: Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson aka mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
1466 with modifications by Lee Harvey Oswald Smith, K.S.C. and
1467 substantial updates from Rev. Bro. Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP
1468 domainname: Peter Orbaek
1469 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1470 dsplit: David Arnstein (arnstein@netcom.com)
1471 gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume40/dsplit
1472 getopt (getoptprog): jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu:
1473 /pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt
1474 replaced by getopt-1.0.3.tar.gz from Frodo Looijaard,
1475 found at http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol
1476 hostid: Mitch DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
1477 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1478 hostname/dnsdomainname: Peter Tobias <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
1479 This version (1.6) should also be available soon in:
1480 nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/net-source/base/NetKit-A*
1481 kill: BSD version, modified by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
1482 logger: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1483 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1484 look.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1485 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1486 mcookie: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1487 md5sum: Branki Lankester and Colin Plumb. The MD5 message-digest
1488 algorithm is in the Public Domain. This implementation
1489 calculates message-digest information only, and can NOT be used
1490 for encryption. Therefore it is exportable from the USA.
1491 Original sources in the MIT version of PGP 2.6.2.
1492 namei: Roger S. Southwick, with modifications by Steve Tell.
1494 script: 5.13 (Berkeley) 3/5/91, with modifications by Rick Sladkey
1495 (jrs@world.std.com), Harald Koenig
1496 (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de).
1497 setterm: Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au), with modifications by
1498 Peter MacDonald, Mika Liljeberg (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI),
1499 John Walder (j-walder@uiuc.edu) [for dosemu].
1500 tsort: 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1501 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1502 whereis: 5.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/91
1503 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1504 write: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1505 (kashmir@umiacs.umd.edu). With changes so that damaging escape
1506 sequences cannot be sent.
1507 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1511 mount, umount, swapon
1513 Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen
1514 Tweedie provided updates. The utilities were originally from that
1515 package (all appear to be by Doug Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu),
1516 with modifications by H. J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) on 11/25/92; Rick
1517 Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) in January 1993; and Stephen Tweedie
1518 <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> on 8 October 1993. This distribution mount now
1519 supports NFS stuff. I have modified the man pages. I have also added
1520 a small patch from Hamish Glen Coleman (t933093@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
1521 which restores the -o semantics.
1523 Updated with Rick Sladkey's mount-0.99.14.tar.gz package, and with
1524 extra patches from Rick. Adam J. Richter allowed -t option to be
1525 optional. Patrick J. Volkerding (volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) and
1526 Mitchum DSouza both provided patches that fixed the (null) problem when
1527 not using -t. Mitchum DSouza
1528 (mitch@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk) added support for loop
1529 device mounts. Sebastian Lederer
1530 (lederer@next-pc.informatik.uni-bonn.de) added support for sending an
1531 unmount RPC call to the server when an NFS-filesystem is unmounted.
1532 Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) added support for remounting
1533 readonly file systems readonly. Mike Grupenhoff
1534 <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU> added a probe of the superblock for the type
1535 before /proc/filesystems is checked. Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl fixed up
1538 Updated with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1539 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com). And more patches from Andries and others.
1541 historic/selection: The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett
1542 <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>, 17th June 1993, is included in the historic tree.
1543 Kernel patches are no longer necessary for modern kernels, but these
1544 were tiny so I left them in for historical reasons. The Makefile was
1545 modified for this distribution. With changes from Rick Sladkey.
1548 arch: Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
1549 chroot: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1550 clock: Originally from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package, Charles Hedrick,
1551 hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu (V1.0); Rob Hooft, hooft@chem.ruu.nl
1552 (V1.1); Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
1553 (V1.2). With additional changes: Hamish Coleman
1554 (hamish@zot.apana.org.au) (V1.2a); Alan Modra
1555 (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (V1.3, V1.4).
1556 ctrlaltdel: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
1557 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1558 cytune: Nick Simicish (njs@scifi.emi.net) and Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1559 dmesg: Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu); Rick Sladkey
1561 ipcrm: From the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1562 balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93. ipc.info and ipc.texi
1563 are also from that distribution.
1564 ipcs: Also from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1565 balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu, with patches from Mike Jagdis
1566 (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk)
1567 kbdrate: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), with patches from
1568 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and John Bowman
1569 (bowman@hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
1570 ksymoops: 1.7 from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
1571 rdev: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger), with
1572 modifications from Peter MacDonald, Stephen Tweedie
1573 (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk), and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com)
1574 readprofile: Alessandro Rubini from readprofile-2.0.tar.gz
1575 renice: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
1576 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1577 setserial: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) re-released Rick
1578 Sladkey's setserial in January 1993, with changes by
1579 Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu). I think that Theodore also
1580 did extensive changes for version 2.01, I can't find any
1581 notes about this in the documentation. However, Theodore
1582 Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) released version 2.10, and that
1584 setsid: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1585 sln: Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc)
1586 sync: Nick Holloway, with thanks to James Bonfield
1587 tunelp: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net)
1591 5.45 (Berkeley) 3/2/91
1593 Most of the changes for syslogd come from Rick Sladkey
1594 (jrs@world.std.com), but I'd like to thank other people who sent in
1595 changes (which usually got forwarded to Rick): Carsten Paeth
1596 (calle@calle.in-berlin.de) and Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp).
1599 col: 5.3 (Berkeley) 2/2/91; with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
1600 and Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com)
1601 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1602 colcrt: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 (Bill Joy)
1603 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1604 colrm: 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/90 (Jeff Schriebman)
1605 column: 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
1606 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1607 hexdump: 5.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1608 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1609 more: 5.19 (Berkeley) 6/29/88 (Eric Shienbrood, Geoff Peck, John Foderaro)
1610 rev: 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/92; with modifications by Charles Hannum
1611 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu), Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu),
1613 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1614 strings: 5.10 (Berkeley) 5/23/91; with patches from Vitor Duarte
1616 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1617 ul: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
1618 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin