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1util-linux 2.29-rc2: Oct 19 2016
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3 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-rc2-ChangeLog
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5util-linux 2.29-rc1: Sep 30 2016
6* see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
7 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-rc1-ChangeLog
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9util-linux 2.28: Apr 12 2016
10* see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
11 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-ChangeLog
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13util-linux 2.28-rc2: Mar 29 2016
14* see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
15 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-rc2-ChangeLog
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17util-linux 2.28-rc1: Mar 11 2016
18* see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
19 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-rc1-ChangeLog
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21util-linux 2.27: Sep 07 2015
22* see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
23 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ChangeLog
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0e58e169 25util-linux 2.27-rc2: Aug 24 2015
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29util-linux 2.27-rc1: Jul 31 2015
30* see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
31 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-rc1-ChangeLog
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33util-linux 2.26: Feb 19 2015
34* see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
35 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-ChangeLog
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035e4c0a 37util-linux 2.26-rc2: Feb 4 2015
34271696 38* see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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41util-linux 2.26-rc1: Jan 14 2015
34271696 42* see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
3d8fb20b 43 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-rc1-ChangeLog
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1687d0a0 45util-linux 2.25: Jul 22 2014
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8b9d1474 49util-linux 2.25-rc2: Jul 2 2014
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993fdba0 53util-linux 2.25-rc1: Jun 18 2014
34271696 54* see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
993fdba0 55 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-rc1-ChangeLog
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bad3c52f 57util-linux 2.24: Oct 21 2013
34271696 58* see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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e6ce04c7 61util-linux 2.24-rc2: Oct 11 2013
34271696 62* see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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6073251c 65util-linux 2.24-rc1: Sep 27 2013
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d80aa81d 69util-linux 2.23: Apr 25 2013
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e38f35d3 73util-linux 2.23-rc2: Apr 10 2013
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fb5a24e5 77util-linux 2.23-rc1: Mar 22 2013
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58e6e67a 81util-linux 2.22: Sep 04 2012
34271696 82* see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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83 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-ChangeLog
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123011de 85util-linux 2.22-rc2: Aug 15 2012
34271696 86* see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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31de0476 89util-linux 2.22-rc1: Jul 27 2012
34271696 90* see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
123011de 91 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-rc1-ChangeLog
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6b7113bc 93util-linux 2.21: Feb 24 2012
34271696 94* see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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1e962459 97util-linux 2.21-rc2: Feb 06 2012
34271696 98* see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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e6e5b7dc 101util-linux 2.21-rc1: Jan 18 2012
34271696 102* see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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103 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-rc1-ChangeLog
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60a5833b 105util-linux 2.20: Aug 29 2011
990dabe7 106* see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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e13d44a1 109util-linux 2.20-rc2: Aug 17 2011
990dabe7 110* see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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d6fc523d 113util-linux 2.20-rc1: Jul 29 2011
34271696 114* see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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69df550f 117util-linux 2.19: Feb 10 2011
34271696 118* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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539d14ec 121util-linux 2.19-rc3: Jan 25 2011
34271696 122* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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e4764e8b 125util-linux 2.19-rc2: Jan 25 2011
34271696 126* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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1d9aaca9 129util-linux 2.19-rc1: Jan 05 2011
34271696 130* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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131 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc1-ChangeLog
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9c1442c1 133util-linux-ng 2.18: Jun 30 2010
34271696 134* see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 135 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-ChangeLog
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5f0b4c37 137util-linux-ng 2.18-rc2: Jun 18 2010
34271696 138* see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 139 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc2-ChangeLog
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eae4075f 141util-linux-ng 2.18-rc1: Jun 7 2010
34271696 142* see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 143 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc1-ChangeLog
eae4075f 144
36b00d61 145util-linux-ng 2.17: Jan 8 2010
34271696 146* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 147 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-ChangeLog
36b00d61 148
e05dc077 149util-linux-ng 2.17-rc3: Dec 10 2009
34271696 150* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 151 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc3-ChangeLog
e05dc077 152
9a39edc1 153util-linux-ng 2.17-rc2: Dec 9 2009
34271696 154* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 155 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc2-ChangeLog
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157util-linux-ng 2.17-rc1: Nov 20 2009
34271696 158* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 159 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc1-ChangeLog
3cb55551 160
29e107aa 161util-linux-ng 2.16: Jul 2009
34271696 162* see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 163 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-ChangeLog
29e107aa 164
4a595b07 165util-linux-ng 2.16-rc2: Jul 2 2009
34271696 166* see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 167 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc2-ChangeLog
4a595b07 168
a8dd2fe1 169util-linux-ng 2.16-rc1: Jun 28 2009
34271696 170* see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 171 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc1-ChangeLog
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676c8bfa 173util-linux-ng 2.15: May 5 2009
34271696 174* see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 175 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-ChangeLog
676c8bfa 176
1c3af053 177util-linux-ng 2.15-rc2: Apr 17 2009
34271696 178* see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 179 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc2-ChangeLog
1c3af053 180
0152a9ea 181util-linux-ng 2.15-rc1: Mar 18 2009
34271696 182* see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 183 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc1-ChangeLog
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185util-linux-ng 2.14: Jun 9 2008
34271696 186* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 187 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-ChangeLog
fba4e21f 188
0237593e 189util-linux-ng 2.14-rc3: May 19 2008
34271696 190* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 191 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc3-ChangeLog
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0237593e 193util-linux-ng 2.14-rc2: Apr 28 2008
34271696 194* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 195 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc2-ChangeLog
8d48d759 196
0237593e 197util-linux-ng 2.14-rc1: Apr 16 2008
34271696 198* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 199 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc1-ChangeLog
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0237593e 201util-linux-ng 2.13: Aug 28 2007
34271696 202* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 203 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-ChangeLog
49ef7acd 204
0237593e 205util-linux-ng 2.13-rc3: Aug 8 2007
34271696 206* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 207 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc3-ChangeLog
a21adf48 208
0237593e 209util-linux-ng 2.13-rc2: Jul 17 2007
34271696 210* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 211 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc2-ChangeLog
cceaba68 212
0237593e 213util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1: Jul 4 2007
34271696 214* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
316919a2 215 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc1-ChangeLog
5bbc26de 216
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217util-linux 2.13-pre7
218
219* mount: default to cifs instead of smbfs for sources
7692c2c8 220 starting with // (Lars Mueller)
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221* flock: documentation updates (H. Peter Anvin)
222* new translation: id
223* updated translations: de, it, sl, uk
224
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225util-linux 2.13-pre6
226
227* getopt: updated to 1.1.4
228* replaced all *llseek variants with lseek
229* misc build system, code and docs cleanups and fixes
230* updated translations: fr, it
231
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232util-linux 2.13-pre5
233
234* {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: updated to cramfs-1.1
235* {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: removed PAGE_CACHE_SIZE usage
236* umount: fix "umount -n -r" (Derick Swanepoel)
237* misc build system and code cleanups and fixes
238* updated translation: ca
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240util-linux 2.13-pre4
241
242* don't build fdisk on m68k (Mike Frysinger)
243* misc build system and documentation fixes
244* removed program: clear
245
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246util-linux 2.13-pre3
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248* misc buld system fixes
249* cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
250* umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
251* updated translations: da, fr, it, nl, ru, sl, tr
252
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253util-linux 2.13-pre2
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255* flock: replaced with flock-2.0.2 by H. Peter Anvin
256* misc build system fixes, libtool is no longer used
257* misc code fixes
258* updated translations: ca, fi, fr, nl, ru, tr
259
48d7b13a 260util-linux 2.13-pre1
baf39af1 261
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262* use GNU autoconf/automake/libtool for building
263* added schedutils
264* removed support for curses implementations other than ncurses
ca3ea756 265* removed programs: arch, passwd, rescuept, setfdprm, sln
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266* removed mkminix-0.1/
267* misc fixes and documentation updates
268* new translation: vi
269* updated translations: ca, de, fi, fr, it, nl, ru, tr
9d761c85 270
091b402e 271util-linux 2.12q
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273* updated translation: nl
274
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275util-linux 2.12q-pre2
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277* sfdisk: document -G option in --help output
278* updated translations: ca, et, fr
279
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280util-linux 2.12q-pre1
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282* new maintainer
283* sfdisk: add -G option (Andries Brouwer)
284* updated translations: de, es, ru, sv, tr
285
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286util-linux 2.12p
287
288* cfdisk: fix number of new partition when partitions not in disk order
289* fdisk: fix Sun label handling in sector mode
290* mkfs: never truncate filename (not that that ever happened)
291* more: fix redraw flaw
292
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295* lomount: revert patch from 2.12j
296* lptune.8: -T option is obsolete
297* mkswap, mkswap.8, swapon: support labels
80d7a313 298 (use HAVE_BLKID=no as long as the blkid library doesn't support this)
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299* umount: allow user unmounting repeatedly mounted nfs mounts
300
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301util-linux 2.12m
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303* cfdisk: recognize JFS, support reiserfs labels (flavio.stanchina@tin.it)
304* mount: fix option parsing bug
305* mount.8: several updates
306* swapon.8: document -v option
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310* Makefile: remove cat-id-tbl.c upon make clean
311* fdisk: fixed a bug that would cause a non-update of a sun disklabel
312* fdisk: use sectorsize instead of 512 for SGI (Eric Y. Theriault)
313* fdisk: use __attribute__((packed)) for alpha, ARM: avoid unaligned accesses
314* hwclock: actually use HAVE_tm_gmtoff
315* swapon: fix priority handling
316* umount: refuse to unmount an empty string
317
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320* cfdisk: fixed a signed character bug causing problems for Spanish users
321* configure, MCONFIG: detect gcc 3.4.0 and use -mtune option (Matthew Burgess)
322* configure: do not run ./conftest (for cross compilation) (NIIBE Yutaka)
323* fsck.cramfs: try to get correct PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
324* losetup: try to give better error messages
325* readprofile: default map file is /boot/System.map
326* rdev.8: added historical info on ramdisk
327* New French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish messages
328
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330
331* cal: highlight today (Pádraig Brady)
332* lomount: stop reading passwd at NUL, fix lo_encrypt key_size (Wolfram Kleff)
333* losetup: add -f option to find an unused loop device
334 (Alexander Wigen, Remco van Mook)
335* more: code cleanup (Joachim Henke)
336* mount: add "group" mount option (Martin Dickopp)
337* sfdisk: fix 2.6.8 BLKRRPART ioctl damage (Eric Lammerts)
338* swapon: let swapon -a skip the swapfiles marked "noauto" (Dale R. Worley)
339* umount: fix problem with empty mtab (Bryan Kadzban)
340* umount: use special umount program if it exists (Ram Pai)
b22550fa 341* New Danish and French messages
d162fcb5 342
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344
345* MCONFIG: fix build conditions
346* chfn, chsh: add error checking
347* cytune: use local header cyclades.h
348* fdisk: fix default SGI volume header size (Eric Sandeen)
349* fstab.c: use strsignal() instead of sys_siglist[]
350* hwclock: use <sys/io.h> when available on i386
3fd1f771 351* hwclock: don't try KDGHWCLK on archs other than __m68k__
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352* sfdisk: correct typo in __attribute__used nonsense
353* sfdisk: use PACKED on __arm__ (Jeroen Dobbelaere)
354* sfdisk: fix warning printout
355
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358* cfdisk: avoid crash if no partition table
359* elvtune: tell user that this only works on 2.4 kernels
360* lomount: clear passwords after use
361* mount: accept comments (introduced by \;) in fstab - withdrawn again
362* mount: accept comments (specified by comment=) in fstab
363* mount: support ocfs, ocfs2
364* [u]mount: be more careful with malloc, try to avoid OOM with many mounts
365* sfdisk: __attribute__used nonsense to support gcc 3.4
366* shutdown: do not unmount various virtual filesystems
367
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370* mount.8: added recent ext2 mount options
371* mount: support jfs mount-by-label, improve reiserfs support
372* sfdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
373* *fdisk: use common disksize() routine
374
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377* chsh: improved error message
378* dmesg: ask kernel proper buffer size
379* losetup: handle 64-bit offsets
380* blockdev: also report BLKGETSIZE64 result
381* blockdev, elvtune, fdisk: handle new kernel _IOR,_IOW defines
382* fdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
383* fdisk: also list Solaris as possible type for 0x82
384* mount: added --rbind option
2cccd0ff 385* mount: use blkid, uuid libraries when available
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386* mount: support reiserfs mount by label
387* mount: attempt to use the right definition of dev_t in struct loopinfo
388* mount.8: jfs mount options added
389* readprofile: new -s option
390* rename.1: added ref to mmv.1
391* replay: renamed to scriptreplay; correct typos
392* script: do not use locale for time delay floating point number format
393* sfdisk: error messages to stderr
394* New Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
395 Ukrainian messages
396
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399* chfn, chsh, login, vipw: SElinux support
400* fdisk: fix for kernels 2.4.15-2.4.17
401* fdisk: fix when all partitions are in use
9e94f393 402* hwclock: add a timeout when waiting for a clock update (Göran Weinholt)
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403* ipcs: compilation fix
404* ipcs: shminfo.shmall gives pages
405* login: use getutline() instead of getutid()
406* login: fix for 64-bit time_t
407* mount: efs support
408* partx: bigendian fix
409* readprofile: support for 64-bit addresses
410* setterm: fix klogctl error message (Joern Heissler)
411* setterm.1: clarification
412* sfdisk: fix check for is_ide_cdrom_or_tape
413* umount: skip proc, devfs, devpts on umount -a
414
415util-linux 2.12
416
417* losetup: cryptoloop support
418* losetup: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
419* fdisk: sgi layout fix
420* mount: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
421* mount: recognize some PCDOS floppies
422* umount: in "umount name", first try to interpret "name" as a mount point
423
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425
7692c2c8 426* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
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427* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
428* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
429* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
430* French messages (Michel Robitaille)
431* German messages (Michael Piefel)
7692c2c8 432* Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
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433* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
434* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 435* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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436* cfdisk: localize the Y/N answer, improve printing localized messages
437* cfdisk: make various variables long long - some disks are close to 2 TB
438* cfdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
439* fdisk: make various variables unsigned to lengthen the life of 32-bit vars
440* fdisk: some sgi fixes (Phillip Kesling)
441* fdisk: k=1000, K=1024
442* fdisk: removed last occurrences of HDIO_REQ
443* fdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
444* hwclock: fix rtc test (Heiko Zuerker)
445* login: set a timeout on printing the timeout message (Robert Ambrose)
446* md5: x86_64 fix (mmj)
447* more: POSIX fixes
448* mount: do not supply MS_MGC_VAL when there are conflicting flags
449* mount: ncp and smb are called smbfs and ncpfs - global change
450* mount: add support for xvm mount by label (Eric Sandeen)
451* mount: correct hfs magic recognition
452* mount: keep original umask - it influences the mount call (mmj)
453* raw.8: documented unbinding of raw devices
454* readprofile: fixed off-by eight error (Werner Almesberger)
455* script: add -c option (Wayne Davison)
456* sfdisk.8: added an example of partitioning with logical partitions
457* sfdisk: only add a AA55 signature for DOS-type partition tables
458* tailf: new (Rik Faith)
459
460util-linux 2.11z
461
7692c2c8 462* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
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463* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
464* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
465* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
466* French messages (Michel Robitaille) - HURRAY!
467* German messages (Michael Piefel)
7692c2c8 468* Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
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469* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
470* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 471* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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472* getopt: replaced getopt-1.1.2 by getopt-1.1.3 (Frodo Looijaard)
473* mkcramfs: change default blocksize for ia64 and alpha
474* more.help: removed (it is built-in now, and translated)
475* mount: add -i option (inhibit calling external mount programs)
476* mount: change default: do resolve symlinks
477* readprofile: look for System.map also in /boot/System.map-`uname -r` (mmj)
478* sfdisk: also translate "start" and "end"; s/MB/MiB/
479
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481
482* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
483* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
484* German messages (Michael Piefel)
485* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
486* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
487* cfdisk: improve escape seq recognition when compiled with slang
488* fdisk: decimal units
489* hwclock/rtc.c: minor cleanup (Joachim Henke)
490* ipcs: compilation fix
491* more: kill external help file (Joachim Henke)
492* mount: fix LABEL= handling for user umount
7692c2c8 493* mount: don't abort on read error on photocds (György Kövesdi)
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494* mount.8: add dmask and fmask vfat mount options
495* pg: compilation fix (Joachim Henke)
7692c2c8 496* script: localized time strings (Göran Uddeborg)
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497* setterm: accept devfs name (Joachim Henke)
498* simpleinit: security: refuse initctl_fd if setting FD_CLOEXEC fails
499* umount: allow user umount after mount by label or uuid
500
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502
503* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
504* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
505* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
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506* German messages (Michael Piefel)
507* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 508* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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509* cfdisk: correct error printout
510* fdisk: allow addition of a new partition when logicals all used
511 but primary free
512* hwclock: detect systime jumps backward during setting hwclock
513* mkfs.cramfs: do not mmap all files simultaneously
514* mkfs.cramfs: make blocksize settable
515* mkfs.minix: correct error printout
516* mkswap.8: now max 32 swapspaces
517* mount: new --rbind flag, for recursive loopback mounts
518* mount, umount: new -O option (Michael K. Johnson)
519* mount.8: -O and win95 options documented
520* setpwnam.c: open temp pw file with O_EXCL
521* simpleinit: fix for "spawn too fast" (Denis Vlasenko)
522* swapon: new -e option (Erik Troan)
523
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525
526* cfdisk, fdisk: allow slightly larger disk sizes
527* fdisk: Makefile: also for m68 (sun3) (Kaj-Michael Lang)
528* fdisk: allow to use the last partial cylinder, change display format
529* fdisk: do not ask partition number in case there is only one choice
530* fdisk: new sunlabel fix
7692c2c8 531* login: fix possible local root exploit (Wojciech Purczyński)
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532* more: bigendian fix
533
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534util-linux 2.11v
535
7692c2c8 536* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
0e6f4a20 537* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
0e6f4a20 538* Very few Russian messages (panivan@yandex.ru)
7692c2c8 539* Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
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540* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
541* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 542* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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543* fdisk: add -C, -H, -S command line options
544* fdisk: allow changing type 0
545* mkswap: enable use of > 2GB swapspace
546* more: translation fix
547* mount: set umask (Sebastian Krahmer)
548* mount: test both le and be version of cramfs magic (Olaf Hering)
549* mount: recognize Oracle magic
550* pg: use fseeko64 and ftello64 when available
551
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552util-linux 2.11u
553
554* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
555* German messages (Michael Piefel)
556* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
557* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 558* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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559* configure: for fsck.cramfs, mkfs.cramfs: add test for libz
560* text-utils/Makefile: pg fix (Toomas Rosin)
561* po/Makefile: typo fix (Silvan Minghetti)
562* agetty: use same test as login does to find utmp entry
563* fdisk: fix for fdisk on empty disk (Michael D. Black)
564* hwclock: compilation fix on alpha
565* mount: add mount by label for jfs (Christoph Hellwig)
566* mount: add mount by label for evms (Luciano Chavez)
567* mount: allow regular files when guessing (Michal Svec)
568* partx/gpt.c: fix size computation (Matt Domsch)
569* readprofile: new option -b (David Mosberger)
570* umount: don't umount devfs upon umount -a (David Gilbert)
571
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572util-linux 2.11t
573
574* fdformat: remove test on major
575* fsck.cramfs: added NLS
576* fdisk: fix device names with sundisklabels under devfs (Kaj-Michael Lang)
577* fdisk: minor polishing
578* hwclock: also handle ENOTTY ioctl return (Maciej W. Rozycki)
579* hwclock: minor polishing
580* ipcrm.8: minor polishing
581* mkfs.cramfs: added NLS
582* mkfs.cramfs: added -v (verbose) option, and made default silent
583* mount: patch for make -j (RedHat)
584* swapoff: minor polishing
585
586util-linux 2.11s
587
588* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
589* French messages: some minor corrections
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590* German messages (Michael Piefel)
591* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
592* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 593* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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594* MCONFIG: allow "make DISABLE_NLS=yes <target>" (Peter Breitenlohner)
595* configure: don't run ./conftest - better for cross-compilation (Magnus Damm)
596* fdisk: fixes for disks with OSF/1 label
597* fsck.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
598* hwclock: improved adjtime handling (James P. Rutledge)
599* hwclock: remove shhopts stuff
600* ipcs: remove unused heading (Michael Kerrisk)
601* line: replace by C version - the sh version was broken (Gunnar Ritter)
602* login: default root path: added /usr/local/[s]bin (RedHat)
603* mkfs.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
604* mount: when no type is known, assume that prefix // implies samba (RedHat)
605* mount -a: avoid stat on devices that have noauto option (Jeroen Mostert)
606* mount by label: ignore RAID partitions (RedHat)
607* [u]mount: fstab.c fix (ejb@ql.org)
608* pg: new (Gunnar Ritter)
609* sfdisk: small BSD partition fix
610* swapoff -a: also do swapoff on all files found in /proc/swaps
611* swapon -a: skip files already found in /proc/swaps
612
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613util-linux 2.11r
614
615* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
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616* German messages (Michael Piefel)
617* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
618* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 619* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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620* MCONFIG: move $(CFLAGS) to the end to allow overrides (Kevin P. Fleming)
621* cal: tiny fix (Mitsuru Chinen)
622* fdisk: avoid <linux/hdreg.h>
9e94f393 623* fdisk: x86_64 patch (Mads Martin Jørgensen)
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624* hwclock.8: zoneinfo is now in /usr/share
625* mkswap: report in KiB instead of bytes.
626
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628
629* fdisk: geometry improvement
630* login: open tty fix (Denis Vlasenko)
631* more: wide character patches (Mitsuru Chinen)
632* mount: complain on mount-by-label when label is not unique (Matt Copping)
633* partx: add GUID Partition Tables (Matt Domsch)
634
635util-linux 2.11p
636
637* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
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638* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
639* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
640* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 641* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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642* ipcrm: make POSIX compatible (Andre Corwin Mazzone)
643* ipcrm.8: idem
644* kill: fixed Makefile
a2c5f3ca 645* login: setsid fixes
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646* mkswap: max size of swap space is very large (Peter Chubb)
647* mount: JFS support for mount-by-label (hch)
648* nfsmount: check for <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h> (hch)
649* readprofile: keep track of line numbers (John Levon)
650* umount: fix for MNT_DETACH
651
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652util-linux 2.11o
653
654* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
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655* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
656* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
657* cal: option -s: Sunday is first day of the week
658* cal.1: updated
659* cfdisk: give not only bytes but also MB or GB for clarity.
660* colrm: wide character fix (Elliot Lee)
661* *fdisk: added Darwin types (Vincent Bourgonjen)
662* fstab.5: updated
1d4ad1de 663* hexdump: -C option
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664* hwclock: cmos.c: do not include <asm/io.h> on alpha
665* mount: improved detection of ufs (and slowdown of detection of iso9660)
666* mount.8: added info on * in /etc/filesystems, shortname option of vfat,
667 mount --move, udf, return codes
668* raw: try /dev/raw/rawctl when /dev/rawctl fails (Thierry Vignaud)
669* rc.serial: removed - setserial is no longer in util-linux (kromJx)
670* README.admutil: removed - only of historical interest
671* README.bootutils-0.1: removed - only of historical interest
672* script: security fix
673* sfdisk: improved geometry detection; wider columns; default disks from
674 /proc/partitions
675* umount: permission test owner umount
676* wall.1: added suid restriction
677
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678util-linux 2.11n
679
680* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
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681* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
682* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 683* Turkish messages now in UTF-8 (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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684* blockdev: add --report option
685* cal: fix for wide multibyte-char (Motonobu Ichimura)
686* cfdisk: recognize ext3 and reiserfs (Flavio Stanchina)
687* fsck.minix: i18n changes
688* ipc.{info,texi}: minor correction
689* login: compilation fix (Jaroslaw J. Pyszny)
690* mount.8: tmpfs mount options (Karl Eichwalder)
691* mount: recognize minix v2
692* mount: support mount-by-label also for lvm (Kirby Bohling)
693* mount: order guessing of fstypes according to seek offset
694* pivot_root: compilation fix for ia64
695* readprofile: byte order auto-detection (Werner Almesberger)
696
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697util-linux 2.11m
698
699* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
700* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
701* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 702* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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703* fdisk: added netbsd type (Steven J. Hill)
704* more: fix for unsigned char (Rusty Russell)
705* mount: added sysv magic (Tim Launchbury)
706* setterm: fixed "setterm -foreground default"
707
708util-linux 2.11l
709
710* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
711* banner: removed - it is in bsdgames
712* fdisk: show partitions with empty type but some other nonzero field
713* login: copy the static struct that getpwnam() returns before calling
714 PAM routines that might themselves use getpwnam(). Abort on problems.
715 (Olaf Kirch)
716* mount: added jfs magic (Christoph Hellwig)
717* renice: report the correct new priority after a setpriority()
718* umount: add lazy unmount (Christoph Hellwig)
719
720util-linux 2.11k
721
722 Various potential buffer overflows were pointed out by awayzzz@digibel.org.
723 Fixes in agetty, hwclock, namei, readprofile, simpleinit, vipw.
724 (Also added a few [f]close() calls - entirely superfluously.)
725
726* agetty: avoid possible buffer overflow
727* cfdisk: recognize xfs (Nathan Scott)
728* cytune: added close()
729* fdformat: added close()
730* fdisk: added fclose()
731* hwclock: avoid possible buffer overflow
732* mkfs.minix: added fclose()
733* mount: remove the assumption that 635 is the default mount port
734* namei: avoid possible buffer overflow
735* rdev: added closedir()
736* readprofile: avoid possible buffer overflow
737* sfdisk: added fclose()
738* simpleinit: avoid possible buffer overflow
739* swapon: added fclose()
740* umount: use tcp when mount was done using tcp (James D Strandboge)
741* vipw: avoid possible buffer overflow
742
743util-linux 2.11j
744
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745* fdisk: fix for AIX label (Olaf Hering)
746* fdisk: fix for creating DOS label when BSD label is present
747* mount.8: added remark about blocksize to ext2 sb= mount option description.
748* partitiontype: new, not installed
749
750util-linux 2.11i
751
752* testincl: do not run conftest (Brian Murphy)
753* blockdev: corrected ioctl numbers now that BLKBSZGET is in 2.4.10pre3
754* cal: fixed for Hungarian locale
755* cal: fixed for multibyte locales (Pablo Saratxaga)
756* fdisk: avoid superfluous warning about DOS partitions
757* line: new, to support SCO shell scripts (Christoph Hellwig)
758* mount: added vxfs magic
759* passwd: tiny fix for ARM (Ken Cox)
760* replay: replay typescript with timings (Joey Hess)
761* script: add -t flag for timing (Joey Hess)
762
763util-linux 2.11h
764
9e94f393 765* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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766* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
767* banner: minor fix (awayzzz@digibel.org)
768* mkfs.minix: minix v2 fix
769* more.1: improved (Edward Betts)
770* mount.8: corrected description of the nwfs uni_xlate mount option
771* vipw: make temp files of mode 0600 (Bill Nottingham)
772* wall: avoid writing to /dev/:0
773
774util-linux 2.11g
775
776* MCONFIG & configure: fix for gcc 3.0
777 Note that nfsmount_xdr.c may give warnings with gcc 3.0, essentially
778 because of defines in <rpc/xdr.h> that use things like ntohl(*buf++)
779 where ntohl(x) is a macro with several occurrences of x.
780* blockdev: support for the get/set blocksize ioctls
781 [not yet in the 2.4.5 kernel]
782* fdisk: added Linux/PA-RISC type (Matt Taggart)
783* mount: minor fix (Andrey J. Melnikoff)
784* mount: added some ext3 stuff (Andrew Morton)
785* mount: added heuristics for reiserfs (Andrew Morton)
786* mount.8: added ext3 and reiserfs docs (Andrew Morton)
787
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789
9e94f393 790* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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791* fdisk: fix for "reorder" expert command
792 (use of sfdisk afterwards is still recommended)
793* mount: minor fixes
794
795util-linux 2.11e
796
797* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
798* Brazilian Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes)
799* agetty: give tty mode 0600 instead of 0622
800* cal: improved manpage
801* cfdisk: add user-friendliness in case of empty disk (Matthew Wilcox)
802* dmesg: improved manpage
803* fdisk: SuperH fix (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
804* hwclock: accept alpha options in both upper and lower case
805 (so as to make the man page correct)
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806* hwclock: add option --noadjtime (Henrique M. Holschuh)
807* login: child must have controlling tty (Michał Moskal)
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808* more: don't seek unseekable input (David Whedon)
809* mount: upon request by Richard Gooch: if the mount point is specified
810 as symlink, put symlink, not actual mount point in mtab.
811 (This avoids the long and ugly devfs names, but may break things.
812 Please complain in case of problems.)
813* mount: with mount -a -t nfs:
814 if we used fallback to nfs v3, don't do so for subsequent mounts
815* mount: add heuristics for ext3 (Andrew Morton)
816* mount: added quota info to mount.8
817* mount: allow comma-separated type lists, also in fstab
818* raw: small fix for ppc
819
820util-linux 2.11d
821
822* fdisk: fix for OSF (Will Woods)
823* chsh: compilation fix (Ronald Wahl)
824
825util-linux 2.11c
826
9e94f393 827* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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828* German messages (Elrond)
829* Makefile/MCONFIG improvements (Peter Breitenlohner)
830* fdisk: added a few partition types
831* fdisk: correct partition numbering for sgi partitions (Nathan Scott)
832* fdisk: make it compile on hppa by arbitrarily treating hppa like powerpc
833 (Matt Taggart)
834* fsck.minix: improved localisation (Elrond)
835* getopt: updated to version 1.1.2 (Frodo Looijaard)
836* hwclock: fixes for IA64 (Thorsten Kukuk)
837* hwclock: use /dev/vc/1 when devfs is used (Thomas Koeller)
838* hwclock: more devfs support (e.g. /dev/misc/rtc)
839* ipcs: add spaces in output (DeWitt Clinton),
840 correct some error messages (Bobby de Vos)
841* login: fix TIOCNOTTY (Andreas Haumer, Adam J. Richter)
842* login: add btmp logging of unsuccessful login attempts (Erik Troan)
843* login: avoid a SIGHUP race with PAM enabled (Peter 'Luna' Runestig)
844* login: copy the static result returned by gethostbyname to avoid
845 corruption by pam_authenticate via pam_ldap (Andreas Damm)
846* login: removed the REDHAT_IGNORED_MAILSIZE hack
847* login: unconditionally do vhangup
b50945d4 848* login: zero PAM_USER when no username was given (Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz)
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849* look: dictionary now under /usr/share (Erik Troan)
850* mount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
851* mount: another heuristic for vfat (Michal Svec)
852* mount: xfs magic has only one endianness (Nathan Scott)
853* mount: return failure when tcp used and portmap returns 0 (H. J. Lu)
854* rdev: allow unlimited recursion to find the long devfs names
855 Also, allow major,minor pair the specify device (request by Russell Coker)
856* readprofile: array bound check (Andrew Morton)
857* script: transmit window changes to child (Joey Hess)
858* sfdisk: endian fix for ppc (Gregory Geiselhart)
859* sfdisk: new feature: sign is offset from default (Byron Stanoszek)
860* sfdisk: add some default devices to list (Luca Montecchiani)
861* sfdisk: no partition table on ide tape
862* shutdown: close files, unblock signals (Richard Gooch)
863* simpleinit: block signals in handlers; add no_reboot option (Richard Gooch)
864* swapdev: deleted, it was last used with Linux 0.12.
865* umount: mips does support umount2 (Maciej W. Rozycki)
866* umount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
867* umount: fix exit status
868* wall: do not forget 80th character (Thorsten Kukuk)
869
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871
872* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
873* umount: mips does not support umount2 (Christoph Martin)
874* fdisk: tiny fix
875* mount.8: adfs options documented, xfs corrected
876
877util-linux 2.11a:
878
879* tsort: deleted - it is part of GNU textutils 2.0
880* mount: fix rootdev() (Richard Kettlewell)
881* mount: fix gid of mtab file
882* mount: try /proc/filesystems after /etc/filesystems if the latter ends in "*"
883* fdisk: added a few system types
884
885util-linux 2.11:
886
887* Jump to 2.11 to note that libc-4.5.26 is no longer supported,
888 and we require libc-4.6.27 (since now snprintf is used).
889 Also, kbdrate has now been removed. Find it in kbd-1.05.
890 Added -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS.
891* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
892* fdisk: avoid loop in case of extended without logical
893* ipcs: corrected interchanged report on msg_rtime/msg_stime (Arun Kumar U)
894* kill: updated manpage
895* last: very much faster with mmap (Marek Zelem)
896* login: Applied PAM patch by David MacKenzie <djm@web.us.uu.net>
897* login: do a setsid in the child (Erik Troan)
898* mount: make "mount 192.168.1.8:/ /a -o bg" work again (Bjoern Voigt)
899* mount: added constant MS_MOVE
900* readprofile: added -M option, updated manpage (Andrew Morton)
901* setsid: fork when it would fail otherwise (John Fremlin)
902* simpleinit: updated (Richard Gooch et al.)
903* vipw: also offer to edit shadow file (Erik Troan)
904* xfs docs (Nathan Scott)
905
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907
908* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
909* fixes to make gcc happy (Joseph S. Myers)
910* fix for more on parisc (Richard Hirst)
911* change rdev to search subdirectories of /dev (Paul Clements)
912* ul fix (Masao Kawamura) - set columns correctly
913* cal fix (Brendan Kehoe) - don't overflow weekday array in Gaelic
914* fdisk fix (niles@scyld.com) - flush stdout
915* fdisk fix - don't forget to write out empty label
916* login: make default tty mode 0600
917* script: refuse to write typescript if that is a symlink
918* script: accept -V to output version
919* whereis: also search /usr/share/man.
920* hwclock: improve locale handling
921* hwclock: fix for Nautilus (Neoklis Kyriazis)
922* isosize: new
923
924util-linux 2.10r:
925
926* mount: support mount by uuid or label for xfs (Nathan Scott)
927* mount: added probe for minix on bigendian systems (Nathan Scott)
928* mount: added probes for cramfs, hfs, hpfs and adfs (Sepp Wijnands)
929* mount: change setup; let umount remove at most one line from /etc/mtab
930* mount: improve man page
931* more, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ul: nls improvements (Masao Kawamura)
932
933util-linux 2.10q:
934
935* mount: accept nonnumeric uid= and gid= options
936* write and wall: security improvement
937* fixed fdformat flaw (Werner Almesberger)
938* use right mountport upon umount (Glenn Lingle)
939* simpleinit / need / initctl stuff (Richard Gooch)
940* Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes et al.)
941
942util-linux 2.10p:
943
944* mount: don't set up a loop file with -o loop,remount (Marc Mutz)
945* fdisk: changes for sectorsize different from 512
946* more: standout fix (Paul Vojta)
947* more: improve usage message (Lincoln Myers)
948* logger: Added -d option to use datagrams (Gerwin Pfab)
949* cal: Added -3 option to also print prev/next month (Michael Charles Pruznick)
950* French messages (Christophe Merlet)
951* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
952
953util-linux 2.10o:
954
955* fdformat: fixed to work with kernel 2.4.0test6 (Marek Wojtowicz)
956* losetup: also return status when only showing loop device status (ewt)
957* mount: do not retry ro if mount was ro; improve error message
958* login: not installed suid
959* getopt: by default install aux files in /usr/share/misc
960
961util-linux 2.10n:
962
963* added blockdev.8
964* change to elvtune (andrea)
965* fixed overrun in agetty (vii@penguinpowered.com)
966* shutdown: prefer umounting by mount point (rgooch)
967* fdisk: added plan9
968* fdisk: remove empty links in chain of extended partitions
969* mount: define ALWAYS_STAT
970* mount: add replace, after, before, over, bind
971* umount: also free loop device when not writing mtab
972* lomount: try both /dev/loopN and /dev/loop/N
973* hwclock: handle both /dev/rtc and /dev/efirtc (Bill Nottingham)
974* script: added -f (flush) option (Ivan Schreter)
975* script: added -q (quiet) option (Per Andreas Buer)
976* getopt: updated to version 1.1.0 (Frodo Looijaard)
7692c2c8 977* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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980
981* chfn fix when PAM is used (Martin-D. Lacasse)
982* do not use LC_NUMERIC part of locale in hwclock when writing /etc/adjtime
983* mount status return from smb or ncp fix (Mark Peloquin)
984* mount new option -l: also print label when listing mounts
985* mount add heuristic for xfs (Martin K. Petersen)
986* mount UUID and label cache (Erik Troan)
66ee8158 987* mount improve check for `already mounted' in case of label or uuid
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988* fdisk partition names more devfs-friendly
989* fdisk bsdlabel large disk support
990* setterm.1: options documented (Colin Watson)
991* rename correction
992* German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese messages
993 (Roger Luethi, Beth Powell, Alvaro Antunes)
994
995util-linux 2.10l:
996
997* Merged losetup.c and lomount.c
998* ANSIfied everything
999
1000util-linux 2.10k:
1001
1002* NFS version 4 mount support (Trond Myklebust)
1003* hwclock fix (Stefan Ring)
1004* Added -p option to col, as required by SUS (Joseph S. Myers)
1005
1006util-linux 2.10j:
1007
1008* fdisk fixes (Michal Jaegermann)
1009
1010util-linux 2.10i:
1011
1012* new directory partx (with code to play with, not to use)
1013* minor fdisk changes
1014
1015util-linux 2.10h:
1016
1017* Added pivot_root (Werner Almesberger)
1018* Added elvtune (Andrea Arcangeli)
1019* Added need and extended simpleinit and shutdown (Richard Gooch)
1020* Removed all #include <linux/fs.h>
1021* errno fixes (Joseph S. Myers)
1022* IA-64 fixes (Michael K. Johnson)
1023* fdisk fixes for OSF/1 on Alpha (David Huggins-Daines)
1024* fdisk sectorsize fix (Greg Hosler)
1025* mount speed= option to enable mounting bad CDROMs (Marco d'Itri)
1026* ipcrm deletes several things at once (Frank Zago)
1027
1028util-linux 2.10g:
1029
1030* fdisk can now sort partitions into order [untested, beware!]
1031* Update of mkswap for sparc64 (jj)
1032* Update of raw (Stephen Tweedie):
1033 Control file was /dev/raw, now /dev/rawctl
1034 Access files were /dev/raw*, now /dev/raw/raw*
7692c2c8 1035* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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1037* losetup locks memory (Frank v Waveren)
1038
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1040
1041* Security fix for mount (okir)
1042* Avoid infinite loop in namei (Brett Wuth)
1043* added clock-ppc.c (from Matsuura Takanori), not merged yet
1044* deleted clockB subdirectory
1045* recognize mkdosfs string (Michal Svec)
1046
1047util-linux 2.10e:
1048
1049* New: rename
1050* Added option to mkswap so that user can override pagesize
1051* fdisk -l now reads /proc/partitions when no device was given
1052* Fixed fdisk.8 (James Manning)
1053* Added devpts info to mount.8 (Elrond)
1054* Newline fix for logger output to stdout (Henri Spencer)
1055
1056util-linux 2.10d:
1057
1058* Do not try to mount something as udf without good reason
1059* Do not loop in umount if there is a stale lock file
1060* Allow fdisk twice as many cylinders
1061* Fixed non-casefolding search in look (Markus Demleitner)
1062
1063util-linux 2.10c:
1064
1065* Various compilation fixes
1066
1067util-linux 2.10b:
1068
1069* Fixed smbmount problem (Andrew Tridgell)
1070* Fixed ddate problem with the day after St. Tib's Day (Brad)
1071* German messages (Elrond)
1072* Made kill a bit more standard compliant
1073* Made some more programs output a version
1074
1075util-linux 2.10a:
1076
1077* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
1078* French messages and several Debian fixes (Vincent Renardias)
1079* Fixed infinite loop in mkfs.minix
1080
1081util-linux 2.10:
1082
1083* Added BSD disklabel code to rescuept
1084* Added blockdev utility
1085* Fix losetup return code
1086* Fix unit display in cfdisk
1087* Do not redefine _PATH_MAILDIR (so that recent systems can have /var/mail)
1088* Added --localtime option to hwclock;
1089 added third line (LOCAL/UTC) to /etc/adjtime.
1090* Add -H option to agetty (David Holland)
1091
1092util-linux 2.9z:
1093
1094* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
7692c2c8 1095* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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1097* Added ioctl for fdisk on bsdlabels
1098
1099util-linux 2.9y:
1100
1101* Wide character support (Bruno Haible)
1102* German messages and some small fixes (Elrond)
1103* Small fix to owner mount option (Erik Troan)
1104* Don't sleep so long in clock/kd.c (Christian T. Steigies)
1105
1106util-linux 2.9x:
1107
1108* German messages and a i18n fix (Elrond)
1109* mount option: allow the owner to mount a device (RedHat)
1110* ugly: let login open console with O_NONBLOCK (Maciej W. Rozycki)
1111* UGLY: let login ignore mail that is precisely 523 bytes long (RedHat)
1112* added mkfs.bfs, mkfs.bfs.8
1113* mount now recognizes qnx4 and bfs partitions
1114* rescuept now recognizes Unixware partitions
1115* hwclock fix on m68k (Roman Hodek)
1116* several minor things
1117
1118util-linux 2.9w:
1119
1120* Updated mount.8 (Yann Droneaud)
1121* Improved makefiles
1122* Fixed flaw in fdisk
1123
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1125
1126* cfdisk no longer believes the kernel's HDGETGEO
1127 (and may be able to partition a 2 TB disk)
1128
1129util-linux 2.9u:
1130
9e94f393 1131* Czech more.help and messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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1133* fdisk fix (Klaus G. Wagner)
1134* mount fix (Hirokazu Takahashi)
1135* agetty: enable hardware flow control (Thorsten Kranzkowski)
1136* minor cfdisk improvements
1137* fdisk no longer accepts a default device
1138* Makefile fix
1139
1140util-linux 2.9t:
1141
1142* national language support for hwclock
1143* Japanese messages (both by Daisuke Yamashita)
1144* German messages and some misc i18n fixes (Elrond)
9e94f393 1145* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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1146* wall fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
1147* make last and wall use getutent() (Sascha Schumann)
1148 [Maybe this is bad: last reading all of wtmp may be too slow.
1149 Revert in case people complain.]
1150* documented UUID= and LABEL= in fstab.5
1151* added some partition types
1152* swapon: warn only if verbose
1153
1154util-linux 2.9s:
1155
1156* tunelp patch (Andrea Arcangeli)
eb63b9b8 1157* fixed mount race (HJLu)
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1159
1160util-linux 2.9[pqr]:
1161
1162* errno->errsv patch (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
1163* hwclock patch for the Award 4.50g BIOS "2094" bug. (Dave Coffin)
1164* fdisk patch to correct deletion of last logical partition
1165
1166util-linux 2.9o:
1167
1168* fix to login by Ambrose C. Li
1169* improvement to mcookie inspired by a patch from Rik Faith
1170* more i18n by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo; pt_BR locale
1171
1172util-linux 2.9n:
1173
1174* Added -u option to logger (write to user-specified socket; Martin Schultze)
1175* Added mount.smb script contributed by Greg Galperin
1176* Some more national language support
1177* mkfs.minix argument parsing fixed
1178* write fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
1179* configure adapted for the case of <scsi/scsi.h> that needs u_char.
1180
1181util-linux 2.9m:
1182
c07ebfa1 1183* Added national language support (misiek@pld.ORG.PL)
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1185
1186util-linux 2.9l:
1187
1188* Added /dev/port use to hwclock again - it may be necessary for Jensen.
1189
1190util-linux 2.9k:
1191
1192* major reshuffle of hwclock stuff; added sparc and alpha code
eb63b9b8 1193* fdisk fix
7eda085c 1194* tiny shutdown fix
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1196util-linux 2.9j:
1197
1198* added configure
1199* merged three lists of partition types in *fdisk
1200* multi page display in cfdisk
1201* test for getlogin() == "";
1202* start fixup hwclock
1203
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1205
1206* fixed 2.9h typo in more
1207* added -m: `Monday is 1st day' option to cal (Jean-Francois Bignolles)
1208* changed PAM stuff in login.c (+- mjohnson)
1209* added warning to cfdisk in case of multiple bootable partitions
1210* added 2048-byte sector support in fdisk (Oliver Schaertel)
1211
1212util-linux 2.9h:
1213
1214* mount recognizes "uid=useruid" and "gid=usergid" in /etc/fstab.
1215* documented the fact that "mount -t smb" will call /sbin/mount.smb.
1216* mount gives clear error message when fstab does not end in newline.
1217* swapon checks mode of file
1218* cfdisk got a more specific exit status (Enrique Zanardi)
1219
1220util-linux 2.9g:
1221
1222* mount updates (locking, "users" keyword, "/etc/filesystems",
1223 "proto" and "vers" options in nfsmount, ...)
1224
1225util-linux 2.9f:
1226
1227* made ul handle lines of arbitrary length (Scott Maxwell)
1228* killed some C/H/S nonsense in fdisk
1229* fixes for archs with unsigned char type (Ambrose Li)
1230* fdisk fixes for power pc (Tom Rini)
1231* added a define for NCURSES_CONST
1232* fixes for list of signals in kill.c
1233* fixes for user name length in last.c
1234
1235util-linux 2.9e:
1236
1237* added a forgotten declaration to login.c (Christian Oyarzun)
6dbe3af9 1238
5c36a0eb 1239util-linux 2.9d:
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1242* added lnz stuff to fdisk
6dbe3af9 1243
5c36a0eb 1244util-linux 2.9c:
6dbe3af9 1245
5c36a0eb 1246* refixed PAM stuff in login.c that was broken in 2.8.
6dbe3af9 1247
5c36a0eb 1248util-linux 2.9b:
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1251* added a sentence to swapon.8
ee312c65 1252* behavior of write on non-ASCII fixed
5c36a0eb 1253* hwclock adapted to survive a failing mktime()
2b6fc908 1254
5c36a0eb 1255util-linux 2.9a:
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1258* added setlocale() to login-utils/chfn.c
1259* do not recompute MAIL in login-utils/login.c
1260
1261util-linux 2.9:
1262
1263HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.9:
1264
12651) Removed programs:
1266 - strings. There is a version in binutils.
1267 - frag. (Moved to historic in 2.4, crept back in 2.5. Gone again.)
12681a) Not yet removed program:
1269 - setfdprm. It also is in fdutils-5.2 (with an exceptionally
1270 ugly man page).
12711b) Removed directory:
1272 - bsd. (The routine getopt() is in libc. err() moved to lib.)
12732) Improvements:
1274 - ddate has been fixed to count down to the new, right X-day
1275 - look is now willing to search non-English dictionaries
1276 (i.e., uses locale)
1277 - cal now knows that Dutch day abbreviations have length 2 only
1278 - mcookie does not block when no random stuff is available
1279 - shutdown got a configuration file /etc/shutdown.conf
1280 - fdisk now reads SGI disk labels (thanks to Andreas Neuper)
1281 - mkswap now knows about new swap areas; mkswap.8 has been rewritten
1282 - umount knows about umount2() and forced unmounting of nfs mounts
1283 (however, I don't think it really works)
1284 - mount is now willing to handle file names with embedded spaces
1285 - mount can now mount things by UUID or volume name
12863) Uglifications:
1287 - swap.h has been replaced by a private swap_constants.h since
1288 <linux/swap.h> does not compile
1289 - reboot has become a private routine, since libc5 and glibc2 conflict
1290 - a mkminix-0.1 directory contains some patches to let mkfs.minix
1291 work under DOS. (Untested.)
12924) Numerous other small changes.
1293
12940xF) Send questions and/or patches to util-linux@math.uio.no
1295
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1297The address util-linux@math.uio.no reaches Rik, Andries, Peter,
1298Michael, Erik, Nicolai and possibly others. Hwclock stuff is
1299forwarded to Bryan.
1300
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1304
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13051) New programs:
1306 - getopt(1) by Frodo Looijaard replaces the older bsd based version.
1307 Keywords: Backward compatible, supports --long options.
13081) Removed programs:
1309 - chroot: is no longer in util-linux. Get it free with GNU sh-utils
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1310 - hostid: No-one could figure out the right way for this program to
1311 work. Another hostid program is included in poeigl
1312 (see the LSM, Primary-site: ftp.daimi.aau.dk /pub/linux/poe)
13132) Various portability enhancements. Among other things hwclock now works
1314 a lot better on non Intel architectures. Should compile with libc 4, 5
1315 and 6 as well as old and recent kernels. People using non-intel hardware
1316 are encouraged to send patches.
13173) rev now only limits linelength to memory capacity
13184) dmesg now uses a buffer that matches the kernel buffer in size (8KB)
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1320
1321util-linux 2.7:
1322
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1324
13251) util-linux now _requires_ ncurses. Several programs are completely
1326 converted to use terminfo (instead of termcap).
1327
13282) Removed progams:
5c36a0eb 1329 - clock: Dropped entirely. Use hwclock (included).
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1330 - sync: is in gnu fileutils.
1331 - setserial: Is being maintained by Ted Ts'o, he recommends
1332 setserial-2.12 (2.13 is bad luck)
1333 - clear: Included in ncurses
1334 - hostname, domainname, dnsdomainname: It's in net-utils.
5c36a0eb 1335 - lpcntl.
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13373) Bugfixes, additions:
1338 - cfdisk: A much improved version. All known bugs have been fixed.
1339 - sfdisk: A command line fdisk type utility, formerly called fdisk-3.04.
1340 - SECURITY: All known holes in login, chfn, chsh and others have been
1341 plugged. UPGRADE NOW if you haven't already fixed them yourself.
1342 - Should work with libc 4, 5 and 6 (gnulibc), on m68k, intel, alpha
1343 and sparc.
1344
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1346 - The rpcgen that comes in NetKit-B-0.09 is broken. At least as
1347 packaged with RedHat 4.2 (NetKit-B-0.09-6). There are several
1348 ways to deal with this:
1349 - Don't run rpcgen, the needed pre-generated sources are included
1350 (nfsmount_xdr.c). You must hack mount/Makefile to do this.
5c36a0eb 1351 - Edit the source emitted by rpcgen so it can compile. This is very
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1352 simple if you know C.
1353 - Disable the NFS parts of mount. You have to edit mount/Makefile
1354 to do this.
5c36a0eb 1355 - Use some other rpcgen.
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1357util-linux 2.6.1
1358
1359This release was never made public
1360
1361See notes for 2.6 for installation instructions.
1362
1363This is a incremental release containing some fixes. A new release
1364will be made later fixing the outstanding bugs.
1365- Things compiles and works better with recent releases of kernel,
1366 ncurses, and so forth: fdisk, more
1367- Some fixes to make things compile out of the box on alphas.
1368- There has been reported a problem with login and /etc/usertty. It
1369 should be fixed. If you still have problems get a recent MAKEDEV and
1370 use it to make new tty devices. They were renumbered sometime during
1371 the 1.3 phase of the kernel.
1372- ipcs now displays the key of the structures.
1373- A (harmless?) overflow bug was fixed in login.
1374
1375Outstanding bugs:
1376- login/getty has a denial of service problem.
1377- Several places needs a bit more polish.
1378- There are a _lot_ of nonfatal warnings when compiling mount. This will
80d7a313 1379 not necessarily be fixed.
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1381
1382util-linux 2.6
1383
1384HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.6:
1385
13860) The first release with me at the helm. PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND
1387 UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no.
1388
13891) Removed programs:
5c36a0eb 1390 - md5sum, dsplit: available in GNU textutils.
7007991f 1391 - syslogd: Sysklogd is now preferred. It is available at
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1392 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/sources/sbin
1393 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons
1394
13952) Bugfixes, additions:
1396 - SECURITY: All known holes in mount have been fixed. UPGRADE NOW
1397 if you haven't already!
1398 - Portability enhancments to the minix filesystem utils (m68k and
1399 Arm patches).
1400 - passwd/chsh/chfn will not mess up the passwd file on a NIS machine
1401 - others too numerous to enumerate.
1402
14033) New programs:
1404 - vigr (it's like vipw)
1405 - Introducing hwclock. A complete rewrite of the latest available
1406 clock source. It supports intel/CMOS, /dev/rtc and linux/m68k
1407 system clock interfaces. Clock supports the same things but is now
1408 obsolete and will not be present in the next release. Start using
1409 hwclock now. Please.
1410
1411
1412util-linux 2.5
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1414HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.5:
14150) Nicolai Langfeldt is taking over maintenance of util-linux, with the
1416 help of a few others (Michael K. Johnson, Andries Brouwer, and Rik
1417 Faith).
1418
1419 PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no
1420
14211) The following packages have been removed. Please use the up-to-date,
1422 canonical versions of these packages from the listed places:
1423
1424 timezone support (/usr/lib/zoneinfo, libz.a, zic, zdump):
1425 elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzcode95d.tar.gz
1426 elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzdata95h.tar.gz
1427 MAKEDEV-C:
1428 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-C-1.5.tar.gz
1429 MAKEDEV:
1430 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-2.2.tar.gz
1431 md5sum:
1432 prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils-1.3.tar.gz
1433 [The GNU version is now compatible with the Plumb/Lankester
1434 version.]
1435 ksymoops:
1436 Now bundled with the kernel in linux/scripts.
1437
14382) update_state has been removed
14393) fdisk now supports NetBSD disklabels courtesy of Bernhard Fastenrath
1440 <fasten@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de> (and > 8GB disks, courtesy of
1441 Andries Brouwer)
14424) mount improved -- many patches from Andries Brouwer for greatly improved
1443 error reporting
14445) ddate, chkdupexe, and other programs have been improved and bug fixed
14456) util-linux is now a source-only distribution
14467) mcookie generates better random numbers and will use /dev/random or
1447 /dev/audio if available
14488) chfn, chsh, passwd, and vipw have been updated with security patches
1449 from Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>. Now, they all use the same
1450 locking, and several security holes have been patched. Further, chsh
1451 and chfn can be configured at compile time to require a password before
1452 updates and chsh can be configured to only use shells from /etc/shells.
1453
1454
1455HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.4 (2.3 was never released):
14560) Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net> is the interim maintainer
1457 while Rik Faith is working on PhD work.
14581) login now makes the login tty mode 600 and places it in group "tty"
14592) wall, and write will not write dangerous escape sequences
14603) wall and write can be run setgid "tty". If util-linux is compiled for
1461 this option, "mesg y" will only set group write instead of group/other
1462 write.
14634) fdisk and cfdisk have been patched with the latest llseek.c. Although I
1464 had a lot of bug reports about fdisk from util-linux-2.2, I was unable
1465 to reproduce any of the problems. Some of the problems appeared to be
1466 releated to a failure to reboot the machine after changing the partition
1467 table, and some may have been due to a specific kernel revision problem.
1468 However, this doesn't seem to account for all of the bug reports -- if
1469 this version gives you problem, please send as complete a bug report as
1470 possible.
14715) chkdupexe from Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
14726) ctrlaltdel now installs into /sbin instead of /usr/sbin
14737) mkfs replacement from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
14748) lpcntl removed. Use tunelp instead.
14759) ksymoops from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
147610) mkfs.minix now clears the first 512 bytes of the file system so that
1477 Minix disks won't be confused with MSDOS disks (Daniel Quinlan
1478 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com))
147911) mkswap should now work on an Alpha running Linux
148012) frag removed. See
1481 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/defrag-0.6.tar.gz for the
1482 latest version.
148313) mount patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1484 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
148514) MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV-C updated to the latest versions.
148615) Paths updated for FSSTND 1.2. This means that you may need to make
1487 some links. The links you need to make we system dependent. The
1488 ultimate goal is to rename /var/adm to /var/log and have a symbolic
1489 link from /var/adm to /var/log during the transition period. If you
1490 are running an ELF system, you probably won't have to do anything. The
1491 bottom line is that the following files must exist or be pointers to
1492 the old version (used internally by the a.out libraries):
1493
1494 New Old
1495
1496 /var/log/wtmp /var/adm/wtmp
1497 /var/log/lastlog /var/adm/lastlog
1498 /var/run/utmp /var/adm/utmp
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1499
1500HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.2:
15011) This is primarily a quick bug-fix release for version 2.1
15022) mkfs wrapper added back in, since e2fsprogs only supplies an fsck wrapper
15033) selection removed, since someone appears to be maintaining it now. See
1504 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/patches/console for recent sources.
1505 For the time being, I'm keeping a copy in the historic subdirectory of
1506 util-linux. A "make install" should work find from within that
1507 directory.
15084) Note that other floppy utilities are available from:
1509 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1510 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1511 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1512
1513
1514HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.1:
1515
15161) Directory structure rearrange, with configuration support for those who
1517 use shadow passwords and System V init (no support is provided for these
1518 things, but your utilities won't get overwritten if you do a "make
1519 install" after you properly edit MCONFIG).
15202) fdisk and cfdisk should work as expected with 2GB+ disk drives
15213) As usual, lots of stuff was updated and added, including mount, vipw,
1522 readprofile
15234) Some stuff was also deleted, and can now be found elsewhere:
1524 fsck wrapper: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/ext2fs/e2fsprogs*
1525 pwd, su: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sh-utils*
1526 ed: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ed*
1527 od: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils*
1528 uudecode/uuencode: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sharutils*
1529 bdflush/update: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v1.1/bdflush*
1530
1531
1532
1533PARTIAL HISTORY OF UTIL-LINUX:
1534
1535bsd:
1536 Nothing in this directory gets installed, but some BSD programs need
1537 this support:
1538 err.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
1539 err.h: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/2/93
1540 getopt.c: 4.13 (Berkeley) 2/23/91
1541 pathnames.h: 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/9/89 with extensive modifications for
1542 Linux
1543
1544disk-utils:
1545 cfdisk: 0.8 BETA (>2GB) from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu) with
1546 modifications for disks > 2GB.
1547 ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/users/martin/linux/cfdisk-0.8.tar.gz
1548 fdformat: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), with
1549 modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)).
1550 Later, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner.
1551 fdisk: A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk) fdisk 1.5 release, with
1552 patched from Kevin Martin for DOS and OS/2 compatibility (1.5a);
1553 Rik Faith (1.5b, 2.0).
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1554 fsck.minix, mkfs.minix: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by: Rik
1555 Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner
1556 (sdh@po.cwru.edu), Dr. Wettstein
1557 (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu), Daniel
1558 Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
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1559 mkfs: David Engel (david@ods.com) and Fred N. van Kempen
1560 (waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG)
1561 Version 1.9 from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
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1562 mkswap: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by Mike Jagdis
1563 (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk. )
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1564 Version for Alpha from
1565 cage.cs.arizona.edu:/pub/davidm/linux/mkswap-axp-950503.tar.gz
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1566 setfdprm: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
1567 Note that more floppy utilities are available from:
1568 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1569 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1570 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
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1571 llseek.c: from Remy Card's e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz (21Mar95 version) from:
1572 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
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1573
1574games:
1575 banner: (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94)
726f69e2 1576 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
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1577
1578login-utils:
1579 agetty: W. Z. Venema, ported by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>.
726f69e2 1580 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
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1581 chfn: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1582 chsh: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1583 last: 5.11 w/year (Berkeley) 6/29/88; Port by Michael Haardt with
1584 changes by Peter Orbaek.
726f69e2 1585 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
6dbe3af9 1586 login: 5.40 (Berkeley) 5/9/89; with ports by Michael Glad and Peter Orbaek
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1587 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1588 mesg: 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/21/94
1589 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
6dbe3af9 1590 newgrp: Michael Haardt, with modifications by Peter Orbaek.
726f69e2 1591 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
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1592 passwd: Peter Orbaek, with yp modifications by Alvaro Martinez
1593 Echevarria (alvaro@enano.etsit.upm.es)
726f69e2 1594 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
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1595 shutdown: Peter Orbaek, with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie, Rik
1596 Faith, and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com).
726f69e2 1597 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
6dbe3af9 1598 simpleinit: Peter Orbaek
726f69e2 1599 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
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1600 vipw: 5.16 (Berkeley) 3/3/91, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1601 <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
726f69e2 1602 wall: 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93 (With changes so that damaging escape
5c36a0eb 1603 sequences cannot be sent.)
726f69e2 1604 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
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1605
1606
1607misc-utils:
1608 cal: 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/2/94, with modifications by Rik Faith and
1609 Hein@student.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein).
1610 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
726f69e2 1611 chkdupexe: Version 1.2 from "Nicolai Langfeldt" <janl@ifi.uio.no>
6dbe3af9 1612 clear: Rik Faith
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1613 ddate: Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson aka mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
1614 with modifications by Lee Harvey Oswald Smith, K.S.C. and
1615 substantial updates from Rev. Bro. Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP
6dbe3af9 1616 domainname: Peter Orbaek
726f69e2 1617 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
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1618 dsplit: David Arnstein (arnstein@netcom.com)
1619 gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume40/dsplit
1620 getopt (getoptprog): jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu:
1621 /pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt
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1622 replaced by getopt-1.0.3.tar.gz from Frodo Looijaard,
1623 found at http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol
6dbe3af9 1624 hostid: Mitch DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
726f69e2 1625 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
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1626 hostname/dnsdomainname: Peter Tobias <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
1627 This version (1.6) should also be available soon in:
1628 nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/net-source/base/NetKit-A*
1629 kill: BSD version, modified by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
1630 logger: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1631 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1632 look.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1633 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1634 mcookie: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1635 md5sum: Branki Lankester and Colin Plumb. The MD5 message-digest
1636 algorithm is in the Public Domain. This implementation
1637 calculates message-digest information only, and can NOT be used
1638 for encryption. Therefore it is exportable from the USA.
1639 Original sources in the MIT version of PGP 2.6.2.
1640 namei: Roger S. Southwick, with modifications by Steve Tell.
1641 reset: Rik Faith
1642 script: 5.13 (Berkeley) 3/5/91, with modifications by Rick Sladkey
1643 (jrs@world.std.com), Harald Koenig
1644 (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de).
1645 setterm: Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au), with modifications by
1646 Peter MacDonald, Mika Liljeberg (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI),
1647 John Walder (j-walder@uiuc.edu) [for dosemu].
1648 tsort: 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1649 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1650 whereis: 5.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/91
1651 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
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1652 write: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1653 (kashmir@umiacs.umd.edu). With changes so that damaging escape
1654 sequences cannot be sent.
1655 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1656
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1657
1658mount:
1659 mount, umount, swapon
1660
1661 Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen
1662 Tweedie provided updates. The utilities were originally from that
1663 package (all appear to be by Doug Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu),
1664 with modifications by H. J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) on 11/25/92; Rick
1665 Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) in January 1993; and Stephen Tweedie
1666 <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> on 8 October 1993. This distribution mount now
1667 supports NFS stuff. I have modified the man pages. I have also added
1668 a small patch from Hamish Glen Coleman (t933093@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
1669 which restores the -o semantics.
1670
1671 Updated with Rick Sladkey's mount-0.99.14.tar.gz package, and with
1672 extra patches from Rick. Adam J. Richter allowed -t option to be
1673 optional. Patrick J. Volkerding (volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) and
1674 Mitchum DSouza both provided patches that fixed the (null) problem when
1675 not using -t. Mitchum DSouza
1676 (mitch@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk) added support for loop
1677 device mounts. Sebastian Lederer
1678 (lederer@next-pc.informatik.uni-bonn.de) added support for sending an
1679 unmount RPC call to the server when an NFS-filesystem is unmounted.
1680 Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) added support for remounting
1681 readonly file systems readonly. Mike Grupenhoff
1682 <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU> added a probe of the superblock for the type
1683 before /proc/filesystems is checked. Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl fixed up
1684 error reporting.
1685
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1686 Updated with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1687 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com). And more patches from Andries and others.
1688
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1689historic/selection: The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett
1690 <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>, 17th June 1993, is included in the historic tree.
1691 Kernel patches are no longer necessary for modern kernels, but these
1692 were tiny so I left them in for historical reasons. The Makefile was
1693 modified for this distribution. With changes from Rick Sladkey.
1694
1695sys-utils:
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1696 arch: Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
1697 chroot: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1698 clock: Originally from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package, Charles Hedrick,
1699 hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu (V1.0); Rob Hooft, hooft@chem.ruu.nl
1700 (V1.1); Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
1701 (V1.2). With additional changes: Hamish Coleman
1702 (hamish@zot.apana.org.au) (V1.2a); Alan Modra
1703 (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (V1.3, V1.4).
1704 ctrlaltdel: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
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1705 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1706 cytune: Nick Simicish (njs@scifi.emi.net) and Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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1707 dmesg: Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu); Rick Sladkey
1708 (jrs@world.std.com)
1709 ipcrm: From the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1710 balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93. ipc.info and ipc.texi
1711 are also from that distribution.
1712 ipcs: Also from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1713 balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu, with patches from Mike Jagdis
1714 (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk)
1715 kbdrate: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), with patches from
1716 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and John Bowman
1717 (bowman@hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
726f69e2 1718 ksymoops: 1.7 from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
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1719 rdev: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger), with
1720 modifications from Peter MacDonald, Stephen Tweedie
1721 (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk), and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com)
5c36a0eb 1722 readprofile: Alessandro Rubini from readprofile-2.0.tar.gz
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1723 renice: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
1724 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1725 setserial: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) re-released Rick
1726 Sladkey's setserial in January 1993, with changes by
1727 Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu). I think that Theodore also
1728 did extensive changes for version 2.01, I can't find any
1729 notes about this in the documentation. However, Theodore
1730 Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) released version 2.10, and that
1731 is now included.
1732 setsid: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1733 sln: Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc)
1734 sync: Nick Holloway, with thanks to James Bonfield
1735 tunelp: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net)
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1737
1738syslogd:
1739 5.45 (Berkeley) 3/2/91
1740
1741 Most of the changes for syslogd come from Rick Sladkey
1742 (jrs@world.std.com), but I'd like to thank other people who sent in
1743 changes (which usually got forwarded to Rick): Carsten Paeth
1744 (calle@calle.in-berlin.de) and Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp).
1745
1746text-utils:
1747 col: 5.3 (Berkeley) 2/2/91; with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
1748 and Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com)
1749 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1750 colcrt: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 (Bill Joy)
1751 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1752 colrm: 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/90 (Jeff Schriebman)
1753 column: 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
1754 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1755 hexdump: 5.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1756 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1757 more: 5.19 (Berkeley) 6/29/88 (Eric Shienbrood, Geoff Peck, John Foderaro)
1758 rev: 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/92; with modifications by Charles Hannum
1759 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu), Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu),
1760 bjdouma@xs4all.nl
1761 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1762 strings: 5.10 (Berkeley) 5/23/91; with patches from Vitor Duarte
1763 <vad@fct.unl.pt>
1764 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1765 ul: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
1766 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1767