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E2fsprogs 1.17 (October 26, 1999)
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Fixed nasty typo in fsck which caused parallelized fsck's to go into an
infinite loop.

Fixed a bug in fsck where it used strncmp to compare a binary UUID,
thus potentially causing problems if a binary UUID contained a NULL
character.

E2fsck now uses stricter checks for directory entries in pass 2:
zero-length filenames are not allowed; neither are 8 byte long
directory entries.

The debugfs "dirty" command now clears the filesystem valid bit.
(Previously this just set the dirty-as-in-needs-writing-out-to-disk
bit in the in-core superblock image.  The new functionality is more
what the user expects, and is more useful.)

Added a debugging hook to test parallel fsck; if the environment
variable FSCK_FORCE_ALL_PARALLEL, then filesystems on the same drive
will be checked in parallel when they normally would not be.

Programmer's notes:
-------------------

Fixed some #ifdef's for compilation under the Hurd OS.

Fixed minor W2K compatibility problems.

Fixed some miscellaneous GCC warnings.
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60bf373e TT	1	E2fsprogs 1.17 (October 26, 1999)
	2	=================================
	3
	4	Fixed nasty typo in fsck which caused parallelized fsck's to go into an
	5	infinite loop.
	6
	7	Fixed a bug in fsck where it used strncmp to compare a binary UUID,
	8	thus potentially causing problems if a binary UUID contained a NULL
	9	character.
	10
	11	E2fsck now uses stricter checks for directory entries in pass 2:
	12	zero-length filenames are not allowed; neither are 8 byte long
	13	directory entries.
	14
	15	The debugfs "dirty" command now clears the filesystem valid bit.
	16	(Previously this just set the dirty-as-in-needs-writing-out-to-disk
	17	bit in the in-core superblock image. The new functionality is more
	18	what the user expects, and is more useful.)
	19
	20	Added a debugging hook to test parallel fsck; if the environment
	21	variable FSCK_FORCE_ALL_PARALLEL, then filesystems on the same drive
	22	will be checked in parallel when they normally would not be.
	23
	24	Programmer's notes:
	25	-------------------
	26
	27	Fixed some #ifdef's for compilation under the Hurd OS.
	28
	29	Fixed minor W2K compatibility problems.
	30
	31	Fixed some miscellaneous GCC warnings.
	32