3 * {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: updated to cramfs-1.1
4 * {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: removed PAGE_CACHE_SIZE usage
5 * umount: fix "umount -n -r" (Derick Swanepoel)
6 * misc build system and code cleanups and fixes
7 * updated translation: ca
11 * don't build fdisk on m68k (Mike Frysinger)
12 * misc build system and documentation fixes
13 * removed program: clear
17 * misc buld system fixes
18 * cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
19 * umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
20 * updated translations: da, fr, it, nl, ru, sl, tr
24 * flock: replaced with flock-2.0.2 by H. Peter Anvin
25 * misc build system fixes, libtool is no longer used
27 * updated translations: ca, fi, fr, nl, ru, tr
31 * use GNU autoconf/automake/libtool for building
33 * removed support for curses implementations other than ncurses
34 * removed programs: arch, passwd, rescuept, setfdprm, sln
35 * removed mkminix-0.1/
36 * misc fixes and documentation updates
38 * updated translations: ca, de, fi, fr, it, nl, ru, tr
42 * updated translation: nl
46 * sfdisk: document -G option in --help output
47 * updated translations: ca, et, fr
52 * sfdisk: add -G option (Andries Brouwer)
53 * updated translations: de, es, ru, sv, tr
57 * cfdisk: fix number of new partition when partitions not in disk order
58 * fdisk: fix Sun label handling in sector mode
59 * mkfs: never truncate filename (not that that ever happened)
60 * more: fix redraw flaw
64 * lomount: revert patch from 2.12j
65 * lptune.8: -T option is obsolete
66 * mkswap, mkswap.8, swapon: support labels
67 (use HAVE_BLKID=no as long as the blkid library doesnt support this)
68 * umount: allow user unmounting repeatedly mounted nfs mounts
72 * cfdisk: recognize JFS, support reiserfs labels (flavio.stanchina@tin.it)
73 * mount: fix option parsing bug
74 * mount.8: several updates
75 * swapon.8: document -v option
79 * Makefile: remove cat-id-tbl.c upon make clean
80 * fdisk: fixed a bug that would cause a non-update of a sun disklabel
81 * fdisk: use sectorsize instead of 512 for SGI (Eric Y. Theriault)
82 * fdisk: use __attribute__((packed)) for alpha, ARM: avoid unaligned accesses
83 * hwclock: actually use HAVE_tm_gmtoff
84 * swapon: fix priority handling
85 * umount: refuse to unmount an empty string
89 * cfdisk: fixed a signed character bug causing problems for Spanish users
90 * configure, MCONFIG: detect gcc 3.4.0 and use -mtune option (Matthew Burgess)
91 * configure: do not run ./conftest (for cross compilation) (NIIBE Yutaka)
92 * fsck.cramfs: try to get correct PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
93 * losetup: try to give better error messages
94 * readprofile: default map file is /boot/System.map
95 * rdev.8: added historical info on ramdisk
96 * New French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish messages
100 * cal: highlight today (Pádraig Brady)
101 * lomount: stop reading passwd at NUL, fix lo_encrypt key_size (Wolfram Kleff)
102 * losetup: add -f option to find an unused loop device
103 (Alexander Wigen, Remco van Mook)
104 * more: code cleanup (Joachim Henke)
105 * mount: add "group" mount option (Martin Dickopp)
106 * sfdisk: fix 2.6.8 BLKRRPART ioctl damage (Eric Lammerts)
107 * swapon: let swapon -a skip the swapfiles marked "noauto" (Dale R. Worley)
108 * umount: fix problem with empty mtab (Bryan Kadzban)
109 * umount: use special umount program if it exists (Ram Pai)
110 * New Danish and French messages
114 * MCONFIG: fix build conditions
115 * chfn, chsh: add error checking
116 * cytune: use local header cyclades.h
117 * fdisk: fix default SGI volume header size (Eric Sandeen)
118 * fstab.c: use strsignal() instead of sys_siglist[]
119 * hwclock: use <sys/io.h> when available on i386
120 * hwclock: dont try KDGHWCLK on archs other than __m68k__
121 * sfdisk: correct typo in __attribute__used nonsense
122 * sfdisk: use PACKED on __arm__ (Jeroen Dobbelaere)
123 * sfdisk: fix warning printout
125 util-linux 2.12e,f,g,h
127 * cfdisk: avoid crash if no partition table
128 * elvtune: tell user that this only works on 2.4 kernels
129 * lomount: clear passwords after use
130 * mount: accept comments (introduced by \;) in fstab - withdrawn again
131 * mount: accept comments (specified by comment=) in fstab
132 * mount: support ocfs, ocfs2
133 * [u]mount: be more careful with malloc, try to avoid OOM with many mounts
134 * sfdisk: __attribute__used nonsense to support gcc 3.4
135 * shutdown: do not unmount various virtual filesystems
139 * mount.8: added recent ext2 mount options
140 * mount: support jfs mount-by-label, improve reiserfs support
141 * sfdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
142 * *fdisk: use common disksize() routine
146 * chsh: improved error message
147 * dmesg: ask kernel proper buffer size
148 * losetup: handle 64-bit offsets
149 * blockdev: also report BLKGETSIZE64 result
150 * blockdev, elvtune, fdisk: handle new kernel _IOR,_IOW defines
151 * fdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
152 * fdisk: also list Solaris as possible type for 0x82
153 * mount: added --rbind option
154 * mount: use blkid, uuid libraries when available
155 * mount: support reiserfs mount by label
156 * mount: attempt to use the right definition of dev_t in struct loopinfo
157 * mount.8: jfs mount options added
158 * readprofile: new -s option
159 * rename.1: added ref to mmv.1
160 * replay: renamed to scriptreplay; correct typos
161 * script: do not use locale for time delay floating point number format
162 * sfdisk: error messages to stderr
163 * New Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
168 * chfn, chsh, login, vipw: SElinux support
169 * fdisk: fix for kernels 2.4.15-2.4.17
170 * fdisk: fix when all partitions are in use
171 * hwclock: add a timeout when waiting for a clock update (Göran Weinholt)
172 * ipcs: compilation fix
173 * ipcs: shminfo.shmall gives pages
174 * login: use getutline() instead of getutid()
175 * login: fix for 64-bit time_t
177 * partx: bigendian fix
178 * readprofile: support for 64-bit addresses
179 * setterm: fix klogctl error message (Joern Heissler)
180 * setterm.1: clarification
181 * sfdisk: fix check for is_ide_cdrom_or_tape
182 * umount: skip proc, devfs, devpts on umount -a
186 * losetup: cryptoloop support
187 * losetup: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
188 * fdisk: sgi layout fix
189 * mount: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
190 * mount: recognize some PCDOS floppies
191 * umount: in "umount name", first try to interpret "name" as a mount point
195 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Perez)
196 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
197 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
198 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
199 * French messages (Michel Robitaille)
200 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
201 * Slovenian messages (Primoz Peterlin)
202 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
203 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
204 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
205 * cfdisk: localize the Y/N answer, improve printing localized messages
206 * cfdisk: make various variables long long - some disks are close to 2 TB
207 * cfdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
208 * fdisk: make various variables unsigned to lengthen the life of 32-bit vars
209 * fdisk: some sgi fixes (Phillip Kesling)
210 * fdisk: k=1000, K=1024
211 * fdisk: removed last occurrences of HDIO_REQ
212 * fdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
213 * hwclock: fix rtc test (Heiko Zuerker)
214 * login: set a timeout on printing the timeout message (Robert Ambrose)
215 * md5: x86_64 fix (mmj)
217 * mount: do not supply MS_MGC_VAL when there are conflicting flags
218 * mount: ncp and smb are called smbfs and ncpfs - global change
219 * mount: add support for xvm mount by label (Eric Sandeen)
220 * mount: correct hfs magic recognition
221 * mount: keep original umask - it influences the mount call (mmj)
222 * raw.8: documented unbinding of raw devices
223 * readprofile: fixed off-by eight error (Werner Almesberger)
224 * script: add -c option (Wayne Davison)
225 * sfdisk.8: added an example of partitioning with logical partitions
226 * sfdisk: only add a AA55 signature for DOS-type partition tables
227 * tailf: new (Rik Faith)
231 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Perez)
232 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
233 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
234 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
235 * French messages (Michel Robitaille) - HURRAY!
236 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
237 * Slovenian messages (Primoz Peterlin)
238 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
239 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
240 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
241 * getopt: replaced getopt-1.1.2 by getopt-1.1.3 (Frodo Looijaard)
242 * mkcramfs: change default blocksize for ia64 and alpha
243 * more.help: removed (it is built-in now, and translated)
244 * mount: add -i option (inhibit calling external mount programs)
245 * mount: change default: do resolve symlinks
246 * readprofile: look for System.map also in /boot/System.map-`uname -r` (mmj)
247 * sfdisk: also translate "start" and "end"; s/MB/MiB/
251 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
252 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
253 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
254 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
255 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
256 * cfdisk: improve escape seq recognition when compiled with slang
257 * fdisk: decimal units
258 * hwclock/rtc.c: minor cleanup (Joachim Henke)
259 * ipcs: compilation fix
260 * more: kill external help file (Joachim Henke)
261 * mount: fix LABEL= handling for user umount
262 * mount: don't abort on read error on photocds (Gyorgy Kovesdi)
263 * mount.8: add dmask and fmask vfat mount options
264 * pg: compilation fix (Joachim Henke)
265 * script: localized time strings (Goeran Uddeborg)
266 * setterm: accept devfs name (Joachim Henke)
267 * simpleinit: security: refuse initctl_fd if setting FD_CLOEXEC fails
268 * umount: allow user umount after mount by label or uuid
272 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
273 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
274 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
275 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
276 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
277 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
278 * cfdisk: correct error printout
279 * fdisk: allow addition of a new partition when logicals all used
281 * hwclock: detect systime jumps backward during setting hwclock
282 * mkfs.cramfs: do not mmap all files simultaneously
283 * mkfs.cramfs: make blocksize settable
284 * mkfs.minix: correct error printout
285 * mkswap.8: now max 32 swapspaces
286 * mount: new --rbind flag, for recursive loopback mounts
287 * mount, umount: new -O option (Michael K. Johnson)
288 * mount.8: -O and win95 options documented
289 * setpwnam.c: open temp pw file with O_EXCL
290 * simpleinit: fix for "spawn too fast" (Denis Vlasenko)
291 * swapon: new -e option (Erik Troan)
295 * cfdisk, fdisk: allow slightly larger disk sizes
296 * fdisk: Makefile: also for m68 (sun3) (Kaj-Michael Lang)
297 * fdisk: allow to use the last partial cylinder, change display format
298 * fdisk: do not ask partition number in case there is only one choice
299 * fdisk: new sunlabel fix
300 * login: fix possible local root exploit (Wojciech Purczynski)
301 * more: bigendian fix
305 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Perez)
306 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
307 * Very few Russian messages (panivan@yandex.ru)
308 * Slovenian messages (Primoz Peterlin)
309 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
310 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
311 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
312 * fdisk: add -C, -H, -S command line options
313 * fdisk: allow changing type 0
314 * mkswap: enable use of > 2GB swapspace
315 * more: translation fix
316 * mount: set umask (Sebastian Krahmer)
317 * mount: test both le and be version of cramfs magic (Olaf Hering)
318 * mount: recognize Oracle magic
319 * pg: use fseeko64 and ftello64 when available
323 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
324 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
325 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
326 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
327 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
328 * configure: for fsck.cramfs, mkfs.cramfs: add test for libz
329 * text-utils/Makefile: pg fix (Toomas Rosin)
330 * po/Makefile: typo fix (Silvan Minghetti)
331 * agetty: use same test as login does to find utmp entry
332 * fdisk: fix for fdisk on empty disk (Michael D. Black)
333 * hwclock: compilation fix on alpha
334 * mount: add mount by label for jfs (Christoph Hellwig)
335 * mount: add mount by label for evms (Luciano Chavez)
336 * mount: allow regular files when guessing (Michal Svec)
337 * partx/gpt.c: fix size computation (Matt Domsch)
338 * readprofile: new option -b (David Mosberger)
339 * umount: don't umount devfs upon umount -a (David Gilbert)
343 * fdformat: remove test on major
344 * fsck.cramfs: added NLS
345 * fdisk: fix device names with sundisklabels under devfs (Kaj-Michael Lang)
346 * fdisk: minor polishing
347 * hwclock: also handle ENOTTY ioctl return (Maciej W. Rozycki)
348 * hwclock: minor polishing
349 * ipcrm.8: minor polishing
350 * mkfs.cramfs: added NLS
351 * mkfs.cramfs: added -v (verbose) option, and made default silent
352 * mount: patch for make -j (RedHat)
353 * swapoff: minor polishing
357 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
358 * French messages: some minor corrections
359 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
360 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
361 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
362 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
363 * MCONFIG: allow "make DISABLE_NLS=yes <target>" (Peter Breitenlohner)
364 * configure: don't run ./conftest - better for cross-compilation (Magnus Damm)
365 * fdisk: fixes for disks with OSF/1 label
366 * fsck.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
367 * hwclock: improved adjtime handling (James P. Rutledge)
368 * hwclock: remove shhopts stuff
369 * ipcs: remove unused heading (Michael Kerrisk)
370 * line: replace by C version - the sh version was broken (Gunnar Ritter)
371 * login: default root path: added /usr/local/[s]bin (RedHat)
372 * mkfs.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
373 * mount: when no type is known, assume that prefix // implies samba (RedHat)
374 * mount -a: avoid stat on devices that have noauto option (Jeroen Mostert)
375 * mount by label: ignore RAID partitions (RedHat)
376 * [u]mount: fstab.c fix (ejb@ql.org)
377 * pg: new (Gunnar Ritter)
378 * sfdisk: small BSD partition fix
379 * swapoff -a: also do swapoff on all files found in /proc/swaps
380 * swapon -a: skip files already found in /proc/swaps
384 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
385 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
386 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
387 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
388 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
389 * MCONFIG: move $(CFLAGS) to the end to allow overrides (Kevin P. Fleming)
390 * cal: tiny fix (Mitsuru Chinen)
391 * fdisk: avoid <linux/hdreg.h>
392 * fdisk: x86_64 patch (Mads Martin Jørgensen)
393 * hwclock.8: zoneinfo is now in /usr/share
394 * mkswap: report in KiB instead of bytes.
398 * fdisk: geometry improvement
399 * login: open tty fix (Denis Vlasenko)
400 * more: wide character patches (Mitsuru Chinen)
401 * mount: complain on mount-by-label when label is not unique (Matt Copping)
402 * partx: add GUID Partition Tables (Matt Domsch)
406 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
407 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
408 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
409 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
410 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
411 * ipcrm: make POSIX compatible (Andre Corwin Mazzone)
413 * kill: fixed Makefile
414 * login: setsid fixes
415 * mkswap: max size of swap space is very large (Peter Chubb)
416 * mount: JFS support for mount-by-label (hch)
417 * nfsmount: check for <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h> (hch)
418 * readprofile: keep track of line numbers (John Levon)
419 * umount: fix for MNT_DETACH
423 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
424 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
425 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
426 * cal: option -s: Sunday is first day of the week
428 * cfdisk: give not only bytes but also MB or GB for clarity.
429 * colrm: wide character fix (Elliot Lee)
430 * *fdisk: added Darwin types (Vincent Bourgonjen)
433 * hwclock: cmos.c: do not include <asm/io.h> on alpha
434 * mount: improved detection of ufs (and slowdown of detection of iso9660)
435 * mount.8: added info on * in /etc/filesystems, shortname option of vfat,
436 mount --move, udf, return codes
437 * raw: try /dev/raw/rawctl when /dev/rawctl fails (Thierry Vignaud)
438 * rc.serial: removed - setserial is no longer in util-linux (kromJx)
439 * README.admutil: removed - only of historical interest
440 * README.bootutils-0.1: removed - only of historical interest
441 * script: security fix
442 * sfdisk: improved geometry detection; wider columns; default disks from
444 * umount: permission test owner umount
445 * wall.1: added suid restriction
449 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
450 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
451 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
452 * Turkish messages now in UTF-8 (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
453 * blockdev: add --report option
454 * cal: fix for wide multibyte-char (Motonobu Ichimura)
455 * cfdisk: recognize ext3 and reiserfs (Flavio Stanchina)
456 * fsck.minix: i18n changes
457 * ipc.{info,texi}: minor correction
458 * login: compilation fix (Jaroslaw J. Pyszny)
459 * mount.8: tmpfs mount options (Karl Eichwalder)
460 * mount: recognize minix v2
461 * mount: support mount-by-label also for lvm (Kirby Bohling)
462 * mount: order guessing of fstypes according to seek offset
463 * pivot_root: compilation fix for ia64
464 * readprofile: byte order auto-detection (Werner Almesberger)
468 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
469 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
470 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
471 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
472 * fdisk: added netbsd type (Steven J. Hill)
473 * more: fix for unsigned char (Rusty Russell)
474 * mount: added sysv magic (Tim Launchbury)
475 * setterm: fixed "setterm -foreground default"
479 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
480 * banner: removed - it is in bsdgames
481 * fdisk: show partitions with empty type but some other nonzero field
482 * login: copy the static struct that getpwnam() returns before calling
483 PAM routines that might themselves use getpwnam(). Abort on problems.
485 * mount: added jfs magic (Christoph Hellwig)
486 * renice: report the correct new priority after a setpriority()
487 * umount: add lazy unmount (Christoph Hellwig)
491 Various potential buffer overflows were pointed out by awayzzz@digibel.org.
492 Fixes in agetty, hwclock, namei, readprofile, simpleinit, vipw.
493 (Also added a few [f]close() calls - entirely superfluously.)
495 * agetty: avoid possible buffer overflow
496 * cfdisk: recognize xfs (Nathan Scott)
497 * cytune: added close()
498 * fdformat: added close()
499 * fdisk: added fclose()
500 * hwclock: avoid possible buffer overflow
501 * mkfs.minix: added fclose()
502 * mount: remove the assumption that 635 is the default mount port
503 * namei: avoid possible buffer overflow
504 * rdev: added closedir()
505 * readprofile: avoid possible buffer overflow
506 * sfdisk: added fclose()
507 * simpleinit: avoid possible buffer overflow
508 * swapon: added fclose()
509 * umount: use tcp when mount was done using tcp (James D Strandboge)
510 * vipw: avoid possible buffer overflow
514 * fdisk: fix for AIX label (Olaf Hering)
515 * fdisk: fix for creating DOS label when BSD label is present
516 * mount.8: added remark about blocksize to ext2 sb= mount option description.
517 * partitiontype: new, not installed
521 * testincl: do not run conftest (Brian Murphy)
522 * blockdev: corrected ioctl numbers now that BLKBSZGET is in 2.4.10pre3
523 * cal: fixed for Hungarian locale
524 * cal: fixed for multibyte locales (Pablo Saratxaga)
525 * fdisk: avoid superfluous warning about DOS partitions
526 * line: new, to support SCO shell scripts (Christoph Hellwig)
527 * mount: added vxfs magic
528 * passwd: tiny fix for ARM (Ken Cox)
529 * replay: replay typescript with timings (Joey Hess)
530 * script: add -t flag for timing (Joey Hess)
534 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
535 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
536 * banner: minor fix (awayzzz@digibel.org)
537 * mkfs.minix: minix v2 fix
538 * more.1: improved (Edward Betts)
539 * mount.8: corrected description of the nwfs uni_xlate mount option
540 * vipw: make temp files of mode 0600 (Bill Nottingham)
541 * wall: avoid writing to /dev/:0
545 * MCONFIG & configure: fix for gcc 3.0
546 Note that nfsmount_xdr.c may give warnings with gcc 3.0, essentially
547 because of defines in <rpc/xdr.h> that use things like ntohl(*buf++)
548 where ntohl(x) is a macro with several occurrences of x.
549 * blockdev: support for the get/set blocksize ioctls
550 [not yet in the 2.4.5 kernel]
551 * fdisk: added Linux/PA-RISC type (Matt Taggart)
552 * mount: minor fix (Andrey J. Melnikoff)
553 * mount: added some ext3 stuff (Andrew Morton)
554 * mount: added heuristics for reiserfs (Andrew Morton)
555 * mount.8: added ext3 and reiserfs docs (Andrew Morton)
559 * Czech messages (Jiøí Pavlovský)
560 * fdisk: fix for "reorder" expert command
561 (use of sfdisk afterwards is still recommended)
566 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
567 * Brazilian Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes)
568 * agetty: give tty mode 0600 instead of 0622
569 * cal: improved manpage
570 * cfdisk: add user-friendliness in case of empty disk (Matthew Wilcox)
571 * dmesg: improved manpage
572 * fdisk: SuperH fix (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
573 * hwclock: accept alpha options in both upper and lower case
574 (so as to make the man page correct)
575 * hwclock: add option --noadjtime (Henrique M Holschuh)
576 * login: child must have controlling tty (Michal Moskal)
577 * more: don't seek unseekable input (David Whedon)
578 * mount: upon request by Richard Gooch: if the mount point is specified
579 as symlink, put symlink, not actual mount point in mtab.
580 (This avoids the long and ugly devfs names, but may break things.
581 Please complain in case of problems.)
582 * mount: with mount -a -t nfs:
583 if we used fallback to nfs v3, don't do so for subsequent mounts
584 * mount: add heuristics for ext3 (Andrew Morton)
585 * mount: added quota info to mount.8
586 * mount: allow comma-separated type lists, also in fstab
587 * raw: small fix for ppc
591 * fdisk: fix for OSF (Will Woods)
592 * chsh: compilation fix (Ronald Wahl)
596 * Czech messages (Jiøí Pavlovský)
597 * German messages (Elrond)
598 * Makefile/MCONFIG improvements (Peter Breitenlohner)
599 * fdisk: added a few partition types
600 * fdisk: correct partition numbering for sgi partitions (Nathan Scott)
601 * fdisk: make it compile on hppa by arbitrarily treating hppa like powerpc
603 * fsck.minix: improved localisation (Elrond)
604 * getopt: updated to version 1.1.2 (Frodo Looijaard)
605 * hwclock: fixes for IA64 (Thorsten Kukuk)
606 * hwclock: use /dev/vc/1 when devfs is used (Thomas Koeller)
607 * hwclock: more devfs support (e.g. /dev/misc/rtc)
608 * ipcs: add spaces in output (DeWitt Clinton),
609 correct some error messages (Bobby de Vos)
610 * login: fix TIOCNOTTY (Andreas Haumer, Adam J. Richter)
611 * login: add btmp logging of unsuccessful login attempts (Erik Troan)
612 * login: avoid a SIGHUP race with PAM enabled (Peter 'Luna' Runestig)
613 * login: copy the static result returned by gethostbyname to avoid
614 corruption by pam_authenticate via pam_ldap (Andreas Damm)
615 * login: removed the REDHAT_IGNORED_MAILSIZE hack
616 * login: unconditionally do vhangup
617 * login: zero PAM_USER when no username was given (Arkadiusz Miskiewicz)
618 * look: dictionary now under /usr/share (Erik Troan)
619 * mount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
620 * mount: another heuristic for vfat (Michal Svec)
621 * mount: xfs magic has only one endianness (Nathan Scott)
622 * mount: return failure when tcp used and portmap returns 0 (H. J. Lu)
623 * rdev: allow unlimited recursion to find the long devfs names
624 Also, allow major,minor pair the specify device (request by Russell Coker)
625 * readprofile: array bound check (Andrew Morton)
626 * script: transmit window changes to child (Joey Hess)
627 * sfdisk: endian fix for ppc (Gregory Geiselhart)
628 * sfdisk: new feature: sign is offset from default (Byron Stanoszek)
629 * sfdisk: add some default devices to list (Luca Montecchiani)
630 * sfdisk: no partition table on ide tape
631 * shutdown: close files, unblock signals (Richard Gooch)
632 * simpleinit: block signals in handlers; add no_reboot option (Richard Gooch)
633 * swapdev: deleted, it was last used with Linux 0.12.
634 * umount: mips does support umount2 (Maciej W. Rozycki)
635 * umount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
636 * umount: fix exit status
637 * wall: do not forget 80th character (Thorsten Kukuk)
641 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
642 * umount: mips does not support umount2 (Christoph Martin)
644 * mount.8: adfs options documented, xfs corrected
648 * tsort: deleted - it is part of GNU textutils 2.0
649 * mount: fix rootdev() (Richard Kettlewell)
650 * mount: fix gid of mtab file
651 * mount: try /proc/filesystems after /etc/filesystems if the latter ends in "*"
652 * fdisk: added a few system types
656 * Jump to 2.11 to note that libc-4.5.26 is no longer supported,
657 and we require libc-4.6.27 (since now snprintf is used).
658 Also, kbdrate has now been removed. Find it in kbd-1.05.
659 Added -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS.
660 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
661 * fdisk: avoid loop in case of extended without logical
662 * ipcs: corrected interchanged report on msg_rtime/msg_stime (Arun Kumar U)
663 * kill: updated manpage
664 * last: very much faster with mmap (Marek Zelem)
665 * login: Applied PAM patch by David MacKenzie <djm@web.us.uu.net>
666 * login: do a setsid in the child (Erik Troan)
667 * mount: make "mount 192.168.1.8:/ /a -o bg" work again (Bjoern Voigt)
668 * mount: added constant MS_MOVE
669 * readprofile: added -M option, updated manpage (Andrew Morton)
670 * setsid: fork when it would fail otherwise (John Fremlin)
671 * simpleinit: updated (Richard Gooch et al.)
672 * vipw: also offer to edit shadow file (Erik Troan)
673 * xfs docs (Nathan Scott)
677 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
678 * fixes to make gcc happy (Joseph S. Myers)
679 * fix for more on parisc (Richard Hirst)
680 * change rdev to search subdirectories of /dev (Paul Clements)
681 * ul fix (Masao Kawamura) - set columns correctly
682 * cal fix (Brendan Kehoe) - don't overflow weekday array in Gaelic
683 * fdisk fix (niles@scyld.com) - flush stdout
684 * fdisk fix - don't forget to write out empty label
685 * login: make default tty mode 0600
686 * script: refuse to write typescript if that is a symlink
687 * script: accept -V to output version
688 * whereis: also search /usr/share/man.
689 * hwclock: improve locale handling
690 * hwclock: fix for Nautilus (Neoklis Kyriazis)
695 * mount: support mount by uuid or label for xfs (Nathan Scott)
696 * mount: added probe for minix on bigendian systems (Nathan Scott)
697 * mount: added probes for cramfs, hfs, hpfs and adfs (Sepp Wijnands)
698 * mount: change setup; let umount remove at most one line from /etc/mtab
699 * mount: improve man page
700 * more, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ul: nls improvements (Masao Kawamura)
704 * mount: accept nonnumeric uid= and gid= options
705 * write and wall: security improvement
706 * fixed fdformat flaw (Werner Almesberger)
707 * use right mountport upon umount (Glenn Lingle)
708 * simpleinit / need / initctl stuff (Richard Gooch)
709 * Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes et al.)
713 * mount: don't set up a loop file with -o loop,remount (Marc Mutz)
714 * fdisk: changes for sectorsize different from 512
715 * more: standout fix (Paul Vojta)
716 * more: improve usage message (Lincoln Myers)
717 * logger: Added -d option to use datagrams (Gerwin Pfab)
718 * cal: Added -3 option to also print prev/next month (Michael Charles Pruznick)
719 * French messages (Christophe Merlet)
720 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
724 * fdformat: fixed to work with kernel 2.4.0test6 (Marek Wojtowicz)
725 * losetup: also return status when only showing loop device status (ewt)
726 * mount: do not retry ro if mount was ro; improve error message
727 * login: not installed suid
728 * getopt: by default install aux files in /usr/share/misc
733 * change to elvtune (andrea)
734 * fixed overrun in agetty (vii@penguinpowered.com)
735 * shutdown: prefer umounting by mount point (rgooch)
737 * fdisk: remove empty links in chain of extended partitions
738 * mount: define ALWAYS_STAT
739 * mount: add replace, after, before, over, bind
740 * umount: also free loop device when not writing mtab
741 * lomount: try both /dev/loopN and /dev/loop/N
742 * hwclock: handle both /dev/rtc and /dev/efirtc (Bill Nottingham)
743 * script: added -f (flush) option (Ivan Schreter)
744 * script: added -q (quiet) option (Per Andreas Buer)
745 * getopt: updated to version 1.1.0 (Frodo Looijaard)
746 * Czech messages (Jiri Pavlovsky)
750 * chfn fix when PAM is used (Martin-D. Lacasse)
751 * do not use LC_NUMERIC part of locale in hwclock when writing /etc/adjtime
752 * mount status return from smb or ncp fix (Mark Peloquin)
753 * mount new option -l: also print label when listing mounts
754 * mount add heuristic for xfs (Martin K. Petersen)
755 * mount UUID and label cache (Erik Troan)
756 * mount improve check for `already mounted' in case of label or uuid
757 * fdisk partition names more devfs-friendly
758 * fdisk bsdlabel large disk support
759 * setterm.1: options documented (Colin Watson)
761 * German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese messages
762 (Roger Luethi, Beth Powell, Alvaro Antunes)
766 * Merged losetup.c and lomount.c
767 * ANSIfied everything
771 * NFS version 4 mount support (Trond Myklebust)
772 * hwclock fix (Stefan Ring)
773 * Added -p option to col, as required by SUS (Joseph S. Myers)
777 * fdisk fixes (Michal Jaegermann)
781 * new directory partx (with code to play with, not to use)
782 * minor fdisk changes
786 * Added pivot_root (Werner Almesberger)
787 * Added elvtune (Andrea Arcangeli)
788 * Added need and extended simpleinit and shutdown (Richard Gooch)
789 * Removed all #include <linux/fs.h>
790 * errno fixes (Joseph S. Myers)
791 * IA-64 fixes (Michael K. Johnson)
792 * fdisk fixes for OSF/1 on Alpha (David Huggins-Daines)
793 * fdisk sectorsize fix (Greg Hosler)
794 * mount speed= option to enable mounting bad CDROMs (Marco d'Itri)
795 * ipcrm deletes several things at once (Frank Zago)
799 * fdisk can now sort partitions into order [untested, beware!]
800 * Update of mkswap for sparc64 (jj)
801 * Update of raw (Stephen Tweedie):
802 Control file was /dev/raw, now /dev/rawctl
803 Access files were /dev/raw*, now /dev/raw/raw*
804 * Czech messages (Jiri Pavlovsky)
805 * German messages (Daniel Egger)
806 * losetup locks memory (Frank v Waveren)
810 * Security fix for mount (okir)
811 * Avoid infinite loop in namei (Brett Wuth)
812 * added clock-ppc.c (from Matsuura Takanori), not merged yet
813 * deleted clockB subdirectory
814 * recognize mkdosfs string (Michal Svec)
819 * Added option to mkswap so that user can override pagesize
820 * fdisk -l now reads /proc/partitions when no device was given
821 * Fixed fdisk.8 (James Manning)
822 * Added devpts info to mount.8 (Elrond)
823 * Newline fix for logger output to stdout (Henri Spencer)
827 * Do not try to mount something as udf without good reason
828 * Do not loop in umount if there is a stale lock file
829 * Allow fdisk twice as many cylinders
830 * Fixed non-casefolding search in look (Markus Demleitner)
834 * Various compilation fixes
838 * Fixed smbmount problem (Andrew Tridgell)
839 * Fixed ddate problem with the day after St. Tib's Day (Brad)
840 * German messages (Elrond)
841 * Made kill a bit more standard compliant
842 * Made some more programs output a version
846 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
847 * French messages and several Debian fixes (Vincent Renardias)
848 * Fixed infinite loop in mkfs.minix
852 * Added BSD disklabel code to rescuept
853 * Added blockdev utility
854 * Fix losetup return code
855 * Fix unit display in cfdisk
856 * Do not redefine _PATH_MAILDIR (so that recent systems can have /var/mail)
857 * Added --localtime option to hwclock;
858 added third line (LOCAL/UTC) to /etc/adjtime.
859 * Add -H option to agetty (David Holland)
863 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
864 * Czech messages (Jiri Pavlovsky)
865 * Added some udf stuff to mount.8
866 * Added ioctl for fdisk on bsdlabels
870 * Wide character support (Bruno Haible)
871 * German messages and some small fixes (Elrond)
872 * Small fix to owner mount option (Erik Troan)
873 * Don't sleep so long in clock/kd.c (Christian T. Steigies)
877 * German messages and a i18n fix (Elrond)
878 * mount option: allow the owner to mount a device (RedHat)
879 * ugly: let login open console with O_NONBLOCK (Maciej W. Rozycki)
880 * UGLY: let login ignore mail that is precisely 523 bytes long (RedHat)
881 * added mkfs.bfs, mkfs.bfs.8
882 * mount now recognizes qnx4 and bfs partitions
883 * rescuept now recognizes Unixware partitions
884 * hwclock fix on m68k (Roman Hodek)
885 * several minor things
889 * Updated mount.8 (Yann Droneaud)
891 * Fixed flaw in fdisk
895 * cfdisk no longer believes the kernel's HDGETGEO
896 (and may be able to partition a 2 TB disk)
900 * Czech more.help and messages (Jiøí Pavlovský)
901 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
902 * fdisk fix (Klaus G. Wagner)
903 * mount fix (Hirokazu Takahashi)
904 * agetty: enable hardware flow control (Thorsten Kranzkowski)
905 * minor cfdisk improvements
906 * fdisk no longer accepts a default device
911 * national language support for hwclock
912 * Japanese messages (both by Daisuke Yamashita)
913 * German messages and some misc i18n fixes (Elrond)
914 * Czech messages (Jiøí Pavlovský)
915 * wall fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
916 * make last and wall use getutent() (Sascha Schumann)
917 [Maybe this is bad: last reading all of wtmp may be too slow.
918 Revert in case people complain.]
919 * documented UUID= and LABEL= in fstab.5
920 * added some partition types
921 * swapon: warn only if verbose
925 * tunelp patch (Andrea Arcangeli)
926 * fixed mount race (HJLu)
927 * German messages (Elrond)
931 * errno->errsv patch (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
932 * hwclock patch for the Award 4.50g BIOS "2094" bug. (Dave Coffin)
933 * fdisk patch to correct deletion of last logical partition
937 * fix to login by Ambrose C. Li
938 * improvement to mcookie inspired by a patch from Rik Faith
939 * more i18n by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo; pt_BR locale
943 * Added -u option to logger (write to user-specified socket; Martin Schultze)
944 * Added mount.smb script contributed by Greg Galperin
945 * Some more national language support
946 * mkfs.minix argument parsing fixed
947 * write fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
948 * configure adapted for the case of <scsi/scsi.h> that needs u_char.
952 * Added national language support (misiek@pld.ORG.PL)
953 * minor improvements in mount, fdisk, cfdisk, agetty, more
957 * Added /dev/port use to hwclock again - it may be necessary for Jensen.
961 * major reshuffle of hwclock stuff; added sparc and alpha code
968 * merged three lists of partition types in *fdisk
969 * multi page display in cfdisk
970 * test for getlogin() == "";
971 * start fixup hwclock
975 * fixed 2.9h typo in more
976 * added -m: `Monday is 1st day' option to cal (Jean-Francois Bignolles)
977 * changed PAM stuff in login.c (+- mjohnson)
978 * added warning to cfdisk in case of multiple bootable partitions
979 * added 2048-byte sector support in fdisk (Oliver Schaertel)
983 * mount recognizes "uid=useruid" and "gid=usergid" in /etc/fstab.
984 * documented the fact that "mount -t smb" will call /sbin/mount.smb.
985 * mount gives clear error message when fstab does not end in newline.
986 * swapon checks mode of file
987 * cfdisk got a more specific exit status (Enrique Zanardi)
991 * mount updates (locking, "users" keyword, "/etc/filesystems",
992 "proto" and "vers" options in nfsmount, ...)
996 * made ul handle lines of arbitrary length (Scott Maxwell)
997 * killed some C/H/S nonsense in fdisk
998 * fixes for archs with unsigned char type (Ambrose Li)
999 * fdisk fixes for power pc (Tom Rini)
1000 * added a define for NCURSES_CONST
1001 * fixes for list of signals in kill.c
1002 * fixes for user name length in last.c
1006 * added a forgotten declaration to login.c (Christian Oyarzun)
1010 * fixed segfault in umount caused by Wilcox' patch (Steffen Zahn)
1011 * added lnz stuff to fdisk
1015 * refixed PAM stuff in login.c that was broken in 2.8.
1019 * split README into INSTALL and HISTORY
1020 * added a sentence to swapon.8
1021 * behaviour of write on non-ASCII fixed
1022 * hwclock adapted to survive a failing mktime()
1026 * added an include to lib/my_reboot.c so that __GLIBC__ is defined
1027 * added setlocale() to login-utils/chfn.c
1028 * do not recompute MAIL in login-utils/login.c
1032 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.9:
1034 1) Removed programs:
1035 - strings. There is a version in binutils.
1036 - frag. (Moved to historic in 2.4, crept back in 2.5. Gone again.)
1037 1a) Not yet removed program:
1038 - setfdprm. It also is in fdutils-5.2 (with an exceptionally
1040 1b) Removed directory:
1041 - bsd. (The routine getopt() is in libc. err() moved to lib.)
1043 - ddate has been fixed to count down to the new, right X-day
1044 - look is now willing to search non-English dictionaries
1046 - cal now knows that Dutch day abbreviations have length 2 only
1047 - mcookie does not block when no random stuff is available
1048 - shutdown got a configuration file /etc/shutdown.conf
1049 - fdisk now reads SGI disk labels (thanks to Andreas Neuper)
1050 - mkswap now knows about new swap areas; mkswap.8 has been rewritten
1051 - umount knows about umount2() and forced unmounting of nfs mounts
1052 (however, I don't think it really works)
1053 - mount is now willing to handle file names with embedded spaces
1054 - mount can now mount things by UUID or volume name
1056 - swap.h has been replaced by a private swap_constants.h since
1057 <linux/swap.h> does not compile
1058 - reboot has become a private routine, since libc5 and glibc2 conflict
1059 - a mkminix-0.1 directory contains some patches to let mkfs.minix
1060 work under DOS. (Untested.)
1061 4) Numerous other small changes.
1063 0xF) Send questions and/or patches to util-linux@math.uio.no
1065 util-linux 2.9 was released by Andries Brouwer - aeb@cwi.nl
1066 The address util-linux@math.uio.no reaches Rik, Andries, Peter,
1067 Michael, Erik, Nicolai and possibly others. Hwclock stuff is
1072 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.8:
1075 - getopt(1) by Frodo Looijaard replaces the older bsd based version.
1076 Keywords: Backward compatible, supports --long options.
1077 1) Removed programs:
1078 - chroot: is no longer in util-linux. Get it free with GNU sh-utils
1079 - hostid: No-one could figure out the right way for this program to
1080 work. Another hostid program is included in poeigl
1081 (see the LSM, Primary-site: ftp.daimi.aau.dk /pub/linux/poe)
1082 2) Various portability enhancements. Among other things hwclock now works
1083 a lot better on non Intel architectures. Should compile with libc 4, 5
1084 and 6 as well as old and recent kernels. People using non-intel hardware
1085 are encouraged to send patches.
1086 3) rev now only limits linelength to memory capacity
1087 4) dmesg now uses a buffer that matches the kernel buffer in size (8KB)
1092 HIGLIGHTS for version 2.7:
1094 1) util-linux now _requires_ ncurses. Several programs are completely
1095 converted to use terminfo (instead of termcap).
1098 - clock: Dropped entirely. Use hwclock (included).
1099 - sync: is in gnu fileutils.
1100 - setserial: Is being maintained by Ted Ts'o, he recommends
1101 setserial-2.12 (2.13 is bad luck)
1102 - clear: Included in ncurses
1103 - hostname, domainname, dnsdomainname: It's in net-utils.
1106 3) Bugfixes, additions:
1107 - cfdisk: A much improved version. All known bugs have been fixed.
1108 - sfdisk: A command line fdisk type utility, formerly called fdisk-3.04.
1109 - SECURITY: All known holes in login, chfn, chsh and others have been
1110 plugged. UPGRADE NOW if you haven't already fixed them yourself.
1111 - Should work with libc 4, 5 and 6 (gnulibc), on m68k, intel, alpha
1115 - The rpcgen that comes in NetKit-B-0.09 is broken. At least as
1116 packaged with RedHat 4.2 (NetKit-B-0.09-6). There are several
1117 ways to deal with this:
1118 - Don't run rpcgen, the needed pre-generated sources are included
1119 (nfsmount_xdr.c). You must hack mount/Makefile to do this.
1120 - Edit the source emitted by rpcgen so it can compile. This is very
1121 simple if you know C.
1122 - Disable the NFS parts of mount. You have to edit mount/Makefile
1124 - Use some other rpcgen.
1128 This release was never made public
1130 See notes for 2.6 for installation instructions.
1132 This is a incremental release containing some fixes. A new release
1133 will be made later fixing the outstanding bugs.
1134 - Things compiles and works better with recent releases of kernel,
1135 ncurses, and so forth: fdisk, more
1136 - Some fixes to make things compile out of the box on alphas.
1137 - There has been reported a problem with login and /etc/usertty. It
1138 should be fixed. If you still have problems get a recent MAKEDEV and
1139 use it to make new tty devices. They were renumbered sometime during
1140 the 1.3 phase of the kernel.
1141 - ipcs now displays the key of the structures.
1142 - A (harmless?) overflow bug was fixed in login.
1145 - login/getty has a denial of service problem.
1146 - Several places needs a bit more polish.
1147 - There are a _lot_ of nonfatal warnings when compiling mount. This will
1148 not necesarily be fixed.
1153 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.6:
1155 0) The first release with me at the helm. PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND
1156 UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no.
1158 1) Removed programs:
1159 - md5sum, dsplit: available in GNU textutils.
1160 - syslogd: Sysklogd is now prefered. It is available at
1161 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/sources/sbin
1162 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons
1164 2) Bugfixes, additions:
1165 - SECURITY: All known holes in mount have been fixed. UPGRADE NOW
1166 if you haven't already!
1167 - Portability enhancments to the minix filesystem utils (m68k and
1169 - passwd/chsh/chfn will not mess up the passwd file on a NIS machine
1170 - others too numerous to enumerate.
1173 - vigr (it's like vipw)
1174 - Introducing hwclock. A complete rewrite of the latest available
1175 clock source. It supports intel/CMOS, /dev/rtc and linux/m68k
1176 system clock interfaces. Clock supports the same things but is now
1177 obsolete and will not be present in the next release. Start using
1178 hwclock now. Please.
1183 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.5:
1184 0) Nicolai Langfeldt is taking over maintenance of util-linux, with the
1185 help of a few others (Michael K. Johnson, Andries Brouwer, and Rik
1188 PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no
1190 1) The following packages have been removed. Please use the up-to-date,
1191 canonical versions of these packages from the listed places:
1193 timezone support (/usr/lib/zoneinfo, libz.a, zic, zdump):
1194 elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzcode95d.tar.gz
1195 elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzdata95h.tar.gz
1197 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-C-1.5.tar.gz
1199 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-2.2.tar.gz
1201 prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils-1.3.tar.gz
1202 [The GNU version is now compatible with the Plumb/Lankester
1205 Now bundled with the kernel in linux/scripts.
1207 2) update_state has been removed
1208 3) fdisk now supports NetBSD disklabels courtesy of Bernhard Fastenrath
1209 <fasten@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de> (and > 8GB disks, courtesy of
1211 4) mount improved -- many patches from Andries Brouwer for greatly improved
1213 5) ddate, chkdupexe, and other programs have been improved and bug fixed
1214 6) util-linux is now a source-only distribution
1215 7) mcookie generates better random numbers and will use /dev/random or
1216 /dev/audio if available
1217 8) chfn, chsh, passwd, and vipw have been updated with security patches
1218 from Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>. Now, they all use the same
1219 locking, and several security holes have been patched. Further, chsh
1220 and chfn can be configured at compile time to require a password before
1221 updates and chsh can be configured to only use shells from /etc/shells.
1224 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.4 (2.3 was never released):
1225 0) Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net> is the interim maintainer
1226 while Rik Faith is working on PhD work.
1227 1) login now makes the login tty mode 600 and places it in group "tty"
1228 2) wall, and write will not write dangerous escape sequences
1229 3) wall and write can be run setgid "tty". If util-linux is compiled for
1230 this option, "mesg y" will only set group write instead of group/other
1232 4) fdisk and cfdisk have been patched with the latest llseek.c. Although I
1233 had a lot of bug reports about fdisk from util-linux-2.2, I was unable
1234 to reproduce any of the problems. Some of the problems appeared to be
1235 releated to a failure to reboot the machine after changing the partition
1236 table, and some may have been due to a specific kernel revision problem.
1237 However, this doesn't seem to account for all of the bug reports -- if
1238 this version gives you problem, please send as complete a bug report as
1240 5) chkdupexe from Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
1241 6) ctrlaltdel now installs into /sbin instead of /usr/sbin
1242 7) mkfs replacement from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
1243 8) lpcntl removed. Use tunelp instead.
1244 9) ksymoops from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
1245 10) mkfs.minix now clears the first 512 bytes of the file system so that
1246 Minix disks won't be confused with MSDOS disks (Daniel Quinlan
1247 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com))
1248 11) mkswap should now work on an Alpha running Linux
1249 12) frag removed. See
1250 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/defrag-0.6.tar.gz for the
1252 13) mount patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1253 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
1254 14) MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV-C updated to the latest versions.
1255 15) Paths updated for FSSTND 1.2. This means that you may need to make
1256 some links. The links you need to make we system dependent. The
1257 ultimate goal is to rename /var/adm to /var/log and have a symbolic
1258 link from /var/adm to /var/log during the transition period. If you
1259 are running an ELF system, you probably won't have to do anything. The
1260 bottom line is that the following files must exist or be pointers to
1261 the old version (used internally by the a.out libraries):
1265 /var/log/wtmp /var/adm/wtmp
1266 /var/log/lastlog /var/adm/lastlog
1267 /var/run/utmp /var/adm/utmp
1269 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.2:
1270 1) This is primarily a quick bug-fix release for version 2.1
1271 2) mkfs wrapper added back in, since e2fsprogs only supplies an fsck wrapper
1272 3) selection removed, since someone appears to be maintaining it now. See
1273 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/patches/console for recent sources.
1274 For the time being, I'm keeping a copy in the historic subdirectory of
1275 util-linux. A "make install" should work find from within that
1277 4) Note that other floppy utilities are available from:
1278 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1279 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1280 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1283 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.1:
1285 1) Directory structure rearrange, with configuration support for those who
1286 use shadow passwords and System V init (no support is provided for these
1287 things, but your utilities won't get overwritten if you do a "make
1288 install" after you properly edit MCONFIG).
1289 2) fdisk and cfdisk should work as expected with 2GB+ disk drives
1290 3) As usual, lots of stuff was updated and added, including mount, vipw,
1292 4) Some stuff was also deleted, and can now be found elsewhere:
1293 fsck wrapper: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/ext2fs/e2fsprogs*
1294 pwd, su: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sh-utils*
1295 ed: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ed*
1296 od: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils*
1297 uudecode/uuencode: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sharutils*
1298 bdflush/update: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v1.1/bdflush*
1302 PARTIAL HISTORY OF UTIL-LINUX:
1305 Nothing in this directory gets installed, but some BSD programs need
1307 err.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
1308 err.h: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/2/93
1309 getopt.c: 4.13 (Berkeley) 2/23/91
1310 pathnames.h: 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/9/89 with extensive modifications for
1314 cfdisk: 0.8 BETA (>2GB) from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu) with
1315 modifications for disks > 2GB.
1316 ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/users/martin/linux/cfdisk-0.8.tar.gz
1317 fdformat: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), with
1318 modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)).
1319 Later, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner.
1320 fdisk: A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk) fdisk 1.5 release, with
1321 patched from Kevin Martin for DOS and OS/2 compatibility (1.5a);
1322 Rik Faith (1.5b, 2.0).
1323 fsck.minix, mkfs.minix: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by: Rik
1324 Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner
1325 (sdh@po.cwru.edu), Dr. Wettstein
1326 (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu), Daniel
1327 Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
1328 mkfs: David Engel (david@ods.com) and Fred N. van Kempen
1329 (waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG)
1330 Version 1.9 from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
1331 mkswap: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by Mike Jagdis
1332 (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk. )
1333 Version for Alpha from
1334 cage.cs.arizona.edu:/pub/davidm/linux/mkswap-axp-950503.tar.gz
1335 setfdprm: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
1336 Note that more floppy utilities are available from:
1337 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1338 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1339 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1340 llseek.c: from Remy Card's e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz (21Mar95 version) from:
1341 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
1344 banner: (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94)
1345 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1348 agetty: W. Z. Venema, ported by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>.
1349 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1350 chfn: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1351 chsh: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1352 last: 5.11 w/year (Berkeley) 6/29/88; Port by Michael Haardt with
1353 changes by Peter Orbaek.
1354 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1355 login: 5.40 (Berkeley) 5/9/89; with ports by Michael Glad and Peter Orbaek
1356 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1357 mesg: 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/21/94
1358 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1359 newgrp: Michael Haardt, with modifications by Peter Orbaek.
1360 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1361 passwd: Peter Orbaek, with yp modifications by Alvaro Martinez
1362 Echevarria (alvaro@enano.etsit.upm.es)
1363 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1364 shutdown: Peter Orbaek, with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie, Rik
1365 Faith, and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com).
1366 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1367 simpleinit: Peter Orbaek
1368 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1369 vipw: 5.16 (Berkeley) 3/3/91, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1370 <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
1371 wall: 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93 (With changes so that damaging escape
1372 sequences cannot be sent.)
1373 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1377 cal: 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/2/94, with modifications by Rik Faith and
1378 Hein@student.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein).
1379 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1380 chkdupexe: Version 1.2 from "Nicolai Langfeldt" <janl@ifi.uio.no>
1382 ddate: Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson aka mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
1383 with modifications by Lee Harvey Oswald Smith, K.S.C. and
1384 substantial updates from Rev. Bro. Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP
1385 domainname: Peter Orbaek
1386 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1387 dsplit: David Arnstein (arnstein@netcom.com)
1388 gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume40/dsplit
1389 getopt (getoptprog): jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu:
1390 /pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt
1391 replaced by getopt-1.0.3.tar.gz from Frodo Looijaard,
1392 found at http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol
1393 hostid: Mitch DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
1394 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1395 hostname/dnsdomainname: Peter Tobias <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
1396 This version (1.6) should also be available soon in:
1397 nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/net-source/base/NetKit-A*
1398 kill: BSD version, modified by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
1399 logger: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1400 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1401 look.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1402 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1403 mcookie: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1404 md5sum: Branki Lankester and Colin Plumb. The MD5 message-digest
1405 algorithm is in the Public Domain. This implementation
1406 calculates message-digest information only, and can NOT be used
1407 for encryption. Therefore it is exportable from the USA.
1408 Original sources in the MIT version of PGP 2.6.2.
1409 namei: Roger S. Southwick, with modifications by Steve Tell.
1411 script: 5.13 (Berkeley) 3/5/91, with modifications by Rick Sladkey
1412 (jrs@world.std.com), Harald Koenig
1413 (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de).
1414 setterm: Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au), with modifications by
1415 Peter MacDonald, Mika Liljeberg (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI),
1416 John Walder (j-walder@uiuc.edu) [for dosemu].
1417 tsort: 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1418 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1419 whereis: 5.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/91
1420 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1421 write: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1422 (kashmir@umiacs.umd.edu). With changes so that damaging escape
1423 sequences cannot be sent.
1424 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1428 mount, umount, swapon
1430 Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen
1431 Tweedie provided updates. The utilities were originally from that
1432 package (all appear to be by Doug Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu),
1433 with modifications by H. J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) on 11/25/92; Rick
1434 Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) in January 1993; and Stephen Tweedie
1435 <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> on 8 October 1993. This distribution mount now
1436 supports NFS stuff. I have modified the man pages. I have also added
1437 a small patch from Hamish Glen Coleman (t933093@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
1438 which restores the -o semantics.
1440 Updated with Rick Sladkey's mount-0.99.14.tar.gz package, and with
1441 extra patches from Rick. Adam J. Richter allowed -t option to be
1442 optional. Patrick J. Volkerding (volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) and
1443 Mitchum DSouza both provided patches that fixed the (null) problem when
1444 not using -t. Mitchum DSouza
1445 (mitch@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk) added support for loop
1446 device mounts. Sebastian Lederer
1447 (lederer@next-pc.informatik.uni-bonn.de) added support for sending an
1448 unmount RPC call to the server when an NFS-filesystem is unmounted.
1449 Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) added support for remounting
1450 readonly file systems readonly. Mike Grupenhoff
1451 <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU> added a probe of the superblock for the type
1452 before /proc/filesystems is checked. Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl fixed up
1455 Updated with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1456 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com). And more patches from Andries and others.
1458 historic/selection: The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett
1459 <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>, 17th June 1993, is included in the historic tree.
1460 Kernel patches are no longer necessary for modern kernels, but these
1461 were tiny so I left them in for historical reasons. The Makefile was
1462 modified for this distribution. With changes from Rick Sladkey.
1465 arch: Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
1466 chroot: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1467 clock: Originally from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package, Charles Hedrick,
1468 hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu (V1.0); Rob Hooft, hooft@chem.ruu.nl
1469 (V1.1); Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
1470 (V1.2). With additional changes: Hamish Coleman
1471 (hamish@zot.apana.org.au) (V1.2a); Alan Modra
1472 (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (V1.3, V1.4).
1473 ctrlaltdel: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
1474 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1475 cytune: Nick Simicish (njs@scifi.emi.net) and Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1476 dmesg: Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu); Rick Sladkey
1478 ipcrm: From the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1479 balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93. ipc.info and ipc.texi
1480 are also from that distribution.
1481 ipcs: Also from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1482 balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu, with patches from Mike Jagdis
1483 (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk)
1484 kbdrate: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), with patches from
1485 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and John Bowman
1486 (bowman@hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
1487 ksymoops: 1.7 from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
1488 rdev: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger), with
1489 modifications from Peter MacDonald, Stephen Tweedie
1490 (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk), and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com)
1491 readprofile: Alessandro Rubini from readprofile-2.0.tar.gz
1492 renice: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
1493 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1494 setserial: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) re-released Rick
1495 Sladkey's setserial in January 1993, with changes by
1496 Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu). I think that Theodore also
1497 did extensive changes for version 2.01, I can't find any
1498 notes about this in the documentation. However, Theodore
1499 Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) released version 2.10, and that
1501 setsid: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1502 sln: Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc)
1503 sync: Nick Holloway, with thanks to James Bonfield
1504 tunelp: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net)
1508 5.45 (Berkeley) 3/2/91
1510 Most of the changes for syslogd come from Rick Sladkey
1511 (jrs@world.std.com), but I'd like to thank other people who sent in
1512 changes (which usually got forwarded to Rick): Carsten Paeth
1513 (calle@calle.in-berlin.de) and Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp).
1516 col: 5.3 (Berkeley) 2/2/91; with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
1517 and Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com)
1518 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1519 colcrt: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 (Bill Joy)
1520 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1521 colrm: 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/90 (Jeff Schriebman)
1522 column: 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
1523 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1524 hexdump: 5.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1525 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1526 more: 5.19 (Berkeley) 6/29/88 (Eric Shienbrood, Geoff Peck, John Foderaro)
1527 rev: 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/92; with modifications by Charles Hannum
1528 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu), Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu),
1530 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1531 strings: 5.10 (Berkeley) 5/23/91; with patches from Vitor Duarte
1533 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1534 ul: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
1535 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
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