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   1 util-linux 2.31: Oct 19 2017
   2 * see Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
   3   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31-ChangeLog
   4
   5 util-linux 2.31-rc2: Oct 03 2017
   6 * see Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
   7   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31-rc2-ChangeLog
   8
   9 util-linux 2.31-rc1: Sep 22 2017
  10 * see Documentation/releases/v2.31-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  11   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.31/v2.31-rc1-ChangeLog
  12
  13 util-linux 2.30: Jun 02 2017
  14 * see Documentation/releases/v2.30-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  15   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/v2.30-ChangeLog
  16
  17 util-linux 2.30-rc2: May 12 2017
  18 * see Documentation/releases/v2.30-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  19   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/v2.30-rc2-ChangeLog
  20
  21 util-linux 2.30-rc1: May 12 2017
  22 * see Documentation/releases/v2.30-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  23   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/v2.30-rc1-ChangeLog
  24
  25 util-linux 2.29: Nov 8 2016
  26 * see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  27   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-ChangeLog
  28
  29 util-linux 2.29-rc2: Oct 19 2016
  30 * see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  31   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-rc2-ChangeLog
  32
  33 util-linux 2.29-rc1: Sep 30 2016
  34 * see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  35   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-rc1-ChangeLog
  36
  37 util-linux 2.28: Apr 12 2016
  38 * see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  39   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-ChangeLog
  40
  41 util-linux 2.28-rc2: Mar 29 2016
  42 * see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  43   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-rc2-ChangeLog
  44
  45 util-linux 2.28-rc1: Mar 11 2016
  46 * see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  47   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-rc1-ChangeLog
  48
  49 util-linux 2.27: Sep 07 2015
  50 * see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  51   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ChangeLog
  52
  53 util-linux 2.27-rc2: Aug 24 2015
  54 * see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  55   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-rc2-ChangeLog
  56
  57 util-linux 2.27-rc1: Jul 31 2015
  58 * see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  59   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-rc1-ChangeLog
  60
  61 util-linux 2.26: Feb 19 2015
  62 * see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  63   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-ChangeLog
  64
  65 util-linux 2.26-rc2: Feb 4 2015
  66 * see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  67   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-rc2-ChangeLog
  68
  69 util-linux 2.26-rc1: Jan 14 2015
  70 * see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  71   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-rc1-ChangeLog
  72
  73 util-linux 2.25: Jul 22 2014
  74 * see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  75   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-ChangeLog
  76
  77 util-linux 2.25-rc2: Jul 2 2014
  78 * see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  79   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-rc2-ChangeLog
  80
  81 util-linux 2.25-rc1: Jun 18 2014
  82 * see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  83   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-rc1-ChangeLog
  84
  85 util-linux 2.24: Oct 21 2013
  86 * see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  87   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/v2.24-ChangeLog
  88
  89 util-linux 2.24-rc2: Oct 11 2013
  90 * see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  91   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/v2.24-rc2-ChangeLog
  92
  93 util-linux 2.24-rc1: Sep 27 2013
  94 * see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  95   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/v2.24-rc1-ChangeLog
  96
  97 util-linux 2.23: Apr 25 2013
  98 * see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
  99   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-ChangeLog
 100
 101 util-linux 2.23-rc2: Apr 10 2013
 102 * see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 103   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-rc2-ChangeLog
 104
 105 util-linux 2.23-rc1: Mar 22 2013
 106 * see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 107   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-rc1-ChangeLog
 108
 109 util-linux 2.22: Sep 04 2012
 110 * see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 111   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-ChangeLog
 112
 113 util-linux 2.22-rc2: Aug 15 2012
 114 * see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 115   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-rc2-ChangeLog
 116
 117 util-linux 2.22-rc1: Jul 27 2012
 118 * see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 119   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-rc1-ChangeLog
 120
 121 util-linux 2.21: Feb 24 2012
 122 * see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 123   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-ChangeLog
 124
 125 util-linux 2.21-rc2: Feb 06 2012
 126 * see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 127   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-rc2-ChangeLog
 128
 129 util-linux 2.21-rc1: Jan 18 2012
 130 * see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 131   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-rc1-ChangeLog
 132
 133 util-linux 2.20: Aug 29 2011
 134 * see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 135   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-ChangeLog
 136
 137 util-linux 2.20-rc2: Aug 17 2011
 138 * see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 139   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-rc2-ChangeLog
 140
 141 util-linux 2.20-rc1: Jul 29 2011
 142 * see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 143   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-rc1-ChangeLog
 144
 145 util-linux 2.19: Feb 10 2011
 146 * see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 147   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-ChangeLog
 148
 149 util-linux 2.19-rc3: Jan 25 2011
 150 * see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 151   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc3-ChangeLog
 152
 153 util-linux 2.19-rc2: Jan 25 2011
 154 * see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 155   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc2-ChangeLog
 156
 157 util-linux 2.19-rc1: Jan 05 2011
 158 * see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 159   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc1-ChangeLog
 160
 161 util-linux-ng 2.18: Jun 30 2010
 162 * see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 163   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-ChangeLog
 164
 165 util-linux-ng 2.18-rc2: Jun 18 2010
 166 * see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 167   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc2-ChangeLog
 168
 169 util-linux-ng 2.18-rc1: Jun 7 2010
 170 * see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 171   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc1-ChangeLog
 172
 173 util-linux-ng 2.17: Jan 8 2010
 174 * see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 175   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-ChangeLog
 176
 177 util-linux-ng 2.17-rc3: Dec 10 2009
 178 * see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 179   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc3-ChangeLog
 180
 181 util-linux-ng 2.17-rc2: Dec 9 2009
 182 * see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 183   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc2-ChangeLog
 184
 185 util-linux-ng 2.17-rc1: Nov 20 2009
 186 * see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 187   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc1-ChangeLog
 188
 189 util-linux-ng 2.16: Jul  2009
 190 * see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 191   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-ChangeLog
 192
 193 util-linux-ng 2.16-rc2: Jul 2 2009
 194 * see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 195   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc2-ChangeLog
 196
 197 util-linux-ng 2.16-rc1: Jun 28 2009
 198 * see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 199   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc1-ChangeLog
 200
 201 util-linux-ng 2.15: May 5 2009
 202 * see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 203   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-ChangeLog
 204
 205 util-linux-ng 2.15-rc2: Apr 17 2009
 206 * see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 207   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc2-ChangeLog
 208
 209 util-linux-ng 2.15-rc1: Mar 18 2009
 210 * see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 211   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc1-ChangeLog
 212
 213 util-linux-ng 2.14: Jun 9 2008
 214 * see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 215   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-ChangeLog
 216
 217 util-linux-ng 2.14-rc3: May 19 2008
 218 * see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 219   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc3-ChangeLog
 220
 221 util-linux-ng 2.14-rc2: Apr 28 2008
 222 * see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 223   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc2-ChangeLog
 224
 225 util-linux-ng 2.14-rc1: Apr 16 2008
 226 * see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 227   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc1-ChangeLog
 228
 229 util-linux-ng 2.13: Aug 28 2007
 230 * see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 231   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-ChangeLog
 232
 233 util-linux-ng 2.13-rc3: Aug 8 2007
 234 * see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 235   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc3-ChangeLog
 236
 237 util-linux-ng 2.13-rc2: Jul 17 2007
 238 * see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 239   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc2-ChangeLog
 240
 241 util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1: Jul 4 2007
 242 * see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
 243   https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc1-ChangeLog
 244
 245 util-linux 2.13-pre7
 246
 247 * mount: default to cifs instead of smbfs for sources
 248          starting with // (Lars Mueller)
 249 * flock: documentation updates (H. Peter Anvin)
 250 * new translation: id
 251 * updated translations: de, it, sl, uk
 252
 253 util-linux 2.13-pre6
 254
 255 * getopt: updated to 1.1.4
 256 * replaced all *llseek variants with lseek
 257 * misc build system, code and docs cleanups and fixes
 258 * updated translations: fr, it
 259
 260 util-linux 2.13-pre5
 261
 262 * {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: updated to cramfs-1.1
 263 * {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: removed PAGE_CACHE_SIZE usage
 264 * umount: fix "umount -n -r" (Derick Swanepoel)
 265 * misc build system and code cleanups and fixes
 266 * updated translation: ca
 267
 268 util-linux 2.13-pre4
 269
 270 * don't build fdisk on m68k (Mike Frysinger)
 271 * misc build system and documentation fixes
 272 * removed program: clear
 273
 274 util-linux 2.13-pre3
 275
 276 * misc buld system fixes
 277 * cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
 278 * umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
 279 * updated translations: da, fr, it, nl, ru, sl, tr
 280
 281 util-linux 2.13-pre2
 282
 283 * flock: replaced with flock-2.0.2 by H. Peter Anvin
 284 * misc build system fixes, libtool is no longer used
 285 * misc code fixes
 286 * updated translations: ca, fi, fr, nl, ru, tr
 287
 288 util-linux 2.13-pre1
 289
 290 * use GNU autoconf/automake/libtool for building
 291 * added schedutils
 292 * removed support for curses implementations other than ncurses
 293 * removed programs: arch, passwd, rescuept, setfdprm, sln
 294 * removed mkminix-0.1/
 295 * misc fixes and documentation updates
 296 * new translation: vi
 297 * updated translations: ca, de, fi, fr, it, nl, ru, tr
 298
 299 util-linux 2.12q
 300
 301 * updated translation: nl
 302
 303 util-linux 2.12q-pre2
 304
 305 * sfdisk: document -G option in --help output
 306 * updated translations: ca, et, fr
 307
 308 util-linux 2.12q-pre1
 309
 310 * new maintainer
 311 * sfdisk: add -G option (Andries Brouwer)
 312 * updated translations: de, es, ru, sv, tr
 313
 314 util-linux 2.12p
 315
 316 * cfdisk: fix number of new partition when partitions not in disk order
 317 * fdisk: fix Sun label handling in sector mode
 318 * mkfs: never truncate filename (not that that ever happened)
 319 * more: fix redraw flaw
 320
 321 util-linux 2.12n,o
 322
 323 * lomount: revert patch from 2.12j
 324 * lptune.8: -T option is obsolete
 325 * mkswap, mkswap.8, swapon: support labels
 326   (use HAVE_BLKID=no as long as the blkid library doesn't support this)
 327 * umount: allow user unmounting repeatedly mounted nfs mounts
 328
 329 util-linux 2.12m
 330
 331 * cfdisk: recognize JFS, support reiserfs labels (flavio.stanchina@tin.it)
 332 * mount: fix option parsing bug
 333 * mount.8: several updates
 334 * swapon.8: document -v option
 335
 336 util-linux 2.12l
 337
 338 * Makefile: remove cat-id-tbl.c upon make clean
 339 * fdisk: fixed a bug that would cause a non-update of a sun disklabel
 340 * fdisk: use sectorsize instead of 512 for SGI (Eric Y. Theriault)
 341 * fdisk: use __attribute__((packed)) for alpha, ARM: avoid unaligned accesses
 342 * hwclock: actually use HAVE_tm_gmtoff
 343 * swapon: fix priority handling
 344 * umount: refuse to unmount an empty string
 345
 346 util-linux 2.12k
 347
 348 * cfdisk: fixed a signed character bug causing problems for Spanish users
 349 * configure, MCONFIG: detect gcc 3.4.0 and use -mtune option (Matthew Burgess)
 350 * configure: do not run ./conftest (for cross compilation) (NIIBE Yutaka)
 351 * fsck.cramfs: try to get correct PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
 352 * losetup: try to give better error messages
 353 * readprofile: default map file is /boot/System.map
 354 * rdev.8: added historical info on ramdisk
 355 * New French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish messages
 356
 357 util-linux 2.12j
 358
 359 * cal: highlight today (Pádraig Brady)
 360 * lomount: stop reading passwd at NUL, fix lo_encrypt key_size (Wolfram Kleff)
 361 * losetup: add -f option to find an unused loop device
 362   (Alexander Wigen, Remco van Mook)
 363 * more: code cleanup (Joachim Henke)
 364 * mount: add "group" mount option (Martin Dickopp)
 365 * sfdisk: fix 2.6.8 BLKRRPART ioctl damage (Eric Lammerts)
 366 * swapon: let swapon -a skip the swapfiles marked "noauto" (Dale R. Worley)
 367 * umount: fix problem with empty mtab (Bryan Kadzban)
 368 * umount: use special umount program if it exists (Ram Pai)
 369 * New Danish and French messages
 370
 371 util-linux 2.12i
 372
 373 * MCONFIG: fix build conditions
 374 * chfn, chsh: add error checking
 375 * cytune: use local header cyclades.h
 376 * fdisk: fix default SGI volume header size (Eric Sandeen)
 377 * fstab.c: use strsignal() instead of sys_siglist[]
 378 * hwclock: use <sys/io.h> when available on i386
 379 * hwclock: don't try KDGHWCLK on archs other than __m68k__
 380 * sfdisk: correct typo in __attribute__used nonsense
 381 * sfdisk: use PACKED on __arm__ (Jeroen Dobbelaere)
 382 * sfdisk: fix warning printout
 383
 384 util-linux 2.12e,f,g,h
 385
 386 * cfdisk: avoid crash if no partition table
 387 * elvtune: tell user that this only works on 2.4 kernels
 388 * lomount: clear passwords after use
 389 * mount: accept comments (introduced by \;) in fstab - withdrawn again
 390 * mount: accept comments (specified by comment=) in fstab
 391 * mount: support ocfs, ocfs2
 392 * [u]mount: be more careful with malloc, try to avoid OOM with many mounts
 393 * sfdisk: __attribute__used nonsense to support gcc 3.4
 394 * shutdown: do not unmount various virtual filesystems
 395
 396 util-linux 2.12c,d
 397
 398 * mount.8: added recent ext2 mount options
 399 * mount: support jfs mount-by-label, improve reiserfs support
 400 * sfdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
 401 * *fdisk: use common disksize() routine
 402
 403 util-linux 2.12b
 404
 405 * chsh: improved error message
 406 * dmesg: ask kernel proper buffer size
 407 * losetup: handle 64-bit offsets
 408 * blockdev: also report BLKGETSIZE64 result
 409 * blockdev, elvtune, fdisk: handle new kernel _IOR,_IOW defines
 410 * fdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
 411 * fdisk: also list Solaris as possible type for 0x82
 412 * mount: added --rbind option
 413 * mount: use blkid, uuid libraries when available
 414 * mount: support reiserfs mount by label
 415 * mount: attempt to use the right definition of dev_t in struct loopinfo
 416 * mount.8: jfs mount options added
 417 * readprofile: new -s option
 418 * rename.1: added ref to mmv.1
 419 * replay: renamed to scriptreplay; correct typos
 420 * script: do not use locale for time delay floating point number format
 421 * sfdisk: error messages to stderr
 422 * New Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
 423   Ukrainian messages
 424
 425 util-linux 2.12a
 426
 427 * chfn, chsh, login, vipw: SElinux support
 428 * fdisk: fix for kernels 2.4.15-2.4.17
 429 * fdisk: fix when all partitions are in use
 430 * hwclock: add a timeout when waiting for a clock update (Göran Weinholt)
 431 * ipcs: compilation fix
 432 * ipcs: shminfo.shmall gives pages
 433 * login: use getutline() instead of getutid()
 434 * login: fix for 64-bit time_t
 435 * mount: efs support
 436 * partx: bigendian fix
 437 * readprofile: support for 64-bit addresses
 438 * setterm: fix klogctl error message (Joern Heissler)
 439 * setterm.1: clarification
 440 * sfdisk: fix check for is_ide_cdrom_or_tape
 441 * umount: skip proc, devfs, devpts on umount -a
 442
 443 util-linux 2.12
 444
 445 * losetup: cryptoloop support
 446 * losetup: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
 447 * fdisk: sgi layout fix
 448 * mount: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
 449 * mount: recognize some PCDOS floppies
 450 * umount: in "umount name", first try to interpret "name" as a mount point
 451
 452 util-linux 2.12pre
 453
 454 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
 455 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 456 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
 457 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 458 * French messages (Michel Robitaille)
 459 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 460 * Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
 461 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 462 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 463 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 464 * cfdisk: localize the Y/N answer, improve printing localized messages
 465 * cfdisk: make various variables long long - some disks are close to 2 TB
 466 * cfdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
 467 * fdisk: make various variables unsigned to lengthen the life of 32-bit vars
 468 * fdisk: some sgi fixes (Phillip Kesling)
 469 * fdisk: k=1000, K=1024
 470 * fdisk: removed last occurrences of HDIO_REQ
 471 * fdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
 472 * hwclock: fix rtc test (Heiko Zuerker)
 473 * login: set a timeout on printing the timeout message (Robert Ambrose)
 474 * md5: x86_64 fix (mmj)
 475 * more: POSIX fixes
 476 * mount: do not supply MS_MGC_VAL when there are conflicting flags
 477 * mount: ncp and smb are called smbfs and ncpfs - global change
 478 * mount: add support for xvm mount by label (Eric Sandeen)
 479 * mount: correct hfs magic recognition
 480 * mount: keep original umask - it influences the mount call (mmj)
 481 * raw.8: documented unbinding of raw devices
 482 * readprofile: fixed off-by eight error (Werner Almesberger)
 483 * script: add -c option (Wayne Davison)
 484 * sfdisk.8: added an example of partitioning with logical partitions
 485 * sfdisk: only add a AA55 signature for DOS-type partition tables
 486 * tailf: new (Rik Faith)
 487
 488 util-linux 2.11z
 489
 490 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
 491 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 492 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
 493 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 494 * French messages (Michel Robitaille) - HURRAY!
 495 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 496 * Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
 497 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 498 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 499 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 500 * getopt: replaced getopt-1.1.2 by getopt-1.1.3 (Frodo Looijaard)
 501 * mkcramfs: change default blocksize for ia64 and alpha
 502 * more.help: removed (it is built-in now, and translated)
 503 * mount: add -i option (inhibit calling external mount programs)
 504 * mount: change default: do resolve symlinks
 505 * readprofile: look for System.map also in /boot/System.map-`uname -r` (mmj)
 506 * sfdisk: also translate "start" and "end"; s/MB/MiB/
 507
 508 util-linux 2.11y
 509
 510 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 511 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 512 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 513 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 514 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 515 * cfdisk: improve escape seq recognition when compiled with slang
 516 * fdisk: decimal units
 517 * hwclock/rtc.c: minor cleanup (Joachim Henke)
 518 * ipcs: compilation fix
 519 * more: kill external help file (Joachim Henke)
 520 * mount: fix LABEL= handling for user umount
 521 * mount: don't abort on read error on photocds (György Kövesdi)
 522 * mount.8: add dmask and fmask vfat mount options
 523 * pg: compilation fix (Joachim Henke)
 524 * script: localized time strings (Göran Uddeborg)
 525 * setterm: accept devfs name (Joachim Henke)
 526 * simpleinit: security: refuse initctl_fd if setting FD_CLOEXEC fails
 527 * umount: allow user umount after mount by label or uuid
 528
 529 util-linux 2.11x
 530
 531 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 532 * Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
 533 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 534 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 535 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 536 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 537 * cfdisk: correct error printout
 538 * fdisk: allow addition of a new partition when logicals all used
 539   but primary free
 540 * hwclock: detect systime jumps backward during setting hwclock
 541 * mkfs.cramfs: do not mmap all files simultaneously
 542 * mkfs.cramfs: make blocksize settable
 543 * mkfs.minix: correct error printout
 544 * mkswap.8: now max 32 swapspaces
 545 * mount: new --rbind flag, for recursive loopback mounts
 546 * mount, umount: new -O option (Michael K. Johnson)
 547 * mount.8: -O and win95 options documented
 548 * setpwnam.c: open temp pw file with O_EXCL
 549 * simpleinit: fix for "spawn too fast" (Denis Vlasenko)
 550 * swapon: new -e option (Erik Troan)
 551
 552 util-linux 2.11w
 553
 554 * cfdisk, fdisk: allow slightly larger disk sizes
 555 * fdisk: Makefile: also for m68 (sun3) (Kaj-Michael Lang)
 556 * fdisk: allow to use the last partial cylinder, change display format
 557 * fdisk: do not ask partition number in case there is only one choice
 558 * fdisk: new sunlabel fix
 559 * login: fix possible local root exploit (Wojciech Purczyński)
 560 * more: bigendian fix
 561
 562 util-linux 2.11v
 563
 564 * Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
 565 * Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
 566 * Very few Russian messages (panivan@yandex.ru)
 567 * Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
 568 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 569 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 570 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 571 * fdisk: add -C, -H, -S command line options
 572 * fdisk: allow changing type 0
 573 * mkswap: enable use of > 2GB swapspace
 574 * more: translation fix
 575 * mount: set umask (Sebastian Krahmer)
 576 * mount: test both le and be version of cramfs magic (Olaf Hering)
 577 * mount: recognize Oracle magic
 578 * pg: use fseeko64 and ftello64 when available
 579
 580 util-linux 2.11u
 581
 582 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 583 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 584 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 585 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 586 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 587 * configure: for fsck.cramfs, mkfs.cramfs: add test for libz
 588 * text-utils/Makefile: pg fix (Toomas Rosin)
 589 * po/Makefile: typo fix (Silvan Minghetti)
 590 * agetty: use same test as login does to find utmp entry
 591 * fdisk: fix for fdisk on empty disk (Michael D. Black)
 592 * hwclock: compilation fix on alpha
 593 * mount: add mount by label for jfs (Christoph Hellwig)
 594 * mount: add mount by label for evms (Luciano Chavez)
 595 * mount: allow regular files when guessing (Michal Svec)
 596 * partx/gpt.c: fix size computation (Matt Domsch)
 597 * readprofile: new option -b (David Mosberger)
 598 * umount: don't umount devfs upon umount -a (David Gilbert)
 599
 600 util-linux 2.11t
 601
 602 * fdformat: remove test on major
 603 * fsck.cramfs: added NLS
 604 * fdisk: fix device names with sundisklabels under devfs (Kaj-Michael Lang)
 605 * fdisk: minor polishing
 606 * hwclock: also handle ENOTTY ioctl return (Maciej W. Rozycki)
 607 * hwclock: minor polishing
 608 * ipcrm.8: minor polishing
 609 * mkfs.cramfs: added NLS
 610 * mkfs.cramfs: added -v (verbose) option, and made default silent
 611 * mount: patch for make -j (RedHat)
 612 * swapoff: minor polishing
 613
 614 util-linux 2.11s
 615
 616 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
 617 * French messages: some minor corrections
 618 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 619 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 620 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 621 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 622 * MCONFIG: allow "make DISABLE_NLS=yes <target>" (Peter Breitenlohner)
 623 * configure: don't run ./conftest - better for cross-compilation (Magnus Damm)
 624 * fdisk: fixes for disks with OSF/1 label
 625 * fsck.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
 626 * hwclock: improved adjtime handling (James P. Rutledge)
 627 * hwclock: remove shhopts stuff
 628 * ipcs: remove unused heading (Michael Kerrisk)
 629 * line: replace by C version - the sh version was broken (Gunnar Ritter)
 630 * login: default root path: added /usr/local/[s]bin (RedHat)
 631 * mkfs.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
 632 * mount: when no type is known, assume that prefix // implies samba (RedHat)
 633 * mount -a: avoid stat on devices that have noauto option (Jeroen Mostert)
 634 * mount by label: ignore RAID partitions (RedHat)
 635 * [u]mount: fstab.c fix (ejb@ql.org)
 636 * pg: new (Gunnar Ritter)
 637 * sfdisk: small BSD partition fix
 638 * swapoff -a: also do swapoff on all files found in /proc/swaps
 639 * swapon -a: skip files already found in /proc/swaps
 640
 641 util-linux 2.11r
 642
 643 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
 644 * German messages (Michael Piefel)
 645 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 646 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 647 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 648 * MCONFIG: move $(CFLAGS) to the end to allow overrides (Kevin P. Fleming)
 649 * cal: tiny fix (Mitsuru Chinen)
 650 * fdisk: avoid <linux/hdreg.h>
 651 * fdisk: x86_64 patch (Mads Martin Jørgensen)
 652 * hwclock.8: zoneinfo is now in /usr/share
 653 * mkswap: report in KiB instead of bytes.
 654
 655 util-linux 2.11q
 656
 657 * fdisk: geometry improvement
 658 * login: open tty fix (Denis Vlasenko)
 659 * more: wide character patches (Mitsuru Chinen)
 660 * mount: complain on mount-by-label when label is not unique (Matt Copping)
 661 * partx: add GUID Partition Tables (Matt Domsch)
 662
 663 util-linux 2.11p
 664
 665 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 666 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
 667 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 668 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 669 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 670 * ipcrm: make POSIX compatible (Andre Corwin Mazzone)
 671 * ipcrm.8: idem
 672 * kill: fixed Makefile
 673 * login: setsid fixes
 674 * mkswap: max size of swap space is very large (Peter Chubb)
 675 * mount: JFS support for mount-by-label (hch)
 676 * nfsmount: check for <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h> (hch)
 677 * readprofile: keep track of line numbers (John Levon)
 678 * umount: fix for MNT_DETACH
 679
 680 util-linux 2.11o
 681
 682 * Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
 683 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
 684 * Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
 685 * cal: option -s: Sunday is first day of the week
 686 * cal.1: updated
 687 * cfdisk: give not only bytes but also MB or GB for clarity.
 688 * colrm: wide character fix (Elliot Lee)
 689 * *fdisk: added Darwin types (Vincent Bourgonjen)
 690 * fstab.5: updated
 691 * hexdump: -C option
 692 * hwclock: cmos.c: do not include <asm/io.h> on alpha
 693 * mount: improved detection of ufs (and slowdown of detection of iso9660)
 694 * mount.8: added info on * in /etc/filesystems, shortname option of vfat,
 695   mount --move, udf, return codes
 696 * raw: try /dev/raw/rawctl when /dev/rawctl fails (Thierry Vignaud)
 697 * rc.serial: removed - setserial is no longer in util-linux (kromJx)
 698 * README.admutil: removed - only of historical interest
 699 * README.bootutils-0.1: removed - only of historical interest
 700 * script: security fix
 701 * sfdisk: improved geometry detection; wider columns; default disks from
 702   /proc/partitions
 703 * umount: permission test owner umount
 704 * wall.1: added suid restriction
 705
 706 util-linux 2.11n
 707
 708 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 709 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
 710 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 711 * Turkish messages now in UTF-8 (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 712 * blockdev: add --report option
 713 * cal: fix for wide multibyte-char (Motonobu Ichimura)
 714 * cfdisk: recognize ext3 and reiserfs (Flavio Stanchina)
 715 * fsck.minix: i18n changes
 716 * ipc.{info,texi}: minor correction
 717 * login: compilation fix (Jaroslaw J. Pyszny)
 718 * mount.8: tmpfs mount options (Karl Eichwalder)
 719 * mount: recognize minix v2
 720 * mount: support mount-by-label also for lvm (Kirby Bohling)
 721 * mount: order guessing of fstypes according to seek offset
 722 * pivot_root: compilation fix for ia64
 723 * readprofile: byte order auto-detection (Werner Almesberger)
 724
 725 util-linux 2.11m
 726
 727 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 728 * German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
 729 * Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
 730 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 731 * fdisk: added netbsd type (Steven J. Hill)
 732 * more: fix for unsigned char (Rusty Russell)
 733 * mount: added sysv magic (Tim Launchbury)
 734 * setterm: fixed "setterm -foreground default"
 735
 736 util-linux 2.11l
 737
 738 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 739 * banner: removed - it is in bsdgames
 740 * fdisk: show partitions with empty type but some other nonzero field
 741 * login: copy the static struct that getpwnam() returns before calling
 742   PAM routines that might themselves use getpwnam(). Abort on problems.
 743   (Olaf Kirch)
 744 * mount: added jfs magic (Christoph Hellwig)
 745 * renice: report the correct new priority after a setpriority()
 746 * umount: add lazy unmount (Christoph Hellwig)
 747
 748 util-linux 2.11k
 749
 750   Various potential buffer overflows were pointed out by awayzzz@digibel.org.
 751   Fixes in agetty, hwclock, namei, readprofile, simpleinit, vipw.
 752   (Also added a few [f]close() calls - entirely superfluously.)
 753
 754 * agetty: avoid possible buffer overflow
 755 * cfdisk: recognize xfs (Nathan Scott)
 756 * cytune: added close()
 757 * fdformat: added close()
 758 * fdisk: added fclose()
 759 * hwclock: avoid possible buffer overflow
 760 * mkfs.minix: added fclose()
 761 * mount: remove the assumption that 635 is the default mount port
 762 * namei: avoid possible buffer overflow
 763 * rdev: added closedir()
 764 * readprofile: avoid possible buffer overflow
 765 * sfdisk: added fclose()
 766 * simpleinit: avoid possible buffer overflow
 767 * swapon: added fclose()
 768 * umount: use tcp when mount was done using tcp (James D Strandboge)
 769 * vipw: avoid possible buffer overflow
 770
 771 util-linux 2.11j
 772
 773 * fdisk: fix for AIX label (Olaf Hering)
 774 * fdisk: fix for creating DOS label when BSD label is present
 775 * mount.8: added remark about blocksize to ext2 sb= mount option description.
 776 * partitiontype: new, not installed
 777
 778 util-linux 2.11i
 779
 780 * testincl: do not run conftest (Brian Murphy)
 781 * blockdev: corrected ioctl numbers now that BLKBSZGET is in 2.4.10pre3
 782 * cal: fixed for Hungarian locale
 783 * cal: fixed for multibyte locales (Pablo Saratxaga)
 784 * fdisk: avoid superfluous warning about DOS partitions
 785 * line: new, to support SCO shell scripts (Christoph Hellwig)
 786 * mount: added vxfs magic
 787 * passwd: tiny fix for ARM (Ken Cox)
 788 * replay: replay typescript with timings (Joey Hess)
 789 * script: add -t flag for timing (Joey Hess)
 790
 791 util-linux 2.11h
 792
 793 * Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
 794 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 795 * banner: minor fix (awayzzz@digibel.org)
 796 * mkfs.minix: minix v2 fix
 797 * more.1: improved (Edward Betts)
 798 * mount.8: corrected description of the nwfs uni_xlate mount option
 799 * vipw: make temp files of mode 0600 (Bill Nottingham)
 800 * wall: avoid writing to /dev/:0
 801
 802 util-linux 2.11g
 803
 804 * MCONFIG & configure: fix for gcc 3.0
 805   Note that nfsmount_xdr.c may give warnings with gcc 3.0, essentially
 806   because of defines in <rpc/xdr.h> that use things like ntohl(*buf++)
 807   where ntohl(x) is a macro with several occurrences of x.
 808 * blockdev: support for the get/set blocksize ioctls
 809   [not yet in the 2.4.5 kernel]
 810 * fdisk: added Linux/PA-RISC type (Matt Taggart)
 811 * mount: minor fix (Andrey J. Melnikoff)
 812 * mount: added some ext3 stuff (Andrew Morton)
 813 * mount: added heuristics for reiserfs (Andrew Morton)
 814 * mount.8: added ext3 and reiserfs docs (Andrew Morton)
 815
 816 util-linux 2.11f
 817
 818 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
 819 * fdisk: fix for "reorder" expert command
 820   (use of sfdisk afterwards is still recommended)
 821 * mount: minor fixes
 822
 823 util-linux 2.11e
 824
 825 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 826 * Brazilian Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes)
 827 * agetty: give tty mode 0600 instead of 0622
 828 * cal: improved manpage
 829 * cfdisk: add user-friendliness in case of empty disk (Matthew Wilcox)
 830 * dmesg: improved manpage
 831 * fdisk: SuperH fix (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
 832 * hwclock: accept alpha options in both upper and lower case
 833   (so as to make the man page correct)
 834 * hwclock: add option --noadjtime (Henrique M. Holschuh)
 835 * login: child must have controlling tty (Michał Moskal)
 836 * more: don't seek unseekable input (David Whedon)
 837 * mount: upon request by Richard Gooch: if the mount point is specified
 838   as symlink, put symlink, not actual mount point in mtab.
 839   (This avoids the long and ugly devfs names, but may break things.
 840   Please complain in case of problems.)
 841 * mount: with mount -a -t nfs:
 842   if we used fallback to nfs v3, don't do so for subsequent mounts
 843 * mount: add heuristics for ext3 (Andrew Morton)
 844 * mount: added quota info to mount.8
 845 * mount: allow comma-separated type lists, also in fstab
 846 * raw: small fix for ppc
 847
 848 util-linux 2.11d
 849
 850 * fdisk: fix for OSF (Will Woods)
 851 * chsh: compilation fix (Ronald Wahl)
 852
 853 util-linux 2.11c
 854
 855 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
 856 * German messages (Elrond)
 857 * Makefile/MCONFIG improvements (Peter Breitenlohner)
 858 * fdisk: added a few partition types
 859 * fdisk: correct partition numbering for sgi partitions (Nathan Scott)
 860 * fdisk: make it compile on hppa by arbitrarily treating hppa like powerpc
 861   (Matt Taggart)
 862 * fsck.minix: improved localisation (Elrond)
 863 * getopt: updated to version 1.1.2 (Frodo Looijaard)
 864 * hwclock: fixes for IA64 (Thorsten Kukuk)
 865 * hwclock: use /dev/vc/1 when devfs is used (Thomas Koeller)
 866 * hwclock: more devfs support (e.g. /dev/misc/rtc)
 867 * ipcs: add spaces in output (DeWitt Clinton),
 868   correct some error messages (Bobby de Vos)
 869 * login: fix TIOCNOTTY (Andreas Haumer, Adam J. Richter)
 870 * login: add btmp logging of unsuccessful login attempts (Erik Troan)
 871 * login: avoid a SIGHUP race with PAM enabled (Peter 'Luna' Runestig)
 872 * login: copy the static result returned by gethostbyname to avoid
 873   corruption by pam_authenticate via pam_ldap (Andreas Damm)
 874 * login: removed the REDHAT_IGNORED_MAILSIZE hack
 875 * login: unconditionally do vhangup
 876 * login: zero PAM_USER when no username was given (Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz)
 877 * look: dictionary now under /usr/share (Erik Troan)
 878 * mount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
 879 * mount: another heuristic for vfat (Michal Svec)
 880 * mount: xfs magic has only one endianness (Nathan Scott)
 881 * mount: return failure when tcp used and portmap returns 0 (H. J. Lu)
 882 * rdev: allow unlimited recursion to find the long devfs names
 883   Also, allow major,minor pair the specify device (request by Russell Coker)
 884 * readprofile: array bound check (Andrew Morton)
 885 * script: transmit window changes to child (Joey Hess)
 886 * sfdisk: endian fix for ppc (Gregory Geiselhart)
 887 * sfdisk: new feature: sign is offset from default (Byron Stanoszek)
 888 * sfdisk: add some default devices to list (Luca Montecchiani)
 889 * sfdisk: no partition table on ide tape
 890 * shutdown: close files, unblock signals (Richard Gooch)
 891 * simpleinit: block signals in handlers; add no_reboot option (Richard Gooch)
 892 * swapdev: deleted, it was last used with Linux 0.12.
 893 * umount: mips does support umount2 (Maciej W. Rozycki)
 894 * umount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
 895 * umount: fix exit status
 896 * wall: do not forget 80th character (Thorsten Kukuk)
 897
 898 util-linux 2.11b:
 899
 900 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 901 * umount: mips does not support umount2 (Christoph Martin)
 902 * fdisk: tiny fix
 903 * mount.8: adfs options documented, xfs corrected
 904
 905 util-linux 2.11a:
 906
 907 * tsort: deleted - it is part of GNU textutils 2.0
 908 * mount: fix rootdev() (Richard Kettlewell)
 909 * mount: fix gid of mtab file
 910 * mount: try /proc/filesystems after /etc/filesystems if the latter ends in "*"
 911 * fdisk: added a few system types
 912
 913 util-linux 2.11:
 914
 915 * Jump to 2.11 to note that libc-4.5.26 is no longer supported,
 916   and we require libc-4.6.27 (since now snprintf is used).
 917   Also, kbdrate has now been removed. Find it in kbd-1.05.
 918   Added -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS.
 919 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 920 * fdisk: avoid loop in case of extended without logical
 921 * ipcs: corrected interchanged report on msg_rtime/msg_stime (Arun Kumar U)
 922 * kill: updated manpage
 923 * last: very much faster with mmap (Marek Zelem)
 924 * login: Applied PAM patch by David MacKenzie <djm@web.us.uu.net>
 925 * login: do a setsid in the child (Erik Troan)
 926 * mount: make "mount 192.168.1.8:/ /a -o bg" work again (Bjoern Voigt)
 927 * mount: added constant MS_MOVE
 928 * readprofile: added -M option, updated manpage (Andrew Morton)
 929 * setsid: fork when it would fail otherwise (John Fremlin)
 930 * simpleinit: updated (Richard Gooch et al.)
 931 * vipw: also offer to edit shadow file (Erik Troan)
 932 * xfs docs (Nathan Scott)
 933
 934 util-linux 2.10s:
 935
 936 * Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
 937 * fixes to make gcc happy (Joseph S. Myers)
 938 * fix for more on parisc (Richard Hirst)
 939 * change rdev to search subdirectories of /dev (Paul Clements)
 940 * ul fix (Masao Kawamura) - set columns correctly
 941 * cal fix (Brendan Kehoe) - don't overflow weekday array in Gaelic
 942 * fdisk fix (niles@scyld.com) - flush stdout
 943 * fdisk fix - don't forget to write out empty label
 944 * login: make default tty mode 0600
 945 * script: refuse to write typescript if that is a symlink
 946 * script: accept -V to output version
 947 * whereis: also search /usr/share/man.
 948 * hwclock: improve locale handling
 949 * hwclock: fix for Nautilus (Neoklis Kyriazis)
 950 * isosize: new
 951
 952 util-linux 2.10r:
 953
 954 * mount: support mount by uuid or label for xfs (Nathan Scott)
 955 * mount: added probe for minix on bigendian systems (Nathan Scott)
 956 * mount: added probes for cramfs, hfs, hpfs and adfs (Sepp Wijnands)
 957 * mount: change setup; let umount remove at most one line from /etc/mtab
 958 * mount: improve man page
 959 * more, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ul: nls improvements (Masao Kawamura)
 960
 961 util-linux 2.10q:
 962
 963 * mount: accept nonnumeric uid= and gid= options
 964 * write and wall: security improvement
 965 * fixed fdformat flaw (Werner Almesberger)
 966 * use right mountport upon umount (Glenn Lingle)
 967 * simpleinit / need / initctl stuff (Richard Gooch)
 968 * Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes et al.)
 969
 970 util-linux 2.10p:
 971
 972 * mount: don't set up a loop file with -o loop,remount (Marc Mutz)
 973 * fdisk: changes for sectorsize different from 512
 974 * more: standout fix (Paul Vojta)
 975 * more: improve usage message (Lincoln Myers)
 976 * logger: Added -d option to use datagrams (Gerwin Pfab)
 977 * cal: Added -3 option to also print prev/next month (Michael Charles Pruznick)
 978 * French messages (Christophe Merlet)
 979 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
 980
 981 util-linux 2.10o:
 982
 983 * fdformat: fixed to work with kernel 2.4.0test6 (Marek Wojtowicz)
 984 * losetup: also return status when only showing loop device status (ewt)
 985 * mount: do not retry ro if mount was ro; improve error message
 986 * login: not installed suid
 987 * getopt: by default install aux files in /usr/share/misc
 988
 989 util-linux 2.10n:
 990
 991 * added blockdev.8
 992 * change to elvtune (andrea)
 993 * fixed overrun in agetty (vii@penguinpowered.com)
 994 * shutdown: prefer umounting by mount point (rgooch)
 995 * fdisk: added plan9
 996 * fdisk: remove empty links in chain of extended partitions
 997 * mount: define ALWAYS_STAT
 998 * mount: add replace, after, before, over, bind
 999 * umount: also free loop device when not writing mtab
1000 * lomount: try both /dev/loopN and /dev/loop/N
1001 * hwclock: handle both /dev/rtc and /dev/efirtc (Bill Nottingham)
1002 * script: added -f (flush) option (Ivan Schreter)
1003 * script: added -q (quiet) option (Per Andreas Buer)
1004 * getopt: updated to version 1.1.0 (Frodo Looijaard)
1005 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1006
1007 util-linux 2.10m:
1008
1009 * chfn fix when PAM is used (Martin-D. Lacasse)
1010 * do not use LC_NUMERIC part of locale in hwclock when writing /etc/adjtime
1011 * mount status return from smb or ncp fix (Mark Peloquin)
1012 * mount new option -l: also print label when listing mounts
1013 * mount add heuristic for xfs (Martin K. Petersen)
1014 * mount UUID and label cache (Erik Troan)
1015 * mount improve check for `already mounted' in case of label or uuid
1016 * fdisk partition names more devfs-friendly
1017 * fdisk bsdlabel large disk support
1018 * setterm.1: options documented (Colin Watson)
1019 * rename correction
1020 * German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese messages
1021   (Roger Luethi, Beth Powell, Alvaro Antunes)
1022
1023 util-linux 2.10l:
1024
1025 * Merged losetup.c and lomount.c
1026 * ANSIfied everything
1027
1028 util-linux 2.10k:
1029
1030 * NFS version 4 mount support (Trond Myklebust)
1031 * hwclock fix (Stefan Ring)
1032 * Added -p option to col, as required by SUS (Joseph S. Myers)
1033
1034 util-linux 2.10j:
1035
1036 * fdisk fixes (Michal Jaegermann)
1037
1038 util-linux 2.10i:
1039
1040 * new directory partx (with code to play with, not to use)
1041 * minor fdisk changes
1042
1043 util-linux 2.10h:
1044
1045 * Added pivot_root (Werner Almesberger)
1046 * Added elvtune (Andrea Arcangeli)
1047 * Added need and extended simpleinit and shutdown (Richard Gooch)
1048 * Removed all #include <linux/fs.h>
1049 * errno fixes (Joseph S. Myers)
1050 * IA-64 fixes (Michael K. Johnson)
1051 * fdisk fixes for OSF/1 on Alpha (David Huggins-Daines)
1052 * fdisk sectorsize fix (Greg Hosler)
1053 * mount speed= option to enable mounting bad CDROMs (Marco d'Itri)
1054 * ipcrm deletes several things at once (Frank Zago)
1055
1056 util-linux 2.10g:
1057
1058 * fdisk can now sort partitions into order [untested, beware!]
1059 * Update of mkswap for sparc64 (jj)
1060 * Update of raw (Stephen Tweedie):
1061   Control file was /dev/raw, now /dev/rawctl
1062   Access files were /dev/raw*, now /dev/raw/raw*
1063 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1064 * German messages (Daniel Egger)
1065 * losetup locks memory (Frank v Waveren)
1066
1067 util-linux 2.10f:
1068
1069 * Security fix for mount (okir)
1070 * Avoid infinite loop in namei (Brett Wuth)
1071 * added clock-ppc.c (from Matsuura Takanori), not merged yet
1072 * deleted clockB subdirectory
1073 * recognize mkdosfs string (Michal Svec)
1074
1075 util-linux 2.10e:
1076
1077 * New: rename
1078 * Added option to mkswap so that user can override pagesize
1079 * fdisk -l now reads /proc/partitions when no device was given
1080 * Fixed fdisk.8 (James Manning)
1081 * Added devpts info to mount.8 (Elrond)
1082 * Newline fix for logger output to stdout (Henri Spencer)
1083
1084 util-linux 2.10d:
1085
1086 * Do not try to mount something as udf without good reason
1087 * Do not loop in umount if there is a stale lock file
1088 * Allow fdisk twice as many cylinders
1089 * Fixed non-casefolding search in look (Markus Demleitner)
1090
1091 util-linux 2.10c:
1092
1093 * Various compilation fixes
1094
1095 util-linux 2.10b:
1096
1097 * Fixed smbmount problem (Andrew Tridgell)
1098 * Fixed ddate problem with the day after St. Tib's Day (Brad)
1099 * German messages (Elrond)
1100 * Made kill a bit more standard compliant
1101 * Made some more programs output a version
1102
1103 util-linux 2.10a:
1104
1105 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
1106 * French messages and several Debian fixes (Vincent Renardias)
1107 * Fixed infinite loop in mkfs.minix
1108
1109 util-linux 2.10:
1110
1111 * Added BSD disklabel code to rescuept
1112 * Added blockdev utility
1113 * Fix losetup return code
1114 * Fix unit display in cfdisk
1115 * Do not redefine _PATH_MAILDIR (so that recent systems can have /var/mail)
1116 * Added --localtime option to hwclock;
1117   added third line (LOCAL/UTC) to /etc/adjtime.
1118 * Add -H option to agetty (David Holland)
1119
1120 util-linux 2.9z:
1121
1122 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
1123 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1124 * Added some udf stuff to mount.8
1125 * Added ioctl for fdisk on bsdlabels
1126
1127 util-linux 2.9y:
1128
1129 * Wide character support (Bruno Haible)
1130 * German messages and some small fixes (Elrond)
1131 * Small fix to owner mount option (Erik Troan)
1132 * Don't sleep so long in clock/kd.c (Christian T. Steigies)
1133
1134 util-linux 2.9x:
1135
1136 * German messages and a i18n fix (Elrond)
1137 * mount option: allow the owner to mount a device (RedHat)
1138 * ugly: let login open console with O_NONBLOCK (Maciej W. Rozycki)
1139 * UGLY: let login ignore mail that is precisely 523 bytes long (RedHat)
1140 * added mkfs.bfs, mkfs.bfs.8
1141 * mount now recognizes qnx4 and bfs partitions
1142 * rescuept now recognizes Unixware partitions
1143 * hwclock fix on m68k (Roman Hodek)
1144 * several minor things
1145
1146 util-linux 2.9w:
1147
1148 * Updated mount.8 (Yann Droneaud)
1149 * Improved makefiles
1150 * Fixed flaw in fdisk
1151
1152 util-linux 2.9v:
1153
1154 * cfdisk no longer believes the kernel's HDGETGEO
1155   (and may be able to partition a 2 TB disk)
1156
1157 util-linux 2.9u:
1158
1159 * Czech more.help and messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1160 * Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
1161 * fdisk fix (Klaus G. Wagner)
1162 * mount fix (Hirokazu Takahashi)
1163 * agetty: enable hardware flow control (Thorsten Kranzkowski)
1164 * minor cfdisk improvements
1165 * fdisk no longer accepts a default device
1166 * Makefile fix
1167
1168 util-linux 2.9t:
1169
1170 * national language support for hwclock
1171 * Japanese messages (both by Daisuke Yamashita)
1172 * German messages and some misc i18n fixes (Elrond)
1173 * Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
1174 * wall fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
1175 * make last and wall use getutent() (Sascha Schumann)
1176   [Maybe this is bad: last reading all of wtmp may be too slow.
1177    Revert in case people complain.]
1178 * documented UUID= and LABEL= in fstab.5
1179 * added some partition types
1180 * swapon: warn only if verbose
1181
1182 util-linux 2.9s:
1183
1184 * tunelp patch (Andrea Arcangeli)
1185 * fixed mount race (HJLu)
1186 * German messages (Elrond)
1187
1188 util-linux 2.9[pqr]:
1189
1190 * errno->errsv patch (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
1191 * hwclock patch for the Award 4.50g BIOS "2094" bug. (Dave Coffin)
1192 * fdisk patch to correct deletion of last logical partition
1193
1194 util-linux 2.9o:
1195
1196 * fix to login by Ambrose C. Li
1197 * improvement to mcookie inspired by a patch from Rik Faith
1198 * more i18n by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo; pt_BR locale
1199
1200 util-linux 2.9n:
1201
1202 * Added -u option to logger (write to user-specified socket; Martin Schultze)
1203 * Added mount.smb script contributed by Greg Galperin
1204 * Some more national language support
1205 * mkfs.minix argument parsing fixed
1206 * write fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
1207 * configure adapted for the case of <scsi/scsi.h> that needs u_char.
1208
1209 util-linux 2.9m:
1210
1211 * Added national language support (misiek@pld.ORG.PL)
1212 * minor improvements in mount, fdisk, cfdisk, agetty, more
1213
1214 util-linux 2.9l:
1215
1216 * Added /dev/port use to hwclock again - it may be necessary for Jensen.
1217
1218 util-linux 2.9k:
1219
1220 * major reshuffle of hwclock stuff; added sparc and alpha code
1221 * fdisk fix
1222 * tiny shutdown fix
1223
1224 util-linux 2.9j:
1225
1226 * added configure
1227 * merged three lists of partition types in *fdisk
1228 * multi page display in cfdisk
1229 * test for getlogin() == "";
1230 * start fixup hwclock
1231
1232 util-linux 2.9i:
1233
1234 * fixed 2.9h typo in more
1235 * added -m: `Monday is 1st day' option to cal (Jean-Francois Bignolles)
1236 * changed PAM stuff in login.c (+- mjohnson)
1237 * added warning to cfdisk in case of multiple bootable partitions
1238 * added 2048-byte sector support in fdisk (Oliver Schaertel)
1239
1240 util-linux 2.9h:
1241
1242 * mount recognizes "uid=useruid" and "gid=usergid" in /etc/fstab.
1243 * documented the fact that "mount -t smb" will call /sbin/mount.smb.
1244 * mount gives clear error message when fstab does not end in newline.
1245 * swapon checks mode of file
1246 * cfdisk got a more specific exit status (Enrique Zanardi)
1247
1248 util-linux 2.9g:
1249
1250 * mount updates (locking, "users" keyword, "/etc/filesystems",
1251   "proto" and "vers" options in nfsmount, ...)
1252
1253 util-linux 2.9f:
1254
1255 * made ul handle lines of arbitrary length (Scott Maxwell)
1256 * killed some C/H/S nonsense in fdisk
1257 * fixes for archs with unsigned char type (Ambrose Li)
1258 * fdisk fixes for power pc (Tom Rini)
1259 * added a define for NCURSES_CONST
1260 * fixes for list of signals in kill.c
1261 * fixes for user name length in last.c
1262
1263 util-linux 2.9e:
1264
1265 * added a forgotten declaration to login.c (Christian Oyarzun)
1266
1267 util-linux 2.9d:
1268
1269 * fixed segfault in umount caused by Wilcox' patch (Steffen Zahn)
1270 * added lnz stuff to fdisk
1271
1272 util-linux 2.9c:
1273
1274 * refixed PAM stuff in login.c that was broken in 2.8.
1275
1276 util-linux 2.9b:
1277
1278 * split README into INSTALL and HISTORY
1279 * added a sentence to swapon.8
1280 * behavior of write on non-ASCII fixed
1281 * hwclock adapted to survive a failing mktime()
1282
1283 util-linux 2.9a:
1284
1285 * added an include to lib/my_reboot.c so that __GLIBC__ is defined
1286 * added setlocale() to login-utils/chfn.c
1287 * do not recompute MAIL in login-utils/login.c
1288
1289 util-linux 2.9:
1290
1291 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.9:
1292
1293 1) Removed programs:
1294    - strings. There is a version in binutils.
1295    - frag. (Moved to historic in 2.4, crept back in 2.5. Gone again.)
1296 1a) Not yet removed program:
1297    - setfdprm. It also is in fdutils-5.2 (with an exceptionally
1298      ugly man page).
1299 1b) Removed directory:
1300    - bsd. (The routine getopt() is in libc. err() moved to lib.)
1301 2) Improvements:
1302    - ddate has been fixed to count down to the new, right X-day
1303    - look is now willing to search non-English dictionaries
1304      (i.e., uses locale)
1305    - cal now knows that Dutch day abbreviations have length 2 only
1306    - mcookie does not block when no random stuff is available
1307    - shutdown got a configuration file /etc/shutdown.conf
1308    - fdisk now reads SGI disk labels (thanks to Andreas Neuper)
1309    - mkswap now knows about new swap areas; mkswap.8 has been rewritten
1310    - umount knows about umount2() and forced unmounting of nfs mounts
1311      (however, I don't think it really works)
1312    - mount is now willing to handle file names with embedded spaces
1313    - mount can now mount things by UUID or volume name
1314 3) Uglifications:
1315    - swap.h has been replaced by a private swap_constants.h since
1316      <linux/swap.h> does not compile
1317    - reboot has become a private routine, since libc5 and glibc2 conflict
1318    - a mkminix-0.1 directory contains some patches to let mkfs.minix
1319      work under DOS. (Untested.)
1320 4) Numerous other small changes.
1321
1322 0xF) Send questions and/or patches to util-linux@math.uio.no
1323
1324 util-linux 2.9 was released by Andries Brouwer - aeb@cwi.nl
1325 The address util-linux@math.uio.no reaches Rik, Andries, Peter,
1326 Michael, Erik, Nicolai and possibly others.  Hwclock stuff is
1327 forwarded to Bryan.
1328
1329 util-linux 2.8:
1330
1331 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.8:
1332
1333 1) New programs:
1334    - getopt(1) by Frodo Looijaard replaces the older bsd based version.
1335      Keywords: Backward compatible, supports --long options.
1336 1) Removed programs:
1337    - chroot: is no longer in util-linux.  Get it free with GNU sh-utils
1338    - hostid: No-one could figure out the right way for this program to
1339                 work.  Another hostid program is included in poeigl
1340                 (see the LSM, Primary-site: ftp.daimi.aau.dk /pub/linux/poe)
1341 2) Various portability enhancements.  Among other things hwclock now works
1342    a lot better on non Intel architectures.  Should compile with libc 4, 5
1343    and 6 as well as old and recent kernels.  People using non-intel hardware
1344    are encouraged to send patches.
1345 3) rev now only limits linelength to memory capacity
1346 4) dmesg now uses a buffer that matches the kernel buffer in size (8KB)
1347
1348
1349 util-linux 2.7:
1350
1351 HIGLIGHTS for version 2.7:
1352
1353 1) util-linux now _requires_ ncurses.  Several programs are completely
1354    converted to use terminfo (instead of termcap).
1355
1356 2) Removed progams:
1357    - clock: Dropped entirely.  Use hwclock (included).
1358    - sync: is in gnu fileutils.
1359    - setserial: Is being maintained by Ted Ts'o, he recommends
1360         setserial-2.12 (2.13 is bad luck)
1361    - clear: Included in ncurses
1362    - hostname, domainname, dnsdomainname: It's in net-utils.
1363    - lpcntl.
1364
1365 3) Bugfixes, additions:
1366    - cfdisk: A much improved version. All known bugs have been fixed.
1367    - sfdisk: A command line fdisk type utility, formerly called fdisk-3.04.
1368    - SECURITY: All known holes in login, chfn, chsh and others have been
1369      plugged.  UPGRADE NOW if you haven't already fixed them yourself.
1370    - Should work with libc 4, 5 and 6 (gnulibc), on m68k, intel, alpha
1371      and sparc.
1372
1373 4) Problems:
1374    - The rpcgen that comes in NetKit-B-0.09 is broken.  At least as
1375      packaged with RedHat 4.2 (NetKit-B-0.09-6).  There are several
1376      ways to deal with this:
1377      - Don't run rpcgen, the needed pre-generated sources are included
1378        (nfsmount_xdr.c).  You must hack mount/Makefile to do this.
1379      - Edit the source emitted by rpcgen so it can compile.  This is very
1380        simple if you know C.
1381      - Disable the NFS parts of mount.  You have to edit mount/Makefile
1382        to do this.
1383      - Use some other rpcgen.
1384
1385 util-linux 2.6.1
1386
1387 This release was never made public
1388
1389 See notes for 2.6 for installation instructions.
1390
1391 This is a incremental release containing some fixes.  A new release
1392 will be made later fixing the outstanding bugs.
1393 - Things compiles and works better with recent releases of kernel,
1394   ncurses, and so forth: fdisk, more
1395 - Some fixes to make things compile out of the box on alphas.
1396 - There has been reported a problem with login and /etc/usertty.  It
1397   should be fixed.  If you still have problems get a recent MAKEDEV and
1398   use it to make new tty devices.  They were renumbered sometime during
1399   the 1.3 phase of the kernel.
1400 - ipcs now displays the key of the structures.
1401 - A (harmless?) overflow bug was fixed in login.
1402
1403 Outstanding bugs:
1404 - login/getty has a denial of service problem.
1405 - Several places needs a bit more polish.
1406 - There are a _lot_ of nonfatal warnings when compiling mount.  This will
1407   not necessarily be fixed.
1408
1409
1410 util-linux 2.6
1411
1412 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.6:
1413
1414 0) The first release with me at the helm.  PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND
1415    UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no.
1416
1417 1) Removed programs:
1418    - md5sum, dsplit: available in GNU textutils.
1419    - syslogd: Sysklogd is now preferred.  It is available at
1420         tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/sources/sbin
1421         sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons
1422
1423 2) Bugfixes, additions:
1424    - SECURITY: All known holes in mount have been fixed.  UPGRADE NOW
1425      if you haven't already!
1426    - Portability enhancments to the minix filesystem utils (m68k and
1427      Arm patches).
1428    - passwd/chsh/chfn will not mess up the passwd file on a NIS machine
1429    - others too numerous to enumerate.
1430
1431 3) New programs:
1432    - vigr (it's like vipw)
1433    - Introducing hwclock.  A complete rewrite of the latest available
1434      clock source.  It supports intel/CMOS, /dev/rtc and linux/m68k
1435      system clock interfaces.  Clock supports the same things but is now
1436      obsolete and will not be present in the next release.  Start using
1437      hwclock now.  Please.
1438
1439
1440 util-linux 2.5
1441
1442 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.5:
1443 0) Nicolai Langfeldt is taking over maintenance of util-linux, with the
1444    help of a few others (Michael K. Johnson, Andries Brouwer, and Rik
1445    Faith).
1446
1447    PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no
1448
1449 1) The following packages have been removed.  Please use the up-to-date,
1450    canonical versions of these packages from the listed places:
1451
1452     timezone support (/usr/lib/zoneinfo, libz.a, zic, zdump):
1453         elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzcode95d.tar.gz
1454         elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzdata95h.tar.gz
1455     MAKEDEV-C:
1456         sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-C-1.5.tar.gz
1457     MAKEDEV:
1458         sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-2.2.tar.gz
1459     md5sum:
1460         prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils-1.3.tar.gz
1461         [The GNU version is now compatible with the Plumb/Lankester
1462         version.]
1463     ksymoops:
1464         Now bundled with the kernel in linux/scripts.
1465
1466 2) update_state has been removed
1467 3) fdisk now supports NetBSD disklabels courtesy of Bernhard Fastenrath
1468    <fasten@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de> (and > 8GB disks, courtesy of
1469    Andries Brouwer)
1470 4) mount improved -- many patches from Andries Brouwer for greatly improved
1471    error reporting
1472 5) ddate, chkdupexe, and other programs have been improved and bug fixed
1473 6) util-linux is now a source-only distribution
1474 7) mcookie generates better random numbers and will use /dev/random or
1475    /dev/audio if available
1476 8) chfn, chsh, passwd, and vipw have been updated with security patches
1477    from Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>.  Now, they all use the same
1478    locking, and several security holes have been patched.  Further, chsh
1479    and chfn can be configured at compile time to require a password before
1480    updates and chsh can be configured to only use shells from /etc/shells.
1481
1482
1483 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.4 (2.3 was never released):
1484 0) Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net> is the interim maintainer
1485    while Rik Faith is working on PhD work.
1486 1) login now makes the login tty mode 600 and places it in group "tty"
1487 2) wall, and write will not write dangerous escape sequences
1488 3) wall and write can be run setgid "tty".  If util-linux is compiled for
1489    this option, "mesg y" will only set group write instead of group/other
1490    write.
1491 4) fdisk and cfdisk have been patched with the latest llseek.c.  Although I
1492    had a lot of bug reports about fdisk from util-linux-2.2, I was unable
1493    to reproduce any of the problems.  Some of the problems appeared to be
1494    releated to a failure to reboot the machine after changing the partition
1495    table, and some may have been due to a specific kernel revision problem.
1496    However, this doesn't seem to account for all of the bug reports -- if
1497    this version gives you problem, please send as complete a bug report as
1498    possible.
1499 5) chkdupexe from Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
1500 6) ctrlaltdel now installs into /sbin instead of /usr/sbin
1501 7) mkfs replacement from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
1502 8) lpcntl removed.  Use tunelp instead.
1503 9) ksymoops from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
1504 10) mkfs.minix now clears the first 512 bytes of the file system so that
1505     Minix disks won't be confused with MSDOS disks (Daniel Quinlan
1506     (quinlan@yggdrasil.com))
1507 11) mkswap should now work on an Alpha running Linux
1508 12) frag removed.  See
1509     sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/defrag-0.6.tar.gz for the
1510     latest version.
1511 13) mount patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1512     (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
1513 14) MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV-C updated to the latest versions.
1514 15) Paths updated for FSSTND 1.2.  This means that you may need to make
1515     some links.  The links you need to make we system dependent.  The
1516     ultimate goal is to rename /var/adm to /var/log and have a symbolic
1517     link from /var/adm to /var/log during the transition period.  If you
1518     are running an ELF system, you probably won't have to do anything.  The
1519     bottom line is that the following files must exist or be pointers to
1520     the old version (used internally by the a.out libraries):
1521
1522              New                 Old
1523
1524         /var/log/wtmp       /var/adm/wtmp
1525         /var/log/lastlog    /var/adm/lastlog
1526         /var/run/utmp       /var/adm/utmp
1527
1528 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.2:
1529 1) This is primarily a quick bug-fix release for version 2.1
1530 2) mkfs wrapper added back in, since e2fsprogs only supplies an fsck wrapper
1531 3) selection removed, since someone appears to be maintaining it now.  See
1532    sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/patches/console for recent sources.
1533    For the time being, I'm keeping a copy in the historic subdirectory of
1534    util-linux.  A "make install" should work find from within that
1535    directory.
1536 4) Note that other floppy utilities are available from:
1537     ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1538     sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1539     tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1540
1541
1542 HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.1:
1543
1544 1) Directory structure rearrange, with configuration support for those who
1545    use shadow passwords and System V init (no support is provided for these
1546    things, but your utilities won't get overwritten if you do a "make
1547    install" after you properly edit MCONFIG).
1548 2) fdisk and cfdisk should work as expected with 2GB+ disk drives
1549 3) As usual, lots of stuff was updated and added, including mount, vipw,
1550    readprofile
1551 4) Some stuff was also deleted, and can now be found elsewhere:
1552     fsck wrapper: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/ext2fs/e2fsprogs*
1553     pwd, su: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sh-utils*
1554     ed: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ed*
1555     od: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils*
1556     uudecode/uuencode: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sharutils*
1557     bdflush/update: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v1.1/bdflush*
1558
1559
1560
1561 PARTIAL HISTORY OF UTIL-LINUX:
1562
1563 bsd:
1564     Nothing in this directory gets installed, but some BSD programs need
1565     this support:
1566         err.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
1567         err.h: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/2/93
1568         getopt.c: 4.13 (Berkeley) 2/23/91
1569         pathnames.h: 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/9/89 with extensive modifications for
1570                      Linux
1571
1572 disk-utils:
1573     cfdisk: 0.8 BETA (>2GB) from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu) with
1574             modifications for disks > 2GB.
1575             ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/users/martin/linux/cfdisk-0.8.tar.gz
1576     fdformat: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), with
1577               modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)).
1578               Later, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner.
1579     fdisk: A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk) fdisk 1.5 release, with
1580            patched from Kevin Martin for DOS and OS/2 compatibility (1.5a);
1581            Rik Faith (1.5b, 2.0).
1582     fsck.minix, mkfs.minix: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by: Rik
1583                             Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner
1584                             (sdh@po.cwru.edu), Dr. Wettstein
1585                             (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu), Daniel
1586                             Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
1587     mkfs: David Engel (david@ods.com) and Fred N. van Kempen
1588           (waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG)
1589           Version 1.9 from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
1590     mkswap: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by Mike Jagdis
1591             (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk. )
1592             Version for Alpha from
1593             cage.cs.arizona.edu:/pub/davidm/linux/mkswap-axp-950503.tar.gz
1594     setfdprm: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
1595               Note that more floppy utilities are available from:
1596                 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1597                 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1598                 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1599     llseek.c: from Remy Card's e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz (21Mar95 version) from:
1600                 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
1601
1602 games:
1603     banner: (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94)
1604             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1605
1606 login-utils:
1607     agetty: W. Z. Venema, ported by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>.
1608             ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1609     chfn: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1610     chsh: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1611     last: 5.11 w/year (Berkeley) 6/29/88; Port by Michael Haardt with
1612           changes by Peter Orbaek.
1613           ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1614     login: 5.40 (Berkeley) 5/9/89; with ports by Michael Glad and Peter Orbaek
1615            ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1616     mesg: 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/21/94
1617           ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1618     newgrp: Michael Haardt, with modifications by Peter Orbaek.
1619             ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1620     passwd: Peter Orbaek, with yp modifications by Alvaro Martinez
1621             Echevarria (alvaro@enano.etsit.upm.es)
1622             ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1623     shutdown: Peter Orbaek, with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie, Rik
1624               Faith, and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com).
1625               ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1626     simpleinit: Peter Orbaek
1627                 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1628     vipw: 5.16 (Berkeley) 3/3/91, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1629           <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
1630     wall: 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93 (With changes so that damaging escape
1631           sequences cannot be sent.)
1632           ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1633
1634
1635 misc-utils:
1636     cal: 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/2/94, with modifications by Rik Faith and
1637          Hein@student.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein).
1638          ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1639     chkdupexe: Version 1.2 from "Nicolai Langfeldt" <janl@ifi.uio.no>
1640     clear: Rik Faith
1641     ddate: Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson aka mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
1642            with modifications by Lee Harvey Oswald Smith, K.S.C. and
1643            substantial updates from Rev. Bro. Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP
1644     domainname: Peter Orbaek
1645             ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1646     dsplit: David Arnstein (arnstein@netcom.com)
1647             gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume40/dsplit
1648     getopt (getoptprog): jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu:
1649            /pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt
1650            replaced by getopt-1.0.3.tar.gz from Frodo Looijaard,
1651            found at http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol
1652     hostid: Mitch DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
1653             ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1654     hostname/dnsdomainname: Peter Tobias <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
1655               This version (1.6) should also be available soon in:
1656               nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/net-source/base/NetKit-A*
1657     kill: BSD version, modified by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
1658     logger: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1659             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1660     look.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1661             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1662     mcookie: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1663     md5sum: Branki Lankester and Colin Plumb.  The MD5 message-digest
1664             algorithm is in the Public Domain.  This implementation
1665             calculates message-digest information only, and can NOT be used
1666             for encryption.  Therefore it is exportable from the USA.
1667             Original sources in the MIT version of PGP 2.6.2.
1668     namei: Roger S. Southwick, with modifications by Steve Tell.
1669     reset: Rik Faith
1670     script: 5.13 (Berkeley) 3/5/91, with modifications by Rick Sladkey
1671             (jrs@world.std.com), Harald Koenig
1672             (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de).
1673     setterm: Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au), with modifications by
1674              Peter MacDonald, Mika Liljeberg (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI),
1675              John Walder (j-walder@uiuc.edu) [for dosemu].
1676     tsort: 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1677            wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1678     whereis: 5.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/91
1679              wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1680     write: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1681            (kashmir@umiacs.umd.edu).  With changes so that damaging escape
1682            sequences cannot be sent.
1683            ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1684
1685
1686 mount:
1687     mount, umount, swapon
1688
1689     Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen
1690     Tweedie provided updates.  The utilities were originally from that
1691     package (all appear to be by Doug Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu),
1692     with modifications by H. J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) on 11/25/92; Rick
1693     Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) in January 1993; and Stephen Tweedie
1694     <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> on 8 October 1993.  This distribution mount now
1695     supports NFS stuff.  I have modified the man pages.  I have also added
1696     a small patch from Hamish Glen Coleman (t933093@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
1697     which restores the -o semantics.
1698
1699     Updated with Rick Sladkey's mount-0.99.14.tar.gz package, and with
1700     extra patches from Rick.  Adam J. Richter allowed -t option to be
1701     optional. Patrick J. Volkerding (volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) and
1702     Mitchum DSouza both provided patches that fixed the (null) problem when
1703     not using -t. Mitchum DSouza
1704     (mitch@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk) added support for loop
1705     device mounts. Sebastian Lederer
1706     (lederer@next-pc.informatik.uni-bonn.de) added support for sending an
1707     unmount RPC call to the server when an NFS-filesystem is unmounted.
1708     Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) added support for remounting
1709     readonly file systems readonly.  Mike Grupenhoff
1710     <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU> added a probe of the superblock for the type
1711     before /proc/filesystems is checked.  Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl fixed up
1712     error reporting.
1713
1714     Updated with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1715     (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).  And more patches from Andries and others.
1716
1717 historic/selection: The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett
1718     <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>, 17th June 1993, is included in the historic tree.
1719     Kernel patches are no longer necessary for modern kernels, but these
1720     were tiny so I left them in for historical reasons.  The Makefile was
1721     modified for this distribution.  With changes from Rick Sladkey.
1722
1723 sys-utils:
1724     arch: Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
1725     chroot: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1726     clock: Originally from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package, Charles Hedrick,
1727            hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu (V1.0); Rob Hooft, hooft@chem.ruu.nl
1728            (V1.1); Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
1729            (V1.2).  With additional changes: Hamish Coleman
1730            (hamish@zot.apana.org.au) (V1.2a); Alan Modra
1731            (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (V1.3, V1.4).
1732     ctrlaltdel: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
1733                 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1734     cytune: Nick Simicish (njs@scifi.emi.net) and Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1735     dmesg: Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu); Rick Sladkey
1736            (jrs@world.std.com)
1737     ipcrm: From the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1738            balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93.  ipc.info and ipc.texi
1739            are also from that distribution.
1740     ipcs: Also from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1741           balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu, with patches from Mike Jagdis
1742           (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk)
1743     kbdrate: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), with patches from
1744              Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and John Bowman
1745              (bowman@hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
1746     ksymoops: 1.7 from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
1747     rdev: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger), with
1748           modifications from Peter MacDonald, Stephen Tweedie
1749           (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk), and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com)
1750     readprofile: Alessandro Rubini from readprofile-2.0.tar.gz
1751     renice: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
1752             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1753     setserial: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) re-released Rick
1754                Sladkey's setserial in January 1993, with changes by
1755                Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu).  I think that Theodore also
1756                did extensive changes for version 2.01, I can't find any
1757                notes about this in the documentation. However, Theodore
1758                Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) released version 2.10, and that
1759                is now included.
1760     setsid: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1761     sln: Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc)
1762     sync: Nick Holloway, with thanks to James Bonfield
1763     tunelp: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net)
1764
1765
1766 syslogd:
1767    5.45 (Berkeley) 3/2/91
1768
1769    Most of the changes for syslogd come from Rick Sladkey
1770    (jrs@world.std.com), but I'd like to thank other people who sent in
1771    changes (which usually got forwarded to Rick): Carsten Paeth
1772    (calle@calle.in-berlin.de) and Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp).
1773
1774 text-utils:
1775     col: 5.3 (Berkeley) 2/2/91; with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
1776          and Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com)
1777          wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1778     colcrt: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 (Bill Joy)
1779             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1780     colrm: 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/90 (Jeff Schriebman)
1781     column: 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
1782             ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1783     hexdump: 5.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1784              wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1785     more: 5.19 (Berkeley) 6/29/88 (Eric Shienbrood, Geoff Peck, John Foderaro)
1786     rev: 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/92; with modifications by Charles Hannum
1787          (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu), Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu),
1788          bjdouma@xs4all.nl
1789          wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1790     strings: 5.10 (Berkeley) 5/23/91; with patches from Vitor Duarte
1791              <vad@fct.unl.pt>
1792              wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1793     ul: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
1794         ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1795