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