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80 * lptune.8: -T option is obsolete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