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1util-linux 2.30: Jun 02 2017
2* see Documentation/releases/v2.30-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
3 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/v2.30-ChangeLog
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47cd0ae0 5util-linux 2.30-rc2: May 12 2017
c604411f 6* see Documentation/releases/v2.30-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
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7 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/v2.30-rc2-ChangeLog
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9util-linux 2.30-rc1: May 12 2017
10* see Documentation/releases/v2.30-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
11 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.30/v2.30-rc1-ChangeLog
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13util-linux 2.29: Nov 8 2016
14* see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 15 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-ChangeLog
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17util-linux 2.29-rc2: Oct 19 2016
18* see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 19 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-rc2-ChangeLog
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21util-linux 2.29-rc1: Sep 30 2016
22* see Documentation/releases/v2.29-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 23 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.29/v2.29-rc1-ChangeLog
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25util-linux 2.28: Apr 12 2016
26* see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 27 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-ChangeLog
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29util-linux 2.28-rc2: Mar 29 2016
30* see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 31 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-rc2-ChangeLog
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33util-linux 2.28-rc1: Mar 11 2016
34* see Documentation/releases/v2.28-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 35 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.28/v2.28-rc1-ChangeLog
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37util-linux 2.27: Sep 07 2015
38* see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 39 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-ChangeLog
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0e58e169 41util-linux 2.27-rc2: Aug 24 2015
55ebd014 42* see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 43 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-rc2-ChangeLog
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45util-linux 2.27-rc1: Jul 31 2015
46* see Documentation/releases/v2.27-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 47 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.27/v2.27-rc1-ChangeLog
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49util-linux 2.26: Feb 19 2015
50* see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 51 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-ChangeLog
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035e4c0a 53util-linux 2.26-rc2: Feb 4 2015
34271696 54* see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 55 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-rc2-ChangeLog
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57util-linux 2.26-rc1: Jan 14 2015
34271696 58* see Documentation/releases/v2.26-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 59 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.26/v2.26-rc1-ChangeLog
32511bfb 60
1687d0a0 61util-linux 2.25: Jul 22 2014
34271696 62* see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 63 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-ChangeLog
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8b9d1474 65util-linux 2.25-rc2: Jul 2 2014
34271696 66* see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 67 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-rc2-ChangeLog
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993fdba0 69util-linux 2.25-rc1: Jun 18 2014
34271696 70* see Documentation/releases/v2.25-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 71 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.25/v2.25-rc1-ChangeLog
4ee839df 72
bad3c52f 73util-linux 2.24: Oct 21 2013
34271696 74* see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 75 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/v2.24-ChangeLog
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e6ce04c7 77util-linux 2.24-rc2: Oct 11 2013
34271696 78* see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 79 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/v2.24-rc2-ChangeLog
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6073251c 81util-linux 2.24-rc1: Sep 27 2013
34271696 82* see Documentation/releases/v2.24-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 83 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.24/v2.24-rc1-ChangeLog
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d80aa81d 85util-linux 2.23: Apr 25 2013
34271696 86* see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 87 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-ChangeLog
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e38f35d3 89util-linux 2.23-rc2: Apr 10 2013
34271696 90* see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 91 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-rc2-ChangeLog
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fb5a24e5 93util-linux 2.23-rc1: Mar 22 2013
34271696 94* see Documentation/releases/v2.23-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 95 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.23/v2.23-rc1-ChangeLog
fb5a24e5 96
58e6e67a 97util-linux 2.22: Sep 04 2012
34271696 98* see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 99 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-ChangeLog
58e6e67a 100
123011de 101util-linux 2.22-rc2: Aug 15 2012
34271696 102* see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 103 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-rc2-ChangeLog
123011de 104
31de0476 105util-linux 2.22-rc1: Jul 27 2012
34271696 106* see Documentation/releases/v2.22-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 107 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.22/v2.22-rc1-ChangeLog
31de0476 108
6b7113bc 109util-linux 2.21: Feb 24 2012
34271696 110* see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 111 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-ChangeLog
6b7113bc 112
1e962459 113util-linux 2.21-rc2: Feb 06 2012
34271696 114* see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 115 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-rc2-ChangeLog
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e6e5b7dc 117util-linux 2.21-rc1: Jan 18 2012
34271696 118* see Documentation/releases/v2.21-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 119 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.21/v2.21-rc1-ChangeLog
e6e5b7dc 120
60a5833b 121util-linux 2.20: Aug 29 2011
990dabe7 122* see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 123 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-ChangeLog
60a5833b 124
e13d44a1 125util-linux 2.20-rc2: Aug 17 2011
990dabe7 126* see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 127 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-rc2-ChangeLog
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d6fc523d 129util-linux 2.20-rc1: Jul 29 2011
34271696 130* see Documentation/releases/v2.20-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 131 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.20/v2.20-rc1-ChangeLog
d6fc523d 132
69df550f 133util-linux 2.19: Feb 10 2011
34271696 134* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 135 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-ChangeLog
69df550f 136
539d14ec 137util-linux 2.19-rc3: Jan 25 2011
34271696 138* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 139 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc3-ChangeLog
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e4764e8b 141util-linux 2.19-rc2: Jan 25 2011
34271696 142* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 143 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc2-ChangeLog
e4764e8b 144
1d9aaca9 145util-linux 2.19-rc1: Jan 05 2011
34271696 146* see Documentation/releases/v2.19-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 147 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.19/v2.19-rc1-ChangeLog
1d9aaca9 148
9c1442c1 149util-linux-ng 2.18: Jun 30 2010
34271696 150* see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 151 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-ChangeLog
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5f0b4c37 153util-linux-ng 2.18-rc2: Jun 18 2010
34271696 154* see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 155 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc2-ChangeLog
5f0b4c37 156
eae4075f 157util-linux-ng 2.18-rc1: Jun 7 2010
34271696 158* see Documentation/releases/v2.18-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 159 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.18/v2.18-rc1-ChangeLog
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36b00d61 161util-linux-ng 2.17: Jan 8 2010
34271696 162* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 163 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-ChangeLog
36b00d61 164
e05dc077 165util-linux-ng 2.17-rc3: Dec 10 2009
34271696 166* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 167 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc3-ChangeLog
e05dc077 168
9a39edc1 169util-linux-ng 2.17-rc2: Dec 9 2009
34271696 170* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 171 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc2-ChangeLog
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173util-linux-ng 2.17-rc1: Nov 20 2009
34271696 174* see Documentation/releases/v2.17-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 175 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.17/v2.17-rc1-ChangeLog
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29e107aa 177util-linux-ng 2.16: Jul 2009
34271696 178* see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 179 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-ChangeLog
29e107aa 180
4a595b07 181util-linux-ng 2.16-rc2: Jul 2 2009
34271696 182* see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 183 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc2-ChangeLog
4a595b07 184
a8dd2fe1 185util-linux-ng 2.16-rc1: Jun 28 2009
34271696 186* see Documentation/releases/v2.16-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 187 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.16/v2.16-rc1-ChangeLog
a8dd2fe1 188
676c8bfa 189util-linux-ng 2.15: May 5 2009
34271696 190* see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 191 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-ChangeLog
676c8bfa 192
1c3af053 193util-linux-ng 2.15-rc2: Apr 17 2009
34271696 194* see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 195 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc2-ChangeLog
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0152a9ea 197util-linux-ng 2.15-rc1: Mar 18 2009
34271696 198* see Documentation/releases/v2.15-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 199 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.15/v2.15-rc1-ChangeLog
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201util-linux-ng 2.14: Jun 9 2008
34271696 202* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 203 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-ChangeLog
fba4e21f 204
0237593e 205util-linux-ng 2.14-rc3: May 19 2008
34271696 206* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 207 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc3-ChangeLog
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0237593e 209util-linux-ng 2.14-rc2: Apr 28 2008
34271696 210* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 211 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc2-ChangeLog
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0237593e 213util-linux-ng 2.14-rc1: Apr 16 2008
34271696 214* see Documentation/releases/v2.14-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 215 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.14/v2.14-rc1-ChangeLog
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0237593e 217util-linux-ng 2.13: Aug 28 2007
34271696 218* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 219 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-ChangeLog
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0237593e 221util-linux-ng 2.13-rc3: Aug 8 2007
34271696 222* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 223 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc3-ChangeLog
a21adf48 224
0237593e 225util-linux-ng 2.13-rc2: Jul 17 2007
34271696 226* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 227 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc2-ChangeLog
cceaba68 228
0237593e 229util-linux-ng 2.13-rc1: Jul 4 2007
34271696 230* see Documentation/releases/v2.13-ReleaseNotes or the complete changelog at
d673b74e 231 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.13/v2.13-rc1-ChangeLog
5bbc26de 232
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233util-linux 2.13-pre7
234
235* mount: default to cifs instead of smbfs for sources
7692c2c8 236 starting with // (Lars Mueller)
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237* flock: documentation updates (H. Peter Anvin)
238* new translation: id
239* updated translations: de, it, sl, uk
240
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241util-linux 2.13-pre6
242
243* getopt: updated to 1.1.4
244* replaced all *llseek variants with lseek
245* misc build system, code and docs cleanups and fixes
246* updated translations: fr, it
247
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248util-linux 2.13-pre5
249
250* {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: updated to cramfs-1.1
251* {fsck,mkfs}.cramfs: removed PAGE_CACHE_SIZE usage
252* umount: fix "umount -n -r" (Derick Swanepoel)
253* misc build system and code cleanups and fixes
254* updated translation: ca
255
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256util-linux 2.13-pre4
257
258* don't build fdisk on m68k (Mike Frysinger)
259* misc build system and documentation fixes
260* removed program: clear
261
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262util-linux 2.13-pre3
263
264* misc buld system fixes
265* cfdisk: fix a segfault with ReiserFS partitions
266* umount: disallow -r option for non-root users
267* updated translations: da, fr, it, nl, ru, sl, tr
268
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269util-linux 2.13-pre2
270
271* flock: replaced with flock-2.0.2 by H. Peter Anvin
272* misc build system fixes, libtool is no longer used
273* misc code fixes
274* updated translations: ca, fi, fr, nl, ru, tr
275
48d7b13a 276util-linux 2.13-pre1
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278* use GNU autoconf/automake/libtool for building
279* added schedutils
280* removed support for curses implementations other than ncurses
ca3ea756 281* removed programs: arch, passwd, rescuept, setfdprm, sln
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282* removed mkminix-0.1/
283* misc fixes and documentation updates
284* new translation: vi
285* updated translations: ca, de, fi, fr, it, nl, ru, tr
9d761c85 286
091b402e 287util-linux 2.12q
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289* updated translation: nl
290
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291util-linux 2.12q-pre2
292
293* sfdisk: document -G option in --help output
294* updated translations: ca, et, fr
295
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296util-linux 2.12q-pre1
297
298* new maintainer
299* sfdisk: add -G option (Andries Brouwer)
300* updated translations: de, es, ru, sv, tr
301
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302util-linux 2.12p
303
304* cfdisk: fix number of new partition when partitions not in disk order
305* fdisk: fix Sun label handling in sector mode
306* mkfs: never truncate filename (not that that ever happened)
307* more: fix redraw flaw
308
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310
311* lomount: revert patch from 2.12j
312* lptune.8: -T option is obsolete
313* mkswap, mkswap.8, swapon: support labels
80d7a313 314 (use HAVE_BLKID=no as long as the blkid library doesn't support this)
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315* umount: allow user unmounting repeatedly mounted nfs mounts
316
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317util-linux 2.12m
318
319* cfdisk: recognize JFS, support reiserfs labels (flavio.stanchina@tin.it)
320* mount: fix option parsing bug
321* mount.8: several updates
322* swapon.8: document -v option
323
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325
326* Makefile: remove cat-id-tbl.c upon make clean
327* fdisk: fixed a bug that would cause a non-update of a sun disklabel
328* fdisk: use sectorsize instead of 512 for SGI (Eric Y. Theriault)
329* fdisk: use __attribute__((packed)) for alpha, ARM: avoid unaligned accesses
330* hwclock: actually use HAVE_tm_gmtoff
331* swapon: fix priority handling
332* umount: refuse to unmount an empty string
333
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334util-linux 2.12k
335
336* cfdisk: fixed a signed character bug causing problems for Spanish users
337* configure, MCONFIG: detect gcc 3.4.0 and use -mtune option (Matthew Burgess)
338* configure: do not run ./conftest (for cross compilation) (NIIBE Yutaka)
339* fsck.cramfs: try to get correct PAGE_CACHE_SIZE
340* losetup: try to give better error messages
341* readprofile: default map file is /boot/System.map
342* rdev.8: added historical info on ramdisk
343* New French, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish messages
344
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345util-linux 2.12j
346
347* cal: highlight today (Pádraig Brady)
348* lomount: stop reading passwd at NUL, fix lo_encrypt key_size (Wolfram Kleff)
349* losetup: add -f option to find an unused loop device
350 (Alexander Wigen, Remco van Mook)
351* more: code cleanup (Joachim Henke)
352* mount: add "group" mount option (Martin Dickopp)
353* sfdisk: fix 2.6.8 BLKRRPART ioctl damage (Eric Lammerts)
354* swapon: let swapon -a skip the swapfiles marked "noauto" (Dale R. Worley)
355* umount: fix problem with empty mtab (Bryan Kadzban)
356* umount: use special umount program if it exists (Ram Pai)
b22550fa 357* New Danish and French messages
d162fcb5 358
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359util-linux 2.12i
360
361* MCONFIG: fix build conditions
362* chfn, chsh: add error checking
363* cytune: use local header cyclades.h
364* fdisk: fix default SGI volume header size (Eric Sandeen)
365* fstab.c: use strsignal() instead of sys_siglist[]
366* hwclock: use <sys/io.h> when available on i386
3fd1f771 367* hwclock: don't try KDGHWCLK on archs other than __m68k__
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368* sfdisk: correct typo in __attribute__used nonsense
369* sfdisk: use PACKED on __arm__ (Jeroen Dobbelaere)
370* sfdisk: fix warning printout
371
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372util-linux 2.12e,f,g,h
373
374* cfdisk: avoid crash if no partition table
375* elvtune: tell user that this only works on 2.4 kernels
376* lomount: clear passwords after use
377* mount: accept comments (introduced by \;) in fstab - withdrawn again
378* mount: accept comments (specified by comment=) in fstab
379* mount: support ocfs, ocfs2
380* [u]mount: be more careful with malloc, try to avoid OOM with many mounts
381* sfdisk: __attribute__used nonsense to support gcc 3.4
382* shutdown: do not unmount various virtual filesystems
383
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386* mount.8: added recent ext2 mount options
387* mount: support jfs mount-by-label, improve reiserfs support
388* sfdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
389* *fdisk: use common disksize() routine
390
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392
393* chsh: improved error message
394* dmesg: ask kernel proper buffer size
395* losetup: handle 64-bit offsets
396* blockdev: also report BLKGETSIZE64 result
397* blockdev, elvtune, fdisk: handle new kernel _IOR,_IOW defines
398* fdisk: remove strange "ends in a digit" heuristic
399* fdisk: also list Solaris as possible type for 0x82
400* mount: added --rbind option
2cccd0ff 401* mount: use blkid, uuid libraries when available
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402* mount: support reiserfs mount by label
403* mount: attempt to use the right definition of dev_t in struct loopinfo
404* mount.8: jfs mount options added
405* readprofile: new -s option
406* rename.1: added ref to mmv.1
407* replay: renamed to scriptreplay; correct typos
408* script: do not use locale for time delay floating point number format
409* sfdisk: error messages to stderr
410* New Catalan, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish,
411 Ukrainian messages
412
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414
415* chfn, chsh, login, vipw: SElinux support
416* fdisk: fix for kernels 2.4.15-2.4.17
417* fdisk: fix when all partitions are in use
9e94f393 418* hwclock: add a timeout when waiting for a clock update (Göran Weinholt)
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419* ipcs: compilation fix
420* ipcs: shminfo.shmall gives pages
421* login: use getutline() instead of getutid()
422* login: fix for 64-bit time_t
423* mount: efs support
424* partx: bigendian fix
425* readprofile: support for 64-bit addresses
426* setterm: fix klogctl error message (Joern Heissler)
427* setterm.1: clarification
428* sfdisk: fix check for is_ide_cdrom_or_tape
429* umount: skip proc, devfs, devpts on umount -a
430
431util-linux 2.12
432
433* losetup: cryptoloop support
434* losetup: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
435* fdisk: sgi layout fix
436* mount: -p option specifies fd for passphrase
437* mount: recognize some PCDOS floppies
438* umount: in "umount name", first try to interpret "name" as a mount point
439
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440util-linux 2.12pre
441
7692c2c8 442* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
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443* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
444* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
445* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
446* French messages (Michel Robitaille)
447* German messages (Michael Piefel)
7692c2c8 448* Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
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449* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
450* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 451* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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452* cfdisk: localize the Y/N answer, improve printing localized messages
453* cfdisk: make various variables long long - some disks are close to 2 TB
454* cfdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
455* fdisk: make various variables unsigned to lengthen the life of 32-bit vars
456* fdisk: some sgi fixes (Phillip Kesling)
457* fdisk: k=1000, K=1024
458* fdisk: removed last occurrences of HDIO_REQ
459* fdisk: use BLKGETSIZE64
460* hwclock: fix rtc test (Heiko Zuerker)
461* login: set a timeout on printing the timeout message (Robert Ambrose)
462* md5: x86_64 fix (mmj)
463* more: POSIX fixes
464* mount: do not supply MS_MGC_VAL when there are conflicting flags
465* mount: ncp and smb are called smbfs and ncpfs - global change
466* mount: add support for xvm mount by label (Eric Sandeen)
467* mount: correct hfs magic recognition
468* mount: keep original umask - it influences the mount call (mmj)
469* raw.8: documented unbinding of raw devices
470* readprofile: fixed off-by eight error (Werner Almesberger)
471* script: add -c option (Wayne Davison)
472* sfdisk.8: added an example of partitioning with logical partitions
473* sfdisk: only add a AA55 signature for DOS-type partition tables
474* tailf: new (Rik Faith)
475
476util-linux 2.11z
477
7692c2c8 478* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
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479* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
480* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
481* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
482* French messages (Michel Robitaille) - HURRAY!
483* German messages (Michael Piefel)
7692c2c8 484* Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
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485* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
486* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 487* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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488* getopt: replaced getopt-1.1.2 by getopt-1.1.3 (Frodo Looijaard)
489* mkcramfs: change default blocksize for ia64 and alpha
490* more.help: removed (it is built-in now, and translated)
491* mount: add -i option (inhibit calling external mount programs)
492* mount: change default: do resolve symlinks
493* readprofile: look for System.map also in /boot/System.map-`uname -r` (mmj)
494* sfdisk: also translate "start" and "end"; s/MB/MiB/
495
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497
498* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
499* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
500* German messages (Michael Piefel)
501* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
502* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
503* cfdisk: improve escape seq recognition when compiled with slang
504* fdisk: decimal units
505* hwclock/rtc.c: minor cleanup (Joachim Henke)
506* ipcs: compilation fix
507* more: kill external help file (Joachim Henke)
508* mount: fix LABEL= handling for user umount
7692c2c8 509* mount: don't abort on read error on photocds (György Kövesdi)
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510* mount.8: add dmask and fmask vfat mount options
511* pg: compilation fix (Joachim Henke)
7692c2c8 512* script: localized time strings (Göran Uddeborg)
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513* setterm: accept devfs name (Joachim Henke)
514* simpleinit: security: refuse initctl_fd if setting FD_CLOEXEC fails
515* umount: allow user umount after mount by label or uuid
516
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518
519* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
520* Dutch messages (Taco Witte)
521* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
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522* German messages (Michael Piefel)
523* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 524* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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525* cfdisk: correct error printout
526* fdisk: allow addition of a new partition when logicals all used
527 but primary free
528* hwclock: detect systime jumps backward during setting hwclock
529* mkfs.cramfs: do not mmap all files simultaneously
530* mkfs.cramfs: make blocksize settable
531* mkfs.minix: correct error printout
532* mkswap.8: now max 32 swapspaces
533* mount: new --rbind flag, for recursive loopback mounts
534* mount, umount: new -O option (Michael K. Johnson)
535* mount.8: -O and win95 options documented
536* setpwnam.c: open temp pw file with O_EXCL
537* simpleinit: fix for "spawn too fast" (Denis Vlasenko)
538* swapon: new -e option (Erik Troan)
539
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540util-linux 2.11w
541
542* cfdisk, fdisk: allow slightly larger disk sizes
543* fdisk: Makefile: also for m68 (sun3) (Kaj-Michael Lang)
544* fdisk: allow to use the last partial cylinder, change display format
545* fdisk: do not ask partition number in case there is only one choice
546* fdisk: new sunlabel fix
7692c2c8 547* login: fix possible local root exploit (Wojciech Purczyński)
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548* more: bigendian fix
549
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551
7692c2c8 552* Catalan messages (Antoni Bella Pérez)
0e6f4a20 553* Finnish messages (Lauri Nurmi)
0e6f4a20 554* Very few Russian messages (panivan@yandex.ru)
7692c2c8 555* Slovenian messages (Primož Peterlin)
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556* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
557* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 558* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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559* fdisk: add -C, -H, -S command line options
560* fdisk: allow changing type 0
561* mkswap: enable use of > 2GB swapspace
562* more: translation fix
563* mount: set umask (Sebastian Krahmer)
564* mount: test both le and be version of cramfs magic (Olaf Hering)
565* mount: recognize Oracle magic
566* pg: use fseeko64 and ftello64 when available
567
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568util-linux 2.11u
569
570* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
571* German messages (Michael Piefel)
572* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
573* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 574* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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575* configure: for fsck.cramfs, mkfs.cramfs: add test for libz
576* text-utils/Makefile: pg fix (Toomas Rosin)
577* po/Makefile: typo fix (Silvan Minghetti)
578* agetty: use same test as login does to find utmp entry
579* fdisk: fix for fdisk on empty disk (Michael D. Black)
580* hwclock: compilation fix on alpha
581* mount: add mount by label for jfs (Christoph Hellwig)
582* mount: add mount by label for evms (Luciano Chavez)
583* mount: allow regular files when guessing (Michal Svec)
584* partx/gpt.c: fix size computation (Matt Domsch)
585* readprofile: new option -b (David Mosberger)
586* umount: don't umount devfs upon umount -a (David Gilbert)
587
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589
590* fdformat: remove test on major
591* fsck.cramfs: added NLS
592* fdisk: fix device names with sundisklabels under devfs (Kaj-Michael Lang)
593* fdisk: minor polishing
594* hwclock: also handle ENOTTY ioctl return (Maciej W. Rozycki)
595* hwclock: minor polishing
596* ipcrm.8: minor polishing
597* mkfs.cramfs: added NLS
598* mkfs.cramfs: added -v (verbose) option, and made default silent
599* mount: patch for make -j (RedHat)
600* swapoff: minor polishing
601
602util-linux 2.11s
603
604* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
605* French messages: some minor corrections
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606* German messages (Michael Piefel)
607* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
608* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 609* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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610* MCONFIG: allow "make DISABLE_NLS=yes <target>" (Peter Breitenlohner)
611* configure: don't run ./conftest - better for cross-compilation (Magnus Damm)
612* fdisk: fixes for disks with OSF/1 label
613* fsck.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
614* hwclock: improved adjtime handling (James P. Rutledge)
615* hwclock: remove shhopts stuff
616* ipcs: remove unused heading (Michael Kerrisk)
617* line: replace by C version - the sh version was broken (Gunnar Ritter)
618* login: default root path: added /usr/local/[s]bin (RedHat)
619* mkfs.cramfs: new (from kernel source)
620* mount: when no type is known, assume that prefix // implies samba (RedHat)
621* mount -a: avoid stat on devices that have noauto option (Jeroen Mostert)
622* mount by label: ignore RAID partitions (RedHat)
623* [u]mount: fstab.c fix (ejb@ql.org)
624* pg: new (Gunnar Ritter)
625* sfdisk: small BSD partition fix
626* swapoff -a: also do swapoff on all files found in /proc/swaps
627* swapon -a: skip files already found in /proc/swaps
628
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630
631* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
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632* German messages (Michael Piefel)
633* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
634* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 635* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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636* MCONFIG: move $(CFLAGS) to the end to allow overrides (Kevin P. Fleming)
637* cal: tiny fix (Mitsuru Chinen)
638* fdisk: avoid <linux/hdreg.h>
9e94f393 639* fdisk: x86_64 patch (Mads Martin Jørgensen)
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640* hwclock.8: zoneinfo is now in /usr/share
641* mkswap: report in KiB instead of bytes.
642
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643util-linux 2.11q
644
645* fdisk: geometry improvement
646* login: open tty fix (Denis Vlasenko)
647* more: wide character patches (Mitsuru Chinen)
648* mount: complain on mount-by-label when label is not unique (Matt Copping)
649* partx: add GUID Partition Tables (Matt Domsch)
650
651util-linux 2.11p
652
653* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
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654* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
655* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
656* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 657* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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658* ipcrm: make POSIX compatible (Andre Corwin Mazzone)
659* ipcrm.8: idem
660* kill: fixed Makefile
a2c5f3ca 661* login: setsid fixes
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662* mkswap: max size of swap space is very large (Peter Chubb)
663* mount: JFS support for mount-by-label (hch)
664* nfsmount: check for <rpcsvc/nfs_prot.h> (hch)
665* readprofile: keep track of line numbers (John Levon)
666* umount: fix for MNT_DETACH
667
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668util-linux 2.11o
669
670* Estonian messages (Meelis Roos)
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671* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
672* Spanish messages (Santiago Vila Doncel)
673* cal: option -s: Sunday is first day of the week
674* cal.1: updated
675* cfdisk: give not only bytes but also MB or GB for clarity.
676* colrm: wide character fix (Elliot Lee)
677* *fdisk: added Darwin types (Vincent Bourgonjen)
678* fstab.5: updated
1d4ad1de 679* hexdump: -C option
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680* hwclock: cmos.c: do not include <asm/io.h> on alpha
681* mount: improved detection of ufs (and slowdown of detection of iso9660)
682* mount.8: added info on * in /etc/filesystems, shortname option of vfat,
683 mount --move, udf, return codes
684* raw: try /dev/raw/rawctl when /dev/rawctl fails (Thierry Vignaud)
685* rc.serial: removed - setserial is no longer in util-linux (kromJx)
686* README.admutil: removed - only of historical interest
687* README.bootutils-0.1: removed - only of historical interest
688* script: security fix
689* sfdisk: improved geometry detection; wider columns; default disks from
690 /proc/partitions
691* umount: permission test owner umount
692* wall.1: added suid restriction
693
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694util-linux 2.11n
695
696* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
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697* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
698* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 699* Turkish messages now in UTF-8 (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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700* blockdev: add --report option
701* cal: fix for wide multibyte-char (Motonobu Ichimura)
702* cfdisk: recognize ext3 and reiserfs (Flavio Stanchina)
703* fsck.minix: i18n changes
704* ipc.{info,texi}: minor correction
705* login: compilation fix (Jaroslaw J. Pyszny)
706* mount.8: tmpfs mount options (Karl Eichwalder)
707* mount: recognize minix v2
708* mount: support mount-by-label also for lvm (Kirby Bohling)
709* mount: order guessing of fstypes according to seek offset
710* pivot_root: compilation fix for ia64
711* readprofile: byte order auto-detection (Werner Almesberger)
712
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713util-linux 2.11m
714
715* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
716* German messages (Karl Eichwalder)
717* Swedish messages (Christian Rose)
9e94f393 718* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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719* fdisk: added netbsd type (Steven J. Hill)
720* more: fix for unsigned char (Rusty Russell)
721* mount: added sysv magic (Tim Launchbury)
722* setterm: fixed "setterm -foreground default"
723
724util-linux 2.11l
725
726* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
727* banner: removed - it is in bsdgames
728* fdisk: show partitions with empty type but some other nonzero field
729* login: copy the static struct that getpwnam() returns before calling
730 PAM routines that might themselves use getpwnam(). Abort on problems.
731 (Olaf Kirch)
732* mount: added jfs magic (Christoph Hellwig)
733* renice: report the correct new priority after a setpriority()
734* umount: add lazy unmount (Christoph Hellwig)
735
736util-linux 2.11k
737
738 Various potential buffer overflows were pointed out by awayzzz@digibel.org.
739 Fixes in agetty, hwclock, namei, readprofile, simpleinit, vipw.
740 (Also added a few [f]close() calls - entirely superfluously.)
741
742* agetty: avoid possible buffer overflow
743* cfdisk: recognize xfs (Nathan Scott)
744* cytune: added close()
745* fdformat: added close()
746* fdisk: added fclose()
747* hwclock: avoid possible buffer overflow
748* mkfs.minix: added fclose()
749* mount: remove the assumption that 635 is the default mount port
750* namei: avoid possible buffer overflow
751* rdev: added closedir()
752* readprofile: avoid possible buffer overflow
753* sfdisk: added fclose()
754* simpleinit: avoid possible buffer overflow
755* swapon: added fclose()
756* umount: use tcp when mount was done using tcp (James D Strandboge)
757* vipw: avoid possible buffer overflow
758
759util-linux 2.11j
760
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761* fdisk: fix for AIX label (Olaf Hering)
762* fdisk: fix for creating DOS label when BSD label is present
763* mount.8: added remark about blocksize to ext2 sb= mount option description.
764* partitiontype: new, not installed
765
766util-linux 2.11i
767
768* testincl: do not run conftest (Brian Murphy)
769* blockdev: corrected ioctl numbers now that BLKBSZGET is in 2.4.10pre3
770* cal: fixed for Hungarian locale
771* cal: fixed for multibyte locales (Pablo Saratxaga)
772* fdisk: avoid superfluous warning about DOS partitions
773* line: new, to support SCO shell scripts (Christoph Hellwig)
774* mount: added vxfs magic
775* passwd: tiny fix for ARM (Ken Cox)
776* replay: replay typescript with timings (Joey Hess)
777* script: add -t flag for timing (Joey Hess)
778
779util-linux 2.11h
780
9e94f393 781* Turkish messages (Nilgün Belma Bugüner)
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782* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
783* banner: minor fix (awayzzz@digibel.org)
784* mkfs.minix: minix v2 fix
785* more.1: improved (Edward Betts)
786* mount.8: corrected description of the nwfs uni_xlate mount option
787* vipw: make temp files of mode 0600 (Bill Nottingham)
788* wall: avoid writing to /dev/:0
789
790util-linux 2.11g
791
792* MCONFIG & configure: fix for gcc 3.0
793 Note that nfsmount_xdr.c may give warnings with gcc 3.0, essentially
794 because of defines in <rpc/xdr.h> that use things like ntohl(*buf++)
795 where ntohl(x) is a macro with several occurrences of x.
796* blockdev: support for the get/set blocksize ioctls
797 [not yet in the 2.4.5 kernel]
798* fdisk: added Linux/PA-RISC type (Matt Taggart)
799* mount: minor fix (Andrey J. Melnikoff)
800* mount: added some ext3 stuff (Andrew Morton)
801* mount: added heuristics for reiserfs (Andrew Morton)
802* mount.8: added ext3 and reiserfs docs (Andrew Morton)
803
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804util-linux 2.11f
805
9e94f393 806* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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807* fdisk: fix for "reorder" expert command
808 (use of sfdisk afterwards is still recommended)
809* mount: minor fixes
810
811util-linux 2.11e
812
813* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
814* Brazilian Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes)
815* agetty: give tty mode 0600 instead of 0622
816* cal: improved manpage
817* cfdisk: add user-friendliness in case of empty disk (Matthew Wilcox)
818* dmesg: improved manpage
819* fdisk: SuperH fix (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
820* hwclock: accept alpha options in both upper and lower case
821 (so as to make the man page correct)
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822* hwclock: add option --noadjtime (Henrique M. Holschuh)
823* login: child must have controlling tty (Michał Moskal)
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824* more: don't seek unseekable input (David Whedon)
825* mount: upon request by Richard Gooch: if the mount point is specified
826 as symlink, put symlink, not actual mount point in mtab.
827 (This avoids the long and ugly devfs names, but may break things.
828 Please complain in case of problems.)
829* mount: with mount -a -t nfs:
830 if we used fallback to nfs v3, don't do so for subsequent mounts
831* mount: add heuristics for ext3 (Andrew Morton)
832* mount: added quota info to mount.8
833* mount: allow comma-separated type lists, also in fstab
834* raw: small fix for ppc
835
836util-linux 2.11d
837
838* fdisk: fix for OSF (Will Woods)
839* chsh: compilation fix (Ronald Wahl)
840
841util-linux 2.11c
842
9e94f393 843* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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844* German messages (Elrond)
845* Makefile/MCONFIG improvements (Peter Breitenlohner)
846* fdisk: added a few partition types
847* fdisk: correct partition numbering for sgi partitions (Nathan Scott)
848* fdisk: make it compile on hppa by arbitrarily treating hppa like powerpc
849 (Matt Taggart)
850* fsck.minix: improved localisation (Elrond)
851* getopt: updated to version 1.1.2 (Frodo Looijaard)
852* hwclock: fixes for IA64 (Thorsten Kukuk)
853* hwclock: use /dev/vc/1 when devfs is used (Thomas Koeller)
854* hwclock: more devfs support (e.g. /dev/misc/rtc)
855* ipcs: add spaces in output (DeWitt Clinton),
856 correct some error messages (Bobby de Vos)
857* login: fix TIOCNOTTY (Andreas Haumer, Adam J. Richter)
858* login: add btmp logging of unsuccessful login attempts (Erik Troan)
859* login: avoid a SIGHUP race with PAM enabled (Peter 'Luna' Runestig)
860* login: copy the static result returned by gethostbyname to avoid
861 corruption by pam_authenticate via pam_ldap (Andreas Damm)
862* login: removed the REDHAT_IGNORED_MAILSIZE hack
863* login: unconditionally do vhangup
b50945d4 864* login: zero PAM_USER when no username was given (Arkadiusz Miśkiewicz)
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865* look: dictionary now under /usr/share (Erik Troan)
866* mount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
867* mount: another heuristic for vfat (Michal Svec)
868* mount: xfs magic has only one endianness (Nathan Scott)
869* mount: return failure when tcp used and portmap returns 0 (H. J. Lu)
870* rdev: allow unlimited recursion to find the long devfs names
871 Also, allow major,minor pair the specify device (request by Russell Coker)
872* readprofile: array bound check (Andrew Morton)
873* script: transmit window changes to child (Joey Hess)
874* sfdisk: endian fix for ppc (Gregory Geiselhart)
875* sfdisk: new feature: sign is offset from default (Byron Stanoszek)
876* sfdisk: add some default devices to list (Luca Montecchiani)
877* sfdisk: no partition table on ide tape
878* shutdown: close files, unblock signals (Richard Gooch)
879* simpleinit: block signals in handlers; add no_reboot option (Richard Gooch)
880* swapdev: deleted, it was last used with Linux 0.12.
881* umount: mips does support umount2 (Maciej W. Rozycki)
882* umount: add sanitize_env() (Solar Designer)
883* umount: fix exit status
884* wall: do not forget 80th character (Thorsten Kukuk)
885
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887
888* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
889* umount: mips does not support umount2 (Christoph Martin)
890* fdisk: tiny fix
891* mount.8: adfs options documented, xfs corrected
892
893util-linux 2.11a:
894
895* tsort: deleted - it is part of GNU textutils 2.0
896* mount: fix rootdev() (Richard Kettlewell)
897* mount: fix gid of mtab file
898* mount: try /proc/filesystems after /etc/filesystems if the latter ends in "*"
899* fdisk: added a few system types
900
901util-linux 2.11:
902
903* Jump to 2.11 to note that libc-4.5.26 is no longer supported,
904 and we require libc-4.6.27 (since now snprintf is used).
905 Also, kbdrate has now been removed. Find it in kbd-1.05.
906 Added -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS.
907* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
908* fdisk: avoid loop in case of extended without logical
909* ipcs: corrected interchanged report on msg_rtime/msg_stime (Arun Kumar U)
910* kill: updated manpage
911* last: very much faster with mmap (Marek Zelem)
912* login: Applied PAM patch by David MacKenzie <djm@web.us.uu.net>
913* login: do a setsid in the child (Erik Troan)
914* mount: make "mount 192.168.1.8:/ /a -o bg" work again (Bjoern Voigt)
915* mount: added constant MS_MOVE
916* readprofile: added -M option, updated manpage (Andrew Morton)
917* setsid: fork when it would fail otherwise (John Fremlin)
918* simpleinit: updated (Richard Gooch et al.)
919* vipw: also offer to edit shadow file (Erik Troan)
920* xfs docs (Nathan Scott)
921
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923
924* Danish messages (Claus Hindsgaul)
925* fixes to make gcc happy (Joseph S. Myers)
926* fix for more on parisc (Richard Hirst)
927* change rdev to search subdirectories of /dev (Paul Clements)
928* ul fix (Masao Kawamura) - set columns correctly
929* cal fix (Brendan Kehoe) - don't overflow weekday array in Gaelic
930* fdisk fix (niles@scyld.com) - flush stdout
931* fdisk fix - don't forget to write out empty label
932* login: make default tty mode 0600
933* script: refuse to write typescript if that is a symlink
934* script: accept -V to output version
935* whereis: also search /usr/share/man.
936* hwclock: improve locale handling
937* hwclock: fix for Nautilus (Neoklis Kyriazis)
938* isosize: new
939
940util-linux 2.10r:
941
942* mount: support mount by uuid or label for xfs (Nathan Scott)
943* mount: added probe for minix on bigendian systems (Nathan Scott)
944* mount: added probes for cramfs, hfs, hpfs and adfs (Sepp Wijnands)
945* mount: change setup; let umount remove at most one line from /etc/mtab
946* mount: improve man page
947* more, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ul: nls improvements (Masao Kawamura)
948
949util-linux 2.10q:
950
951* mount: accept nonnumeric uid= and gid= options
952* write and wall: security improvement
953* fixed fdformat flaw (Werner Almesberger)
954* use right mountport upon umount (Glenn Lingle)
955* simpleinit / need / initctl stuff (Richard Gooch)
956* Portuguese messages (Rodrigo Stulzer Lopes et al.)
957
958util-linux 2.10p:
959
960* mount: don't set up a loop file with -o loop,remount (Marc Mutz)
961* fdisk: changes for sectorsize different from 512
962* more: standout fix (Paul Vojta)
963* more: improve usage message (Lincoln Myers)
964* logger: Added -d option to use datagrams (Gerwin Pfab)
965* cal: Added -3 option to also print prev/next month (Michael Charles Pruznick)
966* French messages (Christophe Merlet)
967* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
968
969util-linux 2.10o:
970
971* fdformat: fixed to work with kernel 2.4.0test6 (Marek Wojtowicz)
972* losetup: also return status when only showing loop device status (ewt)
973* mount: do not retry ro if mount was ro; improve error message
974* login: not installed suid
975* getopt: by default install aux files in /usr/share/misc
976
977util-linux 2.10n:
978
979* added blockdev.8
980* change to elvtune (andrea)
981* fixed overrun in agetty (vii@penguinpowered.com)
982* shutdown: prefer umounting by mount point (rgooch)
983* fdisk: added plan9
984* fdisk: remove empty links in chain of extended partitions
985* mount: define ALWAYS_STAT
986* mount: add replace, after, before, over, bind
987* umount: also free loop device when not writing mtab
988* lomount: try both /dev/loopN and /dev/loop/N
989* hwclock: handle both /dev/rtc and /dev/efirtc (Bill Nottingham)
990* script: added -f (flush) option (Ivan Schreter)
991* script: added -q (quiet) option (Per Andreas Buer)
992* getopt: updated to version 1.1.0 (Frodo Looijaard)
7692c2c8 993* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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996
997* chfn fix when PAM is used (Martin-D. Lacasse)
998* do not use LC_NUMERIC part of locale in hwclock when writing /etc/adjtime
999* mount status return from smb or ncp fix (Mark Peloquin)
1000* mount new option -l: also print label when listing mounts
1001* mount add heuristic for xfs (Martin K. Petersen)
1002* mount UUID and label cache (Erik Troan)
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1004* fdisk partition names more devfs-friendly
1005* fdisk bsdlabel large disk support
1006* setterm.1: options documented (Colin Watson)
1007* rename correction
1008* German, Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese messages
1009 (Roger Luethi, Beth Powell, Alvaro Antunes)
1010
1011util-linux 2.10l:
1012
1013* Merged losetup.c and lomount.c
1014* ANSIfied everything
1015
1016util-linux 2.10k:
1017
1018* NFS version 4 mount support (Trond Myklebust)
1019* hwclock fix (Stefan Ring)
1020* Added -p option to col, as required by SUS (Joseph S. Myers)
1021
1022util-linux 2.10j:
1023
1024* fdisk fixes (Michal Jaegermann)
1025
1026util-linux 2.10i:
1027
1028* new directory partx (with code to play with, not to use)
1029* minor fdisk changes
1030
1031util-linux 2.10h:
1032
1033* Added pivot_root (Werner Almesberger)
1034* Added elvtune (Andrea Arcangeli)
1035* Added need and extended simpleinit and shutdown (Richard Gooch)
1036* Removed all #include <linux/fs.h>
1037* errno fixes (Joseph S. Myers)
1038* IA-64 fixes (Michael K. Johnson)
1039* fdisk fixes for OSF/1 on Alpha (David Huggins-Daines)
1040* fdisk sectorsize fix (Greg Hosler)
1041* mount speed= option to enable mounting bad CDROMs (Marco d'Itri)
1042* ipcrm deletes several things at once (Frank Zago)
1043
1044util-linux 2.10g:
1045
1046* fdisk can now sort partitions into order [untested, beware!]
1047* Update of mkswap for sparc64 (jj)
1048* Update of raw (Stephen Tweedie):
1049 Control file was /dev/raw, now /dev/rawctl
1050 Access files were /dev/raw*, now /dev/raw/raw*
7692c2c8 1051* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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1052* German messages (Daniel Egger)
1053* losetup locks memory (Frank v Waveren)
1054
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1056
1057* Security fix for mount (okir)
1058* Avoid infinite loop in namei (Brett Wuth)
1059* added clock-ppc.c (from Matsuura Takanori), not merged yet
1060* deleted clockB subdirectory
1061* recognize mkdosfs string (Michal Svec)
1062
1063util-linux 2.10e:
1064
1065* New: rename
1066* Added option to mkswap so that user can override pagesize
1067* fdisk -l now reads /proc/partitions when no device was given
1068* Fixed fdisk.8 (James Manning)
1069* Added devpts info to mount.8 (Elrond)
1070* Newline fix for logger output to stdout (Henri Spencer)
1071
1072util-linux 2.10d:
1073
1074* Do not try to mount something as udf without good reason
1075* Do not loop in umount if there is a stale lock file
1076* Allow fdisk twice as many cylinders
1077* Fixed non-casefolding search in look (Markus Demleitner)
1078
1079util-linux 2.10c:
1080
1081* Various compilation fixes
1082
1083util-linux 2.10b:
1084
1085* Fixed smbmount problem (Andrew Tridgell)
1086* Fixed ddate problem with the day after St. Tib's Day (Brad)
1087* German messages (Elrond)
1088* Made kill a bit more standard compliant
1089* Made some more programs output a version
1090
1091util-linux 2.10a:
1092
1093* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
1094* French messages and several Debian fixes (Vincent Renardias)
1095* Fixed infinite loop in mkfs.minix
1096
1097util-linux 2.10:
1098
1099* Added BSD disklabel code to rescuept
1100* Added blockdev utility
1101* Fix losetup return code
1102* Fix unit display in cfdisk
1103* Do not redefine _PATH_MAILDIR (so that recent systems can have /var/mail)
1104* Added --localtime option to hwclock;
1105 added third line (LOCAL/UTC) to /etc/adjtime.
1106* Add -H option to agetty (David Holland)
1107
1108util-linux 2.9z:
1109
1110* Japanese messages (Daisuke Yamashita)
7692c2c8 1111* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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1113* Added ioctl for fdisk on bsdlabels
1114
1115util-linux 2.9y:
1116
1117* Wide character support (Bruno Haible)
1118* German messages and some small fixes (Elrond)
1119* Small fix to owner mount option (Erik Troan)
1120* Don't sleep so long in clock/kd.c (Christian T. Steigies)
1121
1122util-linux 2.9x:
1123
1124* German messages and a i18n fix (Elrond)
1125* mount option: allow the owner to mount a device (RedHat)
1126* ugly: let login open console with O_NONBLOCK (Maciej W. Rozycki)
1127* UGLY: let login ignore mail that is precisely 523 bytes long (RedHat)
1128* added mkfs.bfs, mkfs.bfs.8
1129* mount now recognizes qnx4 and bfs partitions
1130* rescuept now recognizes Unixware partitions
1131* hwclock fix on m68k (Roman Hodek)
1132* several minor things
1133
1134util-linux 2.9w:
1135
1136* Updated mount.8 (Yann Droneaud)
1137* Improved makefiles
1138* Fixed flaw in fdisk
1139
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1141
1142* cfdisk no longer believes the kernel's HDGETGEO
1143 (and may be able to partition a 2 TB disk)
1144
1145util-linux 2.9u:
1146
9e94f393 1147* Czech more.help and messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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1149* fdisk fix (Klaus G. Wagner)
1150* mount fix (Hirokazu Takahashi)
1151* agetty: enable hardware flow control (Thorsten Kranzkowski)
1152* minor cfdisk improvements
1153* fdisk no longer accepts a default device
1154* Makefile fix
1155
1156util-linux 2.9t:
1157
1158* national language support for hwclock
1159* Japanese messages (both by Daisuke Yamashita)
1160* German messages and some misc i18n fixes (Elrond)
9e94f393 1161* Czech messages (Jiří Pavlovský)
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1162* wall fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
1163* make last and wall use getutent() (Sascha Schumann)
1164 [Maybe this is bad: last reading all of wtmp may be too slow.
1165 Revert in case people complain.]
1166* documented UUID= and LABEL= in fstab.5
1167* added some partition types
1168* swapon: warn only if verbose
1169
1170util-linux 2.9s:
1171
1172* tunelp patch (Andrea Arcangeli)
eb63b9b8 1173* fixed mount race (HJLu)
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1175
1176util-linux 2.9[pqr]:
1177
1178* errno->errsv patch (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
1179* hwclock patch for the Award 4.50g BIOS "2094" bug. (Dave Coffin)
1180* fdisk patch to correct deletion of last logical partition
1181
1182util-linux 2.9o:
1183
1184* fix to login by Ambrose C. Li
1185* improvement to mcookie inspired by a patch from Rik Faith
1186* more i18n by Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo; pt_BR locale
1187
1188util-linux 2.9n:
1189
1190* Added -u option to logger (write to user-specified socket; Martin Schultze)
1191* Added mount.smb script contributed by Greg Galperin
1192* Some more national language support
1193* mkfs.minix argument parsing fixed
1194* write fixed for /dev/pts/xx ttys
1195* configure adapted for the case of <scsi/scsi.h> that needs u_char.
1196
1197util-linux 2.9m:
1198
c07ebfa1 1199* Added national language support (misiek@pld.ORG.PL)
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1201
1202util-linux 2.9l:
1203
1204* Added /dev/port use to hwclock again - it may be necessary for Jensen.
1205
1206util-linux 2.9k:
1207
1208* major reshuffle of hwclock stuff; added sparc and alpha code
eb63b9b8 1209* fdisk fix
7eda085c 1210* tiny shutdown fix
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1212util-linux 2.9j:
1213
1214* added configure
1215* merged three lists of partition types in *fdisk
1216* multi page display in cfdisk
1217* test for getlogin() == "";
1218* start fixup hwclock
1219
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1221
1222* fixed 2.9h typo in more
1223* added -m: `Monday is 1st day' option to cal (Jean-Francois Bignolles)
1224* changed PAM stuff in login.c (+- mjohnson)
1225* added warning to cfdisk in case of multiple bootable partitions
1226* added 2048-byte sector support in fdisk (Oliver Schaertel)
1227
1228util-linux 2.9h:
1229
1230* mount recognizes "uid=useruid" and "gid=usergid" in /etc/fstab.
1231* documented the fact that "mount -t smb" will call /sbin/mount.smb.
1232* mount gives clear error message when fstab does not end in newline.
1233* swapon checks mode of file
1234* cfdisk got a more specific exit status (Enrique Zanardi)
1235
1236util-linux 2.9g:
1237
1238* mount updates (locking, "users" keyword, "/etc/filesystems",
1239 "proto" and "vers" options in nfsmount, ...)
1240
1241util-linux 2.9f:
1242
1243* made ul handle lines of arbitrary length (Scott Maxwell)
1244* killed some C/H/S nonsense in fdisk
1245* fixes for archs with unsigned char type (Ambrose Li)
1246* fdisk fixes for power pc (Tom Rini)
1247* added a define for NCURSES_CONST
1248* fixes for list of signals in kill.c
1249* fixes for user name length in last.c
1250
1251util-linux 2.9e:
1252
1253* added a forgotten declaration to login.c (Christian Oyarzun)
6dbe3af9 1254
5c36a0eb 1255util-linux 2.9d:
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1258* added lnz stuff to fdisk
6dbe3af9 1259
5c36a0eb 1260util-linux 2.9c:
6dbe3af9 1261
5c36a0eb 1262* refixed PAM stuff in login.c that was broken in 2.8.
6dbe3af9 1263
5c36a0eb 1264util-linux 2.9b:
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1267* added a sentence to swapon.8
ee312c65 1268* behavior of write on non-ASCII fixed
5c36a0eb 1269* hwclock adapted to survive a failing mktime()
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5c36a0eb 1271util-linux 2.9a:
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1273* added an include to lib/my_reboot.c so that __GLIBC__ is defined
1274* added setlocale() to login-utils/chfn.c
1275* do not recompute MAIL in login-utils/login.c
1276
1277util-linux 2.9:
1278
1279HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.9:
1280
12811) Removed programs:
1282 - strings. There is a version in binutils.
1283 - frag. (Moved to historic in 2.4, crept back in 2.5. Gone again.)
12841a) Not yet removed program:
1285 - setfdprm. It also is in fdutils-5.2 (with an exceptionally
1286 ugly man page).
12871b) Removed directory:
1288 - bsd. (The routine getopt() is in libc. err() moved to lib.)
12892) Improvements:
1290 - ddate has been fixed to count down to the new, right X-day
1291 - look is now willing to search non-English dictionaries
1292 (i.e., uses locale)
1293 - cal now knows that Dutch day abbreviations have length 2 only
1294 - mcookie does not block when no random stuff is available
1295 - shutdown got a configuration file /etc/shutdown.conf
1296 - fdisk now reads SGI disk labels (thanks to Andreas Neuper)
1297 - mkswap now knows about new swap areas; mkswap.8 has been rewritten
1298 - umount knows about umount2() and forced unmounting of nfs mounts
1299 (however, I don't think it really works)
1300 - mount is now willing to handle file names with embedded spaces
1301 - mount can now mount things by UUID or volume name
13023) Uglifications:
1303 - swap.h has been replaced by a private swap_constants.h since
1304 <linux/swap.h> does not compile
1305 - reboot has become a private routine, since libc5 and glibc2 conflict
1306 - a mkminix-0.1 directory contains some patches to let mkfs.minix
1307 work under DOS. (Untested.)
13084) Numerous other small changes.
1309
13100xF) Send questions and/or patches to util-linux@math.uio.no
1311
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1313The address util-linux@math.uio.no reaches Rik, Andries, Peter,
1314Michael, Erik, Nicolai and possibly others. Hwclock stuff is
1315forwarded to Bryan.
1316
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1320
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1322 - getopt(1) by Frodo Looijaard replaces the older bsd based version.
1323 Keywords: Backward compatible, supports --long options.
13241) Removed programs:
1325 - chroot: is no longer in util-linux. Get it free with GNU sh-utils
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1326 - hostid: No-one could figure out the right way for this program to
1327 work. Another hostid program is included in poeigl
1328 (see the LSM, Primary-site: ftp.daimi.aau.dk /pub/linux/poe)
13292) Various portability enhancements. Among other things hwclock now works
1330 a lot better on non Intel architectures. Should compile with libc 4, 5
1331 and 6 as well as old and recent kernels. People using non-intel hardware
1332 are encouraged to send patches.
13333) rev now only limits linelength to memory capacity
13344) dmesg now uses a buffer that matches the kernel buffer in size (8KB)
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1336
1337util-linux 2.7:
1338
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1340
13411) util-linux now _requires_ ncurses. Several programs are completely
1342 converted to use terminfo (instead of termcap).
1343
13442) Removed progams:
5c36a0eb 1345 - clock: Dropped entirely. Use hwclock (included).
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1346 - sync: is in gnu fileutils.
1347 - setserial: Is being maintained by Ted Ts'o, he recommends
1348 setserial-2.12 (2.13 is bad luck)
1349 - clear: Included in ncurses
1350 - hostname, domainname, dnsdomainname: It's in net-utils.
5c36a0eb 1351 - lpcntl.
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13533) Bugfixes, additions:
1354 - cfdisk: A much improved version. All known bugs have been fixed.
1355 - sfdisk: A command line fdisk type utility, formerly called fdisk-3.04.
1356 - SECURITY: All known holes in login, chfn, chsh and others have been
1357 plugged. UPGRADE NOW if you haven't already fixed them yourself.
1358 - Should work with libc 4, 5 and 6 (gnulibc), on m68k, intel, alpha
1359 and sparc.
1360
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1362 - The rpcgen that comes in NetKit-B-0.09 is broken. At least as
1363 packaged with RedHat 4.2 (NetKit-B-0.09-6). There are several
1364 ways to deal with this:
1365 - Don't run rpcgen, the needed pre-generated sources are included
1366 (nfsmount_xdr.c). You must hack mount/Makefile to do this.
5c36a0eb 1367 - Edit the source emitted by rpcgen so it can compile. This is very
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1368 simple if you know C.
1369 - Disable the NFS parts of mount. You have to edit mount/Makefile
1370 to do this.
5c36a0eb 1371 - Use some other rpcgen.
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1373util-linux 2.6.1
1374
1375This release was never made public
1376
1377See notes for 2.6 for installation instructions.
1378
1379This is a incremental release containing some fixes. A new release
1380will be made later fixing the outstanding bugs.
1381- Things compiles and works better with recent releases of kernel,
1382 ncurses, and so forth: fdisk, more
1383- Some fixes to make things compile out of the box on alphas.
1384- There has been reported a problem with login and /etc/usertty. It
1385 should be fixed. If you still have problems get a recent MAKEDEV and
1386 use it to make new tty devices. They were renumbered sometime during
1387 the 1.3 phase of the kernel.
1388- ipcs now displays the key of the structures.
1389- A (harmless?) overflow bug was fixed in login.
1390
1391Outstanding bugs:
1392- login/getty has a denial of service problem.
1393- Several places needs a bit more polish.
1394- There are a _lot_ of nonfatal warnings when compiling mount. This will
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1397
1398util-linux 2.6
1399
1400HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.6:
1401
14020) The first release with me at the helm. PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND
1403 UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no.
1404
14051) Removed programs:
5c36a0eb 1406 - md5sum, dsplit: available in GNU textutils.
7007991f 1407 - syslogd: Sysklogd is now preferred. It is available at
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1408 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/sources/sbin
1409 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Daemons
1410
14112) Bugfixes, additions:
1412 - SECURITY: All known holes in mount have been fixed. UPGRADE NOW
1413 if you haven't already!
1414 - Portability enhancments to the minix filesystem utils (m68k and
1415 Arm patches).
1416 - passwd/chsh/chfn will not mess up the passwd file on a NIS machine
1417 - others too numerous to enumerate.
1418
14193) New programs:
1420 - vigr (it's like vipw)
1421 - Introducing hwclock. A complete rewrite of the latest available
1422 clock source. It supports intel/CMOS, /dev/rtc and linux/m68k
1423 system clock interfaces. Clock supports the same things but is now
1424 obsolete and will not be present in the next release. Start using
1425 hwclock now. Please.
1426
1427
1428util-linux 2.5
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1430HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.5:
14310) Nicolai Langfeldt is taking over maintenance of util-linux, with the
1432 help of a few others (Michael K. Johnson, Andries Brouwer, and Rik
1433 Faith).
1434
1435 PLEASE SEND PATCHES AND UPDATES TO: util-linux@math.uio.no
1436
14371) The following packages have been removed. Please use the up-to-date,
1438 canonical versions of these packages from the listed places:
1439
1440 timezone support (/usr/lib/zoneinfo, libz.a, zic, zdump):
1441 elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzcode95d.tar.gz
1442 elsie.nci.nih.gov:/pub/tzdata95h.tar.gz
1443 MAKEDEV-C:
1444 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-C-1.5.tar.gz
1445 MAKEDEV:
1446 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Admin/MAKEDEV-2.2.tar.gz
1447 md5sum:
1448 prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils-1.3.tar.gz
1449 [The GNU version is now compatible with the Plumb/Lankester
1450 version.]
1451 ksymoops:
1452 Now bundled with the kernel in linux/scripts.
1453
14542) update_state has been removed
14553) fdisk now supports NetBSD disklabels courtesy of Bernhard Fastenrath
1456 <fasten@athene.informatik.uni-bonn.de> (and > 8GB disks, courtesy of
1457 Andries Brouwer)
14584) mount improved -- many patches from Andries Brouwer for greatly improved
1459 error reporting
14605) ddate, chkdupexe, and other programs have been improved and bug fixed
14616) util-linux is now a source-only distribution
14627) mcookie generates better random numbers and will use /dev/random or
1463 /dev/audio if available
14648) chfn, chsh, passwd, and vipw have been updated with security patches
1465 from Zefram <A.Main@dcs.warwick.ac.uk>. Now, they all use the same
1466 locking, and several security holes have been patched. Further, chsh
1467 and chfn can be configured at compile time to require a password before
1468 updates and chsh can be configured to only use shells from /etc/shells.
1469
1470
1471HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.4 (2.3 was never released):
14720) Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net> is the interim maintainer
1473 while Rik Faith is working on PhD work.
14741) login now makes the login tty mode 600 and places it in group "tty"
14752) wall, and write will not write dangerous escape sequences
14763) wall and write can be run setgid "tty". If util-linux is compiled for
1477 this option, "mesg y" will only set group write instead of group/other
1478 write.
14794) fdisk and cfdisk have been patched with the latest llseek.c. Although I
1480 had a lot of bug reports about fdisk from util-linux-2.2, I was unable
1481 to reproduce any of the problems. Some of the problems appeared to be
1482 releated to a failure to reboot the machine after changing the partition
1483 table, and some may have been due to a specific kernel revision problem.
1484 However, this doesn't seem to account for all of the bug reports -- if
1485 this version gives you problem, please send as complete a bug report as
1486 possible.
14875) chkdupexe from Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
14886) ctrlaltdel now installs into /sbin instead of /usr/sbin
14897) mkfs replacement from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
14908) lpcntl removed. Use tunelp instead.
14919) ksymoops from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
149210) mkfs.minix now clears the first 512 bytes of the file system so that
1493 Minix disks won't be confused with MSDOS disks (Daniel Quinlan
1494 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com))
149511) mkswap should now work on an Alpha running Linux
149612) frag removed. See
1497 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/defrag-0.6.tar.gz for the
1498 latest version.
149913) mount patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1500 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
150114) MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV-C updated to the latest versions.
150215) Paths updated for FSSTND 1.2. This means that you may need to make
1503 some links. The links you need to make we system dependent. The
1504 ultimate goal is to rename /var/adm to /var/log and have a symbolic
1505 link from /var/adm to /var/log during the transition period. If you
1506 are running an ELF system, you probably won't have to do anything. The
1507 bottom line is that the following files must exist or be pointers to
1508 the old version (used internally by the a.out libraries):
1509
1510 New Old
1511
1512 /var/log/wtmp /var/adm/wtmp
1513 /var/log/lastlog /var/adm/lastlog
1514 /var/run/utmp /var/adm/utmp
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1515
1516HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.2:
15171) This is primarily a quick bug-fix release for version 2.1
15182) mkfs wrapper added back in, since e2fsprogs only supplies an fsck wrapper
15193) selection removed, since someone appears to be maintaining it now. See
1520 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/linux/kernel/patches/console for recent sources.
1521 For the time being, I'm keeping a copy in the historic subdirectory of
1522 util-linux. A "make install" should work find from within that
1523 directory.
15244) Note that other floppy utilities are available from:
1525 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1526 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1527 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1528
1529
1530HIGHLIGHTS for version 2.1:
1531
15321) Directory structure rearrange, with configuration support for those who
1533 use shadow passwords and System V init (no support is provided for these
1534 things, but your utilities won't get overwritten if you do a "make
1535 install" after you properly edit MCONFIG).
15362) fdisk and cfdisk should work as expected with 2GB+ disk drives
15373) As usual, lots of stuff was updated and added, including mount, vipw,
1538 readprofile
15394) Some stuff was also deleted, and can now be found elsewhere:
1540 fsck wrapper: tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/ALPHA/ext2fs/e2fsprogs*
1541 pwd, su: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sh-utils*
1542 ed: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/ed*
1543 od: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/textutils*
1544 uudecode/uuencode: prep.ai.mit.edu:/pub/gnu/sharutils*
1545 bdflush/update: ftp.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/v1.1/bdflush*
1546
1547
1548
1549PARTIAL HISTORY OF UTIL-LINUX:
1550
1551bsd:
1552 Nothing in this directory gets installed, but some BSD programs need
1553 this support:
1554 err.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/4/93
1555 err.h: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/2/93
1556 getopt.c: 4.13 (Berkeley) 2/23/91
1557 pathnames.h: 5.3 (Berkeley) 5/9/89 with extensive modifications for
1558 Linux
1559
1560disk-utils:
1561 cfdisk: 0.8 BETA (>2GB) from Kevin E. Martin (martin@cs.unc.edu) with
1562 modifications for disks > 2GB.
1563 ftp.cs.unc.edu:/pub/users/martin/linux/cfdisk-0.8.tar.gz
1564 fdformat: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch), with
1565 modifications by Marcel Mol (marcel@dutecad.et.tudelft.nl)).
1566 Later, updated with a September 1992 version by Werner.
1567 fdisk: A. V. Le Blanc (LeBlanc@mcc.ac.uk) fdisk 1.5 release, with
1568 patched from Kevin Martin for DOS and OS/2 compatibility (1.5a);
1569 Rik Faith (1.5b, 2.0).
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1570 fsck.minix, mkfs.minix: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by: Rik
1571 Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), Scott Heavner
1572 (sdh@po.cwru.edu), Dr. Wettstein
1573 (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu), Daniel
1574 Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com).
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1575 mkfs: David Engel (david@ods.com) and Fred N. van Kempen
1576 (waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG)
1577 Version 1.9 from Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
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1578 mkswap: Linus Torvalds, with modifications by Mike Jagdis
1579 (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk. )
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1580 Version for Alpha from
1581 cage.cs.arizona.edu:/pub/davidm/linux/mkswap-axp-950503.tar.gz
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1582 setfdprm: Werner Almesberger (almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch)
1583 Note that more floppy utilities are available from:
1584 ftp.imag.fr:pub/Linux/ZLIBC/fdutils/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1585 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Misc/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
1586 tsx-11.mit.edu:/pub/linux/sources/sbin/fdutils-4.1.src.tar.gz
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1587 llseek.c: from Remy Card's e2fsprogs-0.5b.tar.gz (21Mar95 version) from:
1588 sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/system/Filesystems/ext2
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1589
1590games:
1591 banner: (8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94)
726f69e2 1592 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
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1593
1594login-utils:
1595 agetty: W. Z. Venema, ported by Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>.
726f69e2 1596 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
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1597 chfn: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1598 chsh: Salvatore Valente <svalente@athena.mit.edu>
1599 last: 5.11 w/year (Berkeley) 6/29/88; Port by Michael Haardt with
1600 changes by Peter Orbaek.
726f69e2 1601 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
6dbe3af9 1602 login: 5.40 (Berkeley) 5/9/89; with ports by Michael Glad and Peter Orbaek
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1603 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
1604 mesg: 8.2 (Berkeley) 1/21/94
1605 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
6dbe3af9 1606 newgrp: Michael Haardt, with modifications by Peter Orbaek.
726f69e2 1607 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
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1608 passwd: Peter Orbaek, with yp modifications by Alvaro Martinez
1609 Echevarria (alvaro@enano.etsit.upm.es)
726f69e2 1610 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
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1611 shutdown: Peter Orbaek, with new modifications by Stephen Tweedie, Rik
1612 Faith, and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com).
726f69e2 1613 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
6dbe3af9 1614 simpleinit: Peter Orbaek
726f69e2 1615 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
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1616 vipw: 5.16 (Berkeley) 3/3/91, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1617 <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU>
726f69e2 1618 wall: 8.2 (Berkeley) 11/16/93 (With changes so that damaging escape
5c36a0eb 1619 sequences cannot be sent.)
726f69e2 1620 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
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1621
1622
1623misc-utils:
1624 cal: 8.4 (Berkeley) 4/2/94, with modifications by Rik Faith and
1625 Hein@student.tu-clausthal.de (Jochen Hein).
1626 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
726f69e2 1627 chkdupexe: Version 1.2 from "Nicolai Langfeldt" <janl@ifi.uio.no>
6dbe3af9 1628 clear: Rik Faith
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1629 ddate: Druel the Chaotic aka Jeremy Johnson aka mpython@gnu.ai.mit.edu,
1630 with modifications by Lee Harvey Oswald Smith, K.S.C. and
1631 substantial updates from Rev. Bro. Lee H:. O:. Smith, KYTP
6dbe3af9 1632 domainname: Peter Orbaek
726f69e2 1633 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
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1634 dsplit: David Arnstein (arnstein@netcom.com)
1635 gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume40/dsplit
1636 getopt (getoptprog): jhunix.hcf.jhu.edu:
1637 /pub/public_domain_software/NetBSD/usr/src/usr.bin/getopt
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1638 replaced by getopt-1.0.3.tar.gz from Frodo Looijaard,
1639 found at http://huizen.dds.nl/~frodol
6dbe3af9 1640 hostid: Mitch DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
726f69e2 1641 ftp.daimi.aau.dk:/pub/linux/poe/poeigl-1.37.tar.gz
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1642 hostname/dnsdomainname: Peter Tobias <tobias@server.et-inf.fho-emden.de>
1643 This version (1.6) should also be available soon in:
1644 nic.funet.fi:/pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus/net-source/base/NetKit-A*
1645 kill: BSD version, modified by Salvatore Valente <svalente@mit.edu>
1646 logger: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1647 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1648 look.c: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/14/93, with modifications by Rik Faith
1649 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1650 mcookie: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
1651 md5sum: Branki Lankester and Colin Plumb. The MD5 message-digest
1652 algorithm is in the Public Domain. This implementation
1653 calculates message-digest information only, and can NOT be used
1654 for encryption. Therefore it is exportable from the USA.
1655 Original sources in the MIT version of PGP 2.6.2.
1656 namei: Roger S. Southwick, with modifications by Steve Tell.
1657 reset: Rik Faith
1658 script: 5.13 (Berkeley) 3/5/91, with modifications by Rick Sladkey
1659 (jrs@world.std.com), Harald Koenig
1660 (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de).
1661 setterm: Gordon Irlam (gordoni@cs.ua.oz.au), with modifications by
1662 Peter MacDonald, Mika Liljeberg (liljeber@cs.Helsinki.FI),
1663 John Walder (j-walder@uiuc.edu) [for dosemu].
1664 tsort: 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1665 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
1666 whereis: 5.5 (Berkeley) 4/18/91
1667 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno
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1668 write: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93, with modifications by Mike Grupenhoff
1669 (kashmir@umiacs.umd.edu). With changes so that damaging escape
1670 sequences cannot be sent.
1671 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1672
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1673
1674mount:
1675 mount, umount, swapon
1676
1677 Rick Sladkey put together the mount-0.99.6.tar.Z package, and Stephen
1678 Tweedie provided updates. The utilities were originally from that
1679 package (all appear to be by Doug Quale (quale@saavik.cs.wisc.edu),
1680 with modifications by H. J. Lu (hlu@eecs.wsu.edu) on 11/25/92; Rick
1681 Sladkey (jrs@world.std.com) in January 1993; and Stephen Tweedie
1682 <sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk> on 8 October 1993. This distribution mount now
1683 supports NFS stuff. I have modified the man pages. I have also added
1684 a small patch from Hamish Glen Coleman (t933093@minyos.xx.rmit.OZ.AU)
1685 which restores the -o semantics.
1686
1687 Updated with Rick Sladkey's mount-0.99.14.tar.gz package, and with
1688 extra patches from Rick. Adam J. Richter allowed -t option to be
1689 optional. Patrick J. Volkerding (volkerdi@mhd1.moorhead.msus.edu) and
1690 Mitchum DSouza both provided patches that fixed the (null) problem when
1691 not using -t. Mitchum DSouza
1692 (mitch@mrc-applied-psychology.cambridge.ac.uk) added support for loop
1693 device mounts. Sebastian Lederer
1694 (lederer@next-pc.informatik.uni-bonn.de) added support for sending an
1695 unmount RPC call to the server when an NFS-filesystem is unmounted.
1696 Sander van Malssen (svm@kozmix.hacktic.nl) added support for remounting
1697 readonly file systems readonly. Mike Grupenhoff
1698 <kashmir@umiacs.UMD.EDU> added a probe of the superblock for the type
1699 before /proc/filesystems is checked. Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl fixed up
1700 error reporting.
1701
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1702 Updated with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and Dan Quinlan
1703 (quinlan@yggdrasil.com). And more patches from Andries and others.
1704
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1705historic/selection: The complete selection-1.5 package, by Andrew Haylett
1706 <ajh@gec-mrc.co.uk>, 17th June 1993, is included in the historic tree.
1707 Kernel patches are no longer necessary for modern kernels, but these
1708 were tiny so I left them in for historical reasons. The Makefile was
1709 modified for this distribution. With changes from Rick Sladkey.
1710
1711sys-utils:
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1712 arch: Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
1713 chroot: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1714 clock: Originally from the timesrc-1.2.tar.Z package, Charles Hedrick,
1715 hedrick@cs.rutgers.edu (V1.0); Rob Hooft, hooft@chem.ruu.nl
1716 (V1.1); Harald Koenig (koenig@nova.tat.physik.uni-tuebingen.de)
1717 (V1.2). With additional changes: Hamish Coleman
1718 (hamish@zot.apana.org.au) (V1.2a); Alan Modra
1719 (alan@spri.levels.unisa.edu.au (V1.3, V1.4).
1720 ctrlaltdel: Peter Orbaek <poe@daimi.aau.dk>
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1721 ftp://ftp.daimi.aau.dk/pub/linux/poe/admutil-1.16.tar.gz
1722 cytune: Nick Simicish (njs@scifi.emi.net) and Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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1723 dmesg: Theodore Ts'o (tytso@athena.mit.edu); Rick Sladkey
1724 (jrs@world.std.com)
1725 ipcrm: From the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1726 balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu on 3/15/93. ipc.info and ipc.texi
1727 are also from that distribution.
1728 ipcs: Also from the ipcdelta.tar.z distribution by krishna
1729 balasub@cis.ohio-state.edu, with patches from Mike Jagdis
1730 (jaggy@purplet.demon.co.uk)
1731 kbdrate: Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu), with patches from
1732 Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl and John Bowman
1733 (bowman@hagar.ph.utexas.edu)
726f69e2 1734 ksymoops: 1.7 from Greg McGary <gkm@magilla.cichlid.com>
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1735 rdev: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger), with
1736 modifications from Peter MacDonald, Stephen Tweedie
1737 (sct@dcs.ed.ac.uk), and Dave (gentzel@nova.enet.dec.com)
5c36a0eb 1738 readprofile: Alessandro Rubini from readprofile-2.0.tar.gz
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1739 renice: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/9/93
1740 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1741 setserial: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@stolaf.edu) re-released Rick
1742 Sladkey's setserial in January 1993, with changes by
1743 Theodore Ts'o (tytso@mit.edu). I think that Theodore also
1744 did extensive changes for version 2.01, I can't find any
1745 notes about this in the documentation. However, Theodore
1746 Ts'o (tytso@ATHENA.MIT.EDU) released version 2.10, and that
1747 is now included.
1748 setsid: Rick Sladkey <jrs@world.std.com>
1749 sln: Mike Parker and David MacKenzie (from Linux's libc)
1750 sync: Nick Holloway, with thanks to James Bonfield
1751 tunelp: Michael K. Johnson (johnsonm@nigel.vnet.net)
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1753
1754syslogd:
1755 5.45 (Berkeley) 3/2/91
1756
1757 Most of the changes for syslogd come from Rick Sladkey
1758 (jrs@world.std.com), but I'd like to thank other people who sent in
1759 changes (which usually got forwarded to Rick): Carsten Paeth
1760 (calle@calle.in-berlin.de) and Kaz Sasayama (kaz@lilia.iijnet.or.jp).
1761
1762text-utils:
1763 col: 5.3 (Berkeley) 2/2/91; with patches from Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
1764 and Carl Christofferson (cchris@connected.com)
1765 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1766 colcrt: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93 (Bill Joy)
1767 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1768 colrm: 5.4 (Berkeley) 6/1/90 (Jeff Schriebman)
1769 column: 8.3 (Berkeley) 4/2/94
1770 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1771 hexdump: 5.5 (Berkeley) 6/1/90
1772 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1773 more: 5.19 (Berkeley) 6/29/88 (Eric Shienbrood, Geoff Peck, John Foderaro)
1774 rev: 5.2 (Berkeley) 3/21/92; with modifications by Charles Hannum
1775 (mycroft@gnu.ai.mit.edu), Brian Koehmstedt (bpk@gnu.ai.mit.edu),
1776 bjdouma@xs4all.nl
1777 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1778 strings: 5.10 (Berkeley) 5/23/91; with patches from Vitor Duarte
1779 <vad@fct.unl.pt>
1780 wuarchive.wustl.edu:/mirrors/4.3-reno/{bin,usr.bin}
1781 ul: 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/6/93
1782 ftp.cdrom.com:/pub/bsd-sources/4.4BSD-Lite/usr/src/usr.bin
1783