The first util-linux-ng 2.14 release candidate is available at ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.14/ Feedback and bug reports, as always, are welcomed. Karel Util-linux-ng 2.14 Release Notes ================================ Release highlights: ------------------ mount(8) supports new "nofail" mount option. mount(8) supports auto-destruction of loop devices. losetup(8) supports new command line option "-j" to show status of all loop devices associated with given file. losetup(8) supports unlimited number of loop devices. losetup(8) supports new command line option "--sizelimit" to set data end. ldattach(8) command has been added to util-linux-ng. The ldattach daemon opens the specified device file and attaches the line discipline to it for processing of the sent and/or received data. setterm(8) supports new command line option "-blank [force|poke]" for TIOCL_{BLANKED,BLANK}SCREEN. tailf(8) has been reimplemented to use inotify. tailf(8) supports new command line option "-n" to specifying output lines. mkswap(8) supports new command line option "-U" to set UUID explicitly. fdisk(8) has been fixed to calculate partition size in 2^N. cal(8) supports highlighting an arbitrary date. agetty(8) makes username-in-uppercase feature optional (off by default). Users who use uppercase-only terminals need to use the option "-U" now. losetup(8), mount(8), umount(8), fdisk(8) and sfdisk(8) support static linking when compiled with --enable-static-programs. hwclock(8) supports new command line option "adjfile" to override the default /etc/adjtime. scriptreplay(1) command has been re-written from Perl to C. Deprecated ---------- The losetup(8) '-s' option (introduced by util-linux-ng-2.13) is deprecated now. This short form of the option '--show' could be in collision with Loop-AES losetup implementation where the same option is used for the loop sizelimit. ChangeLog between v2.13 and v2.14 --------------------------------- For more details see ChangeLog files at: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.14/ agetty: - cleanup MAXHOSTNAMELEN [Karel Zak] - make username-in-uppercase feature optional (off by default.) [Hamish Coleman] - non-linux support (use pathnames.h) [Karel Zak] - replace termio with termios interface [Samuel Thibault] - ungettextize several debugging messages. [Benno Schulenberg] blockdev: - add --getsz to blockdev.8 [Karel Zak] - add missing description about option --report in manpage [Li Zefan] - fix opened file leaving unclosed [lizf] - use lib/blkdev.c, fix --report [Karel Zak] build-sys: - add --enable-static-programs [Stepan Kasal, Karel Zak] - add AC_CANONICAL_HOST [Miklos Szeredi] - add VARSUFFIX to UTIL_CHECK_LIB [Karel Zak] - add err.h check [Karel Zak] - add v2.14 to NEWS [Karel Zak] - autogen.sh reports versions of autotools now [Karel Zak] - build arch(1) during distcheck [Stepan Kasal] - cleanup "x$foo" usage [Karel Zak] - cleanup disk-utils/Makefile.am (use $utils_common) [Karel Zak] - cleanup usage of linux/major.h [Samuel Thibault] - disable syscall fallbacks for non-linux systems [Karel Zak] - do not add -luuid to BLKID_LIBS [Stepan Kasal] - fix missing deps for swapon [Matthias Koenig] - ignore a bunch of generated files, mostly binaries [James Youngman] - nls/locale handling in util-linux-ng general [Mike Frysinger] - non-linux support [Samuel Thibault] - release++ [Karel Zak] - remove errs.h [Karel Zak] - remove files that are no longer delivered from git [LaMont Jones] - remove hardcoded _GNU_SOURCE [Karel Zak] - remove unnecessary check-local target from login-utils/ [Karel Zak] - set AC_PREREQ to 2.60, increment version to 2.14 [Karel Zak] - simplify code around RDEV_LINKS and SETARCH_LINKS [Stepan Kasal] - unify method for checking system calls and fallback handling [Mike Frysinger, Stepan Kasal] - update .gitignore files [Karel Zak] - use dist_man_MANS instead of man_MANS [Stepan Kasal] - use ncursesw (wide version) when possibe [Karel Zak, Mike Frysinger] - use pkg-config to find the libs for static build [Stepan Kasal] - use portable $(VAR =) instead of gmake-specific $(addsuffix) [Stepan Kasal] cal: - add description about option -V to manpage [Li Zefan] - add support for highlighting an arbitrary date [Pádraig Brady] - avoid -Wformat warnings [Jim Meyering] - fix weekday alignment for certain locales [Pádraig Brady] - replace errs.h with libc err.h [Karel Zak] - use HAVE_LIB{NCURSES,NCURSESW} instead HAVE_NCURSES [Karel Zak] cfdisk: - define portable {DEFAULT,ALTERNATE}_DEVICE [Samuel Thibault] - display cylinders beyond 1024 [Peter Breitenlohner] - slightly increase the size of menu buttons [Benno Schulenberg] - translate partition-type names when they are printed. [Benno Schulenberg] chfn: - add pam_end() call and cleanup PAM code [Karel Zak] - fix compiler warnings in selinux stuff [Karel Zak] chfn, chsh, login: - collapsing three similar messages into a single one [Benno Schulenberg] chsh: - should use pam_end function to terminate the PAM transaction [Yu Zhiguo, Karel Zak] column: - replace errs.h with libc err.h [Karel Zak] docs: - add a note about minix v3 to TODO file [Karel Zak] - add info about .bugfix releases and branches [Karel Zak] - add note about incorrect tag 2.13.1 [Karel Zak] - add note about losetup --sizelimit to ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] - add note about static linking [Karel Zak] - add v2.14 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] - cleanup DEPRECATED file [Karel Zak] - cleanup README.devel, add note about coding style and Signed-off-by [Karel Zak] - fix ChangeLog URL [Pascal Terjan] - fix stable branche name in README.devel [Karel Zak] - mark vipw(1) is deprecated in favor of vipw from shadow-utils [Karel Zak] - refresh TODO list [Karel Zak] - tweak a few messages for clarity [Benno Schulenberg] - update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak] - update TODO file [Karel Zak] - update v2.14-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak] elvtune: - use get_linux_version() [Karel Zak] fdformat: - install to /usr/sbin instead to /usr/bin [Karel Zak] fdisk: - better fallback for get_random_id() [H. Peter Anvin] - calculate +size{K,M,G} in 2^N [Karel Zak] - cleanup BLK* ioctls usage [Karel Zak] - doing useless ioctl when editing an image [Pascal Terjan] - fix building for AVR32 and CRIS [Imre Kaloz] - fix typo [Karel Zak] - message tweak [Karel Zak] - non-linux support (MAXPATHLEN) [Karel Zak] - non-linux support (use standard uintxy_t instead __uxy) [Samuel Thibault] - use more readable "GPT" name rather than "EFI GPT" [Robert Millan] - use swab macros from bitops.h [Karel Zak] flock: - typo in man page [A. Costa] fsck.cramfs: - clean up gcc warnings [Randy Dunlap] fsck.minix: - correct the error message given when we can't open the device [James Youngman] - reset the terminal state if we are killed by a fatal signal [James Youngman] getopt: - fix path to examples in getopt.1 [Karel Zak] - install example scripts as SCRIPTS, not DATA [Peter Breitenlohner] hwclock: - add --adjfile=path option [Karel Zak] - check for ENODEV [David Woodhouse] - do not create a zero adjfile [Alain Guibert] - fix --rtc option [Matthias Koenig, Karel Zak] include: - <stdint.h> provides everything [Samuel Thibault] - add bitops.h with swab{16,32,64} macros [Karel Zak] - add mount paths to pathnames.h [Karel Zak] - cleanup pathnames.h [Karel Zak] ionice: - add a note about permissions to ionice.1 [Karel Zak] ipcs: - add information about POSIX compatibility to ipcs.1 [Karel Zak] kill: - man page is missing a description of "kill -0" [Karel Zak] ldattach: - add NLS support [Karel Zak] - new command [Tilman Schmidt] - use glibc termios [Karel Zak] lib: - add blkdev.{c,h} [Stefan Krah, Karel Zak] - add linux_version.{c,h} [Stefan Krah] login: - fix a small memory leak and remove unnecessary zeroing [Karel Zak] - login segfaults on EOF (rh#298461) [Karel Zak] - replace termio with termios interface [Samuel Thibault] - rewrite is_local() to remove limits on line length [James Youngman] login-utils: - cleanup strlen() and fgets() usage [James Youngman] losetup: - add --associated option [Karel Zak] - add --sizelimit option [Shachar Shemesh] - canonicalize loopfile name [Karel Zak, Matthias Koenig] - clean up gcc warnings [Randy Dunlap] - fix errno usage [Karel Zak] - fix typo in losetup.8 [Karel Zak] - mark the option -s as deprecated [Karel Zak] - remove duplicate xstrdup() and error() [Karel Zak] - split help message into two smaller parts [Benno Schulenberg] - support unlimited number of loops [Karel Zak] - use standard uintxy_t types (struct loop_info64) [Samuel Thibault] mesg: - replace errs.h with libc err.h [Karel Zak] mkfs.cramfs: - clean up gcc warnings [Randy Dunlap, Karel Zak] - remove unused header file [lizf] - switch on localization. [Benno Schulenberg] mkfs.minix: - add sectorsize check [Matthias Koenig] - clean up gcc warnings [Karel Zak] - clean up gcc warnings [Randy Dunlap] - device size cleanup [Matthias Koenig] mkswap: - BLKGETSIZE cleanup [Karel Zak] - cleanup kB vs. KiB usage in error messages [Karel Zak] - fix compiler warnings [Karel Zak] - linux_version() code consolidation [Karel Zak] - possible to crash with SELinux relabeling support [KaiGai Kohei] - set UUID for swap space (add -U option) [Martin Schulze] - set errno=0 in write_all() [Karel Zak] - when writing the signature page, handle EINTR returns [Karel Zak] more: - cleanup gcc warnings [Randy Dunlap] - non-linux support [Samuel Thibault] - replace CBAUD with cfgetispeed() [Samuel Thibault] - use HAVE_WIDECHAR instead ENABLE_WIDECHAR [Karel Zak] mount: - "can't create lock file" message sometimes means failure, sometimes not [Mark McLoughlin] - "nofail" mount option [Matthias Koenig, Karel Zak] - -L|-U segfault when label or uuid doesn't exist [Karel Zak] - add more details to the --version output [Karel Zak] - add support for sizelimit= mount option (for loop mounts) [Shachar Shemesh] - allow auto-destruction of loop devices [Bernardo Innocenti] - chain of symlinks to fstab causes use of pointer after free [Norbert Buchmuller] - clean up gcc warnings (mount_mntent.c) [Randy Dunlap] - clean up global variables [Karel Zak] - cleanup "none" fstype usage [Karel Zak] - cleanup KERNEL_VERSION, remove my_dev_t.h [Karel Zak] - cleanup canonicalize() usage [Karel Zak] - cleanup error() and die() [Karel Zak] - cleanup usage of _PATH_* [Karel Zak] - doesn't drop privileges properly when calling helpers [Ludwig Nussel] - don't call canonicalize(SPEC) for cifs, smbfs and nfs [Karel Zak] - don't canonicalize LABEL= or UUID= spec [Karel Zak] - drop the part always true from a while condition [Pascal Terjan] - fix fd leak [Matthias Koenig] - fix typo in mount.8 [Karel Zak] - hint about helper program if device doesn't exist [Karel Zak] - improve chmod & chown usage and clean up gcc warnings (fstab.c) [Karel Zak] - improve error message when helper program not present [LaMont Jones] - prevent loop mounting the same file twice [Karel Zak, Matthias Koenig] - remove MS_{REPLACE,AFTER,BEFORE,OVER} [Karel Zak] - remove built-in support for background mounts [Karel Zak] - remove redundant fflush [Karel Zak] - remove set_proc_name() [Karel Zak] - remove useless if-before-my_free, define my_free as a macro [Karel Zak] - use MNTTYPE_SWAP (from mntent.h) [Karel Zak] - use atexit() rather than (*at_die)() [Karel Zak] - use blkdev_get_size() [Karel Zak] - use canonicalize in getfs_by_devname [Karel Zak] namei: - add to identify FIFO (named pipe) and update manpage [Li Zefan] - cleanup tailing white-spaces [Karel Zak] - non-linux support (get_current_dir_name() and PATH_MAX) [Karel Zak, Samuel Thibault] partx: - fix compiler warnings [Karel Zak] - use swab macros from bitops.h [Karel Zak] pg: - fix segfault on search [Rajeev V. Pillai] po: - add eu.po (from translationproject.org) [Mikel Olasagasti] - add pl.po (from translationproject.org) [Andrzej Krzysztofowicz] - fix typo in de.po [Karel Zak] - merge changes [Karel Zak] - update POTFILES.in [Karel Zak] - update nl.po (from translationproject.org) [Benno Schulenberg] rename: - add description about option -V to manpage [Li Zefan] - remove useless variable [Li Zefan] renice: - detect errors in arguments, add -v, -h and long options [LaMont Jones, Karel Zak] rev: - use warn() in errs.h [Li Zefan] rtcwake: - fix UTC time usage [David Brownell] - fix typo [Karel Zak] - fix typo SATE -> STATE [Mike Frysinger] - fix verbose message [Karel Zak] - include libgen.h for basename prototype [Mike Frysinger] - misc cleanups [David Brownell] script: - cleanup gcc warnings [Randy Dunlap] - cleanup includes [Samuel Thibault] - dies on SIGWINCH [Karel Zak] - read returns a size_t [James Youngman] scriptreplay: - rewrite in C [Karel Zak, James Youngman] setarch: - add long options to setarch and update manpage [Karel Zak, Li Zefan] - add missing alpha subarchs [Oliver Falk] - adding groff symlinks to setarch manual page [Arkadiusz Miskiewicz] - fix compiler warning [LaMont Jones] - generate groff links in a better way [Karel Zak] - provide backwards compatibility [Dmitry V. Levin] - tweak the help text, and gettextize a forgotten message [Benno Schulenberg] setterm: - add -blan [force|poke] options for TIOCL_{BLANKED,BLANK}SCREEN [Samuel Thibault, Karel Zak] - dump by TIOCLINUX is deprecated since linux 1.1.92. [Karel Zak] - opened file leaving unclosed [Karel Zak, lizf] - remove unnecessaty ifndef TCGETS [Samuel Thibault] sfdisk: - allow partitioning drives of over 2^31 sectors. [Kunihiko IMAI] - cleanup 83 gcc warnings [Randy Dunlap] - opened files leaving unclosed [Karel Zak, Li Zefan] - remove unnecessary linux/unistd.h [Samuel Thibault] - use get_linux_version() [Karel Zak] shutdown: - use _PATH_MOUNTED instead of _PATH_MTAB [Stepan Kasal] swapon: - Reinitialize software suspend areas to avoid future corruption. [Kees Cook, Karel Zak] - add sundries.h [Karel Zak] - clean up gcc warnings [Randy Dunlap] - cleanup usage output [Karel Zak] - cleanup usage() [Karel Zak] - fix swsuspend detection [Karel Zak] - fix typo in usage() [Karel Zak] - readjust the usage summaries [Benno Schulenberg] - remove unnecessary myrealpath() call [Karel Zak] sys-utils: - correct setarch.8 manpage link creation [Frédéric Bothamy] tailf: - add option -n to specifying output lines [Li Zefan] - clean up gcc warnings & fix use of errno [Karel Zak] - inotify based reimplementation [Karel Zak] - non-linux support [Samuel Thibault] - opened file leaving unclosed [lizf] - replace errs.h with libc err.h [Karel Zak] tests: - add "sort" to cramfs test [Karel Zak] - add test for include/pathnames.h [Karel Zak] - add ts-mount-noncanonical [Karel Zak] - exactly define a time format in ls -l output [Karel Zak] - fix blkid cache usage [Karel Zak] - move test_bkdev to lib/ [Karel Zak] - redirect libblkid cache to BLKID_FILE [Karel Zak] - rename test_sysinfo, remove tailing white-spaces [Karel Zak] - use losetup -s [Karel Zak] umount: - add hint about lsof & fuser [Karel Zak] - don't print duplicate error messages [Karel Zak] - use atexit() rather than (*at_die)() [Karel Zak] wall: - cleanup MAXHOSTNAMELEN [Karel Zak] -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
