On Wednesday 21 March 2018, Karel Zak wrote:
> The util-linux release v2.32 is available at
Thanks!
> Util-linux 2.32 Release Notes
> ==============
> [...]
FYI regarding "Release Notes". I guess it's always a pain to write
that and to remember all relevant new features and options. ;)
Just to remind you, we have have a nice tool on board which may be
helpful.
$ CU_DUMP=1 make checkusage
$ mv /tmp/checkusage--help /tmp/checkusage--help-2.32
## ... and diff all changed --help output too see what may be
## worth to mention, for example:
$ diff -uw /tmp/checkusage--help-2.31.2 /tmp/checkusage--help-2.32
--- /tmp/checkusage--2.31.2 2018-03-22 10:17:10.059537442 +0100
+++ /tmp/checkusage--2.32 2018-03-22 10:15:29.025304770 +0100
@@ -178,7 +178,9 @@
-S, --span span the date when displaying multiple months
-s, --sunday Sunday as first day of week
-m, --monday Monday as first day of week
- -j, --julian output Julian dates
+ -j, --julian use day-of-year for all calendars
+ --reform <val> Gregorian reform date (1752|gregorian|iso|julian)
+ --iso alias for --reform=iso
-y, --year show the whole year
-Y, --twelve show the next twelve months
-w, --week[=<num>] show US or ISO-8601 week numbers
@@ -255,11 +257,19 @@
-e, --enable enable memory
-d, --disable disable memory
-b, --blocks use memory blocks
+ -z, --zone <name> select memory zone (see below)
-v, --verbose verbose output
-
-h, --help display this help
-V, --version display version
+Supported zones:
+ DMA
+ DMA32
+ Normal
+ Highmem
+ Movable
+ Device
+
For more details see chmem(8).
##########################################################
#### chrt
@@ -379,6 +389,7 @@
-O, --table-order <columns> specify order of output columns
-N, --table-columns <names> comma separated columns names
-E, --table-noextreme <columns> don't count long text from the columns to column width
+ -d, --table-noheadings don't print header
-e, --table-header-repeat repeat header for each page
-H, --table-hide <columns> don't print the columns
-R, --table-right <columns> right align text in these columns
@@ -447,6 +458,7 @@
-l, --level <list> restrict output to defined levels
-n, --console-level <level> set level of messages printed to console
-P, --nopager do not pipe output into a pager
+ -p, --force-prefix force timestamp output on each line of multi-line messages
-r, --raw print the raw message buffer
-S, --syslog force to use syslog(2) rather than /dev/kmsg
-s, --buffer-size <size> buffer size to query the kernel ring buffer
@@ -933,8 +945,8 @@
--update-drift update the RTC drift factor
--noadjfile do not use /etc/adjtime
--adjfile <file> use an alternate file to /etc/adjtime
- --test dry run; implies --debug
- -D, --debug display more details
+ --test dry run; implies --verbose
+ -v, --verbose display more details
-h, --help display this help
-V, --version display version
@@ -1589,6 +1601,7 @@
-n, --noheadings don't print headings
-o, --output <list> output columns
-r, --raw use raw output format
+ -S, --split <list> split ranges by specified columns
-s, --sysroot <dir> use the specified directory as system root
--summary[=when] print summary information (never,always or only)
@@ -1602,6 +1615,7 @@
REMOVABLE memory is removable
BLOCK memory block number or blocks range
NODE numa node of memory
+ ZONES valid zones for the memory range
For more details see lsmem(1).
##########################################################
@@ -1620,6 +1634,7 @@
-p, --task <pid> print process namespaces
-r, --raw use the raw output format
-u, --notruncate don't truncate text in columns
+ -W, --nowrap don't use multi-line representation
-t, --type <name> namespace type (mnt, net, ipc, user, pid, uts, cgroup)
-h, --help display this help
@@ -1635,6 +1650,8 @@
COMMAND command line of the PID
UID UID of the PID
USER username of the PID
+ NETNSID namespace ID as used by network subsystem
+ NSFS nsfs mountpoint (usually used network subsystem)
For more details see lsns(8).
##########################################################
@@ -2363,6 +2380,7 @@
Options:
-c, --ctty set the controlling terminal to the current one
+ -f, --fork always fork
-w, --wait wait program to exit, and use the same return
-h, --help display this help
-V, --version display version
@@ -2427,7 +2445,7 @@
Display or manipulate a disk partition table.
Commands:
- -A, --activate <dev> [<part> ...] list or set bootable MBR partitions
+ -A, --activate <dev> [<part> ...] list or set bootable (P)MBR partitions
-d, --dump <dev> dump partition table (usable for later input)
-J, --json <dev> dump partition table in JSON format
-g, --show-geometry [<dev> ...] list geometry of all or specified devices
@@ -2744,6 +2762,7 @@
-U, --user[=<file>] unshare user namespace
-C, --cgroup[=<file>] unshare cgroup namespace
-f, --fork fork before launching <program>
+ --kill-child[=<signame>] when dying, kill the forked child (implies --fork); defaults to SIGKILL
--mount-proc[=<dir>] mount proc filesystem first (implies --mount)
-r, --map-root-user map current user to root (implies --user)
--propagation slave|shared|private|unchanged
@@ -2981,7 +3000,7 @@
Set up and control zram devices.
Options:
- -a, --algorithm lzo|lz4 compression algorithm to use
+ -a, --algorithm lzo|lz4|lz4hc|deflate|842 compression algorithm to use
-b, --bytes print sizes in bytes rather than in human readable format
-f, --find find a free device
-n, --noheadings don't print headings
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