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Util-linux-ng 2.16 Release Notes (15-Jul-2009)
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libuuid, uuidgen(1) and uuidd(8):
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- the libuuid library has been moved from e2fsprogs to util-linux-ng
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- this NEW COMMAND allows to switch to another filesystem as the root
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- DOES NOT SUPPORT linking against obsolete libvolume_id (from udev)
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- development files (.so, .a, ...) have been moved from /lib to /usr/lib.
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Stable maintenance releases between v2.15 and v2.16
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util-linux-ng 2.15.1 [10-Jun-2009]
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* ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15.1-ReleaseNotes
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.15/v2.15.1-ChangeLog
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ChangeLog between v2.15 and v2.16
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For more details see ChangeLog files at:
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/v2.16/
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- add --disable-libblkid, remove volume_id support [Karel Zak]
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- add --disable-switch_root [Karel Zak]
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- add --disable-tls [Karel Zak]
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- add --disable-uuidd [Karel Zak]
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- add UTIL_{SET,RESTORE}_FLAGS [Karel Zak]
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- check for openat() and linux for switch_root [Karel Zak]
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- cleanup libuuid stuff [Karel Zak]
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- complete /libs to /shlibs rename [Karel Zak]
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- enable fsck by default [Karel Zak]
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- fix "make -C" bug [Karel Zak]
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- fix --disable-uuidd [Karel Zak]
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- fix blkid.h include for old e2fsprogs [Karel Zak]
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- fix exec/data install hooks [Karel Zak]
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- fix headers in mkswap and libblkid [Karel Zak]
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- fix libuuid Makefile.am [Karel Zak]
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- fix libuuid and libblkid version-info [Karel Zak]
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- fix typo from 30688dde55f637c9b984809c685b61378b82805f [Robert Förster]
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- improve $libdirname definition [Karel Zak]
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- improve symlinks creation in shlibs/ [Karel Zak]
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- release++ (v2.16-rc1) [Karel Zak]
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- release++ (v2.16-rc2) [Karel Zak]
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- rename /libs to /shlibs [Karel Zak]
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- rename to _execdir [Karel Zak]
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- reverse shlibs installation [Kay Sievers]
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- move $usr{bin,sbin,lib}execdir definition to ./configure [Karel Zak]
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- Highlight today even when month or year specified [Rajeev V. Pillai]
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- uClibc has langinfo.h but not _NL_TIME_WEEK_1STDAY. [Tom Prince]
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- don't assume SCHED_BATCH and SCHED_IDLE exist [Aurelien Jarno]
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- add missing commands/projects to AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
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- add v2.16 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
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- refresh TODO list [Karel Zak]
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- remove example.files/rc[.local] [Karel Zak]
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- remove obsolete information from fstab example [Karel Zak]
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- update AUTHORS file [Karel Zak]
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- update v2.16 ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
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- update v2.16-ReleaseNotes [Karel Zak]
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- (and cfdisk) fix to be consistent about maximum heads [Chris Webb]
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- add simple test for doslabel stuff [Zdenek Behan]
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- fix mismatched popen/fclose. [John Keeping]
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- clean up _PATH_DEV_* macros [Karel Zak]
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- fix _PATH_DEV [Karel Zak]
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- Allow setting the none class [Jakob Unterwurzacher]
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- add N_PPS support [Tilman Schmidt]
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- add device-mapper snapshot cow device probe [Milan Broz]
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- add install-hook for libuuid.[a,so] devel files [Karel Zak]
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- add stdarg.h to blkidP.h [Karel Zak]
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- blkid_do_safeprobe() has to be tolerant to RAIDs [Karel Zak]
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- cleanup debug messages and return codes in blkid_do_probe() [Karel Zak]
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- don't require udev symlinks verification for non-root users [Karel Zak]
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- fix "hangs forever with partition type mdraid" [Karel Zak]
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- fix #ifdefs readability [Karel Zak]
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- fix $libdir in blkid.pc [Karel Zak]
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- fix LVM1 probe [Milan Broz]
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- fix reiserfs name [Karel Zak]
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- make libuuid optional [Karel Zak]
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- move to misc-utils/ directory [Karel Zak]
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- update man page [Karel Zak]
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- add --disable-libuuid and LIBUUID_VERSION [Karel Zak]
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- add .gitignore [Karel Zak]
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- add info about u-l-ng to man pages [Karel Zak]
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- add install-hook for libuuid.[a,so] devel files [Karel Zak]
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- Don't run uuidd if it would fail due to permission problems [Theodore Ts'o]
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- fix $libdir in uuid.pc [Karel Zak]
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- fix parallel building [Karel Zak]
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- generate uuid_generate_{random,time}.3 man page links [Karel Zak]
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- import UUID library from e2fsprogs [Karel Zak]
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- Make sure fd's 0, 1, and 2 are valid before exec'ing uuidd [Theodore Ts'o]
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- move clock state file from /var/lib to /var/run [Karel Zak]
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- Avoid infinite loop while reading from the socket fd [Theodore Ts'o]
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- add --set-capacity [Karel Zak]
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- fix return codes of functions arounf is_associated() [Karel Zak]
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- handle symlinks in /dev/loop/ [Mike Frysinger]
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- suggest to use modprobe rather than insmod in losetup.8 [Karel Zak]
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- fix cpuid code on x86/PIC [Mike Frysinger]
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- (and fsck) remove libvolume_id support [Karel Zak]
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- a little clean up info about loopdevs in man page [Karel Zak]
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- add ext4 to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
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- add ext4 to the list of filesystems in mount.8 [Karel Zak]
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- add info about obsolete vfat options to mount.8 [Karel Zak]
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- allow loop suid umount [Kay Sievers]
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- cleanup notes about -l option in mount.8 [Karel Zak]
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- fix undefined reference to `security_get_initial_context' [Karel Zak]
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- move MS_{PROPAGATION,BIND,MOVE} detection [Karel Zak]
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- use "none" fstype for MS_PROPAGATION mounts [Karel Zak]
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- use TAG parsing function from libblkid [Karel Zak]
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- when a remount to rw fails, quit and return an error [Valerie Aurora]
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- fix typo in French translation [Olivier Blin]
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- merge changes [Karel Zak]
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- refresh POTFILES.in [Karel Zak]
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- update cs.po (from translationproject.org) [Petr Pisar]
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- update fi.po (from translationproject.org) [Lauri Nurmi]
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- update fr.po (from translationproject.org) [Nicolas Provost]
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- update vi.po (from translationproject.org) [Clytie Siddall]
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- Use the RAW_SETBIND ioctl without stat'ing the raw# file [Jeff Mahoney]
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- undeprecate raw [Karel Zak]
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- add man page [Karel Zak]
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- add subroot support [Daniel Drake]
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- clean up argv[] usage, add -h and -V [Karel Zak]
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- do recursiveRemove after our root is moved to avoid races. [Peter Jones]
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- fix coding style [Karel Zak]
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- fork before cleaning up the filesystem. [Peter Jones]
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- new command [Karel Zak]
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- rewrite to use fstatat() and unlinkat() [Karel Zak]
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- use err.h, clean up return codes [Karel Zak]
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- use file descriptor instead of path for recursiveRemove() [Peter Jones]
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- use snprintf() rather tan str{cpy,cat}() [Karel Zak]
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- add functions for work withdisk images [Karel Zak]
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- add mdraid libblkid test [Karel Zak]
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- don't run some mount tests for non-root users [Karel Zak]
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- fix 'delete extended partition' checksum [Karel Zak]
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- fix reiserfs test [Karel Zak]
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- fix script that creates lscpu dumps [Karel Zak]
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- move lscpu /proc and /sys dumps to tarballs [Karel Zak]
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- remove broken Xen dumps for lscpu [Karel Zak]
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- clean up help output [Karel Zak]
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- Avoid closing the server socket when calling create_daemon() [Theodore Ts'o]
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- fix $PIDFILE in uuidd.rc [Karel Zak]
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- init /var/run/uuidd, add option for on-demand mode to .rc file [Karel Zak]
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- move uuidd files from /var/lib/libuuid to /var/run/uuidd [Karel Zak]
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- move uuidd.rc to misc-utils directory [Karel Zak]
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- new command (UUID daemon from e2fsprogs) [Karel Zak]
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- new command (from e2fsprogs) [Karel Zak]
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