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authorbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-11 17:28:01 +0000
committerbmah <bmah@FreeBSD.org>2002-05-11 17:28:01 +0000
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New release notes: new crashdump infrastructure, cdcontrol(1) speed,
fsdb(8) blocks (+MFC), who(1) -H/-T/-m/-u/-q, xargs(1) -L, general note on SuSv3/POSIX.1 conformance. Modified release notes: The system awk is now BWK awk (noted in three places), uudecode(1)/uuencode(1) -o/-m (+MFC), xargs(1) -I/-J.
Diffstat (limited to 'release')
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml59
-rw-r--r--release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml59
2 files changed, 90 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
index d35a70a..3a78284 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml
@@ -327,6 +327,12 @@
and IDE disks, where large memory dumps could take up to an hour
to complete. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The kernel crashdump infrastructure has been revised, to
+ support new platforms and in general clean up the logic in the
+ code. One implication of this change is that the on-disk format
+ for kernel dumps has changed, and is now
+ byte-order-agnostic.</para>
+
<para>Extremely large swap areas (&gt;67 GB) no longer panic the
system.</para>
@@ -1800,10 +1806,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.atacontrol.8; has been added to control various aspects
of the &man.ata.4; driver. &merged;</para>
- <para arch="sparc64">The system &man.awk.1; refers to
- <application>BWK awk</application> on the &arch; platform. It
- remains <application>GNU awk</application> on other
- platforms.</para>
+ <para>The system &man.awk.1; now refers to
+ <application>BWK awk</application>. <application>GNU
+ awk</application> is now available as &man.gawk.1;.</para>
<para arch="i386">&man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager
installation and configuration utility, has been
@@ -1846,6 +1851,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
specified number of tracks while playing an audio
CD. &merged;</para>
+ <para>On ATAPI CDROM drives, &man.cdcontrol.1; now supports a
+ <literal>speed</literal> command to set the maximum speed to be
+ used by the drive.</para>
+
<para>&man.chflags.1; has moved from <filename>/usr/bin</filename>
to <filename>/bin</filename>.</para>
@@ -2016,6 +2025,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
break at byte positions and a <option>-s</option> to break at
word boundaries.</para>
+ <para>&man.fsdb.8; now supports a <literal>blocks</literal>
+ command to list the blocks allocated by a particular
+ inode. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature
provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different
types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para>
@@ -2896,8 +2909,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The &man.usbhidctl.1; utility has been added to manipulate
USB Human Interface Devices. &merged;</para>
- <para>&man.uudecode.1; now accepts a <option>-o</option> option to
- set its output file.</para>
+ <para>&man.uuencode.1; and &man.uudecode.1; now accept a <option>-o</option> option to
+ set their output files. They can also do base64 encoding and
+ decoding when given the <option>-m</option> flag. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now accepts a <option>-g</option>
parameter to select custom text geometry in the
@@ -2931,6 +2945,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.which.1; is now a C program, rather than a Perl
script.</para>
+ <para>&man.who.1; now has a number of new options:
+ <option>-H</option> shows column headings; <option>-T</option>
+ shows &man.mesg.1; state; <option>-m</option> is an equivalent
+ to <option>am i</option>; <option>-u</option> shows idle time;
+ <option>-q</option> to list names in columns.</para>
+
<para>&man.whois.1; now directs queries for IP addresses to ARIN.
If a query to ARIN references APNIC or RIPE, the appropriate
server will also be queried, provided that the
@@ -2940,11 +2960,17 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
specify a country code to help direct queries towards a
particular whois server. &merged;</para>
- <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-J</option>
+ <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-I</option>
<replaceable>replstr</replaceable> option that allows the user
to tell &man.xargs.1; to insert the data read from standard
- input at a specific point in the command line arguments rather
- than at the end. &merged;</para>
+ input at specific points in the command line arguments rather
+ than at the end. (A &os;-specific <option>-J</option> option is
+ similar, but is now deprecated in favor of the more portable
+ <option>-I</option> option.)</para>
+
+ <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-L</option> option to
+ force its utility argument to be called after some number of
+ lines.</para>
<para>The compiler chain now uses the FSF-supplied C/C++ runtime
initialization code. This change brings about better
@@ -2979,6 +3005,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
improved, both in terms of their formatting markup and in their
content. &merged;</para>
+ <para>A number of utilities and libraries were enhanced to improve
+ their conformance with the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3) and
+ IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (<quote>POSIX.1</quote>). Specific
+ features added have been listed in the release notes for each
+ utility. The standards conformance of each utility or library
+ function is generally listed in its manual page.</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
@@ -2988,8 +3021,8 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>A 10 February 2002 snapshot of <application>awk</application> from Bell Labs (variously
known as <quote>BWK awk</quote> or <quote>The One True
AWK</quote>) has been imported. It is available as
- <command>awk</command> on the sparc64 architecture, and
- <command>nawk</command> on other architectures.</para>
+ <command>awk</command> or
+ <command>nawk</command>.</para>
<para><application>bc</application> has been updated from 1.04 to
1.06. &merged;</para>
@@ -3038,9 +3071,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
3.113. &merged;</para>
<para><application>GNU awk</application> has been updated to
- 3.1.0. It is available as <command>gawk</command> on the
- sparc64 architecture, and as <command>awk</command> on other
- architectures.</para>
+ 3.1.0. It is now available as <command>gawk</command>.</para>
<para><application>gperf</application> has been updated to
2.7.2.</para>
diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
index d35a70a..3a78284 100644
--- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
+++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml
@@ -327,6 +327,12 @@
and IDE disks, where large memory dumps could take up to an hour
to complete. &merged;</para>
+ <para>The kernel crashdump infrastructure has been revised, to
+ support new platforms and in general clean up the logic in the
+ code. One implication of this change is that the on-disk format
+ for kernel dumps has changed, and is now
+ byte-order-agnostic.</para>
+
<para>Extremely large swap areas (&gt;67 GB) no longer panic the
system.</para>
@@ -1800,10 +1806,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.atacontrol.8; has been added to control various aspects
of the &man.ata.4; driver. &merged;</para>
- <para arch="sparc64">The system &man.awk.1; refers to
- <application>BWK awk</application> on the &arch; platform. It
- remains <application>GNU awk</application> on other
- platforms.</para>
+ <para>The system &man.awk.1; now refers to
+ <application>BWK awk</application>. <application>GNU
+ awk</application> is now available as &man.gawk.1;.</para>
<para arch="i386">&man.boot98cfg.8;, a PC-98 boot manager
installation and configuration utility, has been
@@ -1846,6 +1851,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
specified number of tracks while playing an audio
CD. &merged;</para>
+ <para>On ATAPI CDROM drives, &man.cdcontrol.1; now supports a
+ <literal>speed</literal> command to set the maximum speed to be
+ used by the drive.</para>
+
<para>&man.chflags.1; has moved from <filename>/usr/bin</filename>
to <filename>/bin</filename>.</para>
@@ -2016,6 +2025,10 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
break at byte positions and a <option>-s</option> to break at
word boundaries.</para>
+ <para>&man.fsdb.8; now supports a <literal>blocks</literal>
+ command to list the blocks allocated by a particular
+ inode. &merged;</para>
+
<para>&man.fsck.8; wrappers have been imported; this feature
provides infrastructure for &man.fsck.8; to work on different
types of filesystems (analogous to &man.mount.8;).</para>
@@ -2896,8 +2909,9 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>The &man.usbhidctl.1; utility has been added to manipulate
USB Human Interface Devices. &merged;</para>
- <para>&man.uudecode.1; now accepts a <option>-o</option> option to
- set its output file.</para>
+ <para>&man.uuencode.1; and &man.uudecode.1; now accept a <option>-o</option> option to
+ set their output files. They can also do base64 encoding and
+ decoding when given the <option>-m</option> flag. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.vidcontrol.1; now accepts a <option>-g</option>
parameter to select custom text geometry in the
@@ -2931,6 +2945,12 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>&man.which.1; is now a C program, rather than a Perl
script.</para>
+ <para>&man.who.1; now has a number of new options:
+ <option>-H</option> shows column headings; <option>-T</option>
+ shows &man.mesg.1; state; <option>-m</option> is an equivalent
+ to <option>am i</option>; <option>-u</option> shows idle time;
+ <option>-q</option> to list names in columns.</para>
+
<para>&man.whois.1; now directs queries for IP addresses to ARIN.
If a query to ARIN references APNIC or RIPE, the appropriate
server will also be queried, provided that the
@@ -2940,11 +2960,17 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
specify a country code to help direct queries towards a
particular whois server. &merged;</para>
- <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-J</option>
+ <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-I</option>
<replaceable>replstr</replaceable> option that allows the user
to tell &man.xargs.1; to insert the data read from standard
- input at a specific point in the command line arguments rather
- than at the end. &merged;</para>
+ input at specific points in the command line arguments rather
+ than at the end. (A &os;-specific <option>-J</option> option is
+ similar, but is now deprecated in favor of the more portable
+ <option>-I</option> option.)</para>
+
+ <para>&man.xargs.1; now supports a <option>-L</option> option to
+ force its utility argument to be called after some number of
+ lines.</para>
<para>The compiler chain now uses the FSF-supplied C/C++ runtime
initialization code. This change brings about better
@@ -2979,6 +3005,13 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
improved, both in terms of their formatting markup and in their
content. &merged;</para>
+ <para>A number of utilities and libraries were enhanced to improve
+ their conformance with the Single UNIX Specification (SUSv3) and
+ IEEE Std 1003.1-2001 (<quote>POSIX.1</quote>). Specific
+ features added have been listed in the release notes for each
+ utility. The standards conformance of each utility or library
+ function is generally listed in its manual page.</para>
+
<sect3>
<title>Contributed Software</title>
@@ -2988,8 +3021,8 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para>A 10 February 2002 snapshot of <application>awk</application> from Bell Labs (variously
known as <quote>BWK awk</quote> or <quote>The One True
AWK</quote>) has been imported. It is available as
- <command>awk</command> on the sparc64 architecture, and
- <command>nawk</command> on other architectures.</para>
+ <command>awk</command> or
+ <command>nawk</command>.</para>
<para><application>bc</application> has been updated from 1.04 to
1.06. &merged;</para>
@@ -3038,9 +3071,7 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
3.113. &merged;</para>
<para><application>GNU awk</application> has been updated to
- 3.1.0. It is available as <command>gawk</command> on the
- sparc64 architecture, and as <command>awk</command> on other
- architectures.</para>
+ 3.1.0. It is now available as <command>gawk</command>.</para>
<para><application>gperf</application> has been updated to
2.7.2.</para>
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