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diff --git a/contrib/amd/NEWS b/contrib/amd/NEWS index c33358f..aa4b7ca 100644 --- a/contrib/amd/NEWS +++ b/contrib/amd/NEWS @@ -1,5 +1,143 @@ # -*- text -*- +*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.0.7: + +- minor new ports: i386-unknown-freebsd5.0 + +- bug fixes: + type:=host, don't fail mount if one share is already mounted + don't report NFS NE_IO error as success (Linux) + +*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.0.6: + +- new ports: + Apple OS X support (Darwin, Rhapsody) + +- reworked autoconf scripts so that newer versions of known OSs will default + their configuration to the last known version (better chance that it will + pass autoconf and work). + +- linux support for lofs and "bind" mounts, so type:=lofs can work (whether + you're using autofs or not) + +- renamed amd.conf option "selectors_on_default" to "selectors_in_defaults" + (on -> in, and added "s"). Old name remains in place for compatibility. + +- lots of cleanups of debugging and logging messages + +- Bugs fixed: + lots of Linux-related ones, so it compiles for recent kernels + better checking on various mount options of the form foo=N or foo=STR + fixed NFS errno mapping bug which mapped ENOENT to success on Linux + +*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.0.5: + +- Minor ports: + alphaev6-dec-osf5.1 + i386-unknown-freebsd4.2 + support for Linux 2.4 kernels and newer GLIBC versions + cleanup of AIX and IRIX6 ports + +- Support new mount options: + proplist (ACLs over NFS, DU-4.0) + kerb, rdirplus, readdirsize, and xlatecookie (NetBSD-1.5K+) + nonlm, lock, nolock (Linux) + +- Don't force rsize/wsize on Linux 2.2.18+ and 2.4.x. Improves performance + a lot. + +- Lots of documentation updates: texinfo, man pages, scripts, and more. + +- LDAP: included proposed Schema and Internet Draft for LDAP Schema. See + README.ldap for more information. + +- Removed all remains of the dangerous amq -M code. + +- Major bug fix: initialize NFS fileid field correctly, to avoid cache + aliasing problems, esp. on Linux. + +- Major Linux bug fix: map errnos to NFS errors (mistakenly turned off a + while back). Also support unused errno 41. + +- Other bugs fixes: + default MAXHOSTNAMELEN (if undefined) is 256, not 64 + truncate hostnames to MAXHOSTNAMELEN (security fix) + alignment problem in getwire() on ALPHA + other buf overflow problems (security fixes) + ctl-amd supports "condrestart" (Red Hat) + bell char is \g not \a + lostaltmail verify MAILDIR is defined + am-eject accepts "floppy" and "cdrom" as args + other assorted small bug fixes + +*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.0.4: + +- NFSv3 support for Linux and HPUX-11 + +- new amd.conf [global] options: + nfs_vers: force all NFS mounts to version 2 or 3 + nfs_proto: force all NFS mounts to udp or tcp + +- new debug_options (amd -D): + hrtime: turns on high-resolution timer if available + readdir: traces browsable_dirs code + xdrtrace: traces XDR routines + (trace: only traces NFS and RPC) + +- new amq options: + -H: shows usage + -w: translate getpwd() into an Amd path + +- new map syntax: + ${dollar}: to include a literal '$' in assignments + +- new "opts:=" options: + ver3: turns on NFS version 3 on some systems (linux) + +- updated or minor new ports: + alpha-dec-osf4.0f + alphaev6-dec-osf5.0 + i386-pc-linux-rh6.2 + i386-unknown-freebsd3.4 + +- bugs fixed: + symlink mtime fixes to avoid u/mount race conditions + update amq -s failed umounts count correctly + linux compiles even if efs is available + linux works with mount(2) option "intr" + linux works with pcfs and cdfs + handle std{in,out,err} correctly when releasing controlling tty + browsable_readdir works on 64-bit kernel architectures + irs/wire routines compile for bsdi{2,3,4} + +*** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.0.3: + +- updated or minor new ports: + hppa1.0-hp-hpux11.00 + i386-pc-bsdi4.1 + i386-unknown-netbsd1.4.1 + sparc-sun-solaris2.8 + i*86-pc-linux-gnu-rh6.1 + (some preparations for Compaq Tru64) + +- new variables ${uid} and ${gid}, return the numeric UID/GID of the user + (not root) who invokes an amd pathname. Similar to what hlfsd does. + +- automake now uses automatic dependency tracking + +- new mount options: optionstr, noexec, nomnttab + +- maps of type:=auto are now browsable (using map option "browsable") + +- ctl-amd has "status" argument (same as RedHat) + +- bugs fixed: + document buggy AIX 4.3 plock() behavior + fixes to stale file handle on symlinks + reduce race conditions upon rapid umount/mount sequences + use vsnprintf, more secure than vsprintf + more assorted and smaller bugs + *** Notes specific to am-utils version 6.0.2: - safe map reloads: when a map needs to be reloaded, it is reloaded into a @@ -340,7 +478,7 @@ machine to NFS V.2 and retry again later. - minor code cleanups for netbsd -- html docs now in http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~ezk/am-utils/ +- html docs now in http://www.am-utils.org - added README file in binaries ftp directory |
