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diff --git a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT index 437bd0c..0d7157e 100644 --- a/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT +++ b/release/texts/alpha/RELNOTES.TXT @@ -747,7 +747,7 @@ A number of buffer overflows in config(8) have been fixed. [MERGED] pwd(1) can now double as realpath(1), a program to resolve pathnames to their underlying physical paths. [MERGED] -file(1) has been contribify-ed, and updated to version 3.34. +file(1) has been contribify-ed, and updated to version 3.35. stty(1) now has support for an "erase2" control character, so that both "delete" and "backspace" can be used to erase characters. [MERGED] @@ -761,7 +761,7 @@ top(1) will now use the full width of its tty. groff(1) and its related utilities have been updated to FSF version 1.17. This import brings in a new mdoc(7) macro package, which -removes many of the limitations of its predecessor. +removes many of the limitations of its predecessor. [MERGED] A number of cleanups and enhancements have been applied to the PCI subsystem. /usr/share/misc/pci_vendors now contains a vendor/device @@ -782,9 +782,23 @@ the controlling tty), fsck_ffs will now output a line indicating the current phase number and progress information relevant to the current phase. [MERGED] -fsck_ffs now supports background filesystem checks to mounted FFS -filesystems with the -B option (softupdates must be enabled on these -filesystems). +fsck(8) and fsck_ffs(8) now support background filesystem checks to +mounted FFS filesystems with the -B option (softupdates must be +enabled on these filesystems). The -F flag now determines whether a +specified filesystem needs foreground checking. + +fsck(8) now has support for foreground (-F) and background (-B) +checks. Traditionally, fsck(8) is invoked before the filesystems are +mounted and all checks are done to completion at that time. If +background checking is available, fsck(8) is invoked twice. It is +first invoked at the traditional time, before the filesystems are +mounted, with the -F flag to do checking on all the filesystems that +cannot do background checking. It is then invoked a second time, +after the system has completed going multiuser, with the -B flag to do +checking on all the filesystems that can do background checking. +Unlike the foreground checking, the background checking is started +asynchonously so that other system activity can proceed even on the +filesystems that are being checked. Catching up with most other network utilities in the base system, lpr(1), lpd(8), syslogd(8), and logger(1) are now all IPv6-capable. @@ -993,7 +1007,8 @@ ftpd(8) now supports a -r flag for read-only mode and a -E flag to disable EPSV. It also has some fixes to reduce information leakage and the ability to specify compile-time port ranges. [MERGED] -ping(8) now supports a -m option to set the TTL of outgoing packets. +ping(8) now supports a -m option to set the TTL of outgoing +packets. [MERGED] A version of Transport Independent RPC (TI-RPC) has been imported. @@ -1040,6 +1055,9 @@ A new kernel option, "options REGRESSION", enables interfaces and functionality intended for use during correctness and regression testing. +fmtcheck(3), a function for checking consistency of format string +arguments, has been added. + 2. Supported Configurations --------------------------- |
