Adding upstream version 2.38.1.upstream/2.38.1upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

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