Hi guys, I put up the next prerelease of util-linux in case someone wants to play around: <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc2-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz> <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc2-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz> Same warnings apply as to rc1: - mountpoint will conflict with sysvinit (I'll propose moving this from sysvinit to util-linux when we have a final release); and - libmount is enabled even though it will probably not be in the final version. Cheers, Tom On Sat, Jul 30, 2011 at 12:43 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg@jklm.no> wrote:

Hi guys,

A new and very exciting release of util-linux is imminent. Even though we only have an -rc1 so far, I thought it might be worthwhile to put it out there so people can try it out (in case we want anything fixed before the final release):

<https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc1-1-i686.pkg.tar.xz> <https://dev.archlinux.org/~tomegun/util-linux-2.20rc1-1-x86_64.pkg.tar.xz>

I enabled libmount support in mount, but this will probably be reverted before the final release unless we have good reason to believe it to be safe.

Major changes:

- agetty gets most of the features from mingetty. - dmesg gets lots of new filtering capabilities - mountpoint moves here from sysvinit (we probably have to manually remove it from the sysvinit package).

We still patch hwclock to move the adjustment file from /etc to /var. I'm not a big fan of this, and hope to have a backwards compatible patch to sort things out before 2.21 is released.

Cheers,

Tom

Util-linux 2.20 Release Notes =============================

Release highlights ------------------

agetty(8):  - mingetty features have been merged to agetty

chrt(1), taskset(1):  - supports new command line option "--all-tasks" to set or retrieve the   scheduling attributes of all the tasks (threads) for a given PID

dmesg(1):  - supports new command line options: --clear, --console-on, --console-off,   --ctime, --decode, --facility=<list>, --level=<list>, --show-delta,   --notime, --kernel and --userspace

fdisk(8):  - improved dialogs to be more user-friendly

findmnt(8), partx(8), lsblk(8)  - support new command line option "--pairs" to enable key="value"   output format

findmnt(8):  - supports new command line options "--poll" and "--timeout" to monitor   /proc/self/mountinfo changes

ionice(1):  - supports human-readable scheduling class names, for example:   ionice -c best-effort $PID

kill(1):  - supports new command line option "-q <sigval>" to use sigqueue(2)  - supports real-time signals in formats RT<n>, RTMIN+<n> and RTMAX-<n>

libmount:  - the API officially stable

lsblk(8):  - supports new columns:     TYPE      - device type     RQ-SIZE   - queue request size     STATE     - device state (e.g. running, suspended)     DALIGN    - discard alignment offset     DISC-GRAN - discard granularity     DISC-MAX  - discard max bytes     DISC-ZERO - discard zeroes data  - supports new command line option "-D" to print device discard topology

lscpu(8):  - improved support for s390 boxes

mkfs.minix:  - supports minix version 3

mountpoint(1):  - this NEW COMMAND is libmount based re-implementation of mountpoint(1) from   sysvinit suite

simpleinit:  - this set of deprecated utils has been REMOVED

Wall(1):  - support new command line option "--timeout" to specify write timeout to   terminals in seconds.

It's not supported to link with external (e.g. from e2fsprogs) libblkid and libuuid any more.