util-linux-2.40.1

[Bruce Dubbs]

New point version.

[Xi Ruoyao]

Hmm, I cannot find this.

[Bruce Dubbs]

I was a little premature. From the mailing list:

"I would like to announce the release of v2.40.1 from the stable/v2.40.1 branch this Thursday or Friday."

[Bruce Dubbs]

Still at -rc1, but here are the release notes:

Changes between v2.40 and v2.40.1

README.licensing/flock:

• Add MIT license mention

agetty:

• Don't override TERM passed by the user

all_syscalls:

• don't hardcode AWK invocation
• don't warn during cleanup
• fail if any step fails
• use sed to extract defines from headers

autotools:

• distribute pam_lastlog2/meson.build

bcachefs:

• Remove BCACHEFS_SB_MAX_SIZE & check

docs:

• add COPYING.MIT
• fix GPL name typo
• update AUTHORS file

findmnt:

• always zero-terminate SOURCES data
• revise the code for -I and -D option

lastlog2:

• begin descriptions of options with a lowercase letter

lib/pager: libblkid:

• Fix segfault when blkid.conf doesn't exist
• topology/ioctl correctly handle kernel types
• topology/ioctl simplify ioctl handling

libmount:

• Fix access check for utab in context
• fix comment typo for mnt_fs_get_comment()
• fix umount --read-only

libsmartcols:

• fix column reduction
• reset wrap after calculation

libuuid:

• (man) fix function declarations

losetup:

• losetup.8 Clarify --direct-io

lsblk:

• simplify SOURCES code

lsfd:

• (man) fix license name
• add LSFD_DEBUG env var for debugging

lslocks:

• don't abort gathering per-process information even if opening a /proc/[0-9]* fails
• remove a unused local variable

lsns:

• fix netns use [Karel Zak]
• report with warnx if a namespace related ioctl fails with ENOSYS
• tolerate lsns_ioctl(fd, NS_GET_{PARENT,USERNS}) failing with ENOSYS

meson:

• Add build-blkdiscard option
• Add build-blkpr option
• Add build-blkzone option
• Add build-blockdev option
• Add build-chcpu option
• Add build-dmesg option
• Add build-enosys option
• Add build-fadvise option
• Add build-fsfreeze option
• Add build-ipcmk option
• Add build-ldattach option
• Add build-lsclocks option
• Add build-lsfd option and make rt dependency optional
• Add build-rtcwake option
• Add build-script option
• Add build-scriptlive option
• Add build-setarch option
• Add have_pty variable to check if pty is available
• Add missing check for build-ipcrm option
• Define _DARWIN_C_SOURCE on macOS as is done in Autotools
• Don't define HAVE_ENVIRON_DECL when environ is unavailable
• Fix build by default and install behavior for build-pipesz option
• Fix false positive detection of mempcpy on macOS
• Only build libmount when required
• Only pick up the rt library once
• Only require the crypt library when necessary
• Only use the --version-script linker flag where it is supported
• Remove libblkid dependency on libmount
• Remove lingering mq_libs variable
• Require pty for the su and runuser executables
• Require the seminfo type for ipcmk, ipcrm, and ipcs
• Use has_type instead of sizeof to detect cpu_set_t type
• Use libblkid as a dependency
• Use libmount as a dependency
• respect c_args/CFLAGS when generating syscalls

pam_lastlog2:

• link against liblastlog

po:

• merge changes

po-man:

• merge changes

strutils.h:

• Include strings.h header for strncasecmp function

tests:

• (lsfd mkfds-multiplexing) skip if /proc/$pid/syscall is broken
• (lsns ioctl_ns) add more debug print
• (lsns ioctl_ns) record stdout/stderr for debugging the case
• (test_mkfds sockdiag) verify the recieved message to detect whether the socket is usable or not

textual:

• fix some typos and inconsistencies in usage and error messages

xalloc.h:

• Include stdio.h header for vasprintf function

[Bruce Dubbs]

Replying to Xi Ruoyao:

Hmm, I cannot find this.

It is available now.

​https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/v2.40/util-linux-2.40.1.tar.xz

[Bruce Dubbs]

Fixed at commit 340e17adc6.