New upstream sysvinit tarball version 2.87dsf created

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

I've just created a new sysvinit release, named 2.87dsf.  It is based
on on patches from Debian SuSe and Fedora.

This is the changelog.

  * Fix typos and do minor updates in the manual pages.
  * Correct section of mountpoint(1).
  * Document -e and -t options for telinit in init(8).
  * Update address of FSF in the COPYRIGHT file.
  * Document in halt(8) that -n might not disable all syncing.
    Patch by Bill Nottingham and Fedora
  * Adjust output from "last -x".  In reboot lines, print endpoint
    of uptime too.  In shutdown lines print downtimes rather than
    the time between downs.  Fix typo in string compare in last.c.
    Patch by Thomas Hood.
  * Improve handling of IPv6 addresses in last.  Patch from Fedora.
  * Document last options in usage information, previously only
    mentioned in the manual page.
  * Add new option -F to last, to output full date string instead
    of the short form provided by default.  Patch from Olaf Dabrunz
    and SuSe.
  * Adjust build rules to make sure the installed binaries
    are stripped.
  * Increase the compiler warning level when building.
  * Fix utmp/wtmp updating on 64-bit platforms.  Patch by Bill
    Nottingham and Fedora.
  * Avoid unchecked return value from malloc() in utmpdump.
    Patch from Christian 'Dr. Disk' Hechelmann and Fedora.
  * Make sure to use execle and no execl when passing environment to
    the new process.  Patch from RedHat.
  * Correct init to make sure the waiting status is preserved across
    re-exec.  Patch from RedHat.
  * Correct init to avoid race condition when starting programs during
    boot.  Patch from SuSe.
  * Allow 'telinit u' in runlevels 0 and 6.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
  * Change install rules to make pidof an absolute symlink.  Patch from
    Thomas Hood.
  * Improve error message from init if fork() fail.  Patch found in Suse.
  * Add support for SE Linux capability handling.  Patch from Manoj
    Srivastava, adjusted to avoid aborting if SE policy was loaded in
    the initrd with patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
  * Add -c option to pidof for only matching processes with the same
    process root.  Ignore -c when not running as root.  Patch from
    Thomas Woerner and Fedora.
  * Adjust init to terminate argv0 with one 0 rather than two so that
    process name can be one character longer.  Patch by Kir Kolyshkin.
  * Make sure bootlogd exit with non-error exit code when forking of
    the child successfully.
  * Add bootlogd option -s to make it possible to control the use of
    fdatasync().  Patch from Thomas Hood.
  * Add bootlogd option -c to tell it to create the log file if it does
    not exist.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
  * Let bootlogd also look at ttyB* devices to work on HPPA.  Patch
    from Thomas Hood.
  * Change init to use setenv() instead of putenv, make sure the PATH
    value is usable on re-exec.  Patch from Thomas Hood.
  * Add usleep in killall5 after killing processes, to force the kernel
    to reschedule.  Patch from SuSe.
  * Modify pidof to not print empty line if no pid was found.
  * Modify init and sulogin to fix emergency mode's tty, making sure ^C
    and ^Z work when booting with 'emergency' kernel option.  Patch from
    Samuel Thibault.
  * Modify init to allow some time for failed opens to resolve themselves.
    Patch from Bill Nottingham and Fedora.
  * Modify init to shut down IDE, SCSI and SATA disks properly.  Patches
    from Sebastian Reichelt, Werner Fink and SuSe.
  * Modify wall to use UT_LINESIZE from <utmp.h> instead of hardcoded
    string lengths.  Patch from SuSe.
  * Change wall to make halt include hostname in output.
  * Change killall to avoid killing init by mistake.  Patch from SuSe.
  * Change killall5 to use the exit value to report if it found any
    processes to kill.  Patch from Debian.
  * Add option -o opmitpid to killall5, to make it possible to skip
    some pids during shutdown.  Based on patch from Colin Watson and
    Ubuntu.
  * Add references between killall5 and pidof manual pages.  Patch from Debian.
  * Modify killall to work better with user space file system, by
    changing cwd to /proc when stopping and killing processes, and
    avoiding stat() when the value isn't used.  Also, lock process
    pages in memory to avoid paging when user processes are stopped.
    Patch from Debian and Goswin von Brederlow with changes by Kel
    Modderman.
  * Change shutdown to only accept flags -H and -P with the -h flag,
    and document this requirement in the manual page.
  * Change reboot/halt to work properly when used as a login shell.
    Patch by Dale R. Worley and Fedora.
  * Let sulogin fall back to the staticly linked /bin/sash if both roots
    shell and /bin/sh fail to execute.

The new tarball is available from
<URL:https://alioth.debian.org/frs/?group_id=30786>.  All patches from
Debian, SuSe and Fedora are not integrated yet.  I focused on the
generic ones I quickly could understand in the limited time I spent on
this.

I expect more patches to be integrated in the future releases.  The
subversion three is

  svn+ssh://svn.debian.org/svn/pkg-sysvinit/sysvinit-upstream/trunk

In the README, I asked for patches to be sent to this mailing list.

Happy hacking,
-- 
Petter Reinholdtsen