8.251. util-linux-ng

Bug Fixes

BZ#999625

Previously, the behavior of the "acl" option was not correctly documented in the mount(8) manual page. The manual page now clarifies that the "acl" option is specific to the file system and not a default mount option.

BZ#1004021

The blkid(8) manual page now documents the behavior of the "-w" option correctly, mentioning that "blkid -w" always writes to the default cache file even if the output has been redirected elsewhere.

BZ#1011590

Previously, using the fdisk command on multipath mapped devices failed with a "floating point exception" error. This bug has been fixed and fdisk now successfully executes on multipath mapped devices.

BZ#1016470

The blockdev(8) manual page now clarifies the behavior of the "--setbsz" option, which sets the block size on file descriptors opening the block size.

BZ#1031641

Previously, the findmnt command did not handle correctly trailing forward slashes ("/") in the entries of the /proc/mounts file. As a consequence, findmnt sometimes failed to match the correct path. This bug has been fixed and the findmnt command now matches the correct path independently of the trailing slash.

BZ#1033309

The rename(1) manual page referred to the non-existing mmv(1) manual page. This reference has been removed.

BZ#1039187

The PERMISSIONS section of the taskset(1) manual page has been corrected to mention that a user is allowed to change the affinity of processes he owns, but a CAP_SYS_NICE flag is required to change the affinity of another user's process.

BZ#1072583

Previously, the "hwclock --systohc" command could enter an indefinite loop on busy or virtual machines. Consequently, the machine could not complete the shutdown or reboot a process. A patch with a different mechanism has been applied, and the "hwclock --systohc" command now completes successfully.

BZ#1049055

Previously, the kernel did not support unsharing for PID name spaces. With this update, a series of patches has been applied to the relevant kernel code to support the unshare() system call for PID name spaces.

BZ#1097715

Previously, when attempting to use the flock command to lock a file in NFSv4 volumes, the command failed with the following error:

[nfs4] flock nfs file fail: Bad file descriptor

This bug has been fixed and now the flock command executes successfully on NFSv4 volumes.

BZ#1104575

Previously, the kill command which is used by the ntfs service did not check the "errno" value after calling the strtol() function. As a consequence, using the "service netfs stop" command could kill every process on the system if there were more than 100 000 processes running at the same time. This bug has been fixed, and using the "service netfs stop" command only stops ntfs as expected.

Enhancements

BZ#619521

This update implements the lslogins(1) command which lists information about accounts on the system in a easy to read format.

BZ#957906

This update adds the nsenter utility to the util-linux-ng packages. It allows to run commands in kernel namespaces. If the namespace does not exist, nsenter creates a new one and then executes the command.