sysvinit (2.88dsf) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
+ [ Petter Reinholdtsen ]
* Mention new home on Savannah in README.
* Revert change from Fedora/RedHat where the now obsolete command
INIT_CMD_CHANGECONS was introduced. Based on feedback and patch
from Bill Nottingham.
* Adjust makefile to make sure the install directories are created
before files are copied into them.
+ * Simplify build rules, based on patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
* Fix minor bug in optimizing of argument parsing. Based on
report from jakemus on freshmeat.
* Add casts to get rid of compiler warning about signed/unsigned issues.
Patch from Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
* Sync shutdown manual page and usage information. Patch from Mike
Frysinger and Gentoo.
+ * Fix race condition in utmp writing. Patch from Gil Kloepfer via
+ Mike Frysinger and Gentoo.
+ * Rewrite findtty() in bootlogd to recursively search /dev/ for the
+ correct device, to handle terminal devices for example in /dev/pty/.
+ Patch from Debian.
+ * Make sure bootlogd findpty() returns an error value when it fails to
+ find a usable pty. Patch from Rob Leslie via Debian.
+ * Make sure bootlogd fflush() every line, even if asked not to flush
+ to disk using fdatasync(). Patch from Scott Gifford via Debian.
+
+ [ Werner Fink ]
+ * Add the comment from Andrea Arcangeli about the correct
+ place of setting the default childhandler within spawn().
+ * Make sure that newline is printed out for last(1) even
+ if an utmp record entry is truncated.
+ * Check if utmp not only exists but also is writable and delay
+ writing out of the utmp runlevel record if utmp is not writable.
+ * Be able to find libcrypt also on 64 bit based architectures.
-- Petter Reinholdtsen <pere@hungry.com> Sun, 12 Jul 2009 19:58:10 +0200