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- Changes from version 17 to 18 (1-NOV-1998)
- =============================
-
- - fuser: usage summary listed -s (silent) as -q
- - fuser: fuser x/y yielded confusing error message if x/y doesn't exist
- (reported by Tigran Aivazian)
- - fuser: new option -i for interactive killing (like killall -i)
- - killall: tried to print a NULL pointer if full process name was unavailable
- and killing failed
- - killall: new option -g to kill process group instead of process
- - killall: cosmetic PROC_BASE changes (by Florian La Roche)
- - pidof: new option -g to show PGID instead of PID (by Florian La Roche)
- - pstree: new option -H to highlight process specified by PID
- - added -D_GNU_SOURCE to CFLAGS for glibc 2 compatibility
- - Makefile should now also work with bash-2
-
-
- Changes from version 16 to 17 (17-FEB-1998)
- =============================
-
- - fuser: now also handles /proc of recent 2.1 kernels (fix by Andreas Schwab;
- other fixed also proposed by Chris Wedgwood and Luca Berra)
- - pstree now properly handles init with PID = PPID = 1
- - fuser: no longer changes the name space for relative paths ending with the
- name of a name space (e.g. something/tcp)
- - fuser: now also reports mount points, swap files, and loop mounts
- - updated the fuser man page
- - killall: new option -w to wait for the killed processes to die
- - killall: didn't handle malloc failure
-
-
- Changes from version 15 to 16 (28-JUL-1997)
- =============================
-
- - killall: now gets the list of all PIDs before killing processes, thereby
- avoiding race between readdir and /proc (found by Boris Zentner)
- - make install no longer changes BINDIR and MANDIR if they already exist
- - changed psmisc.<version>.lsm to psmisc-<version>.lsm for consistency
-
-
- Changes from version 14 to 15 (16-JUN-1997)
- =============================
-
- - killall: killall -v didn't print the command name (fixed by Marty Leisner)
- - fuser: fuser -a <unix_domain_socket> could crash (reported by Helmut Geyer)
- - fuser: fuser -m didn't consider UNIX domain sockets (fix based on a patch by
- Andries Brouwer)
- - fuser: fuser -a /a /a /b no longer merges the first two entries
- - changed package name format from psmisc.<version> to psmisc-<version> to
- avoid annoyance messages from sunsite's archive scripts
-
-
- Changes from version 13 to 14 (19-APR-1997)
- =============================
-
- - killall: command-line parser didn't accept -signal (fixed by Chris Wedgwood)
- - pidof: minor man page correction
- - Makefile: pidof is now only installed when running make install-pidof
- - added a file with installation instructions (INSTALL)
-
-
- Changes from version 12 to 13 (16-APR-1997)
- =============================
-
- - fuser: didn't check for out of memory condition after malloc (oops !)
- - fuser: INET domain sockets can now be specified as
- [local_port][,[remote_host][,[remote_port]]]
- - fuser: now includes linux/kdev_t.h instead of linux/fs.h. This may break
- compilation with some ancient kernels.
- - killall: new option -q to suppress error message if no process was found
- - killall: man page didn't reset font properly
- - killall: now tries harder to handle very long names (> 15 characters)
- (proposed by Erik Thiele)
- - killall: new option -e to require exact name match
- - killall: now lists PIDs if invoked as "pidof" (proposed by Peter Daum)
- - minor Makefile change to eliminate need to patch for some versions of Linux
-
-
- Changes from version 11 to 12 (7-APR-1996)
- =============================
-
- - fuser is now able to look up INET and UNIX domain sockets
- - pstree: new option -n to sort its output by PID
- - pstree: new option -G to use VT100 line drawing characters
-
-
- Changes from version 10 to 11 (20-SEP-1995)
- =============================
-
- - added VERSION file
- - size of command name is now defined in comm.h - the old approach of
- obtaining values from linux/sched.h:struct task_struct doesn't work anymore)
- - signames.h is now generated from cpp output (linux/signals.h no longer
- defines them)
- - all commands now print the version number when invoked with the -V option
- - signames.h added to make clean
- - removed use of {,} expansion in mkdist
- - various minor documentation fixes
-
-
- Changes from version 9 to 10 (28-MAR-1995)
- ============================
-
- - fuser: now prints header before first path (used to be on same line)
- - fuser: fixed line wrapping for long paths (used to wrap too early)
- - fuser: fixed a NULL pointer dereference in add_file
- - pstree: now outputs strings obtained from termcap with tputs
- - some cosmetic changes (to avoid certain warnings if using -Wconversion)
- - updated e-mail address in README
-
- Changes from version 8 to 9 (22-JAN-1995)
- ===========================
-
- - fuser: now works with Plan 9 semantics (i.e. what recent kernels use;
- reported by Harald Koenig, Nick Simicich, and others)
- - fuser: now also scans /proc/*/maps
- - fuser: fixed NULL pointer dereferencing when processes are created while
- fuser is running (fix by Pauline Middelink)
- - fuser: now resets effective uid to real uid before killing, thereby making
- suid installation a smaller security risk
- - pstree: fixed process tree truncation (fix by Andreas Schwab)
- - pstree: added support for UTF-8 line drawing characters (adapted a patch by
- Johan Myreen)
- - killall.1 now warns about potential compatibility problems with killall
- on other systems (proposed by Christos Ricudis)
- - added a copyright notice
- - updated e-mail address
-
- Changes from version 7 to 8 (11-OCT-1994)
- ===========================
-
- - pstree: added -a to display command line arguments
- - pstree, fuser and killall: display an error message if /proc has
- no process entries (i.e. if it is not mounted)
- - killall: more detailed usage output
- - killall: added killing by file
- - fuser and killall: fixed generation of signal list to include SIGUSR[12]
- - fuser: now also accepts signal numbers
- - "make install": now also installs man pages; executable permissions changed
- from 755 to 555; now installs fuser in /bin, killall and pstree in /usr/bin
- - "make spotless": fixed typo
- - man pages: minor corrections and improvements
-
- Changes from version 6 to 7
- ===========================
-
- - pstree: -h didn't work because of incorrect termcap usage
- - pstree: changed branch drawing from --- to -+-
- \- `-
- - pstree: fixed indentation inside compacted subtrees
- - fuser and killall: don't kill themselves
- - fuser: suppresses m(map) if file is e(xecuted)
- - mkdist now includes itself
- - minor updates on all man pages
-
- Changes from version 5 to 6
- ===========================
-
- - pstree: unknown display width expressed as zero width (TIOCGWINSZ) is
- now correctly handled.
- - fuser: added -s for silent operation.
- - fuser: added non-zero return code if no processes using any file are
- found.
- - pstree and fuser: non-printable characters in command names (fuser: also
- in file names) are now shown as \nnn (octal). \ is shown as \\.
- - added "install" target to Makefile to install binaries in /usr/local/bin
- - minor updates on all man pages.
-
- Changes from version 4 to 5
- ===========================
-
- - killall: added interactive and verbose modes (options -i and -v)
- - fuser: added 0.99pl11 support (changed /proc/*/lib to /proc/*/mmap)
- - fuser: mmap'ed files and shared libraries are now marked with "m"
- (shlibs were marked with "s" and mmap'ed files weren't marked
- at all)
-
- Changes from version 3 to 4
- ===========================
-
- - killall and fuser: now accept signal numbers too.
- - pstree: added listing of process trees by user name.
- - pstree: compaction sometimes generated wrong output.
- - fuser: did only recognize the first occurrence of a file when using
- the options -u or -v.
- - changed Makefile to create stripped impure executables.
-