for changes, substitutions, and clean-up of the man pages.
For now install instructions are still in the "src" directory
to avoid breaking install scripts.
a wider range of consoles. The console name is already passed in from the
kernel command line using "console=". We no longer filter out names as strictly
but do now check to confirm the "console=" device points to a valid TTY.
in the format +hh:mm. This is in addition to the existing formats such as
hh:mm, +m, and "now".
Cleared up compiler warning in dowall which can happen if the
output message is longer than the size limit on the snprintf()
buffer. This is not a bug, a the trucation works, but using a larger
buffer avoids the warning on systems with long user/host names.
can happen without a near-full-second delay after
all processes have terminated. Replaced do_sleep()
with do_msleep(), provided by Serge Belyshev.
Replaced hardwired sleep constants in init.c with
defined constants for easy updating in the future.
could be used to print information from memory or crash
pidof. Replaced flag with "-d" which allows for a custom
separator to be used between listed PIDs.
Patch supplied by KatolaZ.
It starts as a NULL pointer, then might get set as a pointer to optarg,
then it might get set to point to an argv parameter, then it might have
a string value copied into it, over-writing the original data. We should
not risk over-writing internal variables which might get used for something
else (it's rude and security risk). Set up "when" as its own buffer
that has data from optargs and/or argv copied into it.
Minor code fixes across multiple source files to avoid buffer
overflows, or uninitialized strings.
the command now passes the "-h -P" flags to shutdown. This
in turn sets the INIT_HALT environment variable to POWEROFF.
Assuming this value is checked by initscripts during the
shutting down procedure, it should cause the system to
be powered off.
If halt is called without -p then the value of INIT_HALT
is not set and the default action (often set in /etc/defaut/halt)
is taken.
Closes Debian bugs #815839, #905245 and #890478
Added -f <format> option to pidof program to allow printf
style formating.
Closes Debian bug #571590
Thanks to Philipp Marek for the patch.
as LILO is rarely used outside of the Slackware family these days.
Switched stty flags to use ECHOE instead of ECHOPRT. This should
give smoother, more natural backspac-erase behaviour on emergency
consoles. (Created in init -b mode.)
