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@@ -2,13 +2,88 @@ XXX this needs much work, trolling through ChangeLogs. +Many, many, many bugs have been fixed, including some resource +consumption problems and race conditions. The system can compile +itself as well as most external applications. The amount of stress +the system can tolerate has increased a lot. + +The new ftpfs translator can be used to transparently access FTP +servers through the filesystem. Together with the new hostmux +translator, which can invoke host-specific translators like ftpfs, +this leads to a very comfortable way to use FTP archives on the Hurd. + +A new translator usermux can invoke user specific translators. It can +be used to provide a symlink to all users home directories in a single +place (similar to amd/automount). + +The tmpfs translator can be used to store files and directories in RAM +without any overhead of a real filesystem. The amount of memory +allocated equals the amount of space occupied, and an upper limit can +be defined. + +Shadow passwords are now supported. If the password field in +/etc/passwd contains the string "x", the crypted password is looked up +in /etc/shadow instead. A new password server distributes auth ports +after password verification. + +The pfinet server uses the Linux 2.2.12 IP stack now. It supports the +new interface types dummy and tun which provide a bottomless sink and +IP tunnel interface respectively. It also supports all common network +ioctls now. + +The Hurd can now access CD-ROMs containing an ISO9660 file format with +the new isofs translator. Rock Ridge extensions are supported, as well +as some GNU extensions to store GNU specific file system attributes in +such filesystems. + +Two new translators, hello and hello-mt, illustrate how to implement +simple trivfs based filesystems in the Hurd. + +A new utility `rpctrace' aids in debugging the Hurd by listing all +invoked RPCs with message id and port right information. + +The Hurd does no longer contain the utility `su', which is included in +the GNU shellutils package. `setauth --save' can also be used as a +replacement. + +The init script mechanism became more flexible, as it was splitted +into several files. This allows to plug in different styles of init +procedures by just hooking them into /libexec/runsystem. + +The ext2fs server understands the sparse_super filesystem option, and +can deal with the filetype option (but won't make use of this itself). + +Several utilities have new options. All store based filesystems can +be configured with --no-suid, --no-exec, --bootflags, --boot-command +and --no-cache. The null translator also can be full now (--full). +The magic translator can provide an empty directory. + +The crash server supports several modes of operation, it can suspend +or kill a crashing task. Core dumping is planned for but not +implemented yet. Users can set their own crash server using an +environment variable. + +The proc server can show the start time of processes. + * sync -> syncfs, takes args * Default pager (serverboot) understands Linux (mkswap) signature pages. New boot script function $(add-raw-paging-file) inhibits looking for the signature page. New function $(add-linux-paging-file) checks for the page and refuses to use the swap partition or paging file if there is no - valid Linux signature page. + valid Linux signature page. A stand-alone default pager `mach-defpager' + is implemented which supports the same features. With + "die $(serverboot)" + in the boot script, serverboot doesn't become the default pager. + +* libstore uses off64_t internally, allowing large stores to be + handled properly. The zero store supports suffix b, k/K, m/M, g/G + for blocks, kilo-, mega- and gigabytes resp. when specifying the + store size. The remap store understands N+ as the end of the store + starting from block N. A new store type `bunzip2' uncompresses + stores in the bzip2 format into memory. + +* msgport, ping 9 June 1997 |