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psmisc version 10
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Wed Mar 29 05:53:46 1995
Date: Wed, 29 Mar 1995 11:14:47 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: almesber@lrc.epfl.ch (Werner Almesberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: psmisc version 10
Organization: Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne
Keywords: psmisc, procps, killall, pstree, fuser, process, utilities, bugfix
Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.setup
I've just finished version 10 of psmisc, the package containing fuser,
killall and pstree, which you usually only see as a part of procps.
This is primarily a maintenance release. The file is
ftp://lrcftp.epfl.ch/pub/linux/local/psmisc/psmisc.10.tar.gz
The reason why I'm announcing it separately is that I've been told
that most distributions still use version 8, where fuser does not
work with recent kernels.
Please find the CHANGES sections for versions 9 and 10 below.
- Werner
----------------------------------- CHANGES -----------------------------------
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
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