1E2fsprogs 1.25 (September 20, 2001)
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4This is primarily a bug-fix release; no new features were added, but
5there are a number of embarrassing bug fixes and cleanups applied.
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7Fix a bug mke2fs which causes stack garbage to be written to disk when
8zapping disk sectors.  (This bug could cause mke2fs to core dump for
9some kernels, I suspect with security enhancement patches.)
10
11Remove unneeded #include of <linux/config.h> which was breaking
12building e2fsprogs on the Hurd.  (Addresses Debian bug #112414.)
13
14Updated tune2fs man page to reflect the fact that adding or removing a
15journal doesn't require running e2fsck.
16
17Remove use of AC_REQUIRE from autoconf which had been used to prevent
18AC_CANONICAL_HOST from being called twice; unfortunately this causes
19recent autoconf to bomb out since they don't allow AC_REQUIRE to be
20used outside of autoconf macros.  Fortunately, it doesn't seem to be
21necessary any more, anyway.
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23E2fsck will now not fall back to an alternate superblock if the user
24specifies the superblock location explicitly on the command-line.
25This allows easier recovery from a situation where the primary
26superblock and block groups are slightly corrupted, but the backup
27superblocks are completely broken.
28
29Fix problem which caused compile_et and mk_cmds to blow up if
30e2fsprogs was in a directory with a pathname that contained spaces.
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32We are now more paranoid about checking the entry in /etc/mtab to make
33sure the filesystem is really mounted, since some broken distributions
34(read: Slackware) don't initialize /etc/mtab before checking non-root
35filesystems.  (Slackware also doesn't check the root filesystem
36separately, and reboot if the root filesystem had changes applied to
37it, which is dangerous and broken, but there's nothing I can do about
38that.)
39
40Make UUID library C++ friendly by adding appropriate extern "C"
41declarations and using const in the function declarations.
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43Fix up the com_err texinfo file so that it can product a valid info
44file (previously, it could only be used to generate paper
45documentation using texinfo.tex).
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