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<font size="4">Hello init fans,<br>
<br>
I'm pleased to announce the new release of SysV init 3.12 and a
minor update to insserv 1.26.0.<br>
<br>
There were a number of fixes and improvements in this release. We
patched a few bugs, cleaned up the documentation, re-introduced a
patch that was helpful for GoboLinux, and made the Makefile more
flexible.<br>
<br>
There were instances of the ctime() function being called in
multiple files without<br>
checking the return value (can be NULL) and without checking the
length of the<br>
returned information. While there should never be a case where
ctime() fails<br>
assuming success and length of returned string isn't ideal (or
future-proof).<br>
We now check the return value of ctime() in bootlogd, dowall,
last, logsave, and<br>
shutdown. Where no valid value is returned we supply a dummy value
(usually a<br>
space in place of the expected time stamp). We also no longer
assume returned string is at least 11-16 characters.<br>
<br>
Re-commit flexible Makefile for GoboLinux.<br>
<br>
Make sure pty.h and sys/sysmacros.h are included when building
bootlogd on<br>
systems with glibc.<br>
<br>
Fixed typos and syntax in manual page for init.8.<br>
Edits provided by : Bjarni Ingi Gislason.<br>
<br>
Allow setting of location of the /usr directory in src/Makefile.<br>
This is handled by the usrdir variable.<br>
<br>
Make sure src/Makefile uses sysconfdir (/etc by default) when
installing<br>
configuration files.<br>
<br>
Fix typos and syntax in pidof manual page.<br>
<br>
SysV init 3.12 can be downloaded from GitHub:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit/releases/tag/3.12">https://github.com/slicer69/sysvinit/releases/tag/3.12</a><br>
<br>
And insserv 1.26.0 from here:
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://github.com/slicer69/insserv/releases/tag/1.26.0">https://github.com/slicer69/insserv/releases/tag/1.26.0</a><br>
<br>
- Jesse<br>
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