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