Fixes a single bug in stinit parsing of invalid definitions. This is a trivial bug, and only affects config files manually installed by root, so the impact should be minimal.
The bug also does not appear on amd64/x86, but (in Debian) was only triggered (as undefined behaviour) on mips64el, arm64 and s390x, likely due to different platform behaviour.
This is bugfix release agains 1.5. In between 1.4 and 1.5, the "make
check" target was migrated to using
shelltest, but the
make dist and distcheck targets were no, so the built archive was
actually not. This only fixes that and has no functional code changes
from 1.5.
Trivial release:
- add IBM 3590 B/E format to tape densities table (Chris Dinneen).
Thanks!
Small bugfixes and improvements release:
- show default tape device in usage output (Iustin Pop).
- improve parsing of the stinit.def configuration file to detect and flag some of the possible errors, and add tests to prevent regressions (Iustin Pop).
- add LTO-8 (hrchu) and LTO-7 formatted as M8 (Iustin Pop) density codes.
- internal code improvements for issues flagged by Coverity scan warnings (Gris Ge).
- add bash auto-completion file (Paweł Marciniak).
- don't strip anymore binaries on installation, as nowadays this is the job of package managers (Dan Horák).
Thanks to all the contributors!
Small bugfixes and improvements:
- add more density codes (Kai Mäkisara)
- check for overflow when using k, M or G suffixes (Kai Mäkisara)
- allow negative argument for mkpartition, supported by Linux 4.6 and later (Kai Mäkisara)
- fix compilation with musl libc (Felix Janda)
- allow configuring the tape device and installation paths (e.g. /bin vs. /usr/bin) at build/install time (Iustin Pop)
- code cleanups from the SUSE package (Alexey Svistunov)
- update the supplied example file (Alexey Svistunov)
- fix config file parsing bug in stinit (Iustin Pop)
This a mostly a cleanup release after many years of no updates, integrating pending fixes and distribution patches from Debian and RedHat, and a change of maintainership:
- many updates to density codes (SDLT, LTO 5,6 and 7, etc.) (various people)
- multiple man page updates (various people)
- improve default tape device handling in
mt: check that it actually is a character device, in order to show better error messages when/dev/tapeis a different type (e.g. directory when usingudev) - small bug fix in stinit in parsing the input file (David Binderman)
- improve build system by allowing easier customisation of build flags
and installation directory (via
DESTDIR, not prefix) and by sanitising the creation of the dist archive (Iustin Pop) - sanitise the source code to get rid of GCC warnings (Jan Christoph Nordholz, Iustin Pop)
- add
stshowoptionsalias tostshowopt(Ivo De Decker) - expand the provided
stinit.def.examplesfile (Suggested by Ralf-Peter Rohbeck) - improve the
--helpoutput of stinit (Dan Horák) - change of maintainership to Iustin Pop iustin@k1024.org
- unused defines removed from
mtio.h(compiles also with distributions not havinglinux/qic117.h) - add support for
MT_ST_SILIto mt and stinit - add mt command
showoptionsfor kernels >= 2.6.26 - fix mode number printing in stinit's verbose mode (from Martin Jacobs)
- stinit: fix back out to
SCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMANDfor 2.4 kernels (2.4 uses errnoEINVALfor unsupported ioctls)
- mt: more density codes
- stinit: try first
SG_IOfor inquiry, if the ioctl fails, trySCSI_IOCTL_SEND_COMMAND; note that error checking forSG_IOis very simplistic for now
- put man pages into
/usr/share/man/man1, respectively/usr/share/man/man8 - in devfs,
/dev/tapes/tape<n>does not match nth drive after rmmoding and insmodding the st driver; fix provided by Philippe Troin - documentation cleanup
- add some density translations
- counts can use the
k,M, orGpostfix
mt:
- add command
ejectfor compatibility with GNU mt (synonym forofflineandrewoffl) - the
loadanderasecommands accept an argument - add
CLN(cleaning request) to status - add command
stsetclnto set the cleaning request recognition options - add the flag
no-waitto the settable/clearable options - some new density codes added
stinit:
- the directory scanning for tape devices is restricted to files with certain names in some directories to avoid triggering automatic module loading for device that don't exist (original patch from Philippe Troin)
- support for
devfs(/dev/tapes) added - logging bug fixes
- add setting the cleaning request parameter
- add setting the no-wait (immediate) bit
mt:
- uses local
mtio.hto include support for the most recent driver features even when compiled on a system having oldmtio.h - on-line and write-protect are checked after some errors and a message is printed if the probable error reason is found
- the tape is opened with flag
O_NONBLOCKfor commands that are useful even when the device is not ready (no tape) - some new density codes added for printout
- OnStream drives using the
osstdriver recognised - the obsolete command 'datcompression' is removed
- new option
--version
stinit:
- fix the bug with whitespace at the beginning of lines in the configuration file
- use
O_NONBLOCKto open the tape (anticipate kernel change)
mt:
- corrected the bug that caused the command argument to be ignored if
option
-fwas used - density
0x45(TR-4) added to known density list
stinit:
- added
#include <errno.h>to enable compilation with glibc
- utility stinit added to package
- GNU Public License used for both programs
- binaries not distributed any more
mt:
- command
asfadded - command
datcompressionnot compiled in default configuration - support added for setting timeouts
- bugs in argument parsing corrected
- help prints all commands
- some code cleanup
- support for the ioctls for partitioned tapes
- compiles also with 1.2.13
- the driver options can be specified also with keywords
- floppy tape type is shown
- (not working) support for other operating systems removed
- support for new ioctls
- accepts hexadecimal numbers with prefix
0x - the datcompression command improved (although it is being overridden by the command compression using a new ioctl)
- bus fixes