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authorMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-17 20:53:49 +0000
committerMatthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org>2004-12-17 20:53:49 +0000
commitb8dd5d4eeb31b1b733b614b26fa411c1f927967f (patch)
tree836f7c716650830ad8e2dbcce2fa0fc8e60d3c7f /chapter06
parentb8e37b35aab692e96e1881c968791664c5e00048 (diff)
* Upgrade to findutils-4.2.10
* Upgrade to man-pages-2.00 * Upgrade to perl-5.8.6 * Upgrade to sysvinit-2.86 (remove proclen patch and add description of the mountpoint command) * Upgrade to tcl-8.4.9 * Upgrade to util-linux-2.12l git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@4405 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
-rw-r--r--chapter06/sysvinit.xml14
-rw-r--r--chapter06/util-linux.xml3
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/chapter06/sysvinit.xml b/chapter06/sysvinit.xml
index 3b487dbc6..47d078778 100644
--- a/chapter06/sysvinit.xml
+++ b/chapter06/sysvinit.xml
@@ -28,12 +28,6 @@ running, and shutdown of your system.</para>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Sysvinit</title>
-<para>Sysvinit &sysvinit-version; contains a <quote>buffer overflow</quote> bug.
-Under some conditions, it clobbers the
-values of environment variables. Fix that:</para>
-
-<screen><userinput>patch -Np1 -i ../sysvinit-&sysvinit-version;-proclen-1.patch</userinput></screen>
-
<para>When run-levels are changed (for example, when halting the system),
<command>init</command> sends termination signals to those processes that
<command>init</command> itself started and that shouldn't be running in the new
@@ -177,6 +171,14 @@ messages to the current user's terminal.</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
+<varlistentry id="mountpoint">
+<term><command>mountpoint</command></term>
+<listitem>
+<indexterm zone="ch-system-sysvinit mountpoint"><primary sortas="b-mountpoint">mountpoint</primary></indexterm>
+<para>checks if the directory is a mountpoint.</para>
+</listitem>
+</varlistentry>
+
<varlistentry id="pidof">
<term><command>pidof</command></term>
<listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/util-linux.xml b/chapter06/util-linux.xml
index 44799e17c..37ca200d9 100644
--- a/chapter06/util-linux.xml
+++ b/chapter06/util-linux.xml
@@ -43,9 +43,6 @@ mkdir -p /var/lib/hwclock</userinput></screen>
<sect2 role="installation">
<title>Installation of Util-linux</title>
-<para>Util-Linux has a coding problem that causes mis-compilation of the sfdisk
-program. This patch fixes the problem:</para>
-
<para>Prepare Util-linux for compilation:</para>
<screen><userinput>./configure</userinput></screen>