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diff --git a/chapter08/util-linux.xml b/chapter08/util-linux.xml index 7648d2a7f..221743d3d 100644 --- a/chapter08/util-linux.xml +++ b/chapter08/util-linux.xml @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ --docdir=/usr/share/doc/util-linux-&util-linux-version;</userinput></screen> <para>The --disable and --without options prevent warnings about - building components that require packages not in LFS or are + building components that either require packages not in LFS, or are inconsistent with programs installed by other packages.</para> <para>Compile the package:</para> @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ be available in the currently running system and must be built as a module. Building it into the kernel will prevent booting. For complete coverage, other BLFS packages must be installed. If desired, this test can - be run after rebooting into the completed LFS system and running:</para> + be run by booting into the completed LFS system and running:</para> <screen role="nodump"><userinput>bash tests/run.sh --srcdir=$PWD --builddir=$PWD</userinput></screen> </warning> @@ -125,16 +125,17 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <seg>addpart, agetty, blkdiscard, blkid, blkzone, blockdev, cal, cfdisk, chcpu, chmem, choom, chrt, col, colcrt, colrm, column, ctrlaltdel, delpart, dmesg, eject, fallocate, fdisk, fincore, findfs, findmnt, flock, fsck, - fsck.cramfs, fsck.minix, fsfreeze, fstrim, getopt, hexdump, hwclock, - i386, ionice, ipcmk, ipcrm, ipcs, irqtop, isosize, kill, last, lastb (link to - last), ldattach, linux32, linux64, logger, look, losetup, lsblk, lscpu, - lsipc, lsirq, lslocks, lslogins, lsmem, lsns, mcookie, mesg, mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.cramfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, + fsck.cramfs, fsck.minix, fsfreeze, fstrim, getopt, hardlink, hexdump, hwclock, + i386 (link to setarch), ionice, ipcmk, ipcrm, ipcs, irqtop, isosize, kill, last, + lastb (link to last), ldattach, linux32 (link to setarch), linux64 (link to setarch), + logger, look, losetup, lsblk, lscpu, lsipc, lsirq, lsfd, lslocks, lslogins, + lsmem, lsns, mcookie, mesg, mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.cramfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, mount, mountpoint, namei, nsenter, partx, pivot_root, prlimit, readprofile, rename, renice, resizepart, rev, rfkill, rtcwake, script, scriptlive, scriptreplay, setarch, setsid, setterm, sfdisk, sulogin, swaplabel, - swapoff (link to swapon), swapon, switch_root, taskset, uclampset, ul, - umount, uname26, unshare, utmpdump, uuidd, uuidgen, uuidparse, wall, wdctl, whereis, - wipefs, x86_64, and zramctl</seg> + swapoff, swapon, switch_root, taskset, uclampset, ul, + umount, uname26 (link to setarch), unshare, utmpdump, uuidd, uuidgen, uuidparse, + wall, wdctl, whereis, wipefs, x86_64 (link to setarch), and zramctl</seg> <seg>libblkid.so, libfdisk.so, libmount.so, libsmartcols.so, and libuuid.so</seg> <seg>/usr/include/blkid, @@ -197,7 +198,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="blkzone"> <term><command>blkzone</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Runs zone command on the given block device</para> + <para>Is used to manage zoned storage block devices</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux blkzone"> <primary sortas="b-blkzone">blkzone</primary> </indexterm> @@ -258,7 +259,8 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="choom"> <term><command>choom</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Displays and adjusts OOM-killer score</para> + <para>Displays and adjusts OOM-killer scores, used to determine + which process to kill first when Linux is Out Of Memory</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux choom"> <primary sortas="b-choom">choom</primary> </indexterm> @@ -390,7 +392,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="findfs"> <term><command>findfs</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Finds a file system by label or Universally Unique Identifier + <para>Finds a file system, either by label or Universally Unique Identifier (UUID)</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux findfs"> <primary sortas="b-findfs">findfs</primary> @@ -402,7 +404,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <term><command>findmnt</command></term> <listitem> <para>Is a command line interface to the libmount library - for work with mountinfo, fstab and mtab files</para> + for working with mountinfo, fstab and mtab files</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux findmnt"> <primary sortas="b-findmnt">findmnt</primary> </indexterm> @@ -482,12 +484,22 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> </indexterm> </listitem> </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="hardlink"> + <term><command>hardlink</command></term> + <listitem> + <para>Consolidates duplicate files by creating hard links</para> + <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux hardlink"> + <primary sortas="b-hardlink">hardlink</primary> + </indexterm> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> <varlistentry id="hexdump"> <term><command>hexdump</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Dumps the given file in hexadecimal or in another given - format</para> + <para>Dumps the given file in hexadecimal, decimal, octal, + or ascii</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux hexdump"> <primary sortas="b-hexdump">hexdump</primary> </indexterm> @@ -690,6 +702,16 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> </indexterm> </listitem> </varlistentry> + + <varlistentry id="lsfd"> + <term><command>lsfd</command></term> + <listitem> + <para>Displays information about open files; replaces <command>lsof</command></para> + <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux lsfd"> + <primary sortas="b-lsfd">lsfd</primary> + </indexterm> + </listitem> + </varlistentry> <varlistentry id="lsipc"> <term><command>lsipc</command></term> @@ -861,7 +883,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="namei"> <term><command>namei</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Shows the symbolic links in the given pathnames</para> + <para>Shows the symbolic links in the given paths</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux namei"> <primary sortas="b-namei">namei</primary> </indexterm> @@ -903,7 +925,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="prlimit"> <term><command>prlimit</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Get and set a process' resource limits</para> + <para>Gets and sets a process's resource limits</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux prlimit"> <primary sortas="b-prlimit">prlimit</primary> </indexterm> @@ -974,7 +996,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="rtcwake"> <term><command>rtcwake</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Used to enter a system sleep state until specified wakeup + <para>Used to enter a system sleep state until the specified wakeup time</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux rtcwake"> <primary sortas="b-rtcwake">rtcwake</primary> @@ -995,7 +1017,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="scriptlive"> <term><command>scriptlive</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Re-run session typescripts using timing information</para> + <para>Re-runs session typescripts using timing information</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux scriptlive"> <primary sortas="b-scriptlive">scriptlive</primary> </indexterm> @@ -1015,7 +1037,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="setarch"> <term><command>setarch</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Changes reported architecture in a new program environment and + <para>Changes reported architecture in a new program environment, and sets personality flags</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux setarch"> <primary sortas="b-setarch">setarch</primary> @@ -1068,7 +1090,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="swaplabel"> <term><command>swaplabel</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Allows to change swaparea UUID and label</para> + <para>Makes changes to the swap area's UUID and label</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux swaplabel"> <primary sortas="b-swaplabel">swaplabel</primary> </indexterm> @@ -1088,7 +1110,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="swapon"> <term><command>swapon</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Enables devices and files for paging and swapping and + <para>Enables devices and files for paging and swapping, and lists the devices and files currently in use</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux swapon"> <primary sortas="b-swapon">swapon</primary> @@ -1109,7 +1131,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="taskset"> <term><command>taskset</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Retrieves or sets a process' CPU affinity</para> + <para>Retrieves or sets a process's CPU affinity</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux taskset"> <primary sortas="b-taskset">taskset</primary> </indexterm> @@ -1119,7 +1141,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="uclampset"> <term><command>uclampset</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Manipulate the utilization clamping attributes of the + <para>Manipulates the utilization clamping attributes of the system or a process</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux uclampset"> <primary sortas="b-uclampset">uclampset</primary> @@ -1171,7 +1193,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="utmpdump"> <term><command>utmpdump</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Displays the content of the given login file in a more + <para>Displays the content of the given login file in a user-friendly format</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux utmpdump"> <primary sortas="b-utmpdump">utmpdump</primary> @@ -1193,9 +1215,10 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="uuidgen"> <term><command>uuidgen</command></term> <listitem> - <para>Creates new UUIDs. Each new UUID can reasonably be considered + <para>Creates new UUIDs. Each new UUID is a random number likely to be unique among all UUIDs created, on the local system and on other - systems, in the past and in the future</para> + systems, in the past and in the future, with extremely high + probability (~340 trillion trillion trillion unique UUIDs are possible)</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux uuidgen"> <primary sortas="b-uuidgen">uuidgen</primary> </indexterm> @@ -1205,7 +1228,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <varlistentry id="uuidparse"> <term><command>uuidparse</command></term> <listitem> - <para>An utility to parse unique identifiers</para> + <para>A utility to parse unique identifiers</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux uuidparse"> <primary sortas="b-uuidparse">uuidparse</primary> </indexterm> @@ -1237,7 +1260,7 @@ su tester -c "make -k check"</userinput></screen> <term><command>whereis</command></term> <listitem> <para>Reports the location of the binary, source, and man page - for the given command</para> + files for the given command</para> <indexterm zone="ch-system-util-linux whereis"> <primary sortas="b-whereis">whereis</primary> </indexterm> |