AUTHORS revision 119679
1PRIMARY AUTHORS AND MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO AM_UTILS:
2Original authors of amd were the Berkeley team and especially Jan-Simon
3Pendry.  Since then many people have contributed patches.
4
5This file lists the ones who contributed major code changes, in no
6particular order, and I thank them all.  This is of course not to diminish
7the smaller contributes of the many others.  Thank you all.
8
9* Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>
10
11The most significant changes were made by Erez Zadok in terms of bug fixes,
12ports, and new features added.  Erez Zadok is the current maintainer of
13am-utils, as of January 1997.
14
15There is a mailing list dedicated to developers of am-utils.  To subscribe
16to it, send mail to majordomo@majordomo.cs.columbia.edu, with the body of
17the message having the single line "subscribe amd-dev".
18
19* Randall S. Winchester <rsw@glue.umd.edu>
20
21May 7, 1997: contributed a special version of upl102 that included NFS V.3
22support.  Some of the code was contributed by Christos Zoulas
23<christos@deshaw.com>.  I (Erez) ported these changes to am-utils.
24
25September 12, 1997: lots of small prototype cleanups and fixes to numerous
26files.
27
28January 27, 1998: support pid files in the amd.conf file.  Provide base name
29for hesiod zone files.  Always use /etc/amd.conf if exists.
30
31August 8, 1998: add detection support for NFS V.3 for NetBSD 1.3F.
32
33February 1, 1998: fixes for NetBSD to better detect its features.
34
35September 4, 1999: assorted fixes for NetBSD 1.4+.
36
37* Hannes Reinecke <hare@MathI.UNI-Heidelberg.DE>
38
39Back in 1995, contributed code for linux.  A new parser for file system
40specific options that only exist under linux.
41
42* Leif Johansson <leifj@matematik.su.se>
43
44June 22, 1997: minor patch to ensure that systems without an RE library work.
45
46June 23, 1997: mount options should be properly comma limited.
47
48July 10, 1997: info_ldap.c and prototype changes to all map _init and _mtime
49functions.  Contributed scripts/amd2ldif.pl.
50
51August 4, 1997: info_ldap.c fixes and adding two new amd.conf ldap
52variables: ldap_cache_seconds and ldap_cache_maxmem.
53
54* Andreas Stolcke <stolcke@speech.sri.com>
55
56June 22, 1997: patches to ensure that proto= and vers= options work
57properly in mount tables and can be overridden.  Later on, more code
58contribued to optimize the best combination of proto/vers.
59
60July 4, 1997: patches to get NFS V.3 working under irix5.
61
62September 9, 1997: initialize all fields of mntent_t structures to 0.
63
64October 2, 1997: don't log an RPC timeout as an error but only as an info
65message.
66
67December 19, 1997: detected an FMR (Free Memory Read) in amd/mntfs.c,
68uninit_mntfs().
69
70* Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
71
72July, 6 1997: contributed patches to hesiod on bsdi3.
73
74* Tom Schmidt <tschmidt@micron.com>
75
76July 10, 1997: Recommdation to include libgdbm if libc has no dbm_open.
77Patches for netgrp(host) command.  Mods to aux/config.guess to recognize
78sun3.
79
80January 19, 1998: print correct -l option depending if system supports
81syslog and/or syslog facilities.
82
83January 29, 1998: fix for 0.0.0.0 loopback on SunOS 3.X which defines
84IFF_ROUTE instead of IFF_LOOPBACK.
85
86May 30, 2000: correct logging types for addopts/mergeopts messages.
87
88* Daniel S. Riley  <dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu>
89
90July 11, 1997: fixes to DU-4.0 to support string POSIX.1 signals, and struct
91sockaddr with sa_len field.
92
93July 13, 1997: Move amd.conf parsing to before switch_option() on log/debug
94options.  Minor type wrt "ro" option in libamu/mount_fs.c.  Added more
95fillers of mnttab options, for acdirmax, acdirmin, acregmax, acregmin, noac,
96grpid, nosuid, and actimo.
97
98August 15, 1998: fix memory leak in processing of /defaults, and avoid
99accessing uninitialized memory in osf1.
100
101* Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
102
103July 23, 1997: Got lots of patches from the Debian Linux folks, who fixed
104several generic bugs, and one serious one for Linux.  The latter involved
105using connected sockets for NFS mounts on kernels 1.3.10 and older.  Roman's
106work is baed on amd-upl102, and work from Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>
107and Dominik Kubla <dominik@debian.org>.
108
109* Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
110
111August 6, 1997: assorted fixes to support hesiod-1.3, solaris 2.4 (which I
112already fixed but did not release yet), and support for $LDFLAGS at
113configure/compile time.
114
115February 24, 1998: lots of patches for ultrix 4.3 port.
116
117February 28, 1998: lots of documentation fixes!
118
119January 8, 1999: texi fixes, and more Ultrix 4.3 fixes, among others.
120
121January 11, 1999: hesiod_isup function.  Fix format errors in dlog/plog.
122Remove obsolete or unnecessary files/macros.  Don't report disabled file
123systems.  More misc fixes.
124
125February 3, 1998: don't start autofs listener unless autofs maps were in
126use.
127
128December 10, 1999: assorted fixed and lots of fixes to support in-kernel
129mount tables in Solaris 8.
130
131February 9, 2000: new debug options hrtime (hi-res timer) and xdrtrace.  bug
132fixes.
133
134* Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
135
136August 25, 1997: make amd work when talking to NIS+ servers in NIS
137compatibility mode.  Fix originally came from Matthieu Herrb
138<matthieu@laas.fr>.
139
140* Chris Metcalf <metcalf@catfish.lcs.mit.edu>
141
142August 29, 1997: patch to make amd use FQHN for NFS/RPC authentication,
143useful esp. for cross-domain NFS mounts.
144September 2, 1997: if plock() succeeded, don't display errno string.
145
146* Enami Tsugutomo <enami@cv.sony.co.jp>
147
148September 4, 1997: don't ping remote servers with NFS V.3 always, but V.2,
149regardless of client's NFS version. (conf/transp/transp_sockets.c)
150
151* Dan Riley <dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu>
152
153September 19, 1997: make sure that amd works with more secure portmappers
154that do not allow forwarding of RPC messages to other services.
155
156* Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
157
158August 10, 1997: netbsd and other bsd systems have a mask flag for
159pcfs_args (msdos mount).
160
161* Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
162
163September 25, 1997: fix to initialize uid/gid fields of pcfs_args_t on
164netbsd.
165
166October 10, 1997: compile time cleanups of printf()s in hlfsd code.  If nfs
167server is down or does not support a portmapper call, then mark it down as
168version 2, and try again later.
169
170April 12, 2003: support new "unmount" option, useful to timeout removable
171local media mounts.
172
173* Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>
174
175November 5, 1997: NFS v.3 support for AIX 4.2.1, which does *not* include
176headers for this.  Bill had to guess at the right structures, field names,
177sizes, alignment, etc.
178
179January 15, 1999: small ldap bug fixes.
180
181* Stefan Vogel <vogel@physik-rzu.unizh.ch>
182
183November 14, 1997: typo in the subscription instructions to amd-dev.
184
185* Guntram Wolski <gwolsk@sei.com>
186
187November 15, 1997: pointed out mismatching documentation for the -o option.
188
189* Michael Hucka <hucka@eecs.umich.edu>
190
191January 11, 1997: pointed out reversed definition of NFS mount options vers
192and proto.
193
194* Albert Chin <china@pprd.abbott.com>
195
196January 12, 1998: minor bug in output of amd -H.
197
198* Thomas Richter <richter@chemie.fu-berlin.de>
199
200January 13, 1998: use case insensitive comparisons for variables that need
201it (such as all hostname related ones, and more).
202
203July 20, 1998: don't leak memory in the private version of yp_all (when
204vendor yp_all is bad).
205
206* Fred Korz <korz@smarts.com>
207
208January 30, 1998: minor typo fixed to tftp example in am-utils.texi.
209
210* Donald Buczek <buczek@MPIMG-Berlin-Dahlem.MPG.DE>
211
212March 6, 1998: correctly inherit existing NFS V.3 mounts upon restart.
213
214March 17, 1998: compare log file name and syslog string with correct length.
215
216March 20, 1998: do not close stdout in case it gets reused elsewhere and to
217allow startup script to redirect it.  Set a temporary secure umask(0022)
218before writing log file and restore it afterwards.
219
220* Matthew Crosby <mcrosby@ms.com>
221
222April 20, 1998: allow arbitrary number of interfaces in wire listing.
223
224* David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com>
225
226September 4, 1998: bug fix to avoid overrunning hostname buffer, and minor
227amd.conf man page typo correction.
228
229September 22, 1999: use more secure vsnprintf in real_plog().
230
231* Danny Rathjens <dkr@cs.fiu.edu>
232
233October 29, 1998: swap arguments to kill(2) in amd.c.
234
235* Mike Mitchell <mcm@unx.sas.com>
236
237November 3, 1998: amd/nfs_subr.c (nfsproc_lookup_2_svc): try to avoid a race
238condition between unmounting and re-mounting an entry, by increasing the ttl
239of a looked up entry before unmounting it.
240
241* Douglas K. Rand" <rand@aero.und.edu>
242
243December 3, 1998: case insensitive host name match for nfsl.
244
245* David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
246January 28, 1999: don't turn on/off noconn option if it was already in that
247state.
248
249* Jeffrey C Honig <jch@BSDI.COM>
250March 14, 1999: clean up more autogenerated files upon "make distclean".
251
252March 15, 1999: avoid overly verbose NIS warning even on systems that don't
253run NIS.  On BSD systems, wire.c uses getifaddrs(), sysctl(), IRS routines,
254and more fixes.  Numerous IP packet security fixes.
255
256March 16, 1999: documentation typos. new cdfs options. ufs structure
257detection for bsdi4.
258
259September 17, 1999: fixes to expn.
260
261* Paul Balyoz <pbalyoz@sedona.ch.intel.com>
262March 26, 1999: ensure lostaltmail displays Y2K compliant dates.
263
264* Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
265March 30, 1999: turn off incomplete NFS V.3 support in HPUX 10.20.
266
267September 22, 1999: safe reloading of maps without first clearing old
268copies, and using cached copies if map failed to reload.
269
270* Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
271July 24, 1999: patch for linux 2.2.x to work with older libc5 systems, and
272nis_isup mis-logic fixes.
273December 13, 2001: report typos in scripts/amd.conf.5.
274
275* Dale Talcott <aeh@quest.cc.purdue.edu>
276July 26, 1999: added NFS3 support for AIX mounting.
277
278* Christophe Kalt <Christophe-Kalt@deshaw.com>
279July 14, 1999: add netgrpd() syntax function which uses FQHN.
280
281* Andrew J. Korty <ajk@purdue.edu>
282September 5, 1999: pawd works for type:=nfsl.
283
284* Nick Williams <njw@ms.com>
285September 1, 1999: bug fix for incorrect symlinks when two locations are
286requested simultaneously.
287
288November 1, 1999: fixes to sync maps even if they are set to mapcache:=sync.
289
290January 19, 2000: fix (and reduce the incidence of) stale file handles when
291doing rapid mounts and umounts in succession.
292
293June 5, 2000: better handling of potential race-conditions during rapid
294u/mounts.  Correctly update d_drops stats for amq -s.
295
296* Johann Pfefferl <johann.pfefferl.jp@germany.agfa.com>
297November 16, 1999: fix to ldap code so repeated calls to string2he don't
298corrupt the string passed.
299
300* Amitha Perera <perera@cs.rpi.edu>
301December 9, 1999: detect all wire() interfaces correctly.
302
303* Steven Danz <sdanz@awc.kc.noaa.gov>
304January 25, 2000: allow browsable auto maps.
305
306* Wolfram Klaus	<klaus@physik.fu-berlin.de>.
307November 21, 2000: recognize proplist mnttab flag.
308
309* Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
310November 21, 2000: lots of NetBSD fixes (many of which are generic).
311
312* Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de>
313February 1, 2001: important Linux NFS error number mapping fixed
314
315* Ahmon Dancy <dancy@franz.com>
316February 9, 2001: Apple Rhapsody/Darwin/OS X port
317
318* Sebastien Bahloul <sebastien.bahloul@mangoosta.fr>
319July 3, 2001: LDAP fixes and updates to support new APIs
320
321March 27, 2002: LDAP bug and port to HPUX-11.
322
323* Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
324July 12, 2001: Proper handling of GNU getopt, support for optionally
325disabling LDAP/Hesiod, fixes for the dev/nodev option on Linux
326
327November 28, 2001: Bug fix.  Support "nolock" as an NFS option, not a
328generic mount option.
329
330July 17, 2003: Debian fixes.  Null am_pref free.
331
332* Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
333January 10, 2002: Proper initialization of the timeo parameter on Linux, TCP
334_must_ have a timeout 2 orders of magnitude larger than UDP
335
336* Sean Fagan <sef@apple.com>
337March 14, 2003: detect and use the MNT2_GEN_OPT_AUTOMNTFS mount flag
338on OS X / Darwin.
339
340* Hendrik Scholz <hscholz@raisdorf.net>
341June 9, 2003: mk-amd-map should open temp db file using O_EXCL.
342