AUTHORS revision 131702
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.sunysb.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
15* Randall S. Winchester <rsw@glue.umd.edu>
16
17May 7, 1997: contributed a special version of upl102 that included NFS V.3
18support.  Some of the code was contributed by Christos Zoulas
19<christos@deshaw.com>.  I (Erez) ported these changes to am-utils.
20
21September 12, 1997: lots of small prototype cleanups and fixes to numerous
22files.
23
24January 27, 1998: support pid files in the amd.conf file.  Provide base name
25for hesiod zone files.  Always use /etc/amd.conf if exists.
26
27August 8, 1998: add detection support for NFS V.3 for NetBSD 1.3F.
28
29February 1, 1998: fixes for NetBSD to better detect its features.
30
31September 4, 1999: assorted fixes for NetBSD 1.4+.
32
33* Hannes Reinecke <hare@MathI.UNI-Heidelberg.DE>
34
35Back in 1995, contributed code for linux.  A new parser for file system
36specific options that only exist under linux.
37
38* Leif Johansson <leifj@matematik.su.se>
39
40June 22, 1997: minor patch to ensure that systems without an RE library work.
41
42June 23, 1997: mount options should be properly comma limited.
43
44July 10, 1997: info_ldap.c and prototype changes to all map _init and _mtime
45functions.  Contributed scripts/amd2ldif.pl.
46
47August 4, 1997: info_ldap.c fixes and adding two new amd.conf ldap
48variables: ldap_cache_seconds and ldap_cache_maxmem.
49
50* Andreas Stolcke <stolcke@speech.sri.com>
51
52June 22, 1997: patches to ensure that proto= and vers= options work
53properly in mount tables and can be overridden.  Later on, more code
54contribued to optimize the best combination of proto/vers.
55
56July 4, 1997: patches to get NFS V.3 working under irix5.
57
58September 9, 1997: initialize all fields of mntent_t structures to 0.
59
60October 2, 1997: don't log an RPC timeout as an error but only as an info
61message.
62
63December 19, 1997: detected an FMR (Free Memory Read) in amd/mntfs.c,
64uninit_mntfs().
65
66* Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
67
68July, 6 1997: contributed patches to hesiod on bsdi3.
69
70* Tom Schmidt <tschmidt@micron.com>
71
72July 10, 1997: Recommdation to include libgdbm if libc has no dbm_open.
73Patches for netgrp(host) command.  Mods to aux/config.guess to recognize
74sun3.
75
76January 19, 1998: print correct -l option depending if system supports
77syslog and/or syslog facilities.
78
79January 29, 1998: fix for 0.0.0.0 loopback on SunOS 3.X which defines
80IFF_ROUTE instead of IFF_LOOPBACK.
81
82May 30, 2000: correct logging types for addopts/mergeopts messages.
83
84* Daniel S. Riley  <dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu>
85
86July 11, 1997: fixes to DU-4.0 to support string POSIX.1 signals, and struct
87sockaddr with sa_len field.
88
89July 13, 1997: Move amd.conf parsing to before switch_option() on log/debug
90options.  Minor type wrt "ro" option in libamu/mount_fs.c.  Added more
91fillers of mnttab options, for acdirmax, acdirmin, acregmax, acregmin, noac,
92grpid, nosuid, and actimo.
93
94August 15, 1998: fix memory leak in processing of /defaults, and avoid
95accessing uninitialized memory in osf1.
96
97* Roman Hodek <Roman.Hodek@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
98
99July 23, 1997: Got lots of patches from the Debian Linux folks, who fixed
100several generic bugs, and one serious one for Linux.  The latter involved
101using connected sockets for NFS mounts on kernels 1.3.10 and older.  Roman's
102work is baed on amd-upl102, and work from Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org>
103and Dominik Kubla <dominik@debian.org>.
104
105* Rainer Orth <ro@TechFak.Uni-Bielefeld.DE>
106
107August 6, 1997: assorted fixes to support hesiod-1.3, solaris 2.4 (which I
108already fixed but did not release yet), and support for $LDFLAGS at
109configure/compile time.
110
111February 24, 1998: lots of patches for ultrix 4.3 port.
112
113February 28, 1998: lots of documentation fixes!
114
115January 8, 1999: texi fixes, and more Ultrix 4.3 fixes, among others.
116
117January 11, 1999: hesiod_isup function.  Fix format errors in dlog/plog.
118Remove obsolete or unnecessary files/macros.  Don't report disabled file
119systems.  More misc fixes.
120
121February 3, 1998: don't start autofs listener unless autofs maps were in
122use.
123
124December 10, 1999: assorted fixed and lots of fixes to support in-kernel
125mount tables in Solaris 8.
126
127February 9, 2000: new debug options hrtime (hi-res timer) and xdrtrace.  bug
128fixes.
129
130* Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
131
132August 25, 1997: make amd work when talking to NIS+ servers in NIS
133compatibility mode.  Fix originally came from Matthieu Herrb
134<matthieu@laas.fr>.
135
136* Chris Metcalf <metcalf@catfish.lcs.mit.edu>
137
138August 29, 1997: patch to make amd use FQHN for NFS/RPC authentication,
139useful esp. for cross-domain NFS mounts.
140September 2, 1997: if plock() succeeded, don't display errno string.
141
142* Enami Tsugutomo <enami@cv.sony.co.jp>
143
144September 4, 1997: don't ping remote servers with NFS V.3 always, but V.2,
145regardless of client's NFS version. (conf/transp/transp_sockets.c)
146
147* Dan Riley <dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu>
148
149September 19, 1997: make sure that amd works with more secure portmappers
150that do not allow forwarding of RPC messages to other services.
151
152* Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
153
154August 10, 1997: netbsd and other bsd systems have a mask flag for
155pcfs_args (msdos mount).
156
157* Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
158
159September 25, 1997: fix to initialize uid/gid fields of pcfs_args_t on
160netbsd.
161
162October 10, 1997: compile time cleanups of printf()s in hlfsd code.  If nfs
163server is down or does not support a portmapper call, then mark it down as
164version 2, and try again later.
165
166April 12, 2003: support new "unmount" option, useful to timeout removable
167local media mounts.
168
169* Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>
170
171November 5, 1997: NFS v.3 support for AIX 4.2.1, which does *not* include
172headers for this.  Bill had to guess at the right structures, field names,
173sizes, alignment, etc.
174
175January 15, 1999: small ldap bug fixes.
176
177* Stefan Vogel <vogel@physik-rzu.unizh.ch>
178
179November 14, 1997: typo in the subscription instructions to amd-dev.
180
181* Guntram Wolski <gwolsk@sei.com>
182
183November 15, 1997: pointed out mismatching documentation for the -o option.
184
185* Michael Hucka <hucka@eecs.umich.edu>
186
187January 11, 1997: pointed out reversed definition of NFS mount options vers
188and proto.
189
190* Albert Chin <china@pprd.abbott.com>
191
192January 12, 1998: minor bug in output of amd -H.
193
194* Thomas Richter <richter@chemie.fu-berlin.de>
195
196January 13, 1998: use case insensitive comparisons for variables that need
197it (such as all hostname related ones, and more).
198
199July 20, 1998: don't leak memory in the private version of yp_all (when
200vendor yp_all is bad).
201
202* Fred Korz <korz@smarts.com>
203
204January 30, 1998: minor typo fixed to tftp example in am-utils.texi.
205
206* Donald Buczek <buczek@MPIMG-Berlin-Dahlem.MPG.DE>
207
208March 6, 1998: correctly inherit existing NFS V.3 mounts upon restart.
209
210March 17, 1998: compare log file name and syslog string with correct length.
211
212March 20, 1998: do not close stdout in case it gets reused elsewhere and to
213allow startup script to redirect it.  Set a temporary secure umask(0022)
214before writing log file and restore it afterwards.
215
216* Matthew Crosby <mcrosby@ms.com>
217
218April 20, 1998: allow arbitrary number of interfaces in wire listing.
219
220* David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com>
221
222September 4, 1998: bug fix to avoid overrunning hostname buffer, and minor
223amd.conf man page typo correction.
224
225September 22, 1999: use more secure vsnprintf in real_plog().
226
227* Danny Rathjens <dkr@cs.fiu.edu>
228
229October 29, 1998: swap arguments to kill(2) in amd.c.
230
231* Mike Mitchell <mcm@unx.sas.com>
232
233November 3, 1998: amd/nfs_subr.c (nfsproc_lookup_2_svc): try to avoid a race
234condition between unmounting and re-mounting an entry, by increasing the ttl
235of a looked up entry before unmounting it.
236
237* Douglas K. Rand" <rand@aero.und.edu>
238
239December 3, 1998: case insensitive host name match for nfsl.
240
241* David Wolfskill <dhw@whistle.com>
242January 28, 1999: don't turn on/off noconn option if it was already in that
243state.
244
245* Jeffrey C Honig <jch@BSDI.COM>
246March 14, 1999: clean up more autogenerated files upon "make distclean".
247
248March 15, 1999: avoid overly verbose NIS warning even on systems that don't
249run NIS.  On BSD systems, wire.c uses getifaddrs(), sysctl(), IRS routines,
250and more fixes.  Numerous IP packet security fixes.
251
252March 16, 1999: documentation typos. new cdfs options. ufs structure
253detection for bsdi4.
254
255September 17, 1999: fixes to expn.
256
257* Paul Balyoz <pbalyoz@sedona.ch.intel.com>
258March 26, 1999: ensure lostaltmail displays Y2K compliant dates.
259
260* Jon Peatfield <J.S.Peatfield@damtp.cam.ac.uk>
261March 30, 1999: turn off incomplete NFS V.3 support in HPUX 10.20.
262
263September 22, 1999: safe reloading of maps without first clearing old
264copies, and using cached copies if map failed to reload.
265
266* Peter Breitenlohner <peb@mppmu.mpg.de>
267July 24, 1999: patch for linux 2.2.x to work with older libc5 systems, and
268nis_isup mis-logic fixes.
269December 13, 2001: report typos in scripts/amd.conf.5.
270
271* Dale Talcott <aeh@quest.cc.purdue.edu>
272July 26, 1999: added NFS3 support for AIX mounting.
273
274* Christophe Kalt <Christophe-Kalt@deshaw.com>
275July 14, 1999: add netgrpd() syntax function which uses FQHN.
276
277* Andrew J. Korty <ajk@purdue.edu>
278September 5, 1999: pawd works for type:=nfsl.
279
280* Nick Williams <njw@ms.com>
281September 1, 1999: bug fix for incorrect symlinks when two locations are
282requested simultaneously.
283
284November 1, 1999: fixes to sync maps even if they are set to mapcache:=sync.
285
286January 19, 2000: fix (and reduce the incidence of) stale file handles when
287doing rapid mounts and umounts in succession.
288
289June 5, 2000: better handling of potential race-conditions during rapid
290u/mounts.  Correctly update d_drops stats for amq -s.
291
292* Johann Pfefferl <johann.pfefferl.jp@germany.agfa.com>
293November 16, 1999: fix to ldap code so repeated calls to string2he don't
294corrupt the string passed.
295
296* Amitha Perera <perera@cs.rpi.edu>
297December 9, 1999: detect all wire() interfaces correctly.
298
299* Steven Danz <sdanz@awc.kc.noaa.gov>
300January 25, 2000: allow browsable auto maps.
301
302* Wolfram Klaus	<klaus@physik.fu-berlin.de>.
303November 21, 2000: recognize proplist mnttab flag.
304
305* Thomas Klausner <wiz@danbala.ifoer.tuwien.ac.at>
306November 21, 2000: lots of NetBSD fixes (many of which are generic).
307
308* Olaf Kirch <okir@caldera.de>
309February 1, 2001: important Linux NFS error number mapping fixed
310
311* Ahmon Dancy <dancy@franz.com>
312February 9, 2001: Apple Rhapsody/Darwin/OS X port
313
314* Sebastien Bahloul <sebastien.bahloul@mangoosta.fr>
315July 3, 2001: LDAP fixes and updates to support new APIs
316
317March 27, 2002: LDAP bug and port to HPUX-11.
318
319* Philippe Troin <phil@fifi.org>
320July 12, 2001: Proper handling of GNU getopt, support for optionally
321disabling LDAP/Hesiod, fixes for the dev/nodev option on Linux
322
323November 28, 2001: Bug fix.  Support "nolock" as an NFS option, not a
324generic mount option.
325
326July 17, 2003: Debian fixes.  Null am_pref free.
327
328* Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
329January 10, 2002: Proper initialization of the timeo parameter on Linux, TCP
330_must_ have a timeout 2 orders of magnitude larger than UDP
331
332* Sean Fagan <sef@apple.com>
333March 14, 2003: detect and use the MNT2_GEN_OPT_AUTOMNTFS mount flag
334on OS X / Darwin.
335
336* Hendrik Scholz <hscholz@raisdorf.net>
337June 9, 2003: mk-amd-map should open temp db file using O_EXCL.
338