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2PRIMARY AUTHORS AND MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO AM_UTILS:
3
4Original authors of amd were the Berkeley team and especially Jan-Simon
5Pendry.  Since then many people have contributed patches.
6
7This file lists the ones who contributed major code changes, in no
8particular order, and I thank them all.  This is of course not to diminish
9the smaller contributes of the many others.  Thank you all.
10
11* Erez Zadok <ezk@cs.columbia.edu>
12
13The most significant changes were made by Erez Zadok in terms of bug fixes,
14ports, and new features added.  Erez Zadok is the current maintainer of
15am-utils, as of January 1997.
16
17There is a mailing list dedicated to developers of am-utils.  To subscribe
18to it, send mail to majordomo@majordomo.cs.columbia.edu, with the body of
19the message having the single line "subscribe amd-dev".
20
21* Randall S. Winchester <rsw@glue.umd.edu>
22
23May 7, 1997: contributed a special version of upl102 that included NFS V.3
24support.  Some of the code was contributed by Christos Zoulas
25<christos@deshaw.com>.  I (Erez) ported these changes to am-utils.
26
27September 12, 1997: lots of small prototype cleanups and fixes to numerous
28files.
29
30January 27, 1998: support pid files in the amd.conf file.  Provide base name
31for hesiod zone files.  Always use /etc/amd.conf if exists.
32
33August 8, 1998: add detection support for NFS V.3 for NetBSD 1.3F.
34
35* Hannes Reinecke <hare@MathI.UNI-Heidelberg.DE>
36
37Back in 1995, contributed code for linux.  A new parser for file system
38specific options that only exist under linux.
39
40* Leif Johansson <leifj@matematik.su.se>
41
42June 22, 1997: minor patch to ensure that systems without an RE library work.
43
44June 23, 1997: mount options should be properly comma limited.
45
46July 10, 1997: info_ldap.c and prototype changes to all map _init and _mtime
47functions.  Contributed scripts/amd2ldif.pl.
48
49August 4, 1997: info_ldap.c fixes and adding two new amd.conf ldap
50variables: ldap_cache_seconds and ldap_cache_maxmem.
51
52* Andreas Stolcke <stolcke@speech.sri.com>
53
54June 22, 1997: patches to ensure that proto= and vers= options work
55properly in mount tables and can be overridden.  Later on, more code
56contribued to optimize the best combination of proto/vers.
57
58July 4, 1997: patches to get NFS V.3 working under irix5.
59
60September 9, 1997: initialize all fields of mntent_t structures to 0.
61
62October 2, 1997: don't log an RPC timeout as an error but only as an info
63message.
64
65December 19, 1997: detected an FMR (Free Memory Read) in amd/mntfs.c,
66uninit_mntfs().
67
68* Danny Braniss <danny@cs.huji.ac.il>
69
70July, 6 1997: contributed patches to hesiod on bsdi3.
71
72* Tom Schmidt <tschmidt@micron.com>
73
74July 10, 1997: Recommdation to include libgdbm if libc has no dbm_open.
75Patches for netgrp(host) command.  Mods to aux/config.guess to recognize
76sun3.
77
78January 19, 1998: print correct -l option depending if system supports
79syslog and/or syslog facilities.
80
81January 29, 1998: fix for 0.0.0.0 loopback on SunOS 3.X which defines
82IFF_ROUTE instead of IFF_LOOPBACK.
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
115* Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
116
117August 25, 1997: make amd work when talking to NIS+ servers in NIS
118compatibility mode.  Fix originally came from Matthieu Herrb
119<matthieu@laas.fr>.
120
121* Chris Metcalf <metcalf@catfish.lcs.mit.edu>
122
123August 29, 1997: patch to make amd use FQHN for NFS/RPC authentication,
124useful esp. for cross-domain NFS mounts.
125September 2, 1997: if plock() succeeded, don't display errno string.
126
127* Enami Tsugutomo <enami@cv.sony.co.jp>
128
129September 4, 1997: don't ping remote servers with NFS V.3 always, but V.2,
130regardless of client's NFS version. (conf/transp/transp_sockets.c)
131
132* Dan Riley <dsr@mail.lns.cornell.edu>
133
134September 19, 1997: make sure that amd works with more secure portmappers
135that do not allow forwarding of RPC messages to other services.
136
137* Wolfgang Rupprecht <wolfgang@wsrcc.com>
138
139August 10, 1997: netbsd and other bsd systems have a mask flag for
140pcfs_args (msdos mount).
141
142* Christos Zoulas <christos@deshaw.com>
143
144September 25, 1997: fix to initialize uid/gid fields of pcfs_args_t on
145netbsd.
146
147October 10, 1997: compile time cleanups of printf()s in hlfsd code.  If nfs
148server is down or does not support a portmapper call, then mark it down as
149version 2, and try again later.
150
151* Bill Paul <wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu>
152
153November 5, 1997: NFS v.3 support for AIX 4.2.1, which does *not* include
154headers for this.  Bill had to guess at the right structures, field names,
155sizes, alignment, etc.
156
157* Stefan Vogel <vogel@physik-rzu.unizh.ch>
158
159November 14, 1997: typo in the subscription instructions to amd-dev.
160
161* Guntram Wolski <gwolsk@sei.com>
162
163November 15, 1997: pointed out mismatching documentation for the -o option.
164
165* Michael Hucka <hucka@eecs.umich.edu>
166
167January 11, 1997: pointed out reversed definition of NFS mount options vers
168and proto.
169
170* Albert Chin <china@pprd.abbott.com>
171
172January 12, 1998: minor bug in output of amd -H.
173
174* Thomas Richter <richter@chemie.fu-berlin.de>
175
176January 13, 1998: use case insensitive comparisons for variables that need
177it (such as all hostname related ones, and more).
178
179July 20, 1998: don't leak memory in the private version of yp_all (when
180vendor yp_all is bad).
181
182* Fred Korz <korz@smarts.com>
183
184January 30, 1998: minor typo fixed to tftp example in am-utils.texi.
185
186* Donald Buczek <buczek@MPIMG-Berlin-Dahlem.MPG.DE>
187
188March 6, 1998: correctly inherit existing NFS V.3 mounts upon restart.
189
190March 17, 1998: compare log file name and syslog string with correct length.
191
192March 20, 1998: do not close stdout in case it gets reused elsewhere and to
193allow startup script to redirect it.  Set a temporary secure umask(0022)
194before writing log file and restore it afterwards.
195
196* Matthew Crosby <mcrosby@ms.com>
197
198April 20, 1998: allow arbitrary number of interfaces in wire listing.
199
200* David O'Brien <obrien@NUXI.com>
201
202September 4, 1998: bug fix to avoid overrunning hostname buffer, and minor
203amd.conf man page typo correction.
204
205* Danny Rathjens <dkr@cs.fiu.edu>
206
207October 29, 1998: swap arguments to kill(2) in amd.c.
208
209* Mike Mitchell <mcm@unx.sas.com>
210
211November 3, 1998: amd/nfs_subr.c (nfsproc_lookup_2_svc): try to avoid a race
212condition between unmounting and re-mounting an entry, by increasing the ttl
213of a looked up entry before unmounting it.
214
215* Douglas K. Rand" <rand@aero.und.edu>
216
217December 3, 1998: case insensitive host name match for nfsl.
218