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