am-utils

Release Notes: NFSv3 support for Linux and HPUX-11, various additional configuration options, updated or minor new ports to alpha-dec-osf4.0f, alphaev6-dec-osf5.0, i386-pc-linux-rh6.2, i386-unknown-freebsd3.4, and various bugfixes.

Release Notes: An important fix which improves the performance of symlink lookups a lot and further helps reduce the incidence of stale file handles when doing rapid mounts and umounts (via amq -u).

Release Notes: Updates/new ports to hppa1.0-hp-hpux11.00, i386-pc-bsdi4.1, i386-unknown-netbsd1.4.1, sparc-sun-solaris2.8, and i*86-pc-linux-gnu-rh6.1 (some preparations for Compaq Tru64)i, new variables ${uid} and ${gid} return the numeric UID/GID of the user (not root) who invokes an amd pathname, automake uses automatic dependency tracking, new mount options (optionstr, noexec, and nomnttab), browsable maps of type auto, ctl-amd has a "status" argument, bugs document buggy AIX 4.3 plock() behavior fixes to stale file handle on symlinks reduce race conditions upon rapid umount/mount, sequences use vsnprintf (more secure than vsprintf), and more assorted and smaller bugfixes.

Release Notes: NFSv3 support for Linux (some of the NFSv3 patches to Linux aren't very stable, however), two new amd.conf [global] options (nfs_vers=2/3 and nfs_proto=udp/tcp), fixes for silly typos in the mount_linux.c code that prevented cdfs/pcfs mount types from working, support for the "intr" mount option, and fixes to failover behavior of maps.