HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2005 Release Notes

What is New at a Glance
What is New in the Initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i v2 Release?
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•The groupadd, groupdel, groupmod, useradd, userdel, usermod commands: In
trusted mode, the commands now write audit records into the audit subsystem’s
audit trail. New option added to set or unset useradd behavior of changing
ownership of an existing home directory.
•The psrset Command: Enhanced with new options to manage the RTE processor
set.
•The setboot Command: Support for setting the HA Alternate boot path now added.
SpeedyBoot option for next reboot now available.
• I/O Commands:
—The insf, lssf, and mksf Commands: Now support IHV drivers, provided the
IHV provides a shared library.
—The ioscan command: New options added to allow display of the date and time
at which the system hardware was last scanned and to allow display of the EFI
device paths for certain devices.
•The mmap() Function: Now possible to perform mappings between a process's
address space and I/O device registers or memory.
•The pstat_getfile() Interface: Obsolete. The interface pstat_getfile2() should
be used in its place.
• Transition Links Commands: Deprecated. The tlinstall, tllist, and tlremove
commands will become obsolete in post-HP-UX 11i v2 releases.
• Usage of Capacity-related ioctls DIOC_CAPACITY, DIOC_DESCRIBE, and
SIOC_CAPACITY: Applications that use the DIOC_CAPACITY or DIOC_DESCRIBE ioctl
calls should be rebuilt because capacity_type and disk_describe_type now better
represent the size of newer, larger devices. Applications that use the SIOC_CAPACITY
ioctl for devices that may become large at some point should now use the new
SIOC_STORAGE_CAPACITY ioctl.
•Usage of ustat(), statfs(), and statvfs(): When old binaries that still use
ustat(), the various forms of statfs(), and the various forms of the 32-bit flavor of
statvfs(), are exposed to a truly large file system, these calls will return an
EOVERFLOW error that the binaries have never seen before, resulting in
misinterpretations.
Initial Release Notes, Chapter 9: “Libraries and Programming”
• 400K File Descriptors: The maximum supported number of file descriptors per
process raised from 60000 (60K) to 400,000 (400K). Precautions apply to this new
functionality.
• Adaptive Address Space (AAS) 1.0: Allows you to create binaries that provide you
with a large address space and more control over it.
• Aries Binary Translator: Changes include support for MxN threads, support for
Itanium2-based processor, and an optional, experimental implementation of a new
dynamic translator with improved performance.
• C99 Support for HP-UX System C Library (libc): A set of 8 new APIs introduced,
making it easier to convert strings to the “long long” data type.
• Debugging: