HP-UX 11i Version 2 December 2007 Release Notes

• Security Patch Check 1.3: Now included in HP-UX 11i v2 OEs. Simplifies the process of
determining whether you have all the relevant security patches on your system. This version
does better corner-case handling; incorporates a number of defect fixes and clearer wording.
• Shadow Passwords: New feature enhances system security by hiding user-encrypted
passwords in a shadow password file.
• Strong Random Number Generator: New feature provides a secure, non-reproducible source
of binary sequences for applications that generate encryption keys and other cryptographic
quantities.
Initial Release Notes, Chapter 8: “Commands and System Calls”
• The envd Environment Daemon: Now supported.
• 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.
What is New in the Initial (October 2003) HP-UX 11i v2 Release? 85