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efibootmgr-0.3.4 release

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New release efibootmgr 0.3.4 is now available at
http://domsch.com/linux/ia64/efibootmgr-0.3.4.tar.gz.

Changes since 0.3.3:
- Applied patch from Richard Hirst to correct my bad maths. Good catch Richard!
- Added more uniqueness to the MBR signature if -w flag is used. Now, the field consists of:

    mbr->UniqueMBRSignature =  tv.tv_usec << 16;
    mbr->UniqueMBRSignature |= stat.st_rdev & 0xFFFF;

using fstat() and gettimeofday() to provide a fixed component and a highly-likely-to-be-unique component. This avoids the problem of moving a disk from sda to sdb and installing on a new disk sda which would again yield identical signatures.

As always, I really appreciate feedback (and patches!) from people.

Thanks,
Matt

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Matt Domsch
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