the plugins themselves. Add new functions to each plugin to return the
error number and given an error number, return a description.

  parameter.

the directory with access rights based upon its umask. A umask value of
007 when creating the directory results in batch jobs always failing.

responding. Wait for tasks to complete or administrator to set DOWN.

in addition to the formerly supported alphabetical order. Reporting
partitions in configuration order is the new default behavior.

Add LDFLAGS required on AIX to use dlopen().

Export version info via new API

modifications were relatively minor - mostly changes in function
names or arguments.