Once the corresponding tarball is available, this should likely be backported/merged to Jethro and Fido as well.
Everything remains compatible, but it does fix a subtle race condition that can lead to files under pseudo control inheriting their host system permissions. See bug 9031 for more details. --Mark On 2/9/16 1:57 PM, Peter Seebach wrote: > tarball submitted, but this won't work without it... but you should > be able to use pseudo_git if you want to see the new shiny. > > Long story short, there has always been a race condition if enough > clients were trying to simultaneously start a server, but that doesn't > come up much. But a while back, I added a "feature" where "pseudo <cmd>" > would try to shut the server down cleanly after running the command, > which is great for casual command-line use, but meant that we would > actually hit the race condition. > > Respawn logic drastically reworked, various other changes made to > make this less likely to come up, and so on. > > Also, pseudo will now abort() if the client can't get a server, which > could conceivably break things, *but*, it should only be breaking things > which have in fact been broken all along, we just didn't know it. > > Also a bug fix for cases where mknod is called with only file permission > bits to create an ordinary file, which GNU tar does if and only if trying > to extract xattrs apparently (!?!??), and then a followup workaround for > a problem making ext4 filesystems, where I'm pretty sure the behavior was > right to begin with but this workaround lets things progress in the mean > time. > > Whee. > > The following changes since commit d53a0d410ae2390528f1090a131cd3e16d7ebcc5: > > glibc-locale: fix QA warning (2016-02-07 22:53:22 +0000) > > are available in the git repository at: > > git://git.yoctoproject.org/poky-contrib seebs/pseudo175 > http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky-contrib/log/?h=seebs/pseudo175 > > Peter Seebach (1): > pseudo: uprev to 1.7.5 > > meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/{pseudo_1.7.4.bb => pseudo_1.7.5.bb} | 4 ++-- > meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/pseudo_git.bb | 4 ++-- > 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > rename meta/recipes-devtools/pseudo/{pseudo_1.7.4.bb => pseudo_1.7.5.bb} > (77%) > -- _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list Openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org http://lists.openembedded.org/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
