From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail1.windriver.com (mail1.windriver.com [147.11.146.13]) by mail.openembedded.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C92CC6AC00 for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 20:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (ala-hca.corp.ad.wrs.com [147.11.189.40]) by mail1.windriver.com (8.15.2/8.15.1) with ESMTPS id u19KBBAd016968 (version=TLSv1 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=FAIL) for ; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:11:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from soho-mhatle-m.local (172.25.36.231) by ALA-HCA.corp.ad.wrs.com (147.11.189.50) with Microsoft SMTP Server id 14.3.248.2; Tue, 9 Feb 2016 12:11:10 -0800 To: Peter Seebach , References: From: Mark Hatle Organization: Wind River Systems Message-ID: <56BA47DD.6020007@windriver.com> Date: Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:11:09 -0600 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/1] pseudo 1.7.5 [jethro][fido] X-BeenThere: openembedded-core@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.12 Precedence: list List-Id: Patches and discussions about the oe-core layer List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Feb 2016 20:11:10 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 " > 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%) >