Re: [PATCH 0/1] pseudo 1.7.5 [jethro][fido]

[Mark Hatle <mark.hatle@windriver.com>]

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%)
>