Fedora 9 Update: coreutils-6.10-23.fc9
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Wed May 21 11:11:40 UTC 2008
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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-4327
2008-05-21 07:20:12
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Name : coreutils
Product : Fedora 9
Version : 6.10
Release : 23.fc9
URL : http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
Summary : The GNU core utilities: a set of tools commonly used in shell scripts
Description :
These are the GNU core utilities. This package is the combination of
the old GNU fileutils, sh-utils, and textutils packages.
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Update Information:
Fix for huge memory leak and performance problem in /usr/bin/install binary.
Some improvements to that temporary patch expected in next F9 coreutils updates.
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ChangeLog:
* Tue May 20 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> - 6.10-23
- fixed a HUGE memory leak in install binary(#447410)
* Tue May 13 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> - 6.10-22
- checksum line handling fix (#439531) done upstream way
which covers more possible cases
* Fri Apr 18 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> - 6.10-21
- fix wrong checksum line handling in sha1sum -c
command(#439531)
* Tue Apr 15 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> - 6.10-20
- fix possible segfault in sha1sum/md5sum command
* Mon Apr 14 2008 Ondrej Vasik <ovasik at redhat.com> - 6.10-19
- fix possible build-failure typo in i18n patch(#442205)
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #447410 - 'install' consumes all system memory
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=447410
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. Use
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