Rhba-2009:1202: Bug Fix Update; Gnome-Python2-Desktop; Rhba-2009:0405: Bug Fix Update - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.4 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual

Chapter 1. Package Updates
memory pooling becomes fully supported, it will also become the default behavior; this will render
the MALLOC_PER_THREAD option obsolete then.
Users are advised to upgrade to this version of glibc.

1.71.2. RHBA-2009:1202: bug fix update

Note
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as errata
RHBA-2009:1202
Updated glibc packages that fix a bug are now available.
The glibc packages contain the standard C libraries used by multiple programs on the system. These
packages contains the standard C and the standard math libraries. Without these two libraries, the
Linux system cannot function properly.
These updated glibc packages fix the following bug:
• previous versions of glibc coded the malloc() function in a way that was not thread-safe, which
could have led to unexpected program crashes in some cases. With these updated packages, the
malloc() code has been revised to ensure better thread safety, as well as to adhere to C standards.
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All users of glibc are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which resolve this issue.

1.72. gnome-python2-desktop

1.72.1. RHBA-2009:0405: bug fix update

Note
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as FASTRACK
RHBA-2009:0405
errata
An updated gnome-python2-desktop package that fixes a bug in the GNOME Keyring bindings is now
available.
The gnome-python2-desktop package contains additional Python bindings for GNOME. It should be
used together with gnome-python2.
This update fixes the following bug:
• The gnomekeyring.find_items_sync() function was returning a list of long integers representing the
addresses of GnomeKeyringFound instances. These addresses are not useful in Python, however,
and this update adds Python bindings for GnomeKeyringFound. IT also changes find_items_sync()
to return a list of GnomeKeyringFound instances.
All gnome-python2-desktop users should install this update which addresses this issue.
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