Star; Strace - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5.5 - TECHNICAL NOTES Manual

Chapter 1. Package Updates

1.193. star

1.193.1. RHBA-2009:1575: bug fix update
Note
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as FASTRACK
RHBA-2009:1575
errata
An updated star package that fixes a bug is now available.
The star utility is a tape- and disk-archiving tool similar to tar that supports saving Access Control List
(ACLs) permission information.
This updated star package fixes the following bug:
* restoring directories which had default ACL permissions set when they were archived with the star
utility did not result in those ACL permissions correctly being restored after extraction. This update
fixes the problem so that the default ACL permissions are correctly restored on directories extracted
from a star archive. (BZ#450994
All users of star are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.

1.194. strace

1.194.1. RHBA-2010:0047: bug fix update
Note
This update has already been released (prior to the GA of this release) as errata
RHBA-2010:0047
An updated strace package that fixes a bug when tracing a program that blocks the SIGTRAP signal is
now available.
The strace program intercepts and records the system calls called and received by a running process.
Strace can print a record of each system call, its arguments and its return value.
This updated strace package fixes the following bug:
* the kernel does not send SIGTRAP notifications to strace after an execve system call finishes.
Consequently, when "strace -f" was executed against a program that blocked the SIGTRAP signal and
subsequently called execve, strace sent a "[preattached child 0 of 12166 in weird state!]" message to
STD OUT and hung. With this update, strace now checks for this situation and re-synchronizes with
system call notifications when necessary. Note: this problem only presents on Itanium-based systems
2010
(BZ#548363 )
All strace users are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves this issue.
2008
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=450994
2010
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=548363
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