[OE-core] [PATCH 1/1] pseudo_1.7.3.bb: New version of pseudo

[Richard Purdie]

On Fri, 2015-09-04 at 17:16 -0500, Peter Seebach wrote:
> Pseudo 1.7 adds an experimental feature (which I think needs more testing
> before it becomes the default) allowing the pseudo client to store modes
> and uid/gid values in extended attributes rather than using the sqlite
> database. On most Linux-like systems, this works only if the underlying
> file is a plain file or a directory.
> 
> Also added is a profiling feature to allow some amount of reporting on
> the wall-clock time the client spends in wrappers, processing operations,
> or in IPC. This feature is not intendeded to be precisely accurate, but
> gives a good overview of where time is going.
> 
> Based on the results from the profiling feature, the client now suppresses
> OP_OPEN and OP_EXEC messages if the server is not logging messages, and
> no longer uses constant dynamic allocation and free cycles for canonicalized
> paths.
> 
> There's a few other likely-looking optimizations being considered, but
> this seemed like a good cutoff for now.
> 
> 1.7.1 fixes two bugs, one affecting mostly XFS systems with 64-bit
> inode values, and one affecting code that called realpath(x, NULL), such
> as the RPM backend.
> 
> 1.7.2 fixes an indirect side-effect of the chmod fixes to deal with
> umask 0700, which had no effect with opkg 0.2.4 but appears to cause
> failures with 0.3.0.
> 
> 1.7.3 prevents mkdirat() (and mkfifoat()) from setting errno on success,
> because glibc's localedef inexplicably errors out if errno was set, even
> if the operation's actual return code (which it tests) indicated
> success.

We finally got there, I merged this one after it passed the tests!

Cheers,

Richard