[OE-core] [PATCH 0/1] pseudo 1.7.5 [jethro][fido]

Richard Purdie richard.purdie at linuxfoundation.org
Tue Feb 9 21:30:51 UTC 2016


On Tue, 2016-02-09 at 15:16 -0600, Peter Seebach wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Feb 2016 14:11:09 -0600
> Mark Hatle <mark.hatle at windriver.com> wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> For reference, the thing which exposed the circumstance where this
> was
> actually remotely likely to come up was added in f1d4744, back in
> 2014,
> and somehow the actual change isn't mentioned in ChangeLog.txt, but
> in
> practice it's been there since 1.6.1. But it would only (probably)
> show
> up if you ran some commands with "pseudo <cmd>" *while* running other
> things using a pseudo server normally.

Which we do as standard if you enable buildhistory.

(for full disclosure of the issue)

Cheers,

Richard




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