[Pkg-sysvinit-devel] (fwd) RHN Errata Alert: SysVinit bug fix update

[Petter Reinholdtsen]

Looks like redhat might have some useful patches for us to steal.  I
have not found time to look at the RedHat packages yet.  If any of you
got time, please check them out and report back if there is anything
useful there.

I dropped the part of the mail repoting about our RHN status, as it is
irrelevant for my point.

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Date: Tue, 4 Oct 2005 00:40:52 -0400
From: Red Hat Network Alert <dev-null at rhn.redhat.com>
Subject: RHN Errata Alert: SysVinit bug fix update

Red Hat Network has determined that the following advisory is applicable to
one or more of the systems you have registered:

Complete information about this errata can be found at the following location:
     https://rhn.redhat.com/network/errata/errata_details.pxt?eid=3288

Bug Fix Advisory - RHBA-2005:510-9
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Summary:
SysVinit bug fix update

An updated SysVinit package that fixes various bugs is now available.

Description:
The SysVinit package contains a group of processes that control the basic
functions of your system. SysVinit includes the init program, which is the
first program started by the Linux kernel when the system boots. Init then
controls the startup and shutdown of all other programs.

The following issues have been addressed:

The init utility was accidentally overflowing argv[0]. This led to
overwriting parts of environment variables passed from the kernel.

The 'pidof -x' command did not work correctly when identifying commands
that used script interpreters, such as python.

The pidof utility would attempt to call stat on /proc/<pid>/exe,
which would hang on a stuck NFS server, causing a hang on shutdown.

All users of SysVinit should upgrade to this updated package, which
resolves these issues.
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