Hi everybody, new patch releases of collectd have been created. The changes include a rare but nasty race condition in the UnixSock plugin, which could lead to data being lost or being written to a wrong file descriptor. Anybody using the UnixSock plugin is advised to upgrade.
Download -------- Source tarballs are available from collectd's homepage. The direct download links are: Version 4.8.1: * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-4.8.1.tar.bz2 * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-4.8.1.tar.gz Version 4.7.4: * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-4.7.4.tar.bz2 * http://collectd.org/files/collectd-4.7.4.tar.gz ChangeLog --------- 2009-10-03, Version 4.7.4 2009-10-04, Version 4.8.1 * Build system: Issues when building the iptables plugin have been fixed. * exec plugin: Clear the signal block mask before calling exec(2). * perl plugin: Declare the “environ” variable. This solves build issues on some platforms. * processes plugin: Remove unnecessary call of realloc(3). Thanks to Andrés J. Díaz for the patch. * unixsock plugin: Fix a (well hidden) race condition related to file descriptor handling. Regards, -octo -- Florian octo Forster Hacker in training GnuPG: 0x91523C3D http://verplant.org/
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