Fedora 8 Update: mksh-36b-1.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-11369
2008-12-17 03:33:51
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Name        : mksh
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 36b
Release     : 1.fc8
URL         : http://www.mirbsd.de/mksh/
Summary     : MirBSD enhanced version of the Korn Shell
Description :
mksh is the MirBSD enhanced version of the Public Domain Korn shell (pdksh),
a bourne-compatible shell which is largely similar to the original AT&T Korn
shell. It includes bug fixes and feature improvements in order to produce a
modern, robust shell good for interactive and especially script use, being a
bourne shell replacement, pdksh successor and an alternative to the C shell.

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Update Information:

Relevant changes in this release for Linux are as follows (taken from the
official change description for this release):    __typeof__ is not used.
Statements can be used as expressions. An alias expansion bug was fixed. bashiop
use inside a function was fixed. strings.h is pulled if it exists. Some format
string warnings, dead code, and casts were cleaned up.    Several of these
former issues have been noticed by Fedora users (with and without a bug report,
partially directly to upstream) and upstream suggested me personally to perform
this update for all branches.
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ChangeLog:

* Sun Dec 14 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 36b-1
- Upgrade to 36b and updated arc4random.c file
* Tue Dec  2 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 36-2
- Upstream patch for command hang/high cpu workload (#474115)
* Sat Oct 25 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 36-1
- Upgrade to 36
* Sat Jul 19 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 35b-1
- Upgrade to 35b
* Sun Jul 13 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 35-1
- Upgrade to 35
* Sat Apr 12 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 33d-1
- Upgrade to 33d
* Fri Apr  4 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 33c-1
- Upgrade to 33c and updated arc4random.c file
* Mon Mar  3 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 33-1
- Upgrade to 33
* Sun Feb 10 2008 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 32-2
- Rebuild against gcc 4.3
* Sat Nov 10 2007 Robert Scheck <robert at fedoraproject.org> 32-1
- Upgrade to 32
- Solved fork problems in %check (thanks to Thorsten Glaser)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #474115 - command hang in ksh and cpu workload is high
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=474115
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mksh' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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