Fedora 14 Update: attr-2.4.44-6.fc14

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-0197
2011-01-06 19:07:42
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Name        : attr
Product     : Fedora 14
Version     : 2.4.44
Release     : 6.fc14
URL         : http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/
Summary     : Utilities for managing filesystem extended attributes
Description :
A set of tools for manipulating extended attributes on filesystem
objects, in particular getfattr(1) and setfattr(1).
An attr(1) command is also provided which is largely compatible
with the SGI IRIX tool of the same name.

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Update Information:

cumulative bugfix update for stable Fedora
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jan  5 2011 Kamil Dudka <kdudka at redhat.com> 2.2.44-6
- setfattr.1: document supported encodings of values (#587516)
- getfattr: encode NULs properly with --encoding=text (#650539)
- getfattr: return non-zero exit code on failure (#660619)
- walk_tree: do not follow symlink to directory with -h (#660613)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #587516 - setfattr doesn't accept 0x2 as the value [documentation bug]
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=587516
  [ 2 ] Bug #650539 - getfattr ignores NULs in output when using "text" encoding
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=650539
  [ 3 ] Bug #660619 - getfattr does not return failure when designated attribute does not exist
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660619
  [ 4 ] Bug #660613 - getfattr follows the links despite option -h
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=660613
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update attr' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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