Fedora 18 Update: fuse-2.9.1-1.fc18

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-12915
2012-08-29 18:35:01
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Name        : fuse
Product     : Fedora 18
Version     : 2.9.1
Release     : 1.fc18
URL         : http://fuse.sf.net
Summary     : File System in Userspace (FUSE) utilities
Description :
With FUSE it is possible to implement a fully functional filesystem in a
userspace program. This package contains the FUSE userspace tools to
mount a FUSE filesystem.

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Update Information:

Update to 2.9.1.

 - Add "zero copy" support for kernel 2.6.35 or newer
 - Make maximum background requests tunable on kernel 2.6.32 or newer
 - Require --no-canonicalize in (u)mount (util-linux version 2.18 or newer) to fix security problems with fusermount
 - Use dynamically sized hash tables in high level library
 - Memory use of filesystem daemon can shrink more easily
 - Add "auto_unmount" option
 - Add "remember" option
 - Add man pages for fusermount, mount.fuse and ulockmgr_server
 - API changes:
    o Introduce "store" and "retrieve" for accessing kernel buffers on kernel 2.6.36 or newer
    o Introduce abstract buffer for zero copy operations
    o Allow path calculation to be omitted on certain operations
    o Allow batching forget requests
    o Add "flock" method
    o Add support for ioctl on directories
    o Add delete notification

 - Bug fixes and small improvements
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #814919 - fuse-2.9.1 is available
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=814919
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update fuse' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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