HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1B-5 Patch Summary and Release Notes (March 2009)

— Fixes pax to handle ACL on directories properly.
— Corrects tar to properly handle unusual directory specifications.
— Modifies the tar utility so it correctly restores directory permissions when
extracted using -p option.
— Fixes the tar and pax utilities so they correctly restore the file mode when
extracted using appropriate options.
• Fixes /usr/bin/cut to correctly handle incomplete lines.
• Causes the rescheduling of certain default cleanup cron jobs so that they will not
get skipped during a time change to DST.
• Fixes /usr/bin/which to take path information from environment rather ~/.cshrc if
it is invoked from other than the C shell.
• Eliminates compiler warnings in mkdir.
• Corrects a problem in which performing a sort on a large database using numerous
keys fails during the consolidation phase of the temporary files.
• Fixes a typo in mkcdsl.
• Updates the NIS start-up script to correctly start NIS on the cluster alias.
• Fixes a problem with bcheckrc that occurs when it is run multiple times.
• Fixes a problem with non-U.S. USB keyboards used in non-U.S. locales in which
the keyboards are treated as U.S. keyboards by the operating system.
• Corrects a problem in which sh uses a high amount of CPU time.
• Eliminates compiler warnings in ln.
• Eliminates compiler warnings in ksh.
• Enhances the cron command to perform extensive logging.
• Fixes following problems in sh:
— A service denial problem that occurs when a quoted here doc script is executed.
— A problem with handling ELF files.
— A condition in which the shell variable $- does not hold the -C set option when
it is turned on.
— A condition that causes the printing of broken characters when the type built-in
utility of sh is invoked in the Japanese locale.
• Fixes a one-byte gap/hole in the maximum file size in the tar command before an
extended header record is used (8589934591 (octal 77777777777)).
• Fixes a problem in which nonsense characters are appended to the audit information
output of an execve event in brief mode.
• Installs DECthreads V3.20-033, which addresses the possibility of floating point
errors in threaded programs.
• Corrects a problem in which some networking applications, especially X.25 and
X.29, stopped working as expected because of interactions with security-related
fixes and how the fstat() function behaves on their sockets.
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