Announcing the release of BLCR 0.7.2.

From: Paul H. Hargrove (PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov)
Date: Tue Aug 12 2008 - 15:57:14 PDT

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    I am pleased to announce the release of BLCR 0.7.3, to fix a few bugs 
    found in 0.7.2.  The 0.7.3 release is now available from the BLCR 
    Downloads page:
    http://ftg.lbl.gov/CheckpointRestart/CheckpointDownloads.shtml
    
    Relative to 0.7.2, this release fixes several bugs.  A detailed list of 
    changes appears below in the form of an excerpt from the NEWS file.
    
    -Paul
    
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    in a bug fixed in this release.
    
    NEWS:
    
    0.7.3
    --------
    August 12, 2008
    Bug fix release
      - Fix a kernel Oops on a rarely run error path.
      - Fix a in-kernel memory leak when restoring unlinked files.
      - Fix a file descriptor leak when cr_request_checkpoint() failed.
      - Fix fsync() handling to allow checkpoints to /dev/null
      - Fix bug 2309: cr_enter_cs() fails because of previous cri_info_free().
        This bug was resolved by adding two new functions:
          cr_inc_persist() and cr_dec_persist()
        See comments in libcr.h for a description and usage.
      - Fix bug 2311: vmadump_thaw_proc() returns -513.
      - Fix bug 2315: ENOMEM with processes with zero supplementary group IDs.
      - Fix bug 2316: "mkdir: file exists" module installation problem.
    
    
    
    -- 
    Paul H. Hargrove                          PHHargrove_at_lbl_dot_gov
    Future Technologies Group
    HPC Research Department                   Tel: +1-510-495-2352
    Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory     Fax: +1-510-486-6900
    

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