Announcing the release of BLCR 0.7.2.

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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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NEWS:

0.7.3
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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.



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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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