Hello,
Thus far the tests have been positive, but several people have asked me 
one question.

Do you have to reboot your machine for this update to take effect?

I *believe* the answer is "You don't have to reboot your machine for 
this update to take effect, but it is a good practice."

The postinstall script that get's run (glibc_post_upgrade.<arch>) is a 
binary, so I can't tell exactly what it does.  I know that at a minimum 
is restarts init.  So at the very least, every process started after the 
update is affected.
It might do more than that, and it probably does.  But I don't know that 
for a fact.

Thanks
Troy

Troy J Dawson wrote:
> Hello,
> Due to the high demand for this glibc update, we are putting it into our 
> general testing area so that people can install it as soon as possible.
> Although this glibc hasn't gone through our full testing procedure, it 
> has gone through preliminary testing, and we expect it to pass all of 
> our testing.
> 
> This glibc update fixes CVE-2010-3847
> 
> We plan on pushing this out on tomorrow - 21 October 2010
> 
> To test or update
> 
> SL5
> -------
> 
>           yum --enablerepo=sl-testing update glibc\*
> 
> or you can download rpm's by hand at
> 
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/i386/glibc/
> http://ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/5rolling/testing/x86_64/glibc/
> 
> Thanks
> Troy Dawson
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