7.9. at
Updated at packages that fix two bugs are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.
The at packages provide a utility for time-oriented job control. The at utility reads commands from standard input or from a specified file and allows you to specify that the commands will be run at a particular time.
Bug Fixes
- BZ#994201
- Due to incorrect race condition handling in the "atd" daemon, "atd" terminated unexpectedly. With this update, "atd" handles the race condition correctly, so that now "atd" no longer terminates in the described scenario.
- BZ#1166882
- Previously, the "at" command was not properly checking the return value of the fclose() function call. As a consequence, if the /var/spool/at file system filled up, "at" could leave empty stale files in the spool directory. With this update, "at" properly checks the return value from fclose(), and "at" no longer leaves empty files in spool in the described scenario.
Users of at are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix these bugs.
