Summary for Patch 304 (Verified)

Summary Improved locking and flexlog event type handling
Platform Unix
Category bugfix
Valid for 4.9.x, 5.0.0.x
Requires 293
Client Required Patch/es
Supersedes 300, 290, 288, 280
Superseded by 327 : Verified / Not hidden
Affects Server: License Analyzer
Last Updated September 30, 2009

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Description

This patch replaces the intra process locking mechanism
with thread mutex's instead of semaphores.

The patch also fixes a problem with correct handling 
of time zone for FLEXlm debug log data

The handling of license events type for flex log has also
been corrected (Problem with time zone).

Supersedes Patch Description

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Patch 300 — Improved intra process locking (server side update)
This patch replaces the intra process locking mechanism
with thread mutex's instead of semaphores.

The patch also fixes a problem with correct handling 
of time zone for FLEXlm debug log data
Patch 290 — Prevent multiple instances of archiver, limits number of open files
This patch adds a lock to the archiver binary that prevents
more than one instance from running simultainously. It also
limits the number of open output files to 8.

In addition the patch allows archiver to accept that the last
field in some recorder data may be empty.
Patch 288 — Improved error handling in archiver
This patches update the archiver binary with a version
that is better at handling seriously corrupt input
files.
Patch 280 — Update license archive to handle unprintable charactres
This patches update the archiver binary to be able to handle
strings that contain unprintable characters.

Installation

Unpack tar file in e.g /tmp/patch on the Open iT host. Do the 
following as root:

  cd /tmp/patch
  ./patch.pl

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