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1.5

• rlimit values 0 are now ignored and Inf means RLIM_INFINITY
• Windows: fix crash for very long commands

1.4

• Fix bug when 'timeout' was given as integer instead of double
• Workaround undefined RLIMIT_AS on OpenBSD
• Use graphics.off() instead of dev.off() to shut down all graphics devices
• Added aa_config() to query apparmor status on supported platforms
• On Linux, eval_fork() now kills entire child process group when parent dies
• The exec() functions no longer change process group on OSX

1.3

• Use AppArmor (required) on Debian/Ubuntu in eval_safe()
• Disable console and finalizers inside forked procs
• Add support for rlimits, priority, uid, gid and profile in eval_safe()

1.2:

• Windows: show informative system error messages on failures
• Unix: exec_background() does not wait for 1/2 a second (#6, #7, @gaborcsardi)
• Unix: new functions eval_fork() and eval_safe()
• Many little tweaks

1.1:

• Switch from SIGHUP to SIGKILL to kill child process
• Child now uses a pipe to send errno to parent when execvp() fails
• Unit tests that require 'ping' are skipped if 'ping' is not available

1.0:

• CRAN release

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