Bug#205328: Improvement but...

[Philip Blundell <pb@nexus.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 08:54, Thomas Morin wrote:
> I can't reproduce the segfault if I upgrade to console-tools 1:0.2.3dbs-41,
> but I guess this was quite expected since this bug seems to hit binaries
> compiled with older glibc, non ?

Kind of.  The particular fseek() bug that broke win4lin and so on was
indeed specific to binaries compiled with older versions of glibc. 
However, even console-tools 1:0.2.3-23.3 was not compiled with an old
enough version to run into that problem, and I am able to reproduce the
segfault even if I recompile 1:0.2.3-23.3 from source and link it with
the very latest libc.

So, it looks to me like this is a bona fide bug in the older
console-tools, not a problem with glibc.  My guess is that it is calling
fclose() twice on the same file descriptor, or something like that.

p.