forwarded message from David Mosberger

[David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>]

FYI.

	--daivd

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• To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>
• Subject: procps: "w" causes unaligned accesses on 64-bit platforms
• From: David Mosberger <davidm@linux.hpl.hp.com>
• Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 19:17:22 -0800
• Message-id: <200412310317.iBV3HMJG008197@napali.hpl.hp.com>
• Reply-to: davidm@hpl.hp.com

Package: procps
Version: 1:3.2.4-1
Severity: important
Tags: patch

Procps has a bug which causes unaligned accesses on 64-bit platforms.
It's easiest to see with "w", where practically every invocation results
in unaligned accesses.  A bug-report and patch already has been filed
upstream:

  http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=6254489&forum_id=12454

Please apply this patch to the Debian package as well.

Thanks!

  --david

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: ia64
Kernel: Linux 2.6.10-rc3
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)

Versions of packages procps depends on:
ii  libc6.1                     2.3.2.ds1-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libncurses5                 5.4-4        Shared libraries for terminal hand

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