Re: Segmentation faults in apropos

[Gerald Livingston <debuser@sysmatrix.net>]

On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 20:40:08 -0800
Paul Mackinney <pmackinn@mills.edu> wrote:

> Colin Watson declaimed:
> > On Tue, Oct 29, 2002 at 04:35:15PM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> > > I've been running Sid, for some time, lately I've started getting
> > > segmentaion faults when I run apropos, as in the following:
> > > 
> > >   $ apropos hyphenation
> > >   Segmentation fault
> > >   $ 
> > 
> > This has so far been reported as a bug six times, and is a bug in
> > glibc 2.3.1's regexec() implementation. See
> > <http://bugs.debian.org/165603>.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > 
> > -- 
> > Colin Watson (man-db maintainer)             
> > [cjwatson@flatline.org.uk]
> > 
> > 
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> Thanks, Colin. I did look in the bug tracker before posting,
> the search mechanism came up empty on open bugs with 'apropos'...
> 
> PM

The bugs are probably filed against 'man' because 'apropos' = 'man -k'.

G

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