Bug#81343: marked as done (libc thread code problem in Debian Linux 2.2.17, i686)
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From: wiener@rap.ucar.EDU (Gerry Wiener)
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Subject: libc thread code problem in Debian Linux 2.2.17, i686
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Linux amber 2.2.17 #1 SMP Thu Sep 7 11:35:24 MDT 2000 i686 unknown
I initially reported the bug below to the Python 2.0 bug list. The
author of Python responded by mentioning that he thinks it is a
problem with the libc thread code. I wanted to make sure the bug was
reported.
Gerry Wiener
National Center for Atmospheric Research
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Here's a trivial example along with Python driver code which exhibits
the problem. If the size of array m is decreased, the testsys code
runs correctly under os.system(). Note that testsys1 by itself runs
fine on the same system and also runs fine when executed by system()
within a C program. We worked around this problem by configuring Python
2.0 using --with-threads=no before doing the build.
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testsys.py
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#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
print 'testing system'
ret = os.system("testsys")
print 'ret is ', ret
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testsys.c
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#include <unistd.h>
#include <stdio.h>
main(int argc, char **argv)
{
int i;
int m[1000000];
for (i=0; i<10; i++)
{
sleep(1);
printf("hello there\n");
}
}
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Output of testsys.py
------------------------------
testing system
ret is 11
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Date: 2000-Dec-06 11:37
By: gvanrossum
Comment:
Yup. The same problem happens under Linux, too. The C program crashes with a SIGSEGV, apparently because it doesn't have enough stack space.
Here's how I decode the s.system() return value:
if ret&0xff:
print "Killed by signal", ret&0x7f,
if ret&0x80:
print "-- core dumped",
print
else:
print "Exit status", ret>>8
This prints "Killed by signal 11 -- core dumped" for me.
The bug must be in the libc thread code, which apparently limits the
stack size but doesn't reset the limit in a child process. Here's a
work-around:
ret = os.system("ulimit -s 8192; ./testsys")
I'm closing the bug report, since there's nothing that *Python* can do to avoid this problem.
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Subject: Re: Bug#81343: libc thread code problem in Debian Linux 2.2.17, i686
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From: Adam Di Carlo <adam@onshore.com>
Date: 09 Jan 2001 11:36:58 -0500
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Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> writes:
> I then went back and tested with a glibc 2.1.3 system (sparc and i386)
> and saw your error results. So, the problem is resolved with the latest
> glibc 2.2.
Ok, closing the bug then.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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