Re: Bug#70762: textutils: tail segfault
reassign 70762 libc6
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On Fri, Sep 01, 2000 at 08:54:05PM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Package: textutils
> Version: 2.0-3
> Severity: minor
>
> Note severity. I don't think this happens in everyday use.
Is this new? Are there any other new ones available?
> joey@kite:~>ulimit -a
> cpu time (seconds) unlimited
> file size (blocks) unlimited
> data seg size (kbytes) 81920
> stack size (kbytes) 8192
> core file size (blocks) 0
> resident set size (kbytes) 81920
> processes 150
> file descriptors 1024
> locked-in-memory size (kb) unlimited
> virtual memory size (kb) 81920
> joey@kite:~>tail /dev/zero
> zsh: segmentation fault tail /dev/zero
>
> If I disable memory limits, it doesn't segfault. Of course, it eventually
> eats up all memory on the machine and gets killed.
It's segfaulting in vfprintf which is called by error(3) (via fprintf(3))
which is called by xmalloc() when the malloc(3) fails. So if this is a
bug at all, it is in libc6.
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