Bug#205328: Improvement but...
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 10:03, Philip Blundell wrote:
> 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.
>
As the console-tools maintainer, maybe I can shed some light.
The older console-tools did indeed have a bug, revealed by the
glibc 2.3.2 upload: it did double fclose() a fd. Under older glibc's,
this was a null op; now it segfaults.
Sorry about not joining earlier; I've moved house and lose 'net
connectivity.
Regards,
Alastair
> p.
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