Bug#288948: libc6: Bug (+fix) in readdir() due to getdents()
On Thu, 13 Jan 2005, GOTO Masanori wrote:
> severity 288948 important
> merge 180065 288948
> thanks
>
> At Thu, 06 Jan 2005 16:19:58 +0200,
> Ely Levy wrote:
> > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-13hujics
It's 2.3.2.ds1 with a small patch to the hesiod system we do to make
it fit our system.
> What is this version? We don't have it.
>
> > Justification: breaks the whole system
>
> I don't think so. Almost all user don't hit this problem. I've
> merged this bug to #180065.
>
> > The full bug report/patch by Dan Tzafrir are in
> > http://sources.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=14
>
> This is IRIX NFS server specific problem, and IIRC nowadays linux
> kernel nfs client can work with a workaround patch by Trond.
> I'll follow up to those bugs.
The bug is confirmed with kernel 2.6.10.
And the patch was tested on few libc versions and being used on wide
spread in our system for almost 2 years now with no problems.
> Regards,
> -- gotom
>
Ely
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