Bug#533360: libc6: signalfd creation with SFD_* flags breaks under 2.9-15
notfound 533360 2.9-13
found 533360 2.9-15
thanks
On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 04:06:47PM -0400, Nick Black wrote:
> Package: libc6
> Version: 2.9-13
Given your description that's clearly the wrong version.
> Severity: important
>
>
> Howdy!
>
> This morning, I upgraded libc6 et al from 2.9-13 to 2.9-15. Immediately,
> one of my unit tests began failing with a -1 return from signalfd():
>
> 14|***** Error (Invalid argument) in Signalfd(): Couldn't generate signalfd from -1/526336
>
> with libc2.9-13, signalfd() returns a new file descriptor as expected.
>
> I'm passing SFD_CLOEXEC|SFD_NONBLOCK (0x2004000), but the same behavior
> is seen with either SFD_CLOEXEC or SFD_NONBLOCK (these are the only two
> signalfd() flags described in the man page, last updated 2009-01-13).
> With no flags passed, 2.9-15 works and creates the new signalfd.
>
I guess it is due to the fact that I built glibc 2.9-15 in squeeze, as
it is not buildable anymore in unstable due to the /lib32 transition.
As it only affects amd64, I'll do an binNMU using a (hackish) build
environment made of parts of squeeze and parts of sid.
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