Re: problem with strncpy

[GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp>]

At Fri, 21 Mar 2003 22:48:14 -0800,
David Mosberger wrote:
> 
> >>>>> On Sat, 22 Mar 2003 14:03:00 +0900, GOTO Masanori <gotom@debian.or.jp> said:
> 
>   Goto> At Thu, 20 Mar 2003 10:31:02 -0800, David Mosberger wrote:
>   >> >>>>> On Thu, 20 Mar 2003 14:09:04 +0100 (CET), Markus Bernhardt
>   >> <Markus.Bernhardt@scmb.de> said:
> 
>   Markus> Problem: This function is called many times in our
>   Markus> software. After processing some gigabytes of data the
>   Markus> strncpy fails reproducable exactly one time. All following
>   Markus> calls are working.  Whats wrong?  It looks to me strncpy
>   Markus> starts 8 bytes after the source adress to copy data.
>   >>  Make sure you have the latest version of the ia64 strncpy()
>   >> routine.  There was a page-boundary crossing bug until recently.
>   >> The glibc CVS has this fixed.  Not sure about Debian glibc.
> 
>   Goto> glibc 2.3.1-15 is based on 2002-12-02 cvs so I think it
>   Goto> includes your changes.
> 
> I think it may be missing the most recent fixes, then.  Here are the
> most recent changes to the file:

Hmm, thanks.  Debian's version is old.  We fix it in glibc 2.3.2-1
which is available after 2.3.1-16 sooner or later.

-- gotom