Re: RFH - perl troubles
Frank Küster wrote:
> Dear Perl people,
>
> we have here a bugreport against one of tetex-bin's perl scripts, and
> would appreciate if you could help us out. texshow.pl segfaults - but
> only sometimes. It seems to depend on the kernel version, see the
> submitter's investigation quoted below. Here in my sid chroot on a i386
> sarge box running 2.6.16-2-686 from backports.org I get the error every
> time, unless I use debugperl with the -Dtls option instead of "normal"
> perl:
>
> frank@sid:~$ perl /usr/share/texmf-texlive/scripts/context/perl/texshow.pl
[..]
>> The reason the addresses are different in 2.6.14 probably *is* grsec
>> specific (due to memory randomization). So looking at the above data
>> from 2.6.10, there is a bug in texshow, just that grsec sometimes
>> (seldom) hides it, approx. 50% of the time hits it (where command line
>> execution is involved).
>
> I would be grateful if some perl wizard could help us out.
I believe it's the same bug as
http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=18235
eloy
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