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bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10
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Eric Blake |
Subject: |
bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10 |
Date: |
Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:44:42 -0700 |
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[adding bug-gnulib]
On 03/10/2011 06:53 PM, Ben Walton wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> Since 8.8, touch has dumped core on solaris 10 (built on solaris 9).
> The command that triggers the core dump is a simple: touch somefile
>
> This is seemingly related to the recommend patch cluster of Jan 10,
> 2011 as it runs just fine on older releases of solaris 10.
>
> On affected boxes, the file is touched but in the subsequent dup2, it
> goes into a loop until it dies. I tried to attach truss output, but
> the MTA at gnu.org rejected it twice.
Can you show the config.log, especially the portion where it is checking
for dup2 and fcntl POSIX compliance? This smells like a bug in gnulib's
fcntl() implementation.
>
> Please let me know if other inputs would be of use in debugging this.
If you compiled with debugging, then it might help to show a gdb session
of rpl_fcntl in lib/fcntl.c while stepping enough to prove the loop, as
well as a backtrace that leads to that loop, might be worthwhile.
--
Eric Blake address@hidden +1-801-349-2682
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10, Ben Walton, 2011/03/10
- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10, Paul Eggert, 2011/03/10
- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10,
Eric Blake <=
- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10, Bruno Haible, 2011/03/11
- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10, Paul Eggert, 2011/03/11
- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10, Bruno Haible, 2011/03/12
- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10, Ben Walton, 2011/03/12
- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10, Jim Meyering, 2011/03/13
- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10, Ben Walton, 2011/03/13
- bug#8230: touch dumps core on solaris 10, Jim Meyering, 2011/03/13