Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.5-6 Severity: normal
While exploring lynx cgi support with this html page: <CENTER><A HREF="lynxcgi:/usr/local/bin/vile">test me</A></CENTER> I found that vile dumped core (my problem to debug). However, I found that libc6 also had a bug. The relevant chunk of code in vile looks like this (TRACE is a compile-time macro which writes to a trace file): TRACE(("call freopen(%s) for stdin\n", tty)); if ((freopen(tty, "r", stdin)) == 0 || !isatty(fileno(stdin))) { TRACE(("...failed to reopen stdin\n")); fprintf(stderr, "cannot open a terminal (%s)\n", tty); tidy_exit(BADEXIT); } TRACE(("...successfully reopened stdin\n")); The call to freopen() is causing the stream for TRACE's output to close, so the last line in the output is the first TRACE shown in this chunk. Putting an abort() before the last TRACE proves that the code is getting that far. Normally this chunk of code is run when redirecting stdout to vile, e.g., ls | vile and in that case I see no problem with the stream. For this special case, lynx has setup the subprocess's stdin/stdout so they are via a pipe, and neither is a tty (and there is no data on stdin). valgrind doesn't report anything odd. Moving this chunk to the beginning of the program (setting tty to "/dev/tty") has the same effect, so it is unlikely that there are other causes. For reference, this is vile 9.5c -- System Information: Debian Release: testing/unstable APT prefers testing APT policy: (500, 'testing') Architecture: i386 (i686) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Kernel: Linux 2.4.27-td2 Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968) -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]