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:
> 
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ 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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