We have been using Redhat Enterprise 4, on some of our Linux clients for a while, and Christoph has just found that opening an R device for a file without write permission gives a bad glibc error and subsequent seg.fault:
> postscript("/blabla.ps") *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000001505f10 *** or > xfig("/blabla.fig") *** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000001505f10 *** and similar for pdf(); does not happen for jpeg() {which runs via x11}, nor e.g. for > sink("/bla.txt") ------- Happens both on 32-bit (Pentium) and 64-bit (AMD Athlon) machines with the following libc : 32-bit: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1451681 May 13 00:17 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so* 64-bit: -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1490956 May 12 23:26 /lib64/tls/libc-2.3.4.so* ------- Can anyone reproduce this problem? Regards, Martin ______________________________________________ R-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel