On 3/3/07, Nelson H. F. Beebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thanks for the patch to function drop_privs() in locate/locate.c in
the findutils-4.3.2 distribution. I've just applied it in a test
build, and then ran "locate firefox-2.0.0.2" as an ordinary user, and
then as root; both cases succeeded,
Thanks for the patch to function drop_privs() in locate/locate.c in
the findutils-4.3.2 distribution. I've just applied it in a test
build, and then ran "locate firefox-2.0.0.2" as an ordinary user, and
then as root; both cases succeeded, and without a core dump as root.
I'm going to reinstall th
On 1 Mar 2007, James Youngman spake thusly:
> I think this is the same problem as described in
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs/2676
>
> I haven't fixed it yet though. Sorry.
If there's something wrong with the patch, please let me know so I can
fix it.
--
`In the future,
On 3/1/07, Nelson H. F. Beebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The findutils-4.3.2 locate utility dumps core when run as root on
Solaris 10 SPARC:
I can't yet explain the core dump inside error(). As far as I can
see, we are not calling it incorrectly. Addressing the initial
problem though, please
On 3/1/07, Nelson H. F. Beebe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The findutils-4.3.2 locate utility dumps core when run as root on
Solaris 10 SPARC:
[...]
I think this is the same problem as described in
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs/2676
I haven't fixed it yet though. Sorry.
The findutils-4.3.2 locate utility dumps core when run as root on
Solaris 10 SPARC:
# gdb /usr/local/bin/locate-4.3.2-dumps-core-as-root
GNU gdb 6.6
...
(gdb) run
Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0xff130db0 in strlen () from /lib
