Bug#98071: symlink to itself hangs

2001-05-20 Thread Roland McGrath
> The problem is that with the latest glibc, the system doesn't boot anymore. > Userspace programs (tested with LD_LIBRARY_PATH and using the new linker) > seem to run fine, but at boot time when the server are started, it prints > "exec init" and hangs. If this was reported before I didn't notic

Bug#98071: symlink to itself hangs

2001-05-20 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, May 19, 2001 at 10:29:15PM -0400, Roland McGrath wrote: > It looks like the ELOOP check is not being done for absolute symlinks. > I think there was also a port leak in the ELOOP error case that did work > (e.g. for "ln -s x x; ls -L x", ls would leak a send right). > > I've just checked