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Re: glibc 2.2 (ldconfig has a bug)
- To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.2 (ldconfig has a bug)
- From: Denis Zaitsev <zzz at cd-club dot ru>
- Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 20:39:05 +0500
- Cc: GNU libc testers <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>, bug-glibc at gnu dot org,VGER gcc list <linux-gcc at vger dot kernel dot org>
- References: <m3vgtwip5w.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com>
Now it's indeed ldconfig... Here is the patch.
--- glibc-2.2/elf/ldconfig.c Tue Nov 14 20:05:26 2000
+++ glibc-2.2/elf/ldconfig.c Tue Nov 14 20:05:02 2000
@@ -370,13 +370,13 @@
/* Get complete path. */
full_libname = alloca (strlen (path) + strlen (libname) + 2);
- full_soname = alloca (strlen (path) + strlen (libname) + 2);
+ full_soname = alloca (strlen (path) + strlen (soname) + 2);
sprintf (full_libname, "%s/%s", path, libname);
sprintf (full_soname, "%s/%s", path, soname);
if (opt_chroot)
{
real_full_libname = alloca (strlen (real_path) + strlen (libname) + 2);
- real_full_soname = alloca (strlen (real_path) + strlen (libname) + 2);
+ real_full_soname = alloca (strlen (real_path) + strlen (soname) + 2);
sprintf (real_full_libname, "%s/%s", real_path, libname);
sprintf (real_full_soname, "%s/%s", real_path, soname);
}
It's merrily. The error was sitting silently until the release... Then
ld-2.1.97.so became ld-2.2.so, its strlen becomes 3 bytes shorter and
finito... For other names (on my system) it is stiil working without
the patch.