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Re: glibc detected *** grep: free(): invalid next size (fast): fixed in glibc-2.4.90-36
- From: Rene Rebe <rene at exactcode dot de>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky at suse dot cz>, Chandru <chandru at in dot ibm dot com>, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Sat, 14 Oct 2006 19:39:26 +0200
- Subject: Re: glibc detected *** grep: free(): invalid next size (fast): fixed in glibc-2.4.90-36
- References: <452E6005.4000500@in.ibm.com> <20061013214634.GB15866@pasky.or.cz>
Hi,
On Friday 13 October 2006 23:46, Petr Baudis wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:32:21PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Chandru <chandru@in.ibm.com> said that...
>
> > I had a problem of " grep -i < greater than or equal to 8 byte string
> >
> > > < a specific file on my system>" used to throw the following
> >
> > error on my system with glibc-2.4.90-22.
>
> those version numbers are almost meaningless, they are just arbitrary
> points of time chosen by your distribution and we have no way of knowing
> what they correspond to. There were some changes in malloc() during
Yeah - just releasing stable and versioned glibc tarballs more often would
also be of help.
> summer and at one point the allocator was fairly broken. So you need to
> find out the CVS of what date each of those glibc version uses, then
> compare those two versions. You might also find
>
> http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc-cvs.git?a=shortlog
>
> useful.
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