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Re: /usr/bin/m4: internal error detected

From: Florian Weimer <fweimer at redhat dot com>
To: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz at physik dot fu-berlin dot de>, Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg at fifthhorseman dot net>, bug-m4 at gnu dot org
Cc: debian-superh at lists dot debian dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, QEMU Developers <qemu-devel at nongnu dot org>
Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2017 13:35:41 +0100
Subject: Re: /usr/bin/m4: internal error detected
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References: <87po7zrq65.fsf@fifthhorseman.net> <f5f44f70-d274-e7a6-618e-8906f58a9073@physik.fu-berlin.de> <861bc28d-4009-d35e-c03b-8ae7b0ca8680@redhat.com> <9608bcde-6bf8-dc36-a6b7-71cb8bc5c705@physik.fu-berlin.de>

On 12/01/2017 12:58 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

The fix is already in the packaging source of Debian's glibc [1] after
I reported the bug. But the updated package has not been uploaded
to the FTP servers yet. I'll ask Debian's glibc maintainers to push
it.

Okay. Based on the other responses, all these changes do is paper overbugs in the execution environment (wrong semantics of CLONE_VFORK), sopatching glibc really isn't the proper fix.


Thanks,
Florian

References:
- Re: /usr/bin/m4: internal error detected
  - From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
- Re: /usr/bin/m4: internal error detected
  - From: Florian Weimer
- Re: /usr/bin/m4: internal error detected
  - From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz

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