[Jan Rekorajski <baggins@sith.mimuw.edu.pl>] makedb and libnss_db in glibc 2.1.91 are broken

[Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>]

Somebody might want to look at nss_db.  It seems broken when used in
statically linked applications.
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• To: drepper at redhat dot com
• Subject: makedb and libnss_db in glibc 2.1.91 are broken
• From: Jan Rekorajski <baggins at sith dot mimuw dot edu dot pl>
• Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:52:31 +0200

Hi,
Bug in makedb is simple and fix obvious, patch attached. (wrong check for
return value from load_db())

As for libnss_db the problem is that it does not work, almost every
staticaly linked program segfaults. I did recompile/relink all libs, gcc
and offending program but it didn't help. Only removing references
to "db" from /etc/nsswitch.conf or running nscd helps. Even deleting
the databases didn't.

Jan
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Index: makedb.c
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RCS file: /cvs/glibc/libc/nss/makedb.c,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -r1.4 makedb.c
--- makedb.c	2000/01/08 05:26:58	1.4
+++ makedb.c	2000/07/18 21:38:17
@@ -138,7 +138,7 @@
 
   /* First load the shared object to initialize version dependend
      variables.  */
-  if (load_db ())
+  if (load_db () != NSS_STATUS_SUCCESS)
     error (EXIT_FAILURE, 0, gettext ("No usable database library found."));
 
   /* Special handling if we are asked to print the database.  */

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