On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:36:04AM +1100, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 02:09:31PM +1100, Stas Bekman wrote:
> >
> >>David Morton wrote:
> >>
> >>>-------------8<---------- Start Bug Report ------------8<----------
> >>>1. Problem Description:
> >>>
> >>>crypt returns wrong value even in prefork MPM setup. I see work has
> >>>been done on a workaround for threaded models, but I get the same
> >>>problem in a prefork model.
> >>>
> >>>>From the command line, this works:
> >>>
> >>>print crypt("testing", "SNXJvM5I.PJrE");
> >>>
> >>>SNXJvM5I.PJrE
> >>>
> >>>>From inside mod_perl, I get:
> >>>
> >>>SNi9U6dA0Wi2M
> >>
> >
> >FYI, this sounds like a known bug in glibc. I think I fixed it after
> >Red Hat 8.0 was released.
>
> Thanks, Daniel!
>
> Any ideas how should we let the user know that it's not a bug in mod_perl?
> 'make test' will fail for them, I guess we could tell them at this stage
> that it's a bug in the system library.
>
> Or should we provide a C-level fix? Thoughts?
I'm not sure, but if you dig up the message where I posted the patch
(probably in the archives of libc-alpha at: http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha)
then there may be an application workaround.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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