On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 10:41:40AM +1100, Stas Bekman wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> >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.
>
> Are you talking about this patch?
> http://sources.redhat.com/ml/libc-alpha/2002-10/msg00510.html
Yes, that's the one. If you can arrange for the rest of it to be
cleared in perl/mod_perl, it becomes a non-issue.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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