On 22/08/06 22:32 +0200, Peter S. Mazinger wrote: > On Tue, 22 Aug 2006, Jordan Crouse wrote: > > > uClibc is pretty stuck on using legacy 16 bit UIDs. So when one turns off > > CONFIG_UID16 in the Linux kernel, some syscalls have the annoying tendency > > to > > return an error when they aren't normally expected to, including > > getgroups(). > > > > The following patch makes coreutils/test.c act fail gracefully if > > getgroups() > > returns a -1. This fixes a problem on the One Laptop Per Child ROM image > > whereby we were getting odd Memory exhausted messages for '[' and 'test'. > > > > Found by Mitch Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > could it be, that uClibc was built with MALLOC_GLIBC_MALLOC disabled? > I have seen "Memory exhausted" many times if that option is disabled.
Well, possibly, but its just not proper programming to be passing in a negative size to realloc() regardless of how tolerant a glibc-like realloc() might be. Jordan -- Jordan Crouse Senior Linux Engineer Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. <www.amd.com/embeddedprocessors> _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.laptop.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
