> [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Nov 02 16:25:47 2004]: > > On Tue, 2004-11-02 at 14:56, Nicholas Clark wrote: > > ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/APC/perl-5.8.x/ > > ftp://ftp.linux.activestate.com/pub/staff/gsar/APC/perl-current/ > > Other than comments, there is no difference between reentr.* at the > 5.8.x URL and that in the broken 5.8.3-18 in Fedora Core 2. > > perl-current source is organized differently but the relevant code seems > to be the same (reentr.c line 694). It erroneously assumes that errno > is meaningful. The obvious fix is to remove the "|| (errno == ERANGE)" > clause. However, there may be other libraries out there with different > definitions of getXXXent_r. > > Note that the getXXXent_r functions can be rather complicated, searching > not just /etc/group but optionally NIS too under contro of > nsswitch.conf. They may execute a large number of system calls so errno > may be clobbered many times (or not at all). Hence the need to only > check the return value. >
This problem has been fixed with change 25084.
