#11844: Race condition in building MPIR/yasm
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Reporter: vbraun | Owner: tbd
Type: defect | Status: needs_review
Priority: critical | Milestone: sage-4.7.2
Component: packages | Keywords:
Work_issues: | Upstream: Fixed upstream, but not in a stable
release.
Reviewer: | Author:
Merged: | Dependencies:
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Comment(by vbraun):
> Note that the yasm guys do not check whether the call to tmpfile()
succeeded
In the unlikely case that `tmpfile()` can't find a unique file name, it'll
return NULL so at least the yasm build will fail with a clean segfault.
There are probably many other things that would go wrong at build time if
`tmpfile()` fails...
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Ticket URL: <http://trac.sagemath.org/sage_trac/ticket/11844#comment:8>
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