Re: testsuite failures with current git master M4

2009-06-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Ralf Wildenhues on 6/12/2009 4:26 AM: > Hi Eric, > > seeing a couple of failures with current git master M4: > > +++ /tmp/m4/build/tests/testsuite.dir/at-groups/40/stdout 2009-06-12 > 12:23:32.0 +0200 > @@ -1,3 +1,3 @@ > -m4

Re: test-memchr crash

2009-06-12 Thread Eric Blake
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 According to Bruno Haible on 6/12/2009 6:33 AM: > Looks pretty much like one of the glibc memchr bugs that were recently fixed: > > > So, it was a good move to un-obsolete the 'memchr' module. B

Re: dropping setuid/setgid privileges, round 2

2009-06-12 Thread Sam Steingold
Bruno Haible wrote: * Regarding abort() vs. "return -1" - hi Sam! -, they say: "But while reporting failure through return values is possible, we advise against it, as it might leave the identity in an inconsistent state. Thus, when an identity change fails in the middle, programmers shou

Re: test-memchr crash

2009-06-12 Thread Bruno Haible
Simon Josefsson wrote: > test-memchr appears to crash on a ia64-unknown-linux-gnu system: ... > #1 0x40002140 in main () at test-memchr.c:119 > i = 0 > mem = 0x206d3ff8 "UXXX" > n = 8 > page_boundary = 0x206d4000 "" Looks pretty much like one of

test-memchr crash

2009-06-12 Thread Simon Josefsson
test-memchr appears to crash on a ia64-unknown-linux-gnu system: http://autobuild.josefsson.org/gsasl/log-200906120502710714000.txt Here is a backtrace: (gdb) r Starting program: /home/jas/gsasl/gsasl-1.2/lib/gltests/test-memchr [Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread 0x20

Re: dropping setuid/setgid privileges

2009-06-12 Thread Bruno Haible
James Youngman wrote: > >> That is usually necessary but not always sufficient, for example see > >> http://blogs.sun.com/peteh/date/20050614 > ... > Precisely; the number of supplementary groups may not be small, yet > the 16-group limit for NFS is very common. An implementation limit > which is

Re: dropping setuid/setgid privileges

2009-06-12 Thread James Youngman
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: >> That is usually necessary but not always sufficient, for example see >> http://blogs.sun.com/peteh/date/20050614 > > What do you mean by "not always sufficient", other than kernel bugs and > implementation limits? Assuming a small number of