Bug#419459: closed by Aurelien Jarno [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bug#419459: fixed in glibc 2.5-3)

Hi Aurelien, many thanks for your work. I must confirm that this version of glibc solve gethostbyname_r problem on SPARC. I spend one night to compile glibc and all works. Thanks again Dan Debian Bug Tracking System napsal(a):

Bug#419459: Addning info

Hi, I am 100% sure that my colleague found fundamentals of this bug. On SPARC linux is used thread safe version of gethostbyname genthostbyname_r. This function have third argument char buffer. But if this buffer is not correctly aligned (on SPARC / 4 ) program crashed with BUSS ERROR. I

Bug#419459: Addning info

Aurelien Jarno napsal(a): severity 419459 important tag 419459 + confirmed found 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6 thanks Daniel Smolik a écrit : Hi, I am 100% sure that my colleague found fundamentals of this bug. On SPARC linux is used thread safe version of gethostbyname genthostbyname_r