yes looks like this got creeped in again.
On Mon, 2008-11-24 at 15:49 -0500, Daniel Gruner wrote: > The latest version in the repository (734) has a bug in xuserset when used as: > > xuserset add -a -u > > where it goes into an infinite loop repeating this: > > xp_user_add: n0000: Error 5: root:user exists > xp_user_add: n0001: Error 5: root:user exists > xp_user_add: n0000: Error 5: root:user exists > xp_user_add: n0001: Error 5: root:user exists > > This had happened before, and was fixed then... > > This is from the Nov 3 thread: > > arrgh, it works fine on my home machine too.. > but i think i have caught the bug. so getpwent() should loop over the > passwd database (contents of /etc/passwd) but in xp_user_add, there's > again a call to getpwnam() which could possibly reset the passwd database > and getpwent() again returns "root" entry in the next iteration. > this is not triggered for all libc versions and the one included in > RHEL5.2 seems to break it open badly. I run most of my tests on > Ubuntu/Fedora which I have started to believe is a bad choice to test this > stuff. > > > Daniel
