reassign 297798 valgrind
severity 297798 normal
thanks
At Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:34:16 -0500,
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:31:39AM +0100, wim delvaux wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-20
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: breaks unrelated software
>
> That's not "unrelated" software, you're using libc6. By that
> justification every bug in a library is critical.
I agreed. I downgrade it to normal.
> > if i interpret this correctly then dlsym (used somewhere in the write
> > function of valgrind), causes a free of the return string of a
> > dlerror() which is still needed by my application because it wants
> > to printf it.
> >
> > if that free occurs all the time it might break other applications too.
>
> Sounds like a bug in valgrind. dlerror's result is only guaranteed
> until the next call to a dl* function.
Maybe so.
I reassigned it to valgrind package. Valgrind maintainer, please look
at it. If you find it's glibc related problem, please reassign it
back to us.
reassign 297798 valgrind
severity 297798 normal
thanks
At Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:34:16 -0500,
Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 03, 2005 at 12:31:39AM +0100, wim delvaux wrote:
> > Package: libc6
> > Version: 2.3.2.ds1-20
> > Severity: critical
> > Justification: breaks unrelated software
>
> That's not "unrelated" software, you're using libc6. By that
> justification every bug in a library is critical.
I agreed. I downgrade it to normal.
> > if i interpret this correctly then dlsym (used somewhere in the write
> > function of valgrind), causes a free of the return string of a
> > dlerror() which is still needed by my application because it wants
> > to printf it.
> >
> > if that free occurs all the time it might break other applications too.
>
> Sounds like a bug in valgrind. dlerror's result is only guaranteed
> until the next call to a dl* function.
Maybe so.
I reassigned it to valgrind package. Valgrind maintainer, please look
at it. If you find it's glibc related problem, please reassign it
back to us.
Regards,
-- gotom