Comment 19 for bug 13460

Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Wed, 09 Mar 2005 16:56:03 +0900
From: GOTO Masanori <email address hidden>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Cc: wim delvaux <email address hidden>,
 <email address hidden>, <email address hidden>
Subject: Re: Bug#297798: libc6: dlerror valgrind error

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