Re: glibc 2.2 (ldconfig has a bug)

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Denis Zaitsev writes:

 > Now it's indeed ldconfig... Here is the patch.
 > --- glibc-2.2/elf/ldconfig.c Tue Nov 14 20:05:26 2000
 > +++ glibc-2.2/elf/ldconfig.c Tue Nov 14 20:05:02 2000
 > @@ -370,13 +370,13 @@
 
 >    /* Get complete path.  */
 >    full_libname = alloca (strlen (path) + strlen (libname) + 2);
 > -  full_soname = alloca (strlen (path) + strlen (libname) + 2);
 > +  full_soname = alloca (strlen (path) + strlen (soname) + 2);
 >    sprintf (full_libname, "%s/%s", path, libname);
 >    sprintf (full_soname, "%s/%s", path, soname);
 >    if (opt_chroot)
 >      {
 >        real_full_libname = alloca (strlen (real_path) + strlen (libname) + 
 > 2);
 > -      real_full_soname = alloca (strlen (real_path) + strlen (libname) + 2);
 > +      real_full_soname = alloca (strlen (real_path) + strlen (soname) + 2);
 >        sprintf (real_full_libname, "%s/%s", real_path, libname);
 >        sprintf (real_full_soname, "%s/%s", real_path, soname);
 >      }


 > It's merrily. The error was sitting silently until the release... Then
 > ld-2.1.97.so became ld-2.2.so, its strlen becomes 3 bytes shorter and
 > finito... For other names (on my system) it is stiil working without
 > the patch.

Thanks, we've fixed this already in the CVS archive.

Andreas
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