Re: dd hangs with SIGINT

[Jim Meyering]

Guillaume Chazarain <address@hidden> wrote:
> And the backtrace for the malloc(52) during the signal is :

Thanks for checking.

> #2  0x0804c783 in malloc (bytes=52) at malloc.c:3391
> #3  0x0021fc9b in _nl_make_l10nflist () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #4  0x0021ddce in _nl_find_domain () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #5  0x0021d7b2 in __dcigettext () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #6  0x0021cced in dcgettext () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #7  0x0021cd52 in gettext () from /lib/tls/libc.so.6
> #8  0x08052657 in ebcdic_to_ascii ()
...
> it's quite clear that malloc() is called by gettext()
> even after being initialized.

In that case, I think we're just lucky that those malloc calls
seem to work.  We'll need a more robust solution.