On 06 Nov 2015 07:35, Michael Brunnbauer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 05, 2015 at 10:37:43PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote: > > > It appears you've run afoul of glibc bug#18781. > > > > > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=18781 > > > > > > Yeowch. If I'm right, that's a serious glibc bug that will break a lot > > > of programs, not just grep. > > I upgraded to glibc-2.22 on Oct 6 and had no problems with other tools and > big files so far (at least tar, gzip and cp do not seem to be affected). > > > Michael: i don't think you said ... which distro are you using ? > > My own. It runs on 60 servers. Unless glibc-2.23 is around the corner I will > have to patch my current glibc.
you might consider using the branch then from upstream. we cherry pick fixes (including security related) into it. thus far, we haven't tagged/released point releases. https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/release/2.22/master -mike
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