Hi Csillag, thanks for the report.

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:54:27PM +0100, Csillag Tamas wrote:
> dietlibc contains a bug so programs linked versions prior to 0.28 gets
> killed by a kernel with stack protection.

> It only works if I selectively disable the stack protection on these
> programs with chpax.
> 
> Vincent Danen experienced the same with OpenWall patches.
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.supervision.general/666
> 
> Programs get killed when some action happens in the current program
> (e.g svlogd rotates the log, fnord starts a cgi, runsv sends a signal)
> 
> However it is not credited (AFAIK) in the changes file Vincent said that
> 0.28 is fine the bug is corrected. It seems to me this is true, because
> after installing the most recent (0.28) version of dietlibc and building
> runit from (debian) sources with apt-get -b source runit. It seems to be
> fine.
> 
> In short: it seems to me that linking it agains a newer dietlibc
> corrects the problem.
> 
> ('seems' means I am almost sure, but not entirely sure)

Can you please check the runit, fnord packages from
 http://people.debian.org/~pape/eeWah4i/

whether they work better than the current packages in sid/sarge with
your stack-protection enabled kernel?

Regards, Gerrit.


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