reassign 537586 eglibc
retitle 537586 fdatasync should be a cancellation point
severity 537586 grave
thanks

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 11:56:22PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 05:43:26PM +0200, Aurelien Jarno wrote:
> > Package: binutils
> > Version: 2.19.51.20090714-1
> > Severity: important
> > 
> > It took me a while to understand the problem. tst-cancelx4 from the GNU 
> > libc testsuite, when linked with binutils 2.19.51.20090704-1 or
> > 2.19.51.20090714-1 fails with:
> > 
> > | cleanup handler not called for 'fdatasync'
> > 
> > The problem does not occur with the exact same packages but binutils
> > downgraded to squeeze's version (2.19.1-1).
> > 
> 
> I have bisected binutils, and found the problem comes from the following
> commit:
> 

Binutils actually only trigger the bug, but it is actually a bug in
glibc which originates from a broken patch to fix a bug on alpha. Will
be fixed in the next upload.

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Aurelien Jarno                          GPG: 1024D/F1BCDB73
aurel...@aurel32.net                 http://www.aurel32.net



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