On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 10:38:21PM -0500, Benjamin A. Okopnik wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:45:03PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: [...] > > FYI, I cannot reproduce this problem on PowerPC: [...] > I'm not in the least surprised; on a different architecture, the call > stack/data stack are going to be in different places, so my location > would be in a different place from yours. FTM, it may not even happen at > all on yours, but you might want to try this: > > perl -we'$a = "a" x 100000; `MANPATH=$a xman`' > > If it segfaults, it's an even broader bug report. :)
No, it just silently exited with status 0.
> Just as an additional hint, here's the last line of "strace -f"
> output:
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> 20632 open("aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
>
> <about 8000 "a"s elided>
>
> aaaaaaaa", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENAMETOOLONG (File name too long)
> 20632 --- SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) @ 0 (0) ---
> 20632 +++ killed by SIGSEGV +++
> --------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Looks like it tries to open the contents of MANPATH without doing a
> bounds check... tisk, tisk. *Bad* "xman"... or maybe "libc". :)
Okay. Not saying it isn't a bug; just getting a handle on the scope.
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