On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:53:23PM -0700, Ron Mayer wrote: > Anyway, for those who want to see what they do in Linux, > http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/lxr/source/mm/fadvise.c > Pretty scary that Bruce said it could make older linuxes > dump core - there isn't a lot of code there.
The bug was probably in the glibc interface to the kernel. Google found this: http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2004-03/msg00000.html i.e. posix_fadvise appears to have been broken on all 64-bit architechtures prior to March 2004 due to a silly linking error. And then things like this: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=313219 Which suggest that prior to glibc 2.3.5, posix_fadvise crashed on 2.4 kernels. That's a fairly recent version, so the bug would still be fairly widespead. Have a nice day, -- Martijn van Oosterhout <kleptog@svana.org> http://svana.org/kleptog/ > From each according to his ability. To each according to his ability to > litigate.
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