Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

2007-10-05 Thread Jim Meyering
Martin Koeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The first 'Segmentation fault' with dd doesn't occur when I run just > the failing command in the src dir: > ./dd cbs=4 ibs=4 conv=unblock,sync < dd-in > dd-out > dd-out looks fine there. So I don't currently know how to reproduce > it... How about when y

Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

2007-10-05 Thread Andreas Schwab
Martin Koeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The Interix libc is built with MSVC. MSVC has no long double data > type. Ok, it understands "long double", but always maps that to 64-bit > double. So libc's printf(), when it sees "%Lg", expects 64-bit double. > > But Interix also has gcc. gcc OTOH has

Re: Fwd: Re: error.c: "Unknown system error" should report errno value

2007-10-05 Thread Martin Koeppe
Hi Jim, On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Jim Meyering wrote: And yes, I'll of course try a new coreutils/gnulib version (but I think in this case I shouldn't yet). Are there any coreutils snapshot .tar.gz available? Yes. I made a new snapshot just a few hours ago, too: http://meyering.net/cu/coreutils

Re: new module 'floorl'

2007-10-05 Thread Bruno Haible
Paolo Bonzini wrote: > > - In math.h, do a "#define floorl rpl_floorl", in order to avoid > > possible undesired compiler optimizations. > > No problem, but I wonder what's the rationale for the last item. It's that I've seen gcc transform some trunc() calls into truncf() calls or similar.

Re: relocatable by default?

2007-10-05 Thread Nix
On 3 Oct 2007, Bruno Haible verbalised: > Sylvain Beucler wrote: >> What security issues, by the way? I (re)read the docs but I don't see >> what it is. > > No no, I won't tell anyone how the exploit works :-) But there is an exploit. There's an even more obvious and trivial DoS attack. (The prob