Re: Bug#736202: undeterministic output when running egrep repeatedly with the same input

2014-01-20 Thread Jeff Epler
Could it be http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164445 ? It looks like that fix from reply 3 is not in kernel 9.0-10+deb70 which is what I'm running (but I have Wheezy userspace, so I haven't reproduced a problem either) Jeff -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bsd-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Bug#736202: undeterministic output when running egrep repeatedly with the same input

2014-01-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
Hi Jeff! On 21/01/14 02:38, Jeff Epler wrote: > Could it be http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=164445 ? I think you might be right: > From: Andriy Gapon > On FreeBSD the ioctl(2) system call does copyin/copyout of the data argument > and > thus those extra copyin/copuout calls

Re: Bug#736202: undeterministic output when running egrep repeatedly with the same input

2014-01-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
This is about 100x times harder to reproduce running under ktrace but I got lucky. The problematic syscall is right here: > egrepRET read 32768/0x8000 > egrepCALL lseek(0,0,SEEK_CUR) > egrepRET lseek 32768/0x8000 > egrepCALL lseek(0,0x8000,SEEK_HOLE) > -egrepRET ls

Re: Bug#736202: undeterministic output when running egrep repeatedly with the same input

2014-01-20 Thread Steven Chamberlain
found 736202 2.16-1 found 736202 2.14-3 # regression since this version fixed 736202 2.12-2 thanks I see the same thing in a sid chroot on a wheezy system (kfreebsd-amd64 9.0). Seems to affects grep 2.16-1 and 2.14-3, but not grep 2.12-2 from wheezy running in the same chroot. I found that in t

Bug#736202: undeterministic output when running egrep repeatedly with the same input

2014-01-20 Thread Robert Millan
Package: ktrace Version: 10.0-1 Severity: normal Control: block -1 by 736198 A consequence of this is that kdump builds are no longer deterministic. Sometimes kdump will build with more "knowledge" (e.g. mount flags, ioctl names, etc) than other times. On 20/01/2014 23:12, Robert Millan wrote: >