On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 09:03:05PM -0800, Joe Pruett wrote:
> this code segfaults: [...] so i guess that rsync can't help in any
> way.
Thanks for the update. This topic has arisen a couple times recently,
and each time I asked if it was the library crashing (as I assumed it
was) but we hadn't go
> A similar problem was reported back in February:
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg12557.html
>
> that manifested itself after an upgrade to Fedora Core 2. It had worked
> fine previously (on FC1, presumably).
>
> That user (David Blunkett) provided an strace log that
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Joe Pruett <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> the rsync in centos 4 (a recompile of rhel4) is version 2.6.3. and under
> certain circumstances it will segfault when run in daemon mode. i have
> tracked it down to the nss code in libc. so this could be a general libc
> bug, but i
i should have run my test first. this code segfaults:
#include
#include
main()
{
struct passwd *p;
chroot("/tmp");
chdir("/");
p = getpwuid(666);
if (p) {
printf("%s\n", p->pw_name);
}
exit(0);
}
so i guess that rsync ca
the rsync in centos 4 (a recompile of rhel4) is version 2.6.3. and under
certain circumstances it will segfault when run in daemon mode. i have
tracked it down to the nss code in libc. so this could be a general libc
bug, but it is possible that rsync is doing things that don't help matters
