[Debian GNUstep maintainers] Bug#592751: Broken on hppa; programs abort with malloc assertion failure

[Mehdi Dogguy]

On 19/08/2010 17:55, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:00 AM, Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi at dogguy.org>
> wrote:
>> On 19/08/2010 16:29, Yavor Doganov wrote:
>>> В 16:15 +0200 на 19.08.2010 (чт), Mehdi Dogguy написа:
>>>> On 19/08/2010 15:45, Yavor Doganov wrote:
>>>>> Thanks, informing upstream.  Can you narrow it down a bit
>>>>> more?
>>>> 
>>>> I narrowed it down to r28600:r28625.
>>> 
>> 
>> It's even r28610:r28615.
> 
> I'm the person to ask about hppa and NPTL (I wrote the code).
> 
> There *was* a vfork bug that was just fixed in glibc that could cause
> problems.
> 
> Does this code use vfork?
> 

I was testing the produced gdnc binary, which uses NSTask, which uses
vfork. But, afaics, the libc installed in the chroot is 2.11.2-2 and has
the fix about vfork.

FWIW, the diff (between r28611:r28613) is attached.

Cheers,

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