Bug#508432: minimum testcase

Martín Ferrari tincho at debian.org
Sat Feb 14 23:39:30 UTC 2009


Faster than what I've expected, I've found what caused the segfault:
Pcap.xs is allowing unsafe signals during the callback. I don't know
why upstream did this, but this has to be discussed with them and
filled as a bug in CPAN.

With the attached patch, my original testcase no longer segfaults.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 21:32, Martín Ferrari <tincho at debian.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 21:08, Martín Ferrari <tincho at debian.org> wrote:
>> Meanwhile this is solved, see the attached patch that's useful as a
>> workaround for fwknopd
>
> My bad, that patch didn't work. It goes again, this time correctly tested :)
>
>
> --
> Martín Ferrari
>



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Martín Ferrari
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