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regex: avoid glibc deadlock during configure
glibc has a known bug where certain corruptions of the heap can
cause malloc to default to printing a debug message that includes
a backtrace, but the act of getting the backtrace uses dlopen
which in turn calls into malloc, causing a recursive lock ending
in deadlock. Thus, when configure is probing for a known glibc
heap corruption bug, the overall configure would hang.
The solution suggested by glibc developers is to force malloc
to quit printing debug messages, which avoids recursive malloc.
* m4/regex.m4 (gl_REGEX): Avoid recursive malloc deadlock when
glibc bug 15078 in turn triggers bug 16159.
Reported by Michal Privoznik.
Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>
author | Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> |
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date | Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:34:13 -0700 |
parents | c741bc27922a |
children | 344018b6e5d7 |
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@c Documentation of gnulib module 'c-strstr'. @c Copyright (C) 2008-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. @c Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document @c under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or @c any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no @c Invariant Sections, with no Front-Cover Texts, and with no Back-Cover @c Texts. A copy of the license is included in the ``GNU Free @c Documentation License'' file as part of this distribution. The @code{c-strstr} module contains a substring search function operating on single-byte character strings, that operate as if the locale encoding was ASCII. (The "C" locale on many systems has the locale encoding "ASCII".) The function is: @smallexample extern char *c_strstr (const char *haystack, const char *needle); @end smallexample Note: The function @code{strstr} from @code{<string.h>} supports only unibyte locales; for multibyte locales, you need the function @code{mbsstr}.