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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>
date Tue, 03 Dec 2013 10:34:13 -0700
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Description:
File descriptor functions that avoid clobbering STD{IN,OUT,ERR}_FILENO.

Files:
lib/fcntl--.h
lib/creat-safer.c
lib/fcntl-safer.h
lib/open-safer.c
m4/fcntl-safer.m4
m4/mode_t.m4

Depends-on:
fcntl-h
open
unistd-safer

configure.ac:
gl_FCNTL_SAFER
gl_MODULE_INDICATOR([fcntl-safer])

Makefile.am:
lib_SOURCES += creat-safer.c open-safer.c

Include:
"fcntl-safer.h"

License:
GPL

Maintainer:
Paul Eggert, Jim Meyering