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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 | 119547fe6913 |
children | 1f14c6dd175d |
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Description: freadable() function: Determine whether a FILE stream supports reading. Files: lib/freadable.h lib/freadable.c lib/stdio-impl.h m4/freadable.m4 Depends-on: stdbool configure.ac: gl_FUNC_FREADABLE if test $ac_cv_func___freadable = no; then AC_LIBOBJ([freadable]) fi Makefile.am: Include: "freadable.h" License: LGPL Maintainer: Bruno Haible, Eric Blake