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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 | de99fb4d6568 |
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Description: pipe2_safer() function: create a pipe, with specific opening flags, without clobbering std{in,out,err}. Files: lib/pipe2-safer.c Depends-on: fd-safer-flag pipe2 unistd-safer configure.ac: gl_MODULE_INDICATOR([pipe2-safer]) Makefile.am: lib_SOURCES += pipe2-safer.c Include: "unistd-safer.h" License: GPL Maintainer: Eric Blake