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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 | 1182bc357a51 |
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Description: posix_openpt() function: Open the master side of a pseudo-terminal. Files: lib/posix_openpt.c m4/posix_openpt.m4 Depends-on: extensions stdlib configure.ac: gl_FUNC_POSIX_OPENPT if test $HAVE_POSIX_OPENPT = 0; then AC_LIBOBJ([posix_openpt]) fi gl_STDLIB_MODULE_INDICATOR([posix_openpt]) Makefile.am: Include: <stdlib.h> License: LGPLv2+ Maintainer: Eric Blake