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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 | f570fbd9fb3d |
children | cfd363c38279 |
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Description: Quote arguments for use in error messages. Files: lib/quotearg.h lib/quotearg.c lib/quote.h m4/mbstate_t.m4 m4/mbrtowc.m4 m4/quotearg.m4 Depends-on: c-strcaseeq extensions gettext-h mbrtowc mbsinit memcmp quotearg-simple localcharset stdbool wchar wctype-h xalloc configure.ac: gl_QUOTEARG Makefile.am: lib_SOURCES += quotearg.c Include: "quotearg.h" License: GPL Maintainer: Paul Eggert