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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 | 3695e5e02762 |
children | a0a111d28e75 |
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Description: symlinkat() function: create symlinks relative to a directory Files: lib/symlinkat.c lib/at-func.c m4/symlinkat.m4 Depends-on: unistd extensions at-internal [test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0] dosname [test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0] errno [test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0] fchdir [test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0] fcntl-h [test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0] openat-die [test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0] openat-h [test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0] save-cwd [test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0] symlink [test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0] configure.ac: gl_FUNC_SYMLINKAT if test $HAVE_SYMLINKAT = 0; then AC_LIBOBJ([symlinkat]) fi gl_UNISTD_MODULE_INDICATOR([symlinkat]) Makefile.am: Include: <fcntl.h> <unistd.h> License: GPL Maintainer: Jim Meyering, Eric Blake