Subject: Re: mprotect broken on ppc

From: Olaf Hering <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 20 Jan 2001 22:26:30 +0100

On Sat, Jan 20, Olaf Hering wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> there seems to be a bug in mprotect which was introduced in
> test9->test10.
>
> The result is an invalid pointer from the getpwuid(3) function, this
> function is used in rpm to check owner and group permissions.

forgot some facts:

the build host runs always a glibc2.13 system with 2.2 headers. The
build chroot runs a glibc2.2 system with 2.4.0ac2 headers.
And it fails when a kernel 2.4.0-test10 or later is running, every other
kernel works fine.

Gruss Olaf

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