I noticed that his tcl8.5 was located in /usr/lib:
> directory)
> open("/usr/lib/libtcl8.5.so.0", O_RDONLY) =
Don't know if he compiled it himself, or used it to compile AOLserver.
But in this case, the symptom is usually very strange and random
segfaults.
tom jackson
On Sat, 2009-03-07 at 23:47 +0100, Gustaf Neumann wrote:
> Well, i found at least one problem in ns_proxy so far, but it seems
> unrelated
> to Tcl 8.5 and Alexey's problem.
>
> nsproxy defines the structure Proxy as follows:
>
> typedef struct Proxy {
> ....
> char id[16]; /* Proxy unique string id. */
> Proc *procPtr; /* Running child process, if any. */
> ....
> } Proxy;
>
> later, the id is initialized by
>
> sprintf(proxyPtr->id, "%s-proxy-%d", poolPtr->name, poolPtr->nextid++);
>
> The sprintf will cause a problem, if the pool name has more than 16-9 =
> 7 bytes.
> Since pool name is passed in via tcl, and its length is not checked,
> wierd things
> are likely to happen (the procPtr will be overwritten).
>
> For example, OpenACS does a
>
> set handle [ns_proxy get exec_proxy]
>
> where len(exec_proxy)>7.
>
> The quick fix is to change char id[16] to id[32], but actually, one should
> check the length...
>
> Unfortunately, this does not help in the original problem.
>
> -gustaf neumann
>
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