Ian Beckwith <ianb <at> erislabs.net> writes: > I received a report that the gnulib "checking whether strcasestr works > in linear time" configure test on MacOS hangs for "3 to 4 hours" > before completing. Presumably this means the alarm() call in the test > doesn't work.
Actually, it's our ploy to get people to complain to their vendor that their libc QoI is poor :) We've just proven that a poor strstr implementation leads to a form of denial-of-service attack. -- Eric Blake
