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Package: dejagnu
Version: 1.4.2-1.1
Severity: normal
Trapping segfaults in expect is not a very interesting thing to do,
and can causes the interpreter to loop endlessly due to unsafe
handling of this signal.
It seems that somebody has discovered this before now. In ChangeLog we
see:
1999-02-06 Felix Lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* runtest.exp: Don't trap SEGV.
However, the trap for SIGSEGV is still in runtest.exp.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux cyclone 2.4.19 #7 Sat Aug 3 16:06:09 BST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=
Versions of packages dejagnu depends on:
ii dpkg 1.10.4 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii expect 5.37-3 A program that "talks" to other pr
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Version: 1.4.4.cvs20060709-1
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 12:31:51AM -0400, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> After much futzing around, i tried upgrading dejagnu to the latest
> version in sid (i'm running a mixed etch/sid system), and the problem
> appears to have been resolved with the upgrade.
>
> That is, dejagnu's runtest in the latest version appears to avoid
> trying to trap SIGSEGV.
Yes, thanks; closing.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
CodeSourcery
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