=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Christian_Schr=F6der?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What remains inscrutable to me is why this problem did not arise > earlier. I cannot remember any changes that I have made to the system > recently. Or maybe it has been a defective update of the glibc? I did > not see in the bug report any hint about when this bug has been > introduced.
It's quite recent actually --- according to http://sourceware.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/libc/intl/dcigettext.c?cvsroot=glibc the problem was introduced into upstream sources on 24-Sep. I was a bit confused yesterday because I'd been looking at another lock used by the same routine that's been there much longer; but that one is initialized in a safe way so it doesn't have the problem. It's the new usage of the conversions_lock that puts _nl_find_msg at risk. So even though the underlying problem has existed for years, it didn't manifest, at least not right there. So I suppose that SuSE is tracking upstream closely and you recently updated glibc ... > P.S.: Can I change the root password again? Oh, yeah, I'm done. Thanks for letting me poke at it. regards, tom lane ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster
