Thanks Roman! BTW, I am a "she" :) I see the RHEL5 bugzilla# in the email chain. Is there one for RHEL4 as well? I doubt this will be fixed in RHEL4 though but I'll open a Yahoo ticket with RH to make sure we are aware of which RHEL5 release the fix gets targeted to. I'll update the internal ticket with this information.
Vartika -----Original Message----- From: Roman Kirillov Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 11:37 AM To: Ondřej Vašík Cc: Pádraig Brady; bug-coreutils@gnu.org; Vartika Agarwal Subject: Re: join utility segfults Chaps, Adding Vartika from our Linux support team to the chain - he's got some questions to ask. In the meanwhile, he's a contact person at Y! regarding this. R -- Roman Kirillov Yahoo! GeoInformatics Group Y!Im: roman.kirillov | kiril...@yahoo-inc.com | +44(0)2071311384 On 24 Apr 2009, at 11:59, Ondřej Vašík wrote: > Ondřej Vašík wrote: >> Pádraig Brady wrote: >>> Roman Kirillov wrote: >>>> [kiril...@chiark py-src]$ join s1.txt s2.txt >>>> Segmentation fault >>>> files: http://sigizmund.info/upload/s12.tgz (28 mb) >>> >>> This issue seems related to the i18n patch applied by your distro >> Just would like to add that it's already fixed in Fedora rawhide >> package, so I'll fix it in next Fedora coreutils update for F-9/F-10. >> In F-8 not, it's already EOL. > > To keep the list informed about the conclusion... > It turned out that it was not really fixed in rawhide at the time of > my > reply. Just due to "better memory management" change in join.c done by > Bo Borgerson between 6.12 and 7.0 was the occurance chance of the > segfault reduced from 100% to ~10%. After investigation of the problem > the culprit is now known. Multibyte patch was checking for exact > equality/non-equality with the limit of the file, so the limit was > skipped(and therefore SIGSEGV occured). Problem was fixed and built in > koji (Rawhide branch) as > http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=99330 and > reported > against RHEL-5 as https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=497368 . > Patch to fix the issue could be found in that bugzilla, should work > for > affected Fedora's and RHEL (or derived Distros). Additionally the > issue > could be easily workarounded by using singlebyte locales (e.g. > LC_ALL=C > join). > > Greetings, > Ondřej Vašík _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils