Processed: Bug#654453 marked as pending

2012-01-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: tag 654453 pending Bug #654453 [dpkg-dev] deb-control(5) manpage says that Multi-Arch should not be used for arch:all packages Added tag(s) pending. thanks Stopping processing here. Please contact me if you need assistance. -- 654453:

Bug#655411: Compat vsnprintf implementation subject to race condition

2012-01-10 Thread dan...@ruoso.com
Package: dpkg The implementation of vsnprintf in the compat library uses and caches the file descriptor for a temporary file. If the vsnprintf function is called before a fork, two concurrent processes will share the cached file descriptor and will eventually cause a race condition where the

Bug#655411: Compat vsnprintf implementation subject to race condition

2012-01-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
found 655411 dpkg/1.16.1.2 # doesn't affect Debian architectures severity 655411 wishlist quit Hi, dan...@ruoso.com wrote: The implementation of vsnprintf in the compat library uses and caches the file descriptor for a temporary file. If the vsnprintf function is called before a fork, two

Processed: Re: Compat vsnprintf implementation subject to race condition

2012-01-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: found 655411 dpkg/1.16.1.2 Bug #655411 [dpkg] Compat vsnprintf implementation subject to race condition Bug Marked as found in versions dpkg/1.16.1.2. # doesn't affect Debian architectures severity 655411 wishlist Bug #655411 [dpkg] Compat

Bug#655411: [dan...@ruoso.com: Re: Compat vsnprintf implementation subject to race condition]

2012-01-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
[Just forwarding to the correct bug. :)] ---BeginMessage--- Jonathan Nieder jrnie...@gmail.com escreveu: Yeah, that's true. Maybe it would be worth dropping the !HAVE_VSNPRINTF fallback altogether, or we could use one of the many implementations of vsnprintf available under GPL-compatible

Processed: Re: Bug#655411: Compat vsnprintf implementation subject to race condition

2012-01-10 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for cont...@bugs.debian.org: found 655411 dpkg/1.2.0 Bug #655411 [dpkg] Compat vsnprintf implementation subject to race condition The source dpkg and version 1.2.0 do not appear to match any binary packages Bug Marked as found in versions dpkg/1.2.0. thanks Stopping

Bug#655411: Compat vsnprintf implementation subject to race condition

2012-01-10 Thread Guillem Jover
found 655411 dpkg/1.2.0 thanks On Tue, 2012-01-10 at 16:40:00 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote: dan...@ruoso.com wrote: The implementation of vsnprintf in the compat library uses and caches the file descriptor for a temporary file. If the vsnprintf function is called before a fork, two

Bug#655411: Compat vsnprintf implementation subject to race condition

2012-01-10 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Guillem Jover wrote: I'm committing a fix, that still uses a cached file per process. Thanks, that makes sense. Sorry, I should think more before throwing things out like that atfork suggestion. Thanks and sorry for the noise. Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to