On Wed, 2012-01-11 at 01:23:15 -0600, Jonathan Nieder wrote:
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.
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
found 655411 dpkg/1.16.1.2
# doesn't affect Debian architectures
severity 655411 wishlist
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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
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
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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
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
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