ls -l segfault + [PATCH]

[Luciano Miguel Ferreira Rocha]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:50:14PM +0100, Denis Vlasenko wrote:
> Thus far it seems to be a bug in glibc (maybe only on ppc,
> or only glibc 2.3.6, or only glibc 2.3.6-on-ppc).

Actually, as I say later in the thread, the POSIX and C standard only
allow setvbuf after opening the file pointer and before any other
operation. So doing any setvbuf on an applet will imply that it isn't
safe for direct calling instead of exec'ing. Even if ash doesn't do a
setvbuf (ls ; ls).

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lfr
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