Re: 1352 NUL bytes at the end of a page?

Steven Cole
2004-05-17T15:53:58Z

On May 17, 2004, at 9:40 AM, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

>
>>
>> Who came up with that braindead idea? Is it some crazed Mach developer
>> that infiltrated the glibc development
>
> afaik it's optional and off by default, for reads it sort of kinda
> makes
> sense but it can't be on by default otherwise a truncate would cause
> fscanf() to throw a sigbus, that's not legal posix wise.
>
>

For what it's worth, here is the glibc information on a system which
has the same distribution as the system at home which hits this bug:

[steven@spc2 testing-2.6]$ /lib/libc.so.6
GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.3, by Roland McGrath et al.
Copyright (C) 2003 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.
There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
Compiled by GNU CC version 3.3.2 (Mandrake Linux 10.0 3.3.2-4mdk).
Compiled on a Linux 2.6.0 system on 2004-02-16.
Available extensions:
GNU libio by Per Bothner
crypt add-on version 2.1 by Michael Glad and others
linuxthreads-0.10 by Xavier Leroy
BIND-8.2.3-T5B
libthread_db work sponsored by Alpha Processor Inc
NIS(YP)/NIS+ NSS modules 0.19 by Thorsten Kukuk
Thread-local storage support included.
Report bugs using the `glibcbug' script to <bugs@gnu.org>.

Steven

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