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From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
To: Mark Studebaker <mds@mds.gotdns.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ancient portmap segfault
Date: Sun, 13 Mar 2005 11:08:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1d5u3yi1l.fsf@muc.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4233B520.7010307@mds.gotdns.com> (Mark Studebaker's message of "Sat, 12 Mar 2005 22:36:00 -0500")

Mark Studebaker <mds@mds.gotdns.com> writes:

> I upgraded from 2.6.5 to 2.6.11.2 and my ancient (libc4 a.out) /sbin/portmap from 1994 that's been running without complaint
> on kernels for 11 years now consistently segfaults.
>
> I upgraded to a version 4 RPM (circa 2002) and that fixed it.
>
> If some compatibility was broken on purpose, that's fine, although I couldn't find anything in the kernel docs.
> I know, I should upgrade everything, but that can break a lot of things too...
> Thought I'd mention it though in case it's a bug or somebody else has the same problem.

It's probably a bug, but your bug report doesn't have enough details
to track it down. Do you have a a.out strace and could send an strace log
with the segfault and the last tens of system calls before it?

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2005-03-13 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-13  3:36 ancient portmap segfault Mark Studebaker
2005-03-13 10:08 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2005-03-15  3:07   ` Mark Studebaker

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