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Re: Bug 9954 - getaddrinfo assertion triggered without reason
- From: "Carlos O'Donell" <carlos at redhat dot com>
- To: Allan McRae <allan at archlinux dot org>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>, Adam Conrad <adconrad at 0c3 dot net>, Aurelien Jarno <aurelien at aurel32 dot net>, Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
- Date: Wed, 01 May 2013 10:12:56 -0400
- Subject: Re: Bug 9954 - getaddrinfo assertion triggered without reason
- References: <518111EE dot 1060700 at archlinux dot org>
On 05/01/2013 09:00 AM, Allan McRae wrote:
> I have a couple of Arch Linux users reporting the same assertion as in
> this Bug 9954 [1], so I was looking into the patch provided (from 2009...).
>
> I appears that both Fedora and Debian carry this patch, although not
> openSUSE or Gentoo. A quick search only found this being reported in
> Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu and Arch (some of those assumably pre-patching).
>
> However, I can not replicate using the test case attached to that bug.
> Is anyone else able to?
It looks like Fedora has it but RHEL doesn't.
This is one of these mystery patches that Fedora is carrying that we
eventually want to merge upstream.
It looks like reproducing this depends heavily on /etc/hosts having
certain things in it.
Perhaps you can use the Fedora bug to guide you in reproducing?
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=739743
Let me rant a bit and say:
I wish all distros had a distro branch in upstream git with all of
their patches in said git branch and we all worked quickly and easily
via git pull requests.
I'll probably set this up for Fedora again and start doing work
upstream in a Fedora branch and pulling from that into the actual
Fedora rawhide release, and auto-generating patches from commits.
Cheers,
Carlos.