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authorJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-11-16 09:53:48 +0100
committerJim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com>2008-11-16 09:53:48 +0100
commitb3e779c090bd6b3ebbd2e811b71891261ce85a9c (patch)
tree1b4beae2a1e30fb7e294788378ec6fb8d4f017b9 /tests/misc/printf-surprise
parent17409787bb7bfbda1a939643e9de112092c81264 (diff)
downloadcoreutils-b3e779c090bd6b3ebbd2e811b71891261ce85a9c.tar.xz
tests: change misc/printf-surprise so that it doesn't segfault anymore
* tests/misc/printf-surprise: Disable MALLOC_PERTURB_, so that "make check" no longer provokes a segfault from printf(1). Before, that would be detected as a known problem and cause the test to be skipped. Adjust the test so that a segfault once again results in test failure.
Diffstat (limited to 'tests/misc/printf-surprise')
-rwxr-xr-xtests/misc/printf-surprise11
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/tests/misc/printf-surprise b/tests/misc/printf-surprise
index b24e3bef9..34f68649a 100755
--- a/tests/misc/printf-surprise
+++ b/tests/misc/printf-surprise
@@ -54,6 +54,10 @@ fail=0
mkfifo fifo || framework_failure
+# Disable MALLOC_PERTURB_, to avoid triggering this bug
+# http://bugs.debian.org/481543#77
+export MALLOC_PERTURB_=0
+
head -c 10 fifo > out &
( ulimit -v 10000; env $prog %20000000f 0 2>err-msg > fifo )
exit=$?
@@ -78,9 +82,10 @@ case $n_out:$diagnostic:$exit in
10:n:0) ;; # ok, succeeds w/no diagnostic: FreeBSD 6.1
0:y:1) ;; # ok, glibc-2.8 and newer, when printf(3) fails with ENOMEM
- *:139) # segfault; known bug at least in debian unstable's libc6 2.7-11
- echo 1>&2 "$0: bug in snprintf causes low-mem use of printf to segfault"
- fail=77;;
+ # With MALLOC_PERTURB_=0, this no longer happens.
+ # *:139) # segfault; known bug at least in debian unstable's libc6 2.7-11
+ # echo 1>&2 "$0: bug in snprintf causes low-mem use of printf to segfault"
+ # fail=77;;
# 10:y) ;; # Fail: doesn't happen: nobody succeeds with a diagnostic
# 0:n) ;; # Fail pre-patch: no output, no diag