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Diffstat (limited to 'tests/misc/printf-surprise')
| -rwxr-xr-x | tests/misc/printf-surprise | 29 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/tests/misc/printf-surprise b/tests/misc/printf-surprise index 64fdad017..90a29973f 100755 --- a/tests/misc/printf-surprise +++ b/tests/misc/printf-surprise @@ -39,36 +39,47 @@ fail=0 # Testing it is tricky, because there is so much variance # in quality for this corner of printf(3) implementations. # Most implementations do attempt to allocate N bytes of storage. -# Using the maximum value for N (2^31-1) causes glibc to try to +# Using the maximum value for N (2^31-1) causes glibc-2.7 to try to # allocate almost 2^64 bytes, while freeBSD 6.1's implementation # correctly outputs almost 2GB worth of 0's, which takes too long. # We want to test implementations that allocate N bytes, but without # triggering the above extremes. +# Some other versions of glibc-2.7 have a snprintf function that segfaults +# when an internal (technically unnecessary!) memory allocation fails. + # The compromise is to limit virtual memory to something reasonable, # and to make an N-byte-allocating-printf require more than that, thus # triggering the printf(3) misbehavior -- which, btw, is required by ISO C99. -( ulimit -v 10000 - env $prog %20000000f 0 2>err | head -c 10 >out ) +mkfifo fifo || framework_failure + +head -c 10 fifo > out & +( ulimit -v 10000; env $prog %20000000f 0 2>err-msg > fifo ) +exit=$? # Map this longer, and rarer, diagnostic to the common one. # printf: cannot perform formatted output: Cannot allocate memory" \ -sed 's/cannot perform .*/write error/' err > k && mv k err -case $(cat err) in +sed 's/cannot perform .*/write error/' err-msg > k && mv k err-msg +err_msg=$(cat err-msg) +case $err_msg in "$prog: write error") diagnostic=y ;; '') diagnostic=n ;; *) diagnostic=unexpected ;; esac n_out=$(wc -c < out) -case $n_out:$diagnostic in - 10:n) ;; # ok, succeeds w/no diagnostic: FreeBSD 6.1 - 0:y) ;; # ok, glibc, when printf(3) fails with ENOMEM +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;; # 10:y) ;; # Fail: doesn't happen: nobody succeeds with a diagnostic # 0:n) ;; # Fail pre-patch: no output, no diag - *) fail=1; + *) fail=1;; esac (exit $fail); exit $fail |