Re: [Nano-devel] a segfault when editing a file in stereo

[Benno Schulenberg]

On Sun, Jul 19, 2015, at 13:09, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> On Debian there is a bug report [1] about the new locking code.
> When opening the same (nonexistent) file in different terminals,
> and then answering N or ^C in the second terminal to the question
> whether to continue, nano segfaults on the reporter's system.
> 
> I cannot reproduce this.  Who can?

The segfaults occur because the reporter has the following
variable set in his environment:

  export MALLOC_PERTURB_=$(($RANDOM % 255 + 1))

When I set that variable, I can reliably reproduce the crash.
So... now to find the origin of the problem...

Who has experience with valgrind?


> [1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=787914

Benno

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