[Various] libc/1813: dlopen silently failes or causes segmentation faults under memory starvation

Gregory A Lundberg lundberg@vr.net
Thu Jul 13 10:42:00 GMT 2000


> We've received yesterday the appended bug report for glibc.  I tried
> the test program with glibc 2.1.91 on Linux 2.4.0test4 - and it ate
> all my swap space halting the machine :-(.  The problem can be
> reproduced with glibc 2.1.3.

If it ate up all your swap, then I'd say your 2.4.0test4 kernel has a bug in setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA,...) or glibc 2.1.91 changes the
way setrlimit works.





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