fdisk crashes (Was: glibc 2.1.93)

[H . J . Lu]

On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 02:42:44PM -0700, H . J . Lu wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 09:26:53PM +0200, Martin v. Loewis wrote:
> > On my RedHat 5.2 installation, after upgrading numerous utilities and
> > recently installing glibc 2.1.93, I now find that fdisk crashes:
> > 
> > [root@mira martin]# /sbin/fdisk 
> > Using /dev/sda as default device!
> > The number of cylinders for this disk is set to 1109.
> > This is larger than 1024, and may cause problems with:
> > 1) software that runs at boot time (e.g., LILO)
> > 2) booting and partitioning software from other OSs
> >    (e.g., DOS FDISK, OS/2 FDISK)
> > 
> > Segmentation fault
> > 
> 
> Ulrich, we have to check glibc 2.0. This patch seems to work for me.
> 
> 
> H.J.
> ---
> 2000-09-05  H.J. Lu  <hjl@gnu.org>
> 
> 	* libio/libio.h (_IO_fwide): Check for libio in glibc 2.0.
> 

This patch is not correct. I am looking into it now.


H.J.