glibc detected *** grep: free(): invalid next size (fast): fixed in glibc-2.4.90-36

[Rene Rebe]

Hi,

On Friday 13 October 2006 23:46, Petr Baudis wrote:
>   Hi,
>
> Dear diary, on Thu, Oct 12, 2006 at 05:32:21PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Chandru <chandru@in.ibm.com> said that...
>
> > I had a problem of   " grep -i  < greater than or equal to 8 byte string
> >
> > >   < a specific file on my system>"   used to throw the following
> >
> > error on my system with glibc-2.4.90-22.
>
>   those version numbers are almost meaningless, they are just arbitrary
> points of time chosen by your distribution and we have no way of knowing
> what they correspond to. There were some changes in malloc() during

Yeah - just releasing stable and versioned glibc tarballs more often would 
also be of help.

> summer and at one point the allocator was fairly broken.  So you need to
> find out the CVS of what date each of those glibc version uses, then
> compare those two versions. You might also find
>
> 	http://repo.or.cz/w/glibc-cvs.git?a=shortlog
>
> useful.

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