glibc 2.14

[Frédéric L. W. Meunier]

On Mon, 6 Jun 2011, Pawel/ Sikora wrote:

> On Monday, June 06, 2011 07:00:50 PM Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> On Monday, June 06, 2011 04:51:29 Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> Pawel/ Sikora writes:
>>>> git bisect shows first bad commit:
>>>>
>>>> 4bff6e0175ed195871f4e01cc4c4c33274b8f6e3 is the first bad commit
>>>> commit 4bff6e0175ed195871f4e01cc4c4c33274b8f6e3
>>>> Author: Andreas Schwab
>>>> Date:   Fri Feb 25 20:49:48 2011 -0500
>>>>
>>>>     Fix memory leak in dlopen with RTLD_NOLOAD.
>>>
>>> See <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2010-09/msg00009.html> and
>>> <http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-hacker/2011-02/msg00004.html> for the
>>> original, working patches.
>>
>> thanks, i'm seeing basically the same crash with the mpd server (music daemon)
>
> Hi all,
>
> Andreas, i've grabbed similar patch from git/glibc/fedora branch
> and now enviroment is more* stable.
>
> [*] users still report random crashes in libresolv-2.14.so (mostly in ntpdate and sshd)
>    but we currently don't have reproducible testcase for this issue :(

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=commit;h=675155e9084e060fd0e1e637b843f14e82898aa5 
does indeed fix some segfaults here. At least audacity and zsnes didn't 
work at all without the patch.