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Re: [Bug-readline] [readline patch, gdb-7.3?] Avoid free from a signal h
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Chet Ramey |
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Re: [Bug-readline] [readline patch, gdb-7.3?] Avoid free from a signal handler [Re: [PATCH] Make interrupting tab-completion safe.] |
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Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:20:04 -0400 |
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On 10/19/11 12:32 PM, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Thu, 07 Jul 2011 14:10:08 +0200, Chet Ramey wrote:
>> The impression I got from your earlier message is that is is very easy
>> to reproduce using a GDB .exp file:
>>
>> "Used this GDB .exp file, reproducible in several seconds"
>>
>> All I am asking you do to is to check whether you can reproduce it using
>> the same .exp file after removing references to _rl_interrupt_immediately
>> in complete.c.
>
> After removing the workaround:
> https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-readline/2011-06/msg00003.html
>
> and removing the changes of _rl_interrupt_immediately in complete.c the
> memory corruption is still reproducible:
> *** glibc detected *** .../gdb/testsuite/../../gdb/gdb: munmap_chunk():
> invalid pointer: 0x000000000718ef70 ***
Wow, a blast from the past. :-) The next version of readline will do this
a different way, avoiding executing very much code in a signal handling
context.
Chet
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