Changeset 31435ca

Timestamp:

02/04/2003 03:52:17 AM (21 years ago)

Author:

Gerard Beekmans <gerard@…>

Branches:

10.0, 10.0-rc1, 10.1, 10.1-rc1, 11.0, 11.0-rc1, 11.0-rc2, 11.0-rc3, 11.1, 11.1-rc1, 11.2, 11.2-rc1, 11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.1, 6.3, 6.4, 6.5, 6.6, 6.7, 6.8, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 7.5, 7.5-systemd, 7.6, 7.6-systemd, 7.7, 7.7-systemd, 7.8, 7.8-systemd, 7.9, 7.9-systemd, 8.0, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 9.0, 9.1, arm, bdubbs/gcc13, ml-11.0, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, s6-init, trunk, v4_1, v5_0, v5_1, v5_1_1, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/lfs-next, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

a20bfb4

Parents:

e5c5f01

Message:

updated fileutils patch explanation

git-svn-id: ​http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2422 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689

Files:

• chapter05/fileutils-inst.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• chapter06/ed-inst.xml (modified) (2 diffs)

chapter05/fileutils-inst.xml

@@ -4 +4 @@
 <title>Installation of Fileutils</title>
 
-<para>The programs from a statically linked Fileutils package may cause
-segmentation faults on certain systems, if your distribution has
-Glibc-2.2.3 installed. It seems to happen mostly on machines
-powered by an AMD CPU, but there is a case or two where an Intel system
-is affected as well. If your system falls in this category, apply the
-patch.</para>
+<para>There is a documented (see 
+<ulink url="http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-glibc/2001-May/003149.html"/>)
+bug with the atexit() function in glibc-2.2.3 when it is compiled with
+gcc-2.95.3. This bug only occurs on some systems (primarily AMD, but not
+exclusively). This bug causes segmentation faults in fileutils-4.1 when it
+is compiled statically. This patch causes on_exit() to be called instead of
+atexit().</para>
 
 <para>Note that in some cases using this patch will result in not being

chapter06/ed-inst.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
 <para>Ed uses mktemp to create temporary files in <filename
 class="directory">/tmp</filename>, but this function has a security
-vulnerability (see section on Temporary Files in
-<ulink url="http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/avoid-race.html"/>).
-This patch makes Ed use mkstemp instead, which is the recommended way to
-create temporary files.</para>
+vulnerability (see section on Temporary Files in <ulink
+url="http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/Secure-Programs-HOWTO/avoid-race.html"/>). This
+patch makes Ed use mkstemp instead, which is the recommended way to create
+temporary files.</para>
 
 <para>Apply the patch:</para>
@@ -33 +33 @@
 
 <para>We need to move the Ed binaries to the <filename
-class="directory">/bin</filename> directory so they may be used in
-the event that the <filename class="directory">/usr</filename>
-partition is unavailable.</para>
+class="directory">/bin</filename> directory so they may be used in the event
+that the <filename class="directory">/usr</filename> partition is
+unavailable.</para>
 
 <para><screen><userinput>mv /usr/bin/{ed,red} /bin</userinput></screen></para>
 
 </sect2>
-