[26464] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 9.4.9, sun4 9.3.18: discuss
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Tue Jun 21 15:36:59 2005
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
To: Kevin Chen <kchen@mit.edu>
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On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 15:31 -0400, Kevin Chen wrote:
> discuss: ls
> [stuff starts being displayed -- I C-c in the middle]
> discuss: g testers
> *** glibc detected *** free(): invalid pointer: 0x0805b96a ***
> Abort
Yeah, we've known about this bug for around a decade, but it's a little
tricky to fix. When you press ^C, you wind up longjmp()ing back to the
main loop, which is a difficult situation to recover from.
