From: Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com>
To: Junichi Uekawa <dancer@netfort.gr.jp>, 322309@bugs.debian.org
Cc: 322309-submitter@bugs.debian.org, 329468@bugs.debian.org,
329468-submitter@bugs.debian.org, debian-devel@bugs.debian.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, 332903-submitter@bugs.debian.org
Subject: Re: Bug#322309: Debian woody dpkg no longer works with recent linux kernel.
Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:33:16 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1128897196.19000.3.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zmpi3ell.dancerj%dancer@netfort.gr.jp>
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On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 00:16 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> dpkg in Debian woody (3.0) is broken by recent linux kernels;
> due to the following command changing behavior (mmap of
> zero-byte length):
>
> addr=mmap(NULL, 0, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0);
>
> These bugs are caused by mmap changing behavior;
> it used to return NULL when given a length of 0.
> However, it now returns -1, and gives back an errno=EINVAL.
>
Indeed. This was the sole change in the 1.13.8 release.
Scott
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-09 22:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-10-09 15:16 Junichi Uekawa
2005-10-09 22:33 ` Scott James Remnant [this message]
2005-10-10 1:07 ` Bug#322309: " Junichi Uekawa
2005-10-11 14:24 ` Junichi Uekawa
2005-10-11 15:15 ` Junichi Uekawa
2005-10-11 15:19 ` Jon Masters
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