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Written by Ben Hutchings on 2024-09-01 at 01:41

I have a daily cron job that runs a short C program to put a random quotation into my mail signature.

Today that cron job failed, and I started debugging the program, at which point I found:

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Written by Zack Weinberg on 2024-09-01 at 02:55

@bwh That's almost certainly an upstream bug, would you mind re-reporting it to libc-alpha@sourceware.org ? I know at least one person who reads that list cares about binary compat with programs compiled that long ago. Please attach the actual binary if possible.

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Written by Ben Hutchings on 2024-09-06 at 17:53

@zwol I've now done that, thank you!

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Written by Zack Weinberg on 2024-09-06 at 21:13

@bwh I regret that I forgot about their bugzilla and therefore you immediately got asked to refile the bug again.

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Written by Carlos O'Donell on 2024-09-06 at 22:13

@zwol @bwh I know it feels lame to ask for someone to file a bug, but we use bugs for all sorts of tracking, de-duplication, CVE assignment, etc. So we often like to have a bug filed and collect data. In the meantime the issue has been deduced, it was a missing case in the compat for doubly-linked list handling for older streams https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/CAMe9rOonyQsKdEse6VwCAbRD+J6U6fxuwtmQs3haYi1_6Euuow@mail.gmail.com/

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Written by Zack Weinberg on 2024-09-07 at 16:26

@codonell I'm not objecting to the use of a bug tracker by the glibc project, I'm annoyed with myself for forgetting that there was one and thus making @bwh do an extra step

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