Re: severe ld.so bug !!

Keith Rohrer (kwrohrer@uiuc.edu)
Wed, 18 Dec 1996 02:34:27 -0600 (CST)

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> ld.so (both 1.7.x and at least 1.8.3 using SuSE 4.4) has a SEVERE bug: if
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> /etc/ld.so.cache
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> is an empty file, every binary using shared libs will SEGV !
Last my ld.so.cache got corrupted (not just stale) lots of things went
screwy; it should be ignored and invalidated just like any cache is, if
it fails certain consistency checks.

Keith

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