Re: severe ld.so bug !!

Zefram (zefram@dcs.warwick.ac.uk)
Wed, 18 Dec 1996 21:30:41 +0000 (GMT)

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Harald Koenig wrote:
>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 !

This is not news. (I did this to myself while upgrading ld.so a while
ago, fixed it by using sln to turn /etc/ld.so.cache into a broken
symlink.) Nor is it kernel-related. It does need to be fixed, though.

-zefram

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