Bug 75684

Summary:	glibc 2.2.5-40 uses too much stack
Product:	[Retired] Red Hat Linux	Reporter:	hjl
Component:	glibc	Assignee:	Jakub Jelinek <jakub>
Status:	CLOSED DUPLICATE	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
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Priority:	high
Version:	7.3	CC:	fweimer
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Description hjl 2002-10-11 01:25:21 UTC

glibc 2.2.5-40 changes a buffer type from 1k to 64k.
Unfortunately, resolver uses that buffer on stack.
As the result, many threaded applications, which have
a lower stack limit, start to dump core for no apparent
reasons.

Comment 1 Jakub Jelinek 2002-10-11 06:56:59 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 75128 ***