Bug 111242 – statically compiled gethostbyname compiled on RH 7 or earlier crashes on RH9

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Bug 111242 - statically compiled gethostbyname compiled on RH 7 or earlier crashes on RH9

Summary:	statically compiled gethostbyname compiled on RH 7 or earlier crashes on RH9

Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG

Aliases:	None

Product:	Red Hat Linux
Classification:	Retired
Component:	glibc (Show other bugs)
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Version:	9
Hardware:	i386 Linux

Priority	medium Severity high
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Assigned To:	Jakub Jelinek
QA Contact:	Brian Brock
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Reported:	2003-12-01 04:42 EST by David Jameson
Modified:	2016-11-24 09:58 EST (History)
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Last Closed:	2003-12-02 09:37:50 EST
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Simple test program which demonstrates the bug (384 bytes, text/plain) 2003-12-01 04:42 EST, David Jameson	no flags	Details
stack trace for crash (1.62 KB, text/plain) 2003-12-01 04:43 EST, David Jameson	no flags	Details
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Description David Jameson 2003-12-01 04:42:01 EST

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Description of problem:
A statically linked executable compiled on RH7 or earlier crashes
in gethostbyname() on RH9. Happens both with a clean RH9 install
as well as with the latest glibc. It works okay if the program
is compiled statically on RH9. It appears to be an incompatibility
with the nss_files.so static hack (which works with all previous
versions of Linux right back to pre-glibc2 versions).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.3.2-27.9.7

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. (on RH7): g++ -static tester.cpp
2. (on RH9): ./a.out test.com
3.
    

Actual Results:  Segmentation fault

Expected Results:  208.48.34.132


Additional info:

Comment 1 David Jameson 2003-12-01 04:42:44 EST

Created attachment 96255 [details]
Simple test program which demonstrates the bug

Comment 2 David Jameson 2003-12-01 04:43:09 EST

Created attachment 96256 [details]
stack trace for crash

Comment 3 Jakub Jelinek 2003-12-02 09:37:50 EST

This is expected and when you link against recent glibcs it even
warns you about it.
If a program uses NSS/iconv/dlopen or locales, it is not self-contained
and as such can be only used against the same glibc as it has been
compiled/linked against.
Better avoid statically linked programs, dynamically linked ones
are way more portable.

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