GNU bug report logs - #21918
'visudo' non-deterministic (sudo 1.8.15)

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Package: guix;

Reported by: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)

Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 15:46:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Subject: bug#21918: closed (Re: bug#21918: 'visudo' non-deterministic
 (sudo 1.8.15))
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 21:18:02 +0000

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Your bug report

#21918: 'visudo' non-deterministic (sudo 1.8.15)

which was filed against the guix package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 21918 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 21918-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21918: 'visudo' non-deterministic (sudo 1.8.15)
Date: Sun, 22 Mar 2020 17:17:34 -0400

Building sudo with --rounds=5 is working now. Closing the bug


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From: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
To: bug-guix <at> gnu.org
Subject: 'visudo' non-deterministic (sudo 1.8.15)
Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015 16:45:37 +0100

The ‘visudo’ bits can differ depending on the phase of moon.

In Diffoscope we see a tiny difference in its .rodata section:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
7241 	Contents·​of·​section·​.​rodata:​ 	7241 	Contents·​of·​section·​.​rodata:​
7242 	·​1c580·​01000200·​65646974·​6f722e63·​00200900·​·​.​.​.​.​editor.​c.​·​.​.​ 	7242 	·​1c580·​01000200·​65646974·​6f722e63·​00200900·​·​.​.​.​.​editor.​c.​·​.​.​
7243 	·​1c590·​756e6162·​6c652074·​6f20616c·​6c6f6361·​·​unable·​to·​alloca 	7243 	·​1c590·​756e6162·​6c652074·​6f20616c·​6c6f6361·​·​unable·​to·​alloca
7244 	·​1c5a0·​7465206d·​656d6f72·​79002d2d·​00726573·​·​te·​memory.​-​-​.​res 	7244 	·​1c5a0·​7465206d·​656d6f72·​79002d2d·​00726573·​·​te·​memory.​-​-​.​res
7245 	·​1c5b0·​6f6c7665·​5f656469·​746f7200·​2e2f6669·​·​olve_editor.​.​/​fi 	7245 	·​1c5b0·​6f6c7665·​5f656469·​746f7200·​66696e64·​·​olve_editor.​find
7246 	·​1c5c0·​6e645f70·​6174682e·​63003a00·​252e2a73·​·​nd_path.​c.​:​.​%.​*s 	7246 	·​1c5c0·​5f706174·​682e6300·​3a00252e·​2a732f25·​·​_path.​c.​:​.​%.​*s/​%
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

On the left-hand side, we see “./find_path.c”; on the right-hand side,
it’s just “find_path.c”.

Looking at the build logs, we have:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
/gnu/store/311nvir0pz1mhf0mgsmfrw00qfj7yq0j-bash-4.3.39/bin/bash ../../libtool  --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -c -I../../include -I../.. -I. -I. -I../.. -DLIBDIR=\"/gnu/store/chyca85i2xfib5c5inj1bd6sq5vl56in-sudo-1.8.15/lib\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/gnu/store/chyca85i2xfib5c5inj1bd6sq5vl56in-sudo-1.8.15/share/locale\" -D_PATH_SUDOERS=\"/etc/sudoers\" -DSUDOERS_UID=0 -DSUDOERS_GID=0 -DSUDOERS_MODE=0440 -D_PATH_MV='"/gnu/store/mnwjrkbfzkb5ifhqf8hssf3cxfvg11l6-coreutils-8.24/bin/mv"' -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong ./find_path.c
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

versus:

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
/gnu/store/311nvir0pz1mhf0mgsmfrw00qfj7yq0j-bash-4.3.39/bin/bash ../../libtool  --mode=compile gcc -std=gnu99 -c -I../../include -I../.. -I. -I. -I../.. -DLIBDIR=\"/gnu/store/chyca85i2xfib5c5inj1bd6sq5vl56in-sudo-1.8.15/lib\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/gnu/store/chyca85i2xfib5c5inj1bd6sq5vl56in-sudo-1.8.15/share/locale\" -D_PATH_SUDOERS=\"/etc/sudoers\" -DSUDOERS_UID=0 -DSUDOERS_GID=0 -DSUDOERS_MODE=0440 -D_PATH_MV='"/gnu/store/mnwjrkbfzkb5ifhqf8hssf3cxfvg11l6-coreutils-8.24/bin/mv"' -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong ./find_path.c

[…]

gcc -std=gnu99 -c -I../../include -I../.. -I. -I. -I../.. -DLIBDIR=\"/gnu/store/chyca85i2xfib5c5inj1bd6sq5vl56in-sudo-1.8.15/lib\" -DLOCALEDIR=\"/gnu/store/chyca85i2xfib5c5inj1bd6sq5vl56in-sudo-1.8.15/share/locale\" -D_PATH_SUDOERS=\"/etc/sudoers\" -DSUDOERS_UID=0 -DSUDOERS_GID=0 -DSUDOERS_MODE=0440 -D_PATH_MV='"/gnu/store/mnwjrkbfzkb5ifhqf8hssf3cxfvg11l6-coreutils-8.24/bin/mv"' -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2 -g -O2 -fvisibility=hidden -fPIE -fstack-protector-strong find_path.c
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

(See
<http://hydra.gnu.org/log/chyca85i2xfib5c5inj1bd6sq5vl56in-sudo-1.8.15>.)

Ludo’.
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