GNU bug report logs - #30394
'posix_spawn' glibc 2.26 race condition fires under qemu-binfmt

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Package: guix;

Reported by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2018 16:44:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: notabug

Done: Ludovic Courtès <ludo <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #14 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Pjotr Prins <pjotr.public12 <at> thebird.nl>
To: Chris Marusich <cmmarusich <at> gmail.com>
Cc: guix-devel <at> gnu.org, Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>,
 bug-guix <at> gnu.org, ng0 <at> n0.is
Subject: Re: ARM compilation via qemu binfmt - Assertion failure
Date: Sun, 11 Feb 2018 10:53:32 +0100

On Sun, Feb 11, 2018 at 12:45:18AM +0100, Chris Marusich wrote:
> Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> writes:
> 
> > This is only fixed in glibc 2.27 (not in core-updates).
> 
> Should we upgrade glibc in core-updates, then?  Or is it better to do it
> in the next core-updates cycle, to avoid still more unexpected breakage?

I think we should not update packages deep in the tree unless there is
a security patch. What we have now is well tested.

Pj.


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