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Re: obscure bug "extern void free (void *__ptr) __attribute__ ((__nothro


From: Eduardo Bustamante
Subject: Re: obscure bug "extern void free (void *__ptr) __attribute__ ((__nothrow__ , __leaf__));"
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2021 15:27:19 -0800

On Thu, Jan 21, 2021 at 2:07 PM Mathias Steiger
<mathias.steiger@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>
> As such bugs are likely related to buffer issues, maybe even in
> underlying APIs, and since they only surface after very lengthy
> mysterious sequences of commands - often just on single specific system
> installations - I wouldn't know how you can reproduce this in a test.
>
> Maybe you have specific testing frameworks for this, that would reduce
> the whole script to more basic components and which schematically remove
> or add complexity until the nature of the bug becomes more apparent?
>
> This seems to call for a specialist who is able to follow the problem
> into a far lower level of abstraction.
>
> As it stands now, I don't see how there is no way how this kind of
> execution can make any sense from a scripting POV.
>
> Of course in a giant script, all sorts of random things might happen.
> But this is not one of them.

You could run the script through "strace" or a similar command to see
what's writing that output and when. We could use that log output to
confirm that it is indeed Bash that is writing this out-of-order and
to a file descriptor that it shouldn't.

Greg pointed out earlier that the construct you're trying to use
doesn't work well when the shell is not Bash. Are you 100% confident
that it is /bin/bash that is running the script and not /bin/sh (and
thus maybe something like Dash?). And keep in mind that even Bash
running as /bin/sh is not quite the same as Bash running as /bin/bash.



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