From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/9354 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Anthony G. Basile" Newsgroups: gmane.linux.lib.musl.general Subject: Re: musl 1.1.13 released Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 05:22:46 -0500 Message-ID: <56C6ECF6.2070400@opensource.dyc.edu> References: <20160216043528.GA27058@brightrain.aerifal.cx> <20160217031623.GC9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Reply-To: musl@lists.openwall.com NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455877388 24407 80.91.229.3 (19 Feb 2016 10:23:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 10:23:08 +0000 (UTC) To: musl@lists.openwall.com Original-X-From: musl-return-9367-gllmg-musl=m.gmane.org@lists.openwall.com Fri Feb 19 11:23:07 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from mother.openwall.net ([195.42.179.200]) by plane.gmane.org with smtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aWiDK-0001Ud-R8 for gllmg-musl@m.gmane.org; Fri, 19 Feb 2016 11:23:07 +0100 Original-Received: (qmail 27720 invoked by uid 550); 19 Feb 2016 10:23:00 -0000 Mailing-List: contact musl-help@lists.openwall.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-ID: Original-Received: (qmail 27693 invoked from network); 19 Feb 2016 10:23:00 -0000 X-Enigmail-Draft-Status: N1110 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.6.0 In-Reply-To: <20160217031623.GC9349@brightrain.aerifal.cx> Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:9354 Archived-At: On 2/16/16 10:16 PM, Rich Felker wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2016 at 11:35:28PM -0500, Rich Felker wrote: >> This release adds support for out-of-tree builds, search domains in >> resolv.conf, VDSO-accelerated clock_gettime on MIPS, and building >> SMP-safe/ready SH binaries for the open-hardware J2. Performance of >> atomics and synchronization primitives has been greatly improved on >> most "ll/sc model" RISC archs. Regex BRE now supports the widely-used >> extensions \|, \+, and \? and larger regular expressions are now >> supported. A number of minor application and toolchain compatibility >> improvements have also been made, including changes which reduce the >> risk of assembler and linker bugs leading to malfunctioning binaries. >> >> Two potentially dangerous bugs have been fixed: a single-byte heap >> overflow in getdelim and a pointer indexing error in dynamic TLS >> allocation. Other bugs fixed include various issues in parsing and >> error handling for resolv.conf and related files, incorrect error >> return values for some functions, and failures to accept null pointer >> arguments in some functions for which they have defined behavior. Some >> arch-specific bugs affecting ARM, MIPS, and SH/FDPIC have also been >> fixed. >> >> http://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-1.1.13.tar.gz >> http://www.musl-libc.org/releases/musl-1.1.13.tar.gz.asc > > It's been found that this release has a fairly significant regression > caused by fixing a bug in fwrite's return value. Users should apply > the attached patch to avoid problems with puts("") and fputs("",f) > malfunctioning. > > Rich > Thanks I was in the middle of debugging this. I hit it with coreutils `yes ""` on arm. We've had these sorts of bugs in the past. Wouldn't it be wise to push out a new release? Something like musl-1.1.13.1? I can deal with applying the patch but pushing out a another release signals to the community that there is an update. Just thought. -- Anthony G. Basile, Ph. D. Chair of Information Technology D'Youville College Buffalo, NY 14201 (716) 829-8197