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On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 06:12:26PM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 30, 2001 at 11:14:06AM -0400, Bob Fillmore wrote:
> >
> > This is a bug report for perl from fillmore@nrn1.nrcan.gc.ca,
> > generated with the help of perlbug 1.28 running under perl v5.6.0.
> >
> >
> > -----------------------------------------------------------------
> > [Please enter your report here]
> >
> > The following code generates a segfault on Solaris 2.6 and Solaris 8:
> >
> > $addr = pack('C4', split(/\./,'195.226.128.9'));
> > $addrtype = 2;
> > ($name, $rest) = gethostbyaddr($addr, $addrtype);
>
> FreeBSD on bleadperl goes Bus error (core dumped)
> nd in gdb I get
>
> (gdb) where
> #0 0x8100e1c in __ns_name_unpack ()
> #1 0x8101081 in __ns_name_uncompress ()
> #2 0x80fb9b1 in __dn_expand ()
> #3 0x80fc7db in irs_dns_ho ()
> #4 0x80fc52b in irs_dns_ho ()
> #5 0x80f4b60 in irs_gen_ho ()
> #6 0x80f0ea7 in gethostbyaddr ()
> #7 0x80ce095 in Perl_pp_ghostent ()
> #8 0x80cdf9f in Perl_pp_ghbyaddr ()
> #9 0x809c3f4 in Perl_runops_standard ()
> #10 0x805fb58 in S_run_body ()
> #11 0x805f898 in perl_run ()
> #12 0x805d3fd in main ()
> #13 0x805d2ed in _start ()
>
>
> 5.00502 and 5.6.0 pass, 5.6.1 also goes bus error on bleadperl as far back as
> 8102 (which is the earliest I can find.
Forgot to ask - are you able to run a debugger and get a stack backtrace on
Solaris? It's quite possible that nslookup on Solaris links against different
libraries or is using different code.
I think I know why 5.6.1 on this machine SIGBUSes, 5.6.0 doesn't:
$ ldd /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.0
/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.0:
libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x280f8000)
libc.so.3 => /usr/lib/libc.so.3 (0x28113000)
libcrypt.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2 (0x28195000)
$ ldd /usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1
/usr/local/bin/perl5.6.1:
libm.so.2 => /usr/lib/libm.so.2 (0x28146000)
libc.so.4 => /usr/lib/libc.so.4 (0x28161000)
libcrypt.so.2 => /usr/lib/libcrypt.so.2 (0x281f6000)
libutil.so.3 => /usr/lib/libutil.so.3 (0x2820b000)
Different libc, plus libutil.so, although I don't know what that is.
I suspect that your SEGV on Solaris is actually an OS bug but can't really
prove/disprove this without a backtrace on Solaris.
Something certainly *is* broken with the DNS at the far end, as host here
gives:
host 195.226.128.9
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer www.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer cccars.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer advantage.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer bsi.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer sarkcomputers.sark.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer chamberpo.com
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer scatreasury.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer c-photo.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer evans-co.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer swimarathon.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer herring.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer antiquefind.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer gyc.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer ms-consulting.com
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer trainingplus.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer harlequin.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer gybobb.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer gdi.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer osa.guernsey.net
9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPA domain name pointer 9.128.226.195.IN-ADDR.ARPApacket size error (0x0 != 0xbfbff054)
but it seems that the bug is in the system libraries, not perl, which is
unfortunate, as we can't fix those sort of bugs.
[And worse, I can't see how perl can work round this bug, if it is OS]
Nicholas Clark