[perl #77432] assertion failure with POSIX::SigAction

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This is a bug report for perl from Niko Tyni <ntyni@debian.org>,
generated with the help of perlbug 1.39 running under perl 5.13.4.


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Originally triggered by the CPAN forks module:

./perl -Ilib -MPOSIX -e '*SIG={}; sigaction(1, POSIX::SigAction->new)'
perl: mg.c:98: S_save_magic: Assertion `((sv)->sv_flags & (0x00200000|0x00400000|0x00800000))' failed.
zsh: abort (core dumped)  ./perl -Ilib -MPOSIX -e '*SIG={}; sigaction(1, POSIX::SigAction->new)'

Seen at least on 5.10.1 and blead.

( This is also http://bugs.debian.org/594250 )
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Flags:
    category=library
    severity=low
    module=POSIX
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Site configuration information for perl 5.13.4:

Configured by niko at Wed Aug 25 00:21:02 EEST 2010.

Summary of my perl5 (revision 5 version 13 subversion 4) configuration:
  Commit id: 9b47cddefd9b4a322e6382c8979ceeb2c3ac25c9
  Platform:
    osname=linux, osvers=2.6.32-5-amd64, archname=x86_64-linux-gnu-thread-multi
    uname='linux madeleine 2.6.32-5-amd64 #1 smp thu aug 12 13:01:50 utc 2010 x86_64 gnulinux '
    config_args='-Dusethreads -Duselargefiles -Dccflags=-DDEBIAN -Dcccdlflags=-fPIC -Darchname=x86_64-linux-gnu -Dprefix=/usr -Dprivlib=/usr/share/perl/5.13 -Darchlib=/usr/lib/perl/5.13 -Dvendorprefix=/usr -Dvendorlib=/usr/share/perl5 -Dvendorarch=/usr/lib/perl5 -Dsiteprefix=/usr/local -Dsitelib=/usr/local/share/perl/5.13.4 -Dsitearch=/usr/local/lib/perl/5.13.4 -Dman1dir=/usr/share/man/man1 -Dman3dir=/usr/share/man/man3 -Dsiteman1dir=/usr/local/man/man1 -Dsiteman3dir=/usr/local/man/man3 -Dman1ext=1 -Dman3ext=3perl -Dpager=/usr/bin/sensible-pager -Uafs -Ud_csh -Ud_ualarm -Uusesfio -Uusenm -DDEBUGGING=both -Doptimize=-O2 -Dusedevel -Uuseshrplib -des'
    hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define
    useithreads=define, usemultiplicity=define
    useperlio=define, d_sfio=undef, uselargefiles=define, usesocks=undef
    use64bitint=define, use64bitall=define, uselongdouble=undef
    usemymalloc=n, bincompat5005=undef
  Compiler:
    cc='cc', ccflags ='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include -D_LARGEFILE_SOURCE -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64',
    optimize='-O2 -g',
    cppflags='-D_REENTRANT -D_GNU_SOURCE -DDEBIAN -DDEBUGGING -fno-strict-aliasing -pipe -fstack-protector -I/usr/local/include'
    ccversion='', gccversion='4.4.5 20100816 (prerelease)', gccosandvers=''
    intsize=4, longsize=8, ptrsize=8, doublesize=8, byteorder=12345678
    d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=16
    ivtype='long', ivsize=8, nvtype='double', nvsize=8, Off_t='off_t', lseeksize=8
    alignbytes=8, prototype=define
  Linker and Libraries:
    ld='cc', ldflags =' -fstack-protector -L/usr/local/lib'
    libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib /lib64 /usr/lib64
    libs=-lnsl -lgdbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc -lgdbm_compat
    perllibs=-lnsl -ldl -lm -lcrypt -lutil -lpthread -lc
    libc=/lib/libc-2.11.2.so, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a
    gnulibc_version='2.11.2'
  Dynamic Linking:
    dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-Wl,-E'
    cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -O2 -g -L/usr/local/lib -fstack-protector'

Locally applied patches:
    

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@INC for perl 5.13.4:
    lib
    /usr/local/lib/perl/5.13.4
    /usr/local/share/perl/5.13.4
    /usr/lib/perl5
    /usr/share/perl5
    /usr/lib/perl/5.13
    /usr/share/perl/5.13
    /usr/local/share/perl
    /usr/share/perl5
    .

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Environment for perl 5.13.4:
    HOME=/home/niko
    LANG=en_US.UTF-8
    LANGUAGE (unset)
    LC_CTYPE=fi_FI.UTF-8
    LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset)
    LOGDIR (unset)
    PATH=/home/niko/bin:/home/niko/bin:/home/niko/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/games:/usr/games:/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/usr/sbin
    PERL_BADLANG (unset)
    SHELL=/bin/zsh

• [perl #77432] assertion failure with POSIX::SigAction by Niko Tyni
• Re: [perl #77432] assertion failure with POSIX::SigAction by Tony Cook
• Re: [perl #77432] assertion failure with POSIX::SigAction by Nicholas Clark
• Re: [perl #77432] assertion failure with POSIX::SigAction by Tony Cook