[Pkg-openmpi-maintainers] Bug#531522: Bug#531522: Bug#531419: mpicc segfaults when called by fakeroot

[Steve M. Robbins]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 05:10:46PM +0200, Manuel Prinz wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> 
> On Fri, June 12, 2009 11:10 pm, Jeff Squyres wrote:
> > Agreed.  We thought that stat() was safe to call in the malloc init
> > hook -- it seems to be in most other places, at least.

Jeff, I agree that one would expect stat() to be safe; my comment
about "crafty things" wasn't intended as a judgement call on this
approach.  I think the code is pretty clever, but it's a hard problem
when you are operating with no clear rules about what is permitted in
the init hook.  :-)


> Unfortunately, I will not be able to use the internet for a week from now.
> This means that I can't help fixing the issue. I'm very sorry about that!
> 
> I hope Sylvestre can take over. If one wants to (or can) work out a fix,
> feel free to NMU. 

If Sylvestre wants to upload a fix, that's perfect.

Otherwise, I can easily convert my "#if 0" hack into a patch that
checks for an environment variable.  Jeff previously suggested
setting OMPI_MCA_disable_memory_allocator; is that the variable we
want to use?


Regards,
-Steve
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