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bug #16794: segfault in SYSFILE INFO on Mac OS X

Submitter:  Ben Pfaff <blp>
Submitted:  Fri 09 Jun 2006 04:18:17 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  System/Portable File I/O Severity:  5 - Average
Status:  Cannot Reproduce Assigned to:  None
Open/Closed:  Closed Release:  Before 0.6.0
Effort:  0.00
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Sat 28 Jul 2007 02:06:14 AM UTC, comment #4: 


>Some months ago, I borrowed a Mac OS X machine and persuaded the
>owner to give me the root password. I was unable to reproduce this
>bug.


OK.  I think we can legitimately close this as not-reproducible.

>I suspect the original submitter may have had one or more
>directories NFS mounted, so the root-squash feature could have
>caused this.


I don't know why that would make a difference, but it could, I suppose.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Group administrator
Sat 28 Jul 2007 12:45:54 AM UTC, comment #3: 

Some months ago, I borrowed a Mac OS X machine and persuaded the owner to give me the root password.  I was unable to reproduce this bug.

I suspect the original submitter may have had one or more directories NFS mounted, so the root-squash feature could have caused this.

John Darrington <jmd>
Group administrator
Fri 27 Jul 2007 02:00:16 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Well, that's a good idea by itself...

I don't know who the submitter was for this.  I don't have easy access to Mac OS X.

There has been a lot of work on the system file code in this release cycle.  I suppose we could just assume that this has been fixed.

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Group administrator
Thu 26 Jul 2007 08:23:54 AM UTC, comment #1: 

I suggest that we fix this one by putting a note in the user manual instructing the user not run the software as superuser.

John Darrington <jmd>
Group administrator
Fri 09 Jun 2006 04:18:17 PM UTC, original submission:  

attached file causes segfault on SYSFILE INFO under Mac OS X, but only as superuser (!)

Ben Pfaff <blp>
Group administrator

 

(Note: upload size limit is set to 16384 kB, after insertion of the required escape characters.)

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file #10149:  BaseAnalyse.sav added by blp (28KiB - application/octet-stream - system file that causes segfault)

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2007-07-28 blp StatusNone Cannot Reproduce
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed
    2006-12-18 blp ReleaseNone Before 0.6.0
    2006-06-09 blp Attached File- Added BaseAnalyse.sav, #10149
        Carbon-Copy- Added patrickbrossier<patrick.brossier@mgm.fr>

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