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* [Bug libc/6771] New: %m specifier in dprintf doesn't work as errno clobbered before output
@ 2008-07-26 20:47 l at lwithers dot me dot uk
2008-07-26 20:50 ` [Bug libc/6771] " l at lwithers dot me dot uk
2008-07-26 23:43 ` drepper at redhat dot com
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From: l at lwithers dot me dot uk @ 2008-07-26 20:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: glibc-bugs
Using the "%m" (error string) specifier in dprintf() does not work when the
file descriptor is non-seekable. lseek() is called on the file descriptor and
sets errno to ESPIPE. Then it appears the actual formatting and outputting is
done. This causes the %m in the output to always report "Illegal seek".
I attach a simple test program which illustrates the problem.
An excerpt of the strace output from this program illuminates the problem:
unlink("nonexistent") = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
fstat(2, {st_mode=S_IFCHR|0600, st_rdev=makedev(136, 10), ...}) = 0
mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) =
0x7f8edefb8000
lseek(2, 0, SEEK_CUR) = -1 ESPIPE (Illegal seek)
write(2, "Error: Illegal seek\n", 20) = 20
The expected behaviour would be for the original value of errno to be restarted
after the lseek(), so that %m would output (in this case) "No such file or
directory".
I am using what Gentoo refer to as "2.8_p20080602".
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Summary: %m specifier in dprintf doesn't work as errno clobbered
before output
Product: glibc
Version: unspecified
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: P2
Component: libc
AssignedTo: drepper at redhat dot com
ReportedBy: l at lwithers dot me dot uk
CC: glibc-bugs at sources dot redhat dot com
http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6771
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