FW: glibc install problem caused by bug in zic (fwd)

Peter Breitenlohner peb at mppmu.mpg.de
Tue Feb 26 10:31:32 UTC 2002


On Tue, 26 Feb 2002, Paul Eggert wrote:

> > From: Peter Breitenlohner [mailto:peb at mppmu.mpg.de]
> > Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 4:56 AM
> >
> > 	Bad timing between two instances of zic, where one tried to link to
> > 	a file which the other had not yet created.
>
> Thanks for the bug report.  Here's an untested patch to
> glibc/timezone/Makefile to fix that timing problem.  (Your symlink fix
> to zic.c is also welcome, but that's a separate problem.)
>
> Can you please test this patch?  If it works for you, we can submit it
> to bug-glibc as "the consensus of the tz experts" (all 2 of us :-).
>
> 2002-02-25  Paul Eggert  <eggert at twinsun.com>
>
> 	* timezone/Makefile (tzbases): Move systemv from here...
> 	(tzlinks): to here, since the entries in systemv were all changed
> 	from Zone to Link lines in tz-2001a.
>
> --- glibc-2.2.5/timezone/Makefile	2001-08-29 15:45:25.000000000 -0700
> +++ glibc-2.2.5-fix/timezone//Makefile	2002-02-25 23:50:22.373587963 -0800
> @@ -31,9 +31,9 @@ others	:= zdump zic
>  tests	:= test-tz tst-timezone
>
>  tzbases := africa antarctica asia australasia europe northamerica \
> -	   southamerica etcetera factory systemv \
> +	   southamerica etcetera factory \
>  	   solar87 solar88 solar89
> -tzlinks := backward
> +tzlinks := backward systemv
>  tzfiles := $(tzbases) $(tzlinks)
>  # pacificnew doesn't compile; if it is to be used, it should be included in
>  # northamerica.
>

Hi Paul,

I'll test the patch, but this will take a few days. Right now I am upgrading
all our systems
	linux-2.2.18 => 2.4.17, glibc-2.1.2 => 2.2.5
and this will take another two or three days.
Once that is finished I intend to recompile glibc-2.2.5 and update all
systems with the recompiled version (hoping that this will not require
another reboot!). This way we will then take advantage of the 32 bit uid's
and gid's in glibc.

Until now we had a nasty NIS-gid problem (supplementary group 4294967294 for
nobody from our AIX NIS master), which forced us to patch all occurences of
initgroups("nobody",...) (in su, ftpd, apache, ...) -- quite a pain.

BUT: As I said in my original mail, the actual bug was due to unfortunate
timing which is hard to reproduce. I can only test the basic
Makefile-functionality (the patch looks OK to me and should certainly delay
the creation of the systemv timezone files).

I'll inform you when I have recompiled glibc-2.2.5

regards
Peter Breitenlohner <peb at mppmu.mpg.de>




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