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Date:      Mon, 13 Aug 2012 20:12:42 +0200
From:      Gary Jennejohn <gljennjohn@googlemail.com>
To:        Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.org, Rainer Hurling <rhurlin@gwdg.de>, Juergen Lock <nox@jelal.kn-bremen.de>, freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: Another vlc 2.0.3 update (new ffmpeg! :)
Message-ID:  <20120813201242.5108f145@ernst.jennejohn.org>
In-Reply-To: <20120813024135.3501fcee@kan.dyndns.org>
References:  <20120812143124.GA21414@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <5027E2EA.2070508@gwdg.de> <20120812171133.GA26625@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <5027E471.1020800@gwdg.de> <5028022B.3020005@gwdg.de> <20120812231210.GA35081@triton8.kn-bremen.de> <20120813024135.3501fcee@kan.dyndns.org>

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On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:41:35 -0400
Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> wrote:

[snip lots of gdb trace]

> Please check the use of _SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX in vlcpulse.c. This
> constant is unsupported, so the module tries to allocate a stack buffer
> with negative size, smashing the stack dead.
> 

Seems like a good idea, but I replaced the rather sloppy
	buf[sysctl(_SC_GETPW_R_SIZE_MAX)];
with
	buf[2048];
and vlc still core dumps when trying to generate plugins.dat.

> So far, I see absolutely no evidence of any wrongdoing on the rtld
> side of things.
>

-- 
Gary Jennejohn



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