Another vlc 2.0.3 update (new ffmpeg! :)

Juergen Lock nox at jelal.kn-bremen.de
Mon Aug 13 21:52:58 UTC 2012


On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 08:12:42PM +0200, Gary Jennejohn wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Aug 2012 02:41:35 -0400
> Alexander Kabaev <kabaev at 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.

Yeah that seems to be a different issue (rtld).
	Juergen


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