ports/122381: net-mgmt/collectd in FreeBSD 7.0 i386 and sparc64 segfaults (memcpy libc)

[Pietro Cerutti]

The following reply was made to PR ports/122381; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Pietro Cerutti <gahr at FreeBSD.org>
To: bug-followup at FreeBSD.org, lfmail at byterider.net
Cc:  
Subject: Re: ports/122381: net-mgmt/collectd in FreeBSD 7.0 i386 and sparc64
 segfaults (memcpy libc)
Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 17:40:38 +0200

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 This patch solves the problem on sparc64:
 pcap_open_live segfaults inside libc's memcpy if pcap_device is NULL.
 
 I haven't been able to reproduce it on i386, though.
 
 http://www.gahr.ch/FreeBSD/patches/patch-src__dns.c
 
 P.S. Maybe we should consider investigating why it fails on sparc64 but
 not on i386 in the first case?
 
 
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