Another vlc 2.0.3 update (new ffmpeg! :)

Gary Jennejohn gljennjohn at googlemail.com
Mon Aug 13 18:12:52 UTC 2012


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.

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

-- 
Gary Jennejohn


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