[PATCH-NPTL] environ heeds to be a weak_alias

Steven J. Hill sjhill at realitydiluted.com
Tue May 29 04:10:43 UTC 2007


Carmelo Amoroso wrote:
> Hi Steve,
> this patch to fix a problem into nptl branch related to strong_alias
> used for data. Any code linked with the uCLibc-nptl trying to dereference
> the 'environ' variable will segfault.
> This has been already solved in trunk, and there are a lot of posts
> into libc-alpha related to the wrong usage of strong_alias with data.
> 
> I caught a SIGSEV using busybox (env and awk applets). With this patch
> it works fine.
>
Cool. Thank you much.

-Steve



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