We have been using Redhat Enterprise 4, on some of our Linux
clients for a while,
and Christoph has just found that opening an R device for a file
without write permission gives a bad glibc error and subsequent
seg.fault:
postscript("/blabla.ps")
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000001505f10 ***
or
xfig("/blabla.fig")
*** glibc detected *** double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0000000001505f10 ***
and similar for pdf();
does not happen for jpeg() {which runs via x11},
nor e.g. for
sink("/bla.txt")
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Happens both on 32-bit (Pentium) and 64-bit (AMD Athlon)
machines with the following libc :
32-bit:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1451681 May 13 00:17 /lib/tls/libc-2.3.4.so*
64-bit:
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1490956 May 12 23:26 /lib64/tls/libc-2.3.4.so*
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Can anyone reproduce this problem?
Regards,
Martin