Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: tla on aix

[tow21]

address@hidden: [Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 08:49:39PM +0000]:
> As promised, some results from the debugger. The hang seems to occur
> when trying to format and print the record of which "symlinks point at
> nonexistent files". The actual line the execution of which seems to
> cause the hang is vu-sys.c:635. Here is the stack trace immediately
> before the hang.

Bizarrely, the problem appears to be in write()ing out a zero-length
buffer. The following program fails in precisely the same fashion.

#include <stdio.h>
int main(void)
{
        ssize_t rv;
        char buf[4]="hih";
        rv = write(2, buf, 0);
        printf("rv %i\n", rv);
        return 1;
}

If the length is any non-positive number, this program runs happily; for
length=zero, no output is produced, and it hangs.

Is this some weird corner of the C standard, or is AIX being
pathologically odd?

Toby

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Dr. Toby White, Dept. of Earth Sciences, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EQ. UK
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