Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-programming (6 mails)

[Per Jessen <per@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Philipp Thomas wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 18:35:34 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
>
> > I've several core dumps that all point to vsyslog() being the culprit.
> > I've got a chunk of heap-storage being overwritten by a formatted
> > logline:
>
> Have you tried compiling the app with -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2? This will
> add runtime stack and buffer overflow checking to your code (this is
> what nearly all code in openSUSE is compiled with and helps quite a
> lot) and may help in finding the place where the app blows up.

This is a runtime check?  I'll try it.  I get the situation about once a
day. 

In the meantime I've changed my vsyslog() call to a call to
vsnprintf+syslog - which didn't change anything.  So maybe the right
question is - is syslog() threadsafe?


/Per Jessen, Zürich

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