>But it turns out that, with this configuration, __nss_endent() *also*
>wants to call the implementation of endgrent(3) from each of these
>services. And the one from libnss_db.so, named _nss_db_endgrent(), is
>just a wrapper around a munmap(2) system call, via an intermediate
>internal_endent() function:
Impressive investigative work, congratulations on having found
the root of the problem! :)
>I have no idea what changed, why this used to work before my upgrade
>of the libc, or why it apparently never failed for anyone else not on
>Gentoo.
Let this be a reminder for everyone that complexity always, always
has unintended consequences...
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Laurent
Received on Mon Jun 10 2019 - 05:42:14 UTC