Problems in Linux Components

This section contains information about inconsistencies of various Linux upstream components (mainly libraries) with the Linux Standard Base (LSB) standard. Other errors and improvement proposals are also reported.

All the issues were discovered by the specialists of the Linux Verification Center during OLVER and LSB Infrastructure projects. The projects are in progress with the support of Linux Foundation. The list is being constantly extended. Also, we work with upstream developers to fix found issues in the next versions of corresponding components. All tests that find the problems reported here are available under open-source license and will be included in the official LSB certification test suite.

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No.TypeBriefAdded onAcceptedStatus
S0791 Crash Regression in hsearch_r(): Segmentation fault over internal invariant violation 2009-04-23 Red Hat Bugzilla, 10100 Fixed in glibc-2.10
S0790 Crash Regression in hsearch_r(): Segmentation fault over too small table size 2009-04-23 Fixed in CVS
S0684 Inconsistency Error in psignal(int sig, const char * s) if s is an empty string 2008-08-20 Red Hat Bugzilla, 9823 Fixed in glibc-2.10
S0501 Inconsistency The pthread_mutex_trylock() function returns EDEADLK instead of EBUSY 2008-08-18 Fixed in glibc 2.6
S0558 Inconsistency Call to timer_create() with clock_id received from clock_getcpuclockid() cause an error EINVAL 2008-08-15 Fixed in glibc 2.4
S0167 Inconsistency ulimit(UL_SETFSIZE) does not return the integer part of the new file size limit divided by 512 2007-11-26 Red Hat Bugzilla, 6947 Fixed in glibc-2.9
S0520_1 Inconsistency Incorrect processing of some conversion specifications by getdate() and strptime() functions 2007-11-15 Red Hat Bugzilla, 5451 Fixed in glibc-2.8
S0028 Crash Implementation of the insque() function does not satisfy POSIX. 2007-06-08 Red Hat Bugzilla, 2766 Fixed in glibc-2.5