[BusyBox] Re: "rpm" fails with SIGSEGV

[Glenn McGrath]

On Wed, 12 Nov 2003 05:58:09 -0600
Rob Landley <rob at landley.net> wrote:

> Is this the new "fork and use a pipe" code?  (Glenn said he saw a bug
> like this.  I'm happy to try tracking it down if we can get a
> reproducible test case.  This is on a standard intel setup?  What
> kernel, what libc, etc...)

The fork and pipe is only used in get_header_tar_bz2, i did a test and
reverted get_header_tar_gz to use fork and pipe and it was embarasingly
slow.

Im experimenting with custom streams, (i.e. fopencookie) at the moment,
it looks good, its biggest disadvantage is its currently only supported
by glibc and uclibc.


Glenn