in reply to Perl Interpreter (5.8.5) initialization causes SIGSEGV in HPUX

Is the number of users (/etc/passwd) on the trusted system "huge"? There are known crashers on HP-UX and Windows (and probably more) for systems that host a rather high number of users. It is not depending on how many users are currently logged in, but on the number of user id's the system knows about.

I /think/ it is fixed in more recent versions of perl, but I never had access to a trusted HP-UX with a high number of known users.

More recent ports for perl are available on HP's site (5.8.8), the HP porting center (5.10.1) or on my site (all up to and including 5.16.0).


Enjoy, Have FUN! H.Merijn
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Re^2: Perl Interpreter (5.8.5) initialization causes SIGSEGV in HPUX
by adarshanto (Initiate) on Aug 16, 2012 at 15:31 UTC

    There are around 22 entries in the /etc/password file
    However, only 1 or 2 users are simultaneously logged in

    I also checked pp_syc.c file upto 5.16.0
    The mentioned code snippet didn't have any significant code changes- apart from the following minor change: 

    dSAVE_ERRNO;
const struct spwd * const spwent = getspnam(pwent->pw_name);
RESTORE_ERRNO;

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    Will try to make the change which rurban suggested: Try to disable HAS_GETSPNAM in config.h
    Searched all the c files and found that HAS_GETSPNAM is used only at this place.
    Please let me know if you think this may have any undesirable side effects

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      I disabled HAS_GETSPNAM & the crash was fixed
      Thanks again for promptly jumping in to help

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