Re: Matlab dumps core (Solaris 10)

From: Casper H.S. Dik (Casper.Dik_at_Sun.COM)
Date: 10/06/05


Date: 06 Oct 2005 16:37:39 GMT

Peter Eriksson <peter@ifm.liu.se> writes:

>First there is a security hole in ld.so (the LD_AUDIT) problem
>so Sun releases a patch for it on Solaris 9 that solves the
>security hole. Only problem is that the fix causes Matlab to
>crash and dump core. After a (long) while another version of that
>patch is released that solves this problem with Matlab.

>Sun also released a patch for Solaris 10 that solved the same
>LD_AUDIT problem (and a bunch of other problems). And And guess what?
>Matlab dumps core! Two days ago Sun released a new version of that
>patch, but did it solve the Matlab problems? Nope.

Our patch pipeline is long and complicated; the fixes for that
particular bug went into revision -06 of said patch.

(It was created late augustus, and I'm not sure what the
holdup is)

Casper

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