On Wed, Jun 14, 2000 at 02:50:46PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ok I'd like to know why its breaking stuff, and who is queueing negative
> length I/O's.
>
strace netscape:
...
socket(PF_UNIX, SOCK_STREAM, 0) = 10
...
connect(10, {sin_family=AF_UNIX, path="/tmp/.X11-unix/X0"}, 19) = 0
...
[lots of successfull socket reads/writes snipped]
...
writev(10, [{"1\0\t\0\377\377\34\0", 4294967304}, {"-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*", 18446462624502644764}], 2) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
Same with acrobat reader:
...
writev(3, [{"1\0\r\0\1\0,\0", 18446744069414584328}, {"-*-*-medium-r-normal-*-*-*-*-*-*"..., 18446744069414584364}], 2) = -1 EINVAL (Invalid argument)
All these huge numbers have valid low 32 bits and a junk in the upper 32 bits.
Looks like the int/long bug in some lib, probably motif.
Ivan.
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