OGAWA Hirofumi wrote:
>
> Alessandro Suardi <alessandro.suardi@oracle.com> writes:
>
>> Running Ximian-latest for rh72/i386, latest 2.5 kernels (including
>> 2.5.4-pre2, 2.5.4, 2.5.5-pre1).
>>
>> Symptom:
>> - clicking on the panel icon for gnome-terminal shows a flicker
>> of the terminal window coming up then the window disappears.
>> No leftover processes.
[snip]
> Probably, this problem had occurred in libzvt which gnome-terminal
> is using.
>
> libzvt was using file descriptor passing via UNIX domain socket for
> pseudo terminal. Then because ->passcred was not initialized in
> sock_alloc(), unexpected credential data was passing to libzvt.
>
> The following patch fixed this problem, but I'm not sure.
> Could you review the patch? (attached file are test program)
>
> --- socket.c.orig Mon Feb 11 18:21:59 2002
> +++ socket.c Tue Feb 19 16:20:18 2002
> @@ -501,6 +501,8 @@ struct socket *sock_alloc(void)
> sock->ops = NULL;
> sock->sk = NULL;
> sock->file = NULL;
> +// init_waitqueue_head(&sock->wait); this is needed?
> + sock->passcred = 0;
>
> sockets_in_use[smp_processor_id()].counter++;
> return sock;
Success on first attempt - thanks. Of course since this wasn't
fully reproducable I'll assume the patch fixes the bug, unless
proven wrong.
Thanks again,
--alessandro
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