Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Bug#322309: Debian woody dpkg no longer works with recent linux kernel. | From | Scott James Remnant <> | Date | Sun, 09 Oct 2005 23:33:16 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 00:16 +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote:
> dpkg in Debian woody (3.0) is broken by recent linux kernels; > due to the following command changing behavior (mmap of > zero-byte length): > > addr=mmap(NULL, 0, PROT_READ, MAP_SHARED, fd, 0); > > These bugs are caused by mmap changing behavior; > it used to return NULL when given a length of 0. > However, it now returns -1, and gives back an errno=EINVAL. > Indeed. This was the sole change in the 1.13.8 release.
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