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#2257 gather: UnixProcess plugins occasionally crashes

Milestone: Stability

Status: pending-fixed

Owner: Tyrel Datwyler

Labels: Metric Gatherer (85)

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Priority: 5

Updated: 2011-10-18

Created: 2011-08-24

Creator: Tyrel Datwyler

Private: No

metricUnixProcess plugin uses the auto allocation extension of fscanf when reading in strings. This worked out of the box on olders distros, but appears to break on newer platforms with out _GNU_SOURCE explicitly defined.

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Tyrel Datwyler - 2011-08-24

Patch attached.

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Tyrel Datwyler - 2011-08-24

status: open --> pending-fixed
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Tyrel Datwyler - 2011-09-21

Re-opening. Need to review the existing code and probably move away from the buffer auto-allocation extension provided in scanf.

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Tyrel Datwyler - 2011-09-21

summary: gather: gcc extensions not available on new distros --> gather: UnixProcess plugins occasionally crashes

status: pending-fixed --> open-rejected
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Tyrel Datwyler - 2011-09-22

Rolled committed patch back out of CVS.

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Tyrel Datwyler - 2011-10-18

Statically allocate resname and procname buffers

sblim-gather-2.2.3-unixproc-MElem-static.patch

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Tyrel Datwyler - 2011-10-18

status: open-rejected --> pending-fixed
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Tyrel Datwyler - 2011-10-18

Patch attached.

Committed to CVS Head

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