#!/bin/sh # Detect printf(3) failure even when it doesn't set stream error indicator # Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Free Software Foundation, Inc. # This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by # the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or # (at your option) any later version. # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the # GNU General Public License for more details. # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License # along with this program. If not, see . prog=printf . "${srcdir=.}/tests/init.sh"; path_prepend_ ./src print_ver_ printf require_ulimit_v_ # Up to coreutils-6.9, "printf %.Nf 0" would encounter an ENOMEM internal # error from glibc's printf(3) function whenever N was large relative to # the size of available memory. As of Oct 2007, that internal stream- # related failure was not reflected (for any libc I know of) in the usual # stream error indicator that is tested by ferror. The result was that # while the printf command obviously failed (generated no output), # it mistakenly exited successfully (exit status of 0). # Testing it is tricky, because there is so much variance # in quality for this corner of printf(3) implementations. # Most implementations do attempt to allocate N bytes of storage. # Using the maximum value for N (2^31-1) causes glibc-2.7 to try to # allocate almost 2^64 bytes, while freeBSD 6.1's implementation # correctly outputs almost 2GB worth of 0's, which takes too long. # We want to test implementations that allocate N bytes, but without # triggering the above extremes. # Some other versions of glibc-2.7 have a snprintf function that segfaults # when an internal (technically unnecessary!) memory allocation fails. # The compromise is to limit virtual memory to something reasonable, # and to make an N-byte-allocating-printf require more than that, thus # triggering the printf(3) misbehavior -- which, btw, is required by ISO C99. mkfifo_or_skip_ fifo # Disable MALLOC_PERTURB_, to avoid triggering this bug # http://bugs.debian.org/481543#77 export MALLOC_PERTURB_=0 head -c 10 fifo > out & # Choosing the virtual memory limit, 11000 is enough, but 10000 is too # little and provokes a "memory exhausted" diagnostic on FreeBSD 9.0-p3. ( ulimit -v 15000; env $prog %20000000f 0 2>err-msg > fifo ) exit=$? # Map this longer, and rarer, diagnostic to the common one. # printf: cannot perform formatted output: Cannot allocate memory" \ sed 's/cannot perform .*/write error/' err-msg > k && mv k err-msg err_msg=$(cat err-msg|tr '\n' :) # By some bug, on Solaris 11 (5.11 snv_86), err_msg ends up # containing '1> fifo:printf: write error:'. Recognize that, too. case $err_msg in "$prog: write error:"*) diagnostic=y ;; "1> fifo:$prog: write error:") diagnostic=y ;; '') diagnostic=n ;; *) diagnostic=unexpected ;; esac n_out=$(wc -c < out) case $n_out:$diagnostic:$exit in 10:n:0) ;; # ok, succeeds w/no diagnostic: FreeBSD 6.1 0:y:1) ;; # ok, glibc-2.8 and newer, when printf(3) fails with ENOMEM # With MALLOC_PERTURB_=0, this no longer happens. # *:139) # segfault; known bug at least in debian unstable's libc6 2.7-11 # echo 1>&2 "$0: bug in snprintf causes low-mem use of printf to segfault" # fail=77;; # 10:y) ;; # Fail: doesn't happen: nobody succeeds with a diagnostic # 0:n) ;; # Fail pre-patch: no output, no diag *) fail=1;; esac Exit $fail