[ast-developers] valgrind hits when launching external commands from ast-ksh.2014-03-01 ...

[Roland Mainz]

Hi!

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While looking at Irek's problem I found some valgrind hits when
external commands are launched from ast-ksh.2014-03-01 on SuSE
12.3/AMD64/64bit Linux:
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$ valgrind ./arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh -c '/usr/bin/true ; true'
==3634== Memcheck, a memory error detector
==3634== Copyright (C) 2002-2012, and GNU GPL'd, by Julian Seward et al.
==3634== Using Valgrind-3.8.1 and LibVEX; rerun with -h for copyright info
==3634== Command: ./arch/linux.i386-64/bin/ksh -c /usr/bin/true\ ;\ true
==3634==
[snip]
==3634==
==3634== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==3634== at 0x4E9D27: spawnvex (spawnvex.c:1100)
==3634== by 0x456118: _spawnveg (path.c:158)
==3634== by 0x459897: path_spawn (path.c:1288)
==3634== by 0x472632: sh_ntfork (xec.c:3879)
==3634== by 0x46B874: sh_exec (xec.c:1724)
==3634== by 0x46D654: sh_exec (xec.c:2255)
==3634== by 0x40FAB2: exfile (main.c:610)
==3634== by 0x40ECFD: sh_main (main.c:382)
==3634== by 0x40DE80: main (pmain.c:45)
==3634==
==3635== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==3635== at 0x4E9D81: spawnvex (spawnvex.c:1118)
==3635== by 0x456118: _spawnveg (path.c:158)
==3635== by 0x459897: path_spawn (path.c:1288)
==3635== by 0x472632: sh_ntfork (xec.c:3879)
==3635== by 0x46B874: sh_exec (xec.c:1724)
==3635== by 0x46D654: sh_exec (xec.c:2255)
==3635== by 0x40FAB2: exfile (main.c:610)
==3635== by 0x40ECFD: sh_main (main.c:382)
==3635== by 0x40DE80: main (pmain.c:45)
==3635==
==3634== Conditional jump or move depends on uninitialised value(s)
==3634== at 0x4EA14D: spawnvex (spawnvex.c:1193)
==3634== by 0x456118: _spawnveg (path.c:158)
==3634== by 0x459897: path_spawn (path.c:1288)
==3634== by 0x472632: sh_ntfork (xec.c:3879)
==3634== by 0x46B874: sh_exec (xec.c:1724)
==3634== by 0x46D654: sh_exec (xec.c:2255)
==3634== by 0x40FAB2: exfile (main.c:610)
==3634== by 0x40ECFD: sh_main (main.c:382)
==3634== by 0x40DE80: main (pmain.c:45)
==3634==
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Glenn... what do you think about these valgrind hits ?

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Bye,
Roland