|> For quite a while I've noticed sporadic exceptions from the ar utility
|> when compiling a kernel. Currently have a completely reproducible
|> example when compiling a kernel under NFS.
|> The address listed for the exception is in getname, which puzzles me as
|> getname seems to go to some length to ensure valid addresses.
This is a bug in binutils that has been fixed a long time ago. The
problem is that ar is passing a NULL filename to fopen when there are no
arguments beside the archive name.
-- Andreas Schwab "And now for something schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de completely different" schwab@gnu.org