Alpine Linux
midnight commander subshell bug
After updating Alpine Linux on my VPS to version 3.14, I noticed that Midnight
Commander (mc) crashed with a segmentation fault around 90% of the time, and
at other times it ran, but refused to accept any input.
At first, I thought that it had to do with the OS update itself and something
was wrong with the version of mc or some other package built in Alpine, so I
tried building mc with ncurses instead of slang as it was before, but to no
effect. To make matters worse, the bug disappeared when I tried to trace it in
strace or valgrind.
Alpine Linux
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