From tcallawa at redhat.com  Tue Jan 26 07:23:22 2010
From: tcallawa at redhat.com (Tom "spot" Callaway)
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 01:23:22 -0500
Subject: [Rd] Stack smashing in RODBC
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On 01/25/2010 09:14 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> I cannot replicate this on Debian. The error gets trapped just fine. This may
> be particular to your builds or setup. I don;t see an R error (but of course
> do not speak for R Core). Here is a short version, it is the same in normal
> interactive mode.

I don't think Debian builds with stack protection in glibc, whereas
Fedora does (and I think Ubuntu Hardy and onward also do).

~spot



[Rd] Stack smashing in RODBC
Tom "spot" Callaway