Re: sudo dumping core on recent current

[Lloyd Parkes <lloyd%must-have-coffee.gen.nz@localhost>]

On 16/12/2025 09:41, Todd C. Miller wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:48:26 +1300, Lloyd Parkes wrote:
>
> > It seems that my sudo is passing a null path to ts_secure_opendir()
> > which ends up getting passed to strrchr() causing the core dump. I'll
> > pull the thread on this and see where it leads (I'm sure that's a mixed
> > metaphor).
> That could be due to either _PATH_SUDO_TIMEDIR or _PATH_SUDO_LECTURE_DIR
> not being defined in pathnames.h.
>
> The code should really check for NULL in those cases but currently
> does not.  I'll make a change to that effect.

I wouldn't prioritise that. I can see that the the default value is good 
to start with and bad later on.

Something strange is going on and I need to dig a lot more.

I can also see that a "normal" build outside of pkgsrc works fine so I 
should be able to use this to narrow down where things are going wrong.

Ngā mihi,
Lloyd