create_directories causes invalid read

[Itay C <itay.chamiel@…>]

The following code, when run under Valgrind, will report two instances of invalid reads during program close (after main).

Tested on Ubuntu Linux x64 12.04 (kernel 3.8.0) with gcc 4.6.3.

#include <stdlib.h>
#include <boost/filesystem.hpp>

int main()
{
	system("rm -rf /tmp/test"); // make sure directory doesn't already exist
	boost::filesystem::create_directories("/tmp/test");
	return 0;
}

[Beman Dawes]

Using gcc (Ubuntu 4.8.2-19ubuntu1) 4.8.2 on Ubuntu 14.4 LTS, I was not able to reproduce the problem.

What were the gcc and valgrind command lines you used?

--Beman

[Itay C <itay.chamiel@…>]

1. put source in bbug.cpp
2. export BOOST_PATH=<...>
3. g++ bbug.cpp -I$BOOST_PATH/include -L$BOOST_PATH/lib -lboost_system -lboost_filesystem -Wl,-rpath=$BOOST_PATH/lib
4. valgrind ./a.out

[harisaicharan111.challa@…]

I have run the above code but did not get any invalid reads using valgrind so can you please elaborate on the bug ?