An obsolete weakness occurs when someone uses deprecated or obsolete functions when building a system. As a programming language evolves, some functions occasionally become obsolete.
These functions are considered obsolete on most systems, and very non-portable.
glibc-2.5-20061008T1257/sysdeps/posix/raise.c
The highlighted line of code below is the trigger point of this particular Centos 6 obsolete weakness.
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA
02111-1307 USA. */
#include <signal.h>
#include <unistd.h>
/* Raise the signal SIG. */
int
raise (sig)
int sig;
{
return __kill (__getpid (), sig);
}
libc_hidden_def (raise)
weak_alias (raise, gsignal)