nnrpd/expireover/whatever bug (not sure where) preview
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org
Fri Oct 18 12:14:47 UTC 2002
On Fri, 18 Oct 2002, Bernd Jendrissek wrote:
> [I'd greatly appreciate Cc'ed replies.]
>
> The interesting thing is that INN sends back *some* overview, but then just
> stops. The last line is overview, not the ".\r\n" terminator. And yet
> nnrpd (or is it innd?) accepts other commands, "quit" at least.
That we've seen before, but I forget what it is -- something that silently
eats the error.
> So yesterday I got fed up and attached gdb to nnrpd. Lo and behold, it
> seems like somebody's trying to write almost a gigabyte in one SendIOv()
> call. Oops.
Can you add a call to abort(3) right after you log the "whoops" and then
have a look in the core dump at a backtrace?
> I suppose expireover will just stop segfaulting as well.
That's weird, but hopefully we'll find a problem with overview.
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Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org
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