[marillat at debian.org: Bug#178673: inn2-inews: rnews is broken]

[Jeffrey M. Vinocur]

On Tue, 28 Jan 2003, Marco d'Itri wrote:

> On Jan 28, "Jeffrey M. Vinocur" <jeff at litech.org> wrote:
> 
>  >I don't really use strace, but surely this can't be the full output, can 
>  >it?
>
> Yes, it is. It really waits there in read(2) until interrupted.

Oh, I see.  Odd.

Ok, I'm pretty baffled by this.  It wasn't clear to me exactly what 
version you describe, so I'm looking at STABLE for the moment.  In 
rnews.c, 


> write(5, "ihave <b14a7v$36m$1 at peinard.chezmoi>\r\n", 38)

This is undeniably line 261.


> read(4, "335\r\n", 4096)

So this has to be line 268, and assuming there's nothing inexplicable in 
syslog, we ought to successfully make it to the call to NNTPsendarticle() 
at line 301.  But that routine in lib/sendarticle.c is bound to 
write before it reads, as I see it.

(Marco, is there any way we can get a backtrace so I don't have to guess
about this?)


> read(4,

I can't see where this would be.


-- 
Jeffrey M. Vinocur
jeff at litech.org