STABLE 20040522 MAJOR problems!

[Russ Allbery]

Russ Allbery <rra at stanford.edu> writes:

> innd died, and when you went to look for one, you couldn't find any core
> file?  (This is pretty mystifying, that it would crash on that article
> after having handled plenty of other articles, and nothing looks strange
> about that article in particular.)

Okay, I think I understand what's going on.  I saw the problematic piece
of code earlier too, and just hadn't realized the full implications.

This is fixed fully in CURRENT.  For STABLE, could you see if the
following workaround works for you, since you're seeing this problem
currently?

Index: innd.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /proj/cvs/isc/inn/inn/innd/innd.h,v
retrieving revision 1.98.2.1
diff -u -p -r1.98.2.1 innd.h
--- inn/innd/innd.h	2004/05/16 20:54:25	1.98.2.1
+++ inn/innd/innd.h	2004/05/26 18:56:57
@@ -223,16 +223,16 @@ typedef struct _ARTDATA {
   struct buffer	  Overview;		/* buffer for overview data */
   int		  CRwithoutLF;		/* counter for '\r' without '\n' */
   int		  LFwithoutCR;		/* counter for '\n' without '\r' */
-  size_t	  CurHeader;		/* where current header starts.
+  long		  CurHeader;		/* where current header starts.
 					   this is used for folded header
 					   it indicates offset from bp->Data */
   bool		  NullHeader;		/* contains NULL in current header    */
-  size_t	  LastTerminator;	/* where last '.' exists.  only set if
+  long		  LastTerminator;	/* where last '.' exists.  only set if
 					   it exists at the begining of line
 					   it indicates offset from bp->Data */
-  size_t	  LastCR;		/* where last CR exists
+  long		  LastCR;		/* where last CR exists
 					   it indicates offset from bp->Data */
-  size_t	  LastCRLF;		/* where last CRLF exists.
+  long		  LastCRLF;		/* where last CRLF exists.
 					   indicates where last LF exists
 					   it indicates offset from bp->Data */
   HDRCONTENT	  HdrContent[MAX_ARTHEADER];

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