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| -rw-r--r-- | NEWS | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | fetchmail-FAQ.html | 33 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | netrc.c | 2 |
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@@ -6,8 +6,10 @@ fetchmail-4.6.9 (): * Prevent core dumps on 'for' and 'by' in names (bug introduced in 4.6.8). * Peter Hamlen's fix for bounce-message generation. * Silent mode now suppresses progress messages from 2xx responses in ETRN. +* Fix for netrc.c core dump from Michael Pearce + <Michael_Pearce-AMP001@email.mot.com>. -There are 247 people on fetchmail-friends and 309 on fetchmail-announce. +There are 244 people on fetchmail-friends and 315 on fetchmail-announce. fetchmail-4.6.8 (Sat Nov 28 21:07:46 EST 1998): * Added bounce-mail capability on SMTP/ESMTP error conditions. diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 509896b2..0d8203ab 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/01 07:14:18 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/01 19:29:53 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -89,10 +89,9 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#R2">R2. When I try to configure an MDA, fetchmail doesn't work.</a><br> <a href="#R3">R3. Fetchmail dumps core when given an invalid rc file.</a><br> <a href="#R4">R4. Fetchmail dumps core in -V mode, but operates normally otherwise.</a><br> -<a href="#R5">R5. Fetchmail dumps core when I use a .netrc file but works otherwise.</a><br> -<a href="#R6">R6. Running fetchmail in daemon mode doesn't work.</a><br> -<a href="#R7">R7. Fetchmail hangs when used with pppd.</a><br> -<a href="#R8">R8. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket errors.</a><br> +<a href="#R5">R5. Running fetchmail in daemon mode doesn't work.</a><br> +<a href="#R6">R6. Fetchmail hangs when used with pppd.</a><b> +<a href="#R7">R7. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket errors.</a><br> <h1>Disappearing mail</h1> @@ -1615,24 +1614,10 @@ calls on the same pointer (the malloc arena gets corrupted). Unfortunately it appears from doing gdb traces that whatever free() calls producing the problem are being made by the C library itself, not the fetchmail code (they're all from within fclose, and not an fclose called -by fetchmail, either).<p> +directly by fetchmail, either).<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="R5">R5. Fetchmail dumps core when I use a .netrc file but works otherwise.</a></h2> - -We have a report that under Solaris 2.5 using gcc-2.7.2, if fetchmail -is compiled with -O or -O2, it segfaults on startup when reading a -.netrc.<p> - -You can work around this by disabling optimization.<p> - -There may be an actual bug here that the optimizer exposes; the stack -trace says the segfault is in free() and has all the earmarks of a heap- -corruption screw. But the symptom doesn't reproduce under Linux with the -same .fetchmailrc and .netrc.<p> - -<hr> -<h2><a name="R6">R6. Running fetchmail in daemon mode doesn't work.</a><br></h2> +<h2><a name="R5">R5. Running fetchmail in daemon mode doesn't work.</a><br></h2> We have one report from a Solaris 4.1.4 user that trying to run fetchmail in detached daemon mode doesn't work, but that using the @@ -1646,14 +1631,14 @@ fetchmail with -N and an ampersand to background it.<P> This should not happen under Linux or any truly POSIX-conformant Unix.<P> <hr> -<h2><a name="R7">R7. Fetchmail hangs when used with pppd.</a></h2> +<h2><a name="R6">R6. Fetchmail hangs when used with pppd.</a></h2> Your problem may be with pppd's `demand' option. We have a report that fetchmail doesn't play well with it, but works with pppd if `demand' is turned off. We have no idea why this is.<p> <hr> -<h2><a name="R8">R8. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket errors.</a></h2> +<h2><a name="R7">R7. Fetchmail randomly dies with socket errors.</a></h2> Check the MTU value in your PPP interface reported by <code>/sbin/ifconfig</code>. If it's over 600, change it in your PPP @@ -2222,7 +2207,7 @@ Re-ordering messages is a user-agent function, anyway.<P> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/01 07:14:18 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1998/12/01 19:29:53 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> @@ -119,7 +119,7 @@ parse_netrc (file) /* Strip trailing CRLF */ p = buf + strlen(buf) - 1; - while (*p && isspace(*p)) + while ((p > buf) && *p && isspace(*p)) *p-- = '\0'; /* Parse the line. */ |