Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Mon, 4 Sep 2000 21:01:33 -0700 (PDT) | From | "Mr. James W. Laferriere" <> | Subject | Re: test8-pre4: innd fixed? |
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Hello Alexander ,
On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Alexander Viro wrote: > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000, Mohammad A. Haque wrote: > > Is this file corruption 'thing' specific to innd or is it the same > > problem reported with corrupt mailboxes with pre2 and high disk > > activity? > Hell knows. Let me put it that way: one long-standing bug definitely > had kicked the bucket. The question being: had any other crap survived? > In other words, if you can reproduce fs corruption on clean ext2 (after > forced fsck if you've used it with earlier kernels) - tell.
> Notice that there is an unrelated problem with pine - if this sucker > corrupts the mailbox if it has to deal with a message containing long > X-something headers. _That_ bug has nothing with Linux - it can be easily > reproduced on any system (looks like a very sloppy programming and > possibly an exploitable buffer overrun). Pine problem ? Has anybody reported which version of pine ? The only version of pine I am aware of with a overrun problem was V4.10 . Is anyone else aware of any newer Versions with this malady ? Tia , JimL
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