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From: rdr@cl4.alliant.com (Roger Roles)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail 5-65+/IDA under SunOS4.1 dumps core with frozen .cf
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Date: 13 Dec 90 23:50:50 GMT
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In article <1990Dec12.143759.20693@warwick.ac.uk> cudcv@warwick.ac.uk (Rob McMahon) writes:
>access to before the freeze stage.  I tried a quick
>
	<code to do yp_unbind before freeze>
> 
>to reset the NIS before dumping.  This gets it past a `-bv -v' test, but it

Try inserting an identical piece of code before the read of the freeze file
in the "thaw" routine. While fixing a similar problem in a different version
of sendmail, I discovered that in addition to the saving of the state
used by the NIS in the freeze, the readback of the freeze file destroyed
similar information, causing strange results later due to the unexpected
closing of a file descriptor by a piece of code using a stale copy.
Roger D. Roles		rdr@Alliant.COM, alliant!rdr
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