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From: peter@orfeo.radig.de (Peter Radig)
Newsgroups: comp.mail.sendmail
Subject: Re: sendmail 5.61 on ISC 3.2 unix i386
Message-ID: <2041@orfeo.radig.de>
Date: 9 Jan 90 06:40:24 GMT
References: <886@uudell.dell.com>
Organization: Peter Radig, Frankfurt, West Germany
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james@raid.dell.com (James Van Artsdalen) writes:

>that sendmail never dumps core for the uux mailer, only SMTP.  Over
>time, the mqueue directory builds up mail that was locked when sendmail
>dumped core during delivery.  When sendmail dumps core, it is usually
>in malloc(3c) or _filbuf, with a stray pointer.

As far as I know some problems may arise if the `bcopy' does not copy
overlapping structures quite right. I had always problems when replacing
the calls to `bcopy' with `#define bcopy(a,b,c) memcpy(b,a,c)'.

Peter
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