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Author: Neal Becker
Date:  
To: exim-users
New-Topics: Re: several messages
Subject: exim stuck
Here's the scoop.

As I previously reported, I have an exim process stuck (for about 24
hours).

10 T    exim 22456     1  0 128 20  4277c40   96           Oct 14  ?
0:00 /local/exim/exim -Mc 0vCqPm-0005q8- 


Attaching to this process:

(gdb) where
#0  0x80838850 in _write ()
#1  0x37ed0 in write_chunk (fd=warning: reading register r11: I/O error
0, 
    chunk=0x400104a8 'y' <repeats 12 times>, "\r\n", 'y' <repeats 186 times>..., len=592, from_hack=warning: reading register r12: I/O error
0, use_crlf=1, smtp_dots=1) at transport.c:241
#2  0x38118 in transport_write_message (fd=8, add_return_path=1073808552, 
    add_delivery_date=8192, from_hack=0, use_crlf=1, smtp_dots=1, 
    errors_to=0x0, size_limit=0) at transport.c:348
#3  0x42f1c in smtp_deliver (addrlist=0x4000c318, host=0x4000c8c0, 
    port=2063809296, transport_name=0x4000b8a8 "smtp", ob=0x4000b8d8)
    at smtp.c:747
#4  0x43a30 in smtp_transport_entry (tblock=0x4000b868, addrlist=0x4000c318)
    at smtp.c:1279
#5  0x19d34 in deliver_message (id=0x7b033015 "0vCqPm-0005q8-00", 
    forced=1073747024, give_up=1) at deliver.c:2425
#6  0x1dbbc in main (argc=3, argv=0x7b033328) at exim.c:1249



I see that the message is about 1MB of garbage. I don't know why the
write() is hanging. Shouldn't it timeout?