Richard Welty writes:
>
> having successfully installed exim 1.62 on two slackware linux
> systems, i'm in the midst of bringing it up on a SunOS 4.1.3 system
> with gcc 2.7.2. it was crashing when reading the headers of files
> residing in the mail spool. i managed to track it down to an sscanf
> in spool_in.c, which plays type casting games that work in some
> environments but not others, and got it working properly. diffs are
> as follows:
There is an equivalent fix in exim-1.62-SunOS4-patch at the distribution
sites, and it is incorporated into the current testing release, whose
ChangeLog has the entry:
7. Fixed a crash that could occur on systems where uid_t is a short.
Chris Thompson Cambridge University Computing Service,
Email: cet1@??? New Museums Site, Cambridge CB2 3QG,
Phone: +44 1223 334715 United Kingdom.
