On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Phil Pennock wrote:
> Philip: there would appear to be a local user DoS against the
> mail-system if the user creates .forward as a sparse file. In fact, I
> just caused Exim to segfault.
Oh what devious minds some people have! I'll investigate and fix. (I
suspect it isn't the sparseness, per se, but the lots of leading zeros
that are seen when the file is read. Or possible the huge apparent size
of the file...)
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