John Jetmore wrote:
> This morning I tried to type something like this on a 3.36 installation:
>
> mailq -DSPOOL=/path/to/alt/spool
>
> and I accidently typed this:
>
> mailq -D=/path/to/alt/spool
>
> exim ran away, consuming memory and cycles for about 5 minutes before I
> killed it (I had switched to another window). I realize this is a typo
> and exim isn't required to behave nicely since I screwed up, but I felt
> either I don't understand what's going on or there's a problem.
>
> I also know 3.36 is old, but I thought the same problem might exist in 4.
Happens with exim 4.05 too, and the worst thing, it happens even as
non-root.
ciao
