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.
This should fix the problem for 4.05, at least i think so, it adds a
syntax-check,
so the macro-definition MUST start with a alphanumeric-character.
root@masta /usr/src/exim-4.05/src# diff -u exim.c.org exim.c
--- exim.c.org Tue Jul 16 13:52:47 2002
+++ exim.c Tue Jul 16 13:53:34 2002
@@ -1186,7 +1186,7 @@
uschar name[24];
uschar *s = argrest;
- if (*s == 0)
+ if (*s == 0 || !isalnum(*s))
{
if(++i < argc) s = argv[i]; else
{ badarg = TRUE; break; }
