Re: [Exim] exim -bd crashes (Version 4.20, with openldap2 an…

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Author: Tony Finch
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To: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] exim -bd crashes (Version 4.20, with openldap2 and native bdb)
Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Jul 2003, Schramm, Dominik wrote:
>
>> > This affects how it sets up listening. Looks like something is getting
>> > overwritten.
>> >
>> What do you mean by "something"?
>
>Some of the code. At least, that's what "Illegal instruction" suggests
>to me.


Since most systems (probably all the ones that exim runs on) make code
unwritable, the most likely cause of this error is a wild jump caused
either by an overwritten function pointer or by a return address on
the stack being splatted.

Tony.
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