Re: [Exim] Re: Bug#236478: Unexpected behaviour with empty …

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: 236478, fsmla, exim-users
CC: Andreas Metzler
Subject: Re: [Exim] Re: Bug#236478: Unexpected behaviour with empty tls_verify_certificates file/directory
On Sat, 6 Mar 2004, J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:

> AFAICT the problem is in the way src/tls-gnu.c's tls_init() tries to set up
> the trusted CAs. Basically it just hands the job off to
> gnutls_certificate_set_x509_trust_file.
>
> That function returns GNUTLS_E_FILE_ERROR when passed the name of an empty
> file. Also strace-ing of test code (see attachment) suggests it isn't
> intended to handle a directory at all.


Thanks for the detailed information.


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