Re: [Exim] Silent crashes of 4.40

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Lähettäjä: Philip Hazel
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Vastaanottaja: Heiko Schlichting
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Aihe: Re: [Exim] Silent crashes of 4.40
On Wed, 21 Jul 2004, Heiko Schlichting wrote:

> It was introduced in release 4.21 but on a different location in the code.
> Starting with 4.40 this code fragment is much earlier and and the file
> descriptor smtp_out is unset at this time. Writing to it cause the crash
> which never happens before 4.40 but now happens frequently (at least on my
> servers) so I consider this problem serious. I wrote a bug report to the
> list including a workaround patch. I did this without reading all mails
> received on this list today as I was busy using my visual debugger...


Thank you for diagnosing the problem so completely. I agree that it is a
serious bug. I will try to get an emergency 4.41 release with only one
change - a fix for this bug - out today if I can. Unfortunately, I lam
going away from lunchtime tomorrow.

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