[Xapian-devel] Re: [XapianBug 117] Invalid data in remote protocol can cause buffer overflow

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:32:40PM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> All the quartz and flint tests pass, although
> writeabledb::databaseassign1 sometimes hangs for flint. Running it
> again fixed it.

Don't think I've seen that.  Can you get it to perform and strace or
gdb similar to find out what it's doing when it hangs?

> check-remote fails during remotetest - it hangs during
> netmatch2. apitest on remote backend hangs as well (on emptyquery1,
> the first one that tries to do anything), but remotetcp runs fine. I
> guess there's a problem with the prog backend on Mac OS X latest?

There's something up with a change I committed earlier today I think.
I'm currently investigating.

Cheers,
    Olly