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

[Olly Betts]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:31:34PM +0100, James Aylett wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:01:26PM +0100, Olly Betts 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?
> 
> It's waiting for the locking child to die:

Has the child died?  If not, what's the child doing?  Does the box have
/bin/cat?

Cheers,
    Olly