[Xapian-devel] Re: [XapianBug 117] Invalid data in remote
protocol can cause buffer overflow
James Aylett
james-xapian at tartarus.org
Thu Apr 5 17:06:47 BST 2007
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:29:54PM +0100, Olly Betts wrote:
> > > > 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?
> >
> > Yes, -, yes.
>
> Erm, then what is waitpid waiting for? The linux man page for waitpid
> says that it should return with ECHILD in this case...
>
> But perhaps this patch might help:
>
> http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/patches/flint-lock-osx.patch
Hmm. With that, cat isn't dying. I suspect there's a weirdness to do
with running under gdb. Killing cat manually makes it all pass.
J
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