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Date: Thu, 9 May 2002 10:31:21 -0700
From: Gregory Neil Shapiro <sendmail+gshapiro@sendmail.org>
To: marius@alchemy.franken.de
Cc: Gregory Neil Shapiro <gshapiro@FreeBSD.ORG>,
	Mike Tancsa <mike@sentex.net>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG,
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Subject: Re: milter memory leak ?
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On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:25:17PM +0200, marius@alchemy.franken.de wrote:
> On Tue, May 07, 2002 at 09:26:39AM -0700, Gregory Neil Shapiro wrote:
> > mike> Am I safe in assuming the sample milter in the documentation is free of 
> > mike> error ? This is from
> > 
> > No, I just found one.  By the way, you should probably mail
> > sendmail-questions@sendmail.org for sendmail related questions, not
> > freebsd-stable.
> > 
> 
> could you please tell us the bug ?

Note that above I said to mail to sendmail-questions and not freebsd-stable.
That also implies not both of them. :)

I ended up cleaning up a lot of code there.  You can use the sample
code in libmilter/README instead.

> is there a known problem in the thread related stuff of libmilter or the
> pthread implementation of freebsd ?

Not as of yet.

> when i assemble a linked list of the recipients and finally try to put
> the list into a single string malloc()/realloc() fails at a certain
> point and the next function-call (regardless which funtion, also e.g.
> printf()) triggers a segfault. this happens when there are ~8-10
> recipients, for less it works.

Sounds like a bug in your code.  Perhaps you aren't allocating enough
memory and are overflowing.

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