From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Aug 29 23:24:41 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id XAA11112 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 23:24:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id XAA11107 for ; Thu, 29 Aug 1996 23:24:38 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id IAA23375; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:24:09 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id IAA28489; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 08:24:09 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.5/8.6.9) id HAA27974; Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:55:02 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199608300555.HAA27974@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: compress will now get an infinite loop on some types of bad input... To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Fri, 30 Aug 1996 07:55:02 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: ponds!rivers@dg-rtp.dg.com (Thomas David Rivers) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199608290322.XAA03028@lakes.water.net> from Thomas David Rivers at "Aug 28, 96 11:22:25 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk As Thomas David Rivers wrote: > I'm not sure who to send this to; suggestions? > Should I just do a send-pr with the corrupted input? No, compile with -g, send it a SIGQUIT next time it happens, and look at the coredump with gdb. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)