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From: Tim Robbins <tjr@freebsd.org>
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Subject: Re: ftpd in debug mode crashes in vsyslog
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On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 06:06:20PM +1200, Joerg Micheel wrote:

> Hi Tim,
> 
> On Thu, May 13, 2004 at 03:38:38PM +1000, Tim Robbins wrote:
> > Thanks for the report - I've committed a fix to -current.
> 
> Great! So .. without looking at -current, what was the issue ?

It was passing a va_list to vprintf() then to vsyslog() without
reinitializing it between calls, which results in "unspecified
behiavour" according to the C standard; on i386 the behaviour
happened to be right, but on amd64 it caused garbage to be passed
to vsyslog().


Tim