From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 31 12:24:42 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id MAA00853 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 31 May 1996 12:24:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id MAA00847 for ; Fri, 31 May 1996 12:24:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA17196; Fri, 31 May 1996 14:23:22 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 31 May 1996 14:23:21 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: Terry Lambert cc: rhh@ct.picker.com, p.richards@elsevier.co.uk, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Er... how long In-Reply-To: <199605311907.MAA18355@phaeton.artisoft.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 31 May 1996, Terry Lambert wrote: > > I wasn't referring to anything so esoteric as a race condition. > > I'm talking about messages that cause filter to dump core. > > What would be an example? (don't send me one, obviously. 8-)). Generally, excessively long header fields will do it. Maybe other things as well. I've never bothered to track it down. If you find core files, and they were generated by filter, go rummaging around in /tmp and you may find the message that killed it. I've never bothered to look at the code since I've switched to procmail. -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================