Ok, let's see about this one. One of the processes in here gets itself
into some major trouble!

Also, in build_args_array_ext in dbmail-imapsession.c, it looks like
memory is being allocated into a global array named the_args, but it's
already allocated on the process stack. That's not so good I don't
think.

Aaron

On Fri, 2006-02-24 at 20:01 -0500, Leif Jackson wrote:
> Aaron,
> 
>  I saw a way to repoduce the SIGALRM, when running the daemons under
> valgrind with the tracechildren option I mentioned in my submission (with
> dbmail.supp) you can connect to any of the daemons from the network and
> then just let the connection sit open till the OS cleans up the idle
> connection (I saw this from someone scanning my network a day or so ago.),
> this will send the signal SIGALRM to the daemon, as far as I can tell on
> my Linux FC2/ CentOS x86_64 4.2 machines. Or could you use kill -s SIGALRM
> <pid of -n running dameon> ?
> 
> 
> Just my .02
> 
> -leif
> 
> On Fri, February 24, 2006 6:44 pm, Aaron Stone wrote:
> > Oleg, Paul and I have started seeing weird segfaults in the daemons.
> > Possibly starting from about two weeks ago, although we're not totally
> > sure. I have some evidence (posted earlier this week) that it's in the
> > SIGALRM handler (maybe all signal handlers?), and that's what's causing
> > the "glib: corrupted double linked list" error messages.
> >
> > What we need now are some good trace logs, gdb logs, valgrind logs, to
> > help narrow down when things go crazy and what leads up to it. Time for
> > more eyeballs to make this bug shallow!
> >
> > DBMail 2.1.4 will be released as soon as we figure this out!
> >
> >
> > Aaron
> >
> >
> >
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