Hi,

Antonio Radici wrote:

> My first thought was that this problem was related to off_t size for
> seek() and it would also make some sort of sense that after a certain
> limit seek didn't work, especially this happened only on mbox.
> Unfortunately the biggest size for a 32bits value is 4G and off_t,
> anyway, is 64 bits.

Since off_t and long are signed, wouldn't problems with 32-bit offsets
indeed trigger around 2G?  But AC_SYS_LARGEFILE and use of fseeko
should have taken care of it, as you mentioned.

> I will continue to test this on other system, if I
> can't manage to reproduce it maybe we can ask on debian-devel@ (or
> somewhere else) if anyone is willing to test the bug for
> reproducibility.

When I try on an i386 system with 150 MiB of RAM, 300 MiB swap,
mutt is killed by the oom killer.  I should have expected that. :)



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