On Sun, 7 Nov 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello,
>
> i am experiencing weird problems with Folder::Maildir module and mod_perl
> 1.21/Apache1.3.9 running on Redhat 6. Whenever i try to receive an attachment
> larger than ~100K, apache process seg faults. I figured that problem is
> not in Folder::Maildir since i can receive attachments of arbitrary sizes
> by running a script from a command line or as a cgi script. I have pinpointed
> the problem to the following line of code in Maildir.pm (line 459):
>
> my $fh = new IO::File "$folder/tmp/$filename", O_CREAT|O_WRONLY, 0600
> or croak "can't create $folder/tmp/$filename: $!";
>
>
> The apache segfaults on this line of code. I have checked everything.. variables
> are initialized, permissions are correct, plenty of disk space.. i mean
> the script runs fine as a cgi script..
...
> i then retrieved the big attachment from a command line and sent myself
> a smaller one. after running strace on http -X again i have figured out
> that apache segfaults during the following system call:
>
> fstat(5, {st_mode=S_ISGID|S_ISVTX|0604, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
I have a feeling that's just the last syscall before the core dump, not
what actually causes the core dump. see the SUPPORT doc for getting a
stack trace with gdb.
