This issue, apparently, has been a problem for me for several Spamassassin releases, but I just now figured out what may be happening. I've been closing spamd once per hour, just to make it read new local.cf, notice sa-update changes, etc., but occasionally my system can't start new tasks (usually error 0xC0000142, very occasionally 0xC0000005 - This is under Windoze, W2K Server/SP4). Closing/Opening spamd also forces closed all the file handles spamd appears to be abandoning un-closed.
I'm currently running SpamAssassin 3.2.5 under Activestate perl 5.8.8.822. It appears that spamd fails to close the file handle to bayes_seen or auto-whitelist when it's done with it. spamd -x -D, filtered on "auto-whitelist" shows: --- 9 line(2) not displayed --- [1504] dbg: auto-whitelist: DB addr list: untie-ing and unlocking [1504] dbg: auto-whitelist: DB addr list: file locked, breaking lock [1504] dbg: locker: safe_unlock: unlink C:\Documents and Settings\dbarker/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock --- 370 line(2) not displayed --- [1504] dbg: auto-whitelist: DB addr list: untie-ing and unlocking [1504] dbg: auto-whitelist: DB addr list: file locked, breaking lock [1504] dbg: locker: safe_unlock: unlink C:\Documents and Settings\dbarker/.spamassassin/auto-whitelist.lock --- 37 line(2) not displayed --- Process Explorer (from SysInternals-Great tool!) shows the file handle to C:\Documents and Settings\dbarker\.spamassassin\auto-whitelist remains open even after spamd is finished and remains so until spamd is closed. This occurs both for auto-whitelist and bayes_seen files. How do I go about trapping this error in locker? (Specifically, how do I figure out who Called locker, to find the code that's not closing the file it opened?) Has anyone else run into this sort of issue? Dan Barker
