[leafnode-list] Re: 2.0.0.alpha20081120a (and earlier) texpire -r segmentation fault

Kevin Bulgrien kbulgrien at worldnet.att.net
Wed Dec 10 05:31:51 CET 2008


The culprit is a header on the groupinfo file.  The old texpire has no problem
with it.  The new one has a big problem with it.  I did not put that header in
there to my recollection.  I took it out, and texpire -r completes with no
error.  I'd say that a segfault is unwarranted for junk in a configuration
file.  The old texpire is not phased by it.

Old version:

$ head -2 /home/news/leaf.node/groupinfo | od -ax 
0000000   #   A  sp   4   6  nl   k   r   a   y   t   e   c   h   .   a
        4123 3420 0a36 726b 7961 6574 6863 612e
0000020   u   t   o   .   g   o   l   f  ht   y  ht   1  ht   1  ht   0
        7475 2e6f 6f67 666c 7909 3109 3109 3009
0000040  ht   1   9   9   7  sp   V   W  sp   G   o   l   f  sp   G   L
        3109 3939 2037 5756 4720 6c6f 2066 4c47
0000060  nl nul
        000a
0000061
$ /usr/local/sbin/texpire -r
$ /usr/local/sbin/texpire -V
texpire 2.0.0.alpha20060711a

New version:

$ head -2 groupinfo | od -ax
0000000   #   A  sp   6   2  nl   k   r   a   y   t   e   c   h   .   a
        4123 3620 0a32 726b 7961 6574 6863 612e
0000020   u   t   o   .   g   o   l   f  ht   y  ht   1  ht   1  ht   0
        7475 2e6f 6f67 666c 7909 3109 3109 3009
0000040  ht   1   9   9   7  sp   V   W  sp   G   o   l   f  sp   G   L
        3109 3939 2037 5756 4720 6c6f 2066 4c47
0000060  nl nul
        000a
0000061
$ texpire -V
texpire 2.0.0.alpha20081120a

-- 
Kevin Bulgrien <kbulgrien at att.net>



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