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Re: [milter-greylist] Solution for non executed final_dump()

2006-10-08 by AIDA Shinra

At Sat, 7 Oct 2006 22:34:19 +0200,
<attila.bruncsak@...> wrote:
>
> I would like to provide a solution for a long standing problem.
> On many platforms the final_dump() is not executed after
> the milter-greylist has received a TERM signal.
> With this patch the problem goes away,
> at least on the Linux platform where I tested it.
> On the Tru64 UNIX platform it was working before
> and continues to work.
> 
Your patch is itself correct. Unfortunatelly, there are race
conditions in the libmilter causing abort() or SEGV. We cannot ensure
that the final_dump() always executed before the libmilter's bug is
also fixed. I hope sendmail 8.13.9 will include the following patch.
http://www.j10n.org/files/libmilter-8.13.8-signal.patch

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