Milter-greylist

At Sun, 8 Oct 2006 15:25:06 +0200,
manu@... wrote:
> 
> AIDA Shinra <shinra@...> 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
> 
> So do you advise to let that patch apart until libmilter is fixed, or is
> it better than nothing?

Better than nothing. No reason to postpone the patch.