Re: (ITS#3804) SLAPD crashes on update to meta

[daveh@ci.com.au]

On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Pierangelo Masarati wrote:

> Never mind, I think I've spotted the problem (at least I spotted a related
> one): it's a typo in back-meta/add.c which doesn't affect 2.3/HEAD.  A
> missing return statement was allowing add operations to propagate in case
> no candidate could be found, e.g. by running an add operation that is
> captured by the meta database but cannot be mapped to any target.  You can
> get the fix by running
> 
> cvs -z3 diff -u -r 1.21.2.7 -r 1.21.2.8 servers/slapd/back-meta/add.c
> 
> Thanks for reporting. p.

Wow - thanks for the fast service!  I'll try it out tomorrow.

In the meantime, I'm still wondering why I wasn't getting a core dump
on the SIGSEGV; it's not set-uid, the current directory was /var/tmp
(world writable), and there's no unwritable file in the way.  There's
also 2Gb free space available...

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