clone 339691 -1 reassign -1 maildrop retitle -1 maildrop: kills processes it shouldn't severity 339691 normal thanks
On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 10:44:26AM +0100, Vlada Macek wrote: > [At 18.11.2005 08:23, Steve Langasek kindly sent the following quotation.] > > On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 01:17:43AM +0100, Vlada Macek wrote: > >> Vacation does not wait for its sendmail child to die in any way and > >> exits! > >> Therefore accurate vacation parent (such as maildrop MDA) wipes > >> forked and executed sendmail before it could send any message... > > Huh? Why is that a reasonable thing for the MDA to do? > As I was reading its source, Maildrop just cleans up its own mess, which > is rather creditable I think. It sets a process group at the beginning > and does > (void)kill( -getprocgroup(), SIGHUP ); > in the cleanup() method. It's probably more than most of the parent > processes do out there, but at least it reveals such megabugs like that > of vacation. No, I think this is a bogus assumption on the part of maildrop, not a "megabug" in vacation. I don't see any reason why maildrop should be either setting a process group, or killing the group, under such circumstances. I think it's still a bug in vacation to not check the exit value of the commmand it spawns, but I believe the larger bug is maildrop's. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.debian.org/
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