Bug#990117: mbsync: Recursive symlink in maildir path causes abort

2021-06-21 Thread Oswald Buddenhagen
On Mon, Jun 21, 2021 at 10:44:42AM +0200, Nicolas Schier wrote: A recursive symlink (here: Inbox -> ".") might be considered bad practise. But perhaps a recursion detection is more user-friendly? it's unreasonable to implement an actual recursion detection to cover such a corner case. an arbit

Bug#990117: mbsync: Recursive symlink in maildir path causes abort

2021-06-21 Thread Nicolas Schier
Package: isync Version: 1.3.0-2.1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer, if a maildir path contains a recursive symlink, mbsync does not detect recursion but aborts with Fatal: buffer too small. Please report a bug. A run inside gdb reveals: #0 __GI_raise (sig=sig@entry=6) at ../sysdeps/unix/sy