Subject: Re: bin/19696: mail(1) dumps core
To: None <netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org>
From: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/12/2003 19:13:45
In article <200301051442.h05EgVC10532@acheron.ne.client2.attbi.com>,
Mason Loring Bliss <mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us> wrote:

>mail(1) dumps core periodically. I have so far only observed this while
>running it from cron(8). Given that it is used for a critical tasks in
>production environments, having it dump core is wholly unacceptable and
>fairly disgusting.

Well, the core file that you got can be used to debug a version of mail
compiled with the same flags as before + -g.

christos