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address@hidden: Bug#134330: mailutils-imap4d: Infinite loop on symlinks.


From: Jeff Bailey
Subject: address@hidden: Bug#134330: mailutils-imap4d: Infinite loop on symlinks.]
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 18:41:31 -0800
User-agent: Mutt/1.2.5i

How should we handle bugs for mailutils?  Just post here, or should I
try to get a gnats database or something running?

----- Forwarded message from Norbert Veber <address@hidden> -----

Subject: Bug#134330: mailutils-imap4d: Infinite loop on symlinks.

Package: mailutils-imap4d
Version: 20011103-1.1
Severity: important

In my directory, I have this:
address@hidden:~/.gnome-desktop]$ ls -al
total 20
drwxr-xr-x    3 nveber   nveber       4096 Feb 14 21:41 .
drwx--x--x  111 nveber   nveber       8192 Feb 16 21:11 ..
lrwxrwxrwx    1 nveber   nveber          6 Feb 14 21:39 cdrom -> /cdrom
lrwxrwxrwx    1 nveber   nveber          7 Feb 14 21:39 fd0 -> /floppy
lrwxrwxrwx    1 nveber   nveber         12 Feb 14 21:39 Home directory
-> /home/nveber
-rwxr-xr-x    1 nveber   nveber         90 Jan  2 20:26 moviecd.sh
drwx------    2 nveber   nveber       4096 Feb 14 21:47 Trash.gmc

When getting the list of folders from the imap server, it enters into an
infite loop while listing the contents of my directory because of the symlink
that points back to my directory.  An strace shows its reading the same
directory over and over and over..

-- System Information
Debian Release: 3.0
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux pyre 2.4.17 #2 Sun Dec 23 16:22:24 EST 2001 i686
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages mailutils-imap4d depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.2.5-3      GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libmailutils0               20011103-1.1 GNU Mail Abstraction library
ii  libpam0g                    0.72-35      Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii  netbase                     4.07         Basic TCP/IP networking system


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