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Re: [bug-inetutils] bug found in inetutils-1.5 telnet binary
From: |
Debarshi Ray |
Subject: |
Re: [bug-inetutils] bug found in inetutils-1.5 telnet binary |
Date: |
Mon, 14 Apr 2008 19:17:18 +0530 |
(Can't think of an excuse for such a delayed response.)
> We've found a problem in the telnet binary in inetutils-1.5 where telnet
> hangs while making a connection. This happens when telnet inherits many file
> descriptors from the parent process.
>
> [...]
>
> I have attached a small manyfd.c program that invokes telnet to show the
> problem, and I have attached a better version of sys_bsd.c.
Reproduced with latest CVS snapshot.
Happy hacking,
Debarshi
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