On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 12:25:59PM -0600, Earl Hood wrote:
On December 30, 2002 at 00:18, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
The format=flowed code appears to cause perl to go into an infinite loop
with the regex patterns used to process format=flowed data. I was
able to crash v5.6.1 and v5.8.0 of perl under linux.
It looks like Debian is tracking this same problem as a Perl bug. Even
if future MHonArcs no longer trigger the segfault, I assume our Perl
package maintainer should keep the bug open? (Under the perl
segfault = bug theory)
Perl should "never" segfault, unless some XS module is at work (ie.
there is no guarantees when mucking with the internals).
Now, it is not definite that an infinite loop occurred, or if it is was
a degenerate case were a very deep recursive call overflowed the stack.
When I looked at the core file in gdb, the call stack was very very very
deep and it appeared to look like an infinite recursion problem.
I believe it is the latter from your description, and a known problem
in the Perl 5.8 regular expression engine... however, I believe that
what I'm thinking of didn't affect 5.6.1, so take this with a grain of
salt.
--
Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software Debian GNU/Linux Developer
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