[3768] in SIPB bug reports
dsmail
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (raeburn@cygnus.com)
Wed May 19 11:29:43 1993
From: raeburn@cygnus.com
Date: Wed, 19 May 93 11:29:01 EDT
To: jfc@athena.mit.edu
Cc: bug-discuss@athena.mit.edu, bug-sipb@athena.mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <9305190604.AA16822@Achates.MIT.EDU> (message from John Carr on Wed, 19 May 1993 02:04:13 EDT)
Date: Wed, 19 May 1993 02:04:13 EDT
From: John Carr <jfc@Athena.MIT.EDU>
I got this error in a mail bounce:
----- Transcript of session follows -----
<<< RCPT To:<bug-sipb-mtg@bloom-picayune.mit.edu>
<<< DATA
/tmp/DSa16391: No such file or directory
sh: 16391 Memory fault - core dumped554 "|/usr/athena/bin/dsmail -d /usr/spool/discuss/bug-sipb"@bloom-picayune.LOCAL... unknown mailer error 139
----- Unsent message follows -----
I suspect that something (reactivate?) ran "rm -r /tmp" while dsmail was
running, and dsmail couldn't cope. Someone should check the source to see
if there are fopen calls which "can't fail" and so aren't checked.
The only places I see in the current dsmail sources where that message
should get printed are:
fopen fails initially, attempting to create the file
fflush returns EOF
In the first case, though, it does attempt to continue on, and reads
through the null pointer. I'll check in a fix for that, but it
probably means that picayune didn't have a proper /tmp at the time.
