sendmail 8.9.0

Ben Castricum (B.Castricum@gns.getronics.nl)
Wed, 27 May 1998 09:02:45 +0200


Hi,

Has anyony paid some attention to sendmail 8.9.0's claim to have found a bug
in the linux kernel? I quote a part of
ftp://ftp.sendmail.org/pub/sendmail/KNOWNBUGS :

* accept() problem on Linux.
Apparently, the accept() in sendmail daemon loop can return ETIMEDOUT
and cause sendmail to sleep for 5 seconds during which time no new
connections will be accepted. An error is reported to syslog:
Jun 9 17:14:12 hostname sendmail[207]: NOQUEUE: SYSERR(root):
getrequests: accept: Connection timed out
"Connection timed out" is not documented as a valid return from
accept(2) and this is believed to be a bug in the Linux kernel.

Just wondering..

Ben

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