libwrap crash

[Dan Langille]

On 30 Oct 2003 at 9:42, Dan Langille wrote:

> I've been tracking down a libwrap call which crashes the application. 
>  The crash occurs on line 395 of contrib/tcp_wrappers/options.c, but 
> I have no idea.

I've been given some help in this offline.  Apparently, the bacula 
code is incorrectly using hosts_access. bacula should fork before it 
calls hosts_access because hosts_access will kill you on twist.  
Otherwise, you'll get either a deny or an allowed, and the thread 
continue from here.  

My offline helper was comparing the inetd source code.  I can't find 
any reference in host_options(5) or host_access(3) which point to the 
correct usage.

Is the FreeBSD documentation incomplete?  Is there a more accurate 
documentation I can point the bacula developers to?

FYI: The bacula approach is said to work under Linux and Solaris but 
I have yet to run my reproducible tests on those platforms.

Thank you.
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Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/