gamin 0.1.7

[eculp at encontacto.net]

Quoting Alex Dupre <ale at FreeBSD.org>:

> eculp at encontacto.net wrote:
>> IIRC, gamin was dumping core, but since it was a production server I 
>> didn't look further but went back to courier.
>
> Was the gam_server to dump core or the courier-imap using libgamin? 
> If it was the former it never happened to me, the latter could be a 
> courier bug exploited by an unexpected different behaviour of gamin.
>
>> If you think the new version has a chance of working with courier, I 
>> could give it a try.  Early tomorrow morning or maybe this evening 
>> if I can get caught up. (CST).
>
> Giving a real quick look at courier source code I can see a few 
> potential bugs regarding missing or uncorrect checks of FAMPending 
> return values. I don't know if they can cause logical errors and dump 
> core, but surely the fam integration is not perfect. The quick answer 
> is "try the new version", even if the probabilities are not many.

Alex, I was mistaken.  I just deinstalled fam and installed the new 
gamin port and found that the real problem is that imapd is dumping 
core not gamin.

Feb  8 16:47:58 home kernel: pid 58199 (imapd), uid 80: exited on 
signal 11 (core dumped)
Feb  8 16:48:01 home kernel: pid 58201 (imapd), uid 80: exited on 
signal 11 (core dumped)
Feb  8 16:48:03 home kernel: pid 58198 (imapd), uid 80: exited on 
signal 11 (core dumped)

and dumping with an Sig 11 that I hate.  I always think memory but 
switching back to fam it again works perfectly.  Not much help I'm 
afraid.  If there is anything special that I can test for you, let me 
know.  I've got both compiled now so it isn't difficult to switch back 
and forth.

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