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Earlier today, I reported a bug in rmail.  I have narrowed down the
problem to the vicinity of where rmail-nuke-pinhead-header is called.
That function, and the code preceding it and following it, get looped
through ad-infinitum, if the Unix-style header (From ) contains a
time-zone specification of the form +nnnn.  For your debugging pleasure,
I attach a piece of mail which has been munged to stimulate the bug.
The only change from a real piece of mail was to change the time zone for
the *sender* only from EDT to +0200 the three places it appears.
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From: Brian Glendenning <brian@radio.astro.utoronto.ca>
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Subject: Mystery crashes - (disk related crashes solved)
Status: RO


OK - I've found at least one source of crashes (thanks largely to
kensmith@cs.buffalo.edu who kindly adb'd the core and told me what he
found, which allowed me to track it down).

When we upgraded to 4.0.1 from 3.4 we left (restored) our old root and
/usr on disk to facilitate restoring local modifications. In our old
system the /dev had entries for xy2, which we don't have on this
system (and which we haven't had for a long time under 3.x either).
Whenever anything (find, du, ls, rm) tried to access the first
"nonexistent" directory entry (xy2a), the system crashed. This seems
overly violent to me, but it least it's easily fixed.

There's at least one satisfied reader of sun-managers out here :-)

Brian
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	  Brian Glendenning - Radio astronomy, University of Toronto
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