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Re: Bug report: procmail hangs on large messages.
- From: Jason Tishler <jason at tishler dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2010 12:43:16 -0400
- Subject: Re: Bug report: procmail hangs on large messages.
- References: <20100708130021.GA79721@ice.42.org>
Sec,
On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 03:00:21PM +0200, Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:
> I have a problem with cygwin and procmail. If messages exceed a
> certain size, procmail just hangs, eating 100% cpu without doing
> anything.
>
> I've been trying to debug this further, but it just hangs, even with an
> empty .procmailrc file.
>
> Funny enough if I run procmail from within "strace" it runs fine, even
> with larger messages.
>
> I'm at a loss how provide you with more info about this problem.
>
> I binary-searched for the cutoff-point:
>
> Does not work: 8573458 bytes.
> Does work: 8573457 bytes.
Sorry, but I cannot reproduce the above problem:
$ wc -c big.mail
10001689 big.mail
$ procmail <big.mail
$
Could this be a BLODA problem?
http://cygwin.com/faq/faq.using.html#faq.using.bloda
Jason
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