Re: Bug in subscriber searching function is_subbed_in()

[Mads Martin Joergensen <mmj@mmj.dk>]

* Magnus Naeslund(k) <mag@kite.se> [Aug 07. 2006 05:49]:
> I found out that the subscribercode searches the subscriber directory 
> and tries to mmap the lockfile it created earlier which size is zero,
> hence the logentry:
> 
> /usr/bin/mlmmj-sub[25209]: subscriberfuncs.c:61: Could not mmap fd: Invalid argument
> 
> I modified the code to skip ALL files that starts with a dot, that
> takes care if . and .. directories aswell as the .$file.lock files.
> 
> Is this patch acceptable?

Not really. It means it wont search .somesubshereinthis file. But to
that bug, there's already a fix in the tree:

        /* No need to check in 0-size file */
        if(st.st_size = 0)
                return (off_t)-1;

So after ignoring . and .. we only work on files bigger than 0.

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