stuck lmtpd processes

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 24 Sep 2003, Andrew Morgan wrote:

> So it doesn't have /dev/(u)random open.  But it does have a user's message
> open.  And the connection is one of our dial-up hosts, so it seems like
> that the user's modem connection got abruptly dropped.
[snip]
> It looks like somewhere along the line the read from the network is
> getting stuck.  I don't know why this would happen, but maybe there is a
> bug in OpenSSL (libcrypto).  However, that doesn't mean that Cyrus should
> feel free to hold the lock during a potentially blocking system call...

Yes. Known bug (as we discussed earlier in this thread).

https://bugzilla.andrew.cmu.edu/show_bug.cgi?id=1270

-Rob

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