FAQ updated (O17): Linux logs "TCP(fetchmail:...): Application bug, race in MSG_PEEK."

"Matthias Andree" <[email protected]> Sat, 09 May 2009 20:51:44 +0200

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Greetings,

a recent update to the fetchmail FAQ  
<http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#O17> addresses a recently  
seen kernel bug where the kernel is erroneously pointing fingers at  
fetchmail. The FAQ entry reads:

O17. Linux logs "TCP(fetchmail:...): Application bug, race in MSG_PEEK."

That's in fact a bug in Linux kernels around the late 2.6.2X versions,  
rather than fetchmail. Fetchmail has no race bugs around MSG_PEEK, as of  
version 6.3.9. The message can safely be ignored.


References:
  - http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=513695
  - http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg96700.html

-- 
Matthias Andree