Re: segfault in mailmbox_append_message_list_no_lock / mmap full mbox

DINH Viet Hoa <[email protected]> Sun, 5 Mar 2006 13:02:49 +0100

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.libetpan.user
Message-ID	<etPan.440ad369.1b38814c.4dc1@utopia>

Florian Lohoff wrote :

> Hi,
> i am getting segfaults in mailmbox_append_message_list_no_lock with a
> simple application of mine copying folder contents from maildir to an
> mbox. This does happen irregularly so i compiled libetpan with debugging
> symbols and let it run. Over the day it copied 66k mails to the mbox 
> before crashing.

can you show your code ?

> It seems the mbox mmap does not succeed but still continues. Anyway - I
> guess so far libetpan is the wrong library for me because i am expecting
> mailfolder much larger than 2GB (for archive reasons) and i see the
> mailmbox_map mmaps the full file which wont work on 32bit archs anyway.

If you have some code to read a mbox, a driver could be written to avoid 
this limitation.

-- 
DINH V. Hoa,

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