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authorSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2006-01-05 15:35:20 +0000
committerSergey Poznyakoff <gray@gnu.org.ua>2006-01-05 15:35:20 +0000
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Mention BROKEN_PTHREAD_SLEEP Sendmail variable
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Mailfromd README
-Copyright (C) 2005 Sergey Poznyakoff
+Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Sergey Poznyakoff
See the end of file for copying conditions.
* Introduction
@@ -43,6 +43,18 @@ interface.
It comes with Sendmail, but is not built by default.
+ IMPORTANT NOTE: make sure that libmilter is compiled with
+ BROKEN_PTHREAD_SLEEP defined. If this symbol is not defined,
+ libmilter will use sleep() in signal-handler thread,
+ which may cause various program misbehaviors, including
+ coredumps. This problem has been asserted on (at least)
+ GNU/Linux and FreeBSD systems.
+
+ To rebuild Sendmail with this symbol defined, add the following
+ line to your devtools/Site/site.config.m4:
+
+ APPENDDEF(`confENVDEF', `-DBROKEN_PTHREAD_SLEEP')
+
C. GNU mailutils version 0.6 or newer.
It is available from `http://www.gnu.org/software/mailutils'.
@@ -157,7 +169,7 @@ Send bug reports to <bug-mailfromd@gnu.org.ua>.
* Copyright information:
-Copyright (C) 2005 Sergey Poznyakoff
+Copyright (C) 2005, 2006 Sergey Poznyakoff
Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the

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