> Tomasz Kojm > Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 10:49 AM > To: ClamAV Development > Subject: Re: [Clamav-devel] RE: Clamd STREAM instability > > On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 08:10:10 -0400 > "Brian A. Reiter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Please try this fix: > > > > > > Sun Aug 21 01:06:54 CEST 2005 (tk) > > > ---------------------------------- > > > * clamd: use reentrant version of gethostbyname when available > > > > > > > Unfortunately, this patch was no more successful at > resolving the SEGV > > than my own efforts. > > I was expecting the change won't help because the original > code was thread safe (the call to gethostbyname in the stream > scanner was protected with a mutex, and the call in > tcpserver() was not thread unsafe). >
I think I have this tracked down to a defect in the pthreads implementation in libc on Interix 3.5. There is a hotfix available to fix pthreads by replacing libc. The kb article doesn't mention sigsegv, but when I applied it to my test environment clamd no longer segfaults with the TCPAddr option set. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/902074 [October 18, 2005] "FIX: The computer may slow down and the application may stop responding when you run a pthread-based application that uses the va_list variable on Microsoft Windows Services for UNIX 3.5" Unfortunatley, to get the hotfix, you have to contac Microsoft and request it. That means opening a support ticket. Ultimately they do not charge for the patch, but it is a lot of rigmarole. Brian A. Reiter WolfeReiter, LLC : Thoughtful Computing [http://www.thoughtfulcomputing.com] _______________________________________________ http://lurker.clamav.net/list/clamav-devel.html
