severity 477931 important
thanks

serious is for debian policy violations; important is more suitable in
this case.

On Fri 25 Apr 2008, Kurt Roeckx wrote:

> I can consitently make rsync segfault when trying to sync the linux
> kernel archive using version 3.0.2.  It doesn't segfault using
> 2.6.9-2etch2.  This has worked for weeks but started happening yesterday.
> 
> This is what I got from gdb:

Thanks for the backtrace, very helpful.

> prior_hlinks only seems to be used in case of !inc_recurse, so I
> have the feeling that I shouldn't be comming there in the first place.
> I'm guessing that the hashtable_find() should be inside an if (inc_recurse)
> as all other hashtable_find()'s are also doing that.
> 
> I've attached a patch that does that.  It seems to be working.

I'll forward it upstream so Wayne can take a look, he is very intimate
with the innards of rsync :)

> PS: It's annoying that when a core file gets created that it's written
> in destination path instead of the directory where I started rsync.

Blame Linus :-)  It's what the kernel does, rsync has 0.0 influence on
this besides not changing its current dir, but that would be quite
suboptimal.


Paul Slootman
PS: sorry I haven't yet responded about your other report :-(
Hope to do so soon. Real Life gets in the way sometimes



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