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From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>
To: Ralph Seichter <abbot@monksofcool.net>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org
Subject: Re: Bug: SIGABRT if "notmuch dump" output file is not writeable
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2019 15:53:42 -0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sgqwshu1.fsf@tethera.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <875zns4pnm.fsf@ra.horus-it.com>

Ralph Seichter <abbot@monksofcool.net> writes:

> gzclose_w(output) has already been called in line 332, before Notmuch
> attempts to rename the temp file to the output file. At that point,
> 'output' should be set to null as it is being checked later, but that
> erroneously only happens in case the close operation fails.
>
> The rename in line 341 fails because of permission/ownership issues,
> 'ret' contains the error code for that, 'output' is still non-null, so
> gzclose_w is called again -- ergo boom.

That sounds plausible to me. Thanks for thinking about this longer than
I did. I'll be happy to look at a patch.

d

      reply	other threads:[~2019-07-27 23:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-07-22 18:47 Bug: SIGABRT if "notmuch dump" output file is not writeable Ralph Seichter
2019-07-22 22:15 ` David Bremner
2019-07-22 23:37   ` Ralph Seichter
2019-07-23 14:57     ` David Bremner
2019-07-23 17:38       ` Ralph Seichter
2019-07-23 18:53         ` David Bremner [this message]

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