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diff --git a/src/cleanup/bug2.in b/src/cleanup/bug2.in new file mode 100644 index 0000000..138ca3d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/cleanup/bug2.in @@ -0,0 +1,37 @@ +#verbose on +open bug2.file.tmp + +# Two bugs while updating a short Subject: header immediately before +# a still virgin "append header" pointer record. +# +# Symptom: +# +# warning: <filename>: malformed pointer record value: <garbage> +# +# Cause: +# +# Failure to recognize the "append header" record while updating +# a short message header +# +# Analysis: +# +# This happened while updating a header record that was followed by +# the current "append header" record. The pointer could be the initial +# "append header" record between message header and body, or it could +# be a later version of that pointer somewhere in the heap. +# +# - Postfix considered the pointer record as any pointer record after +# a header record. Thus, it decided that some portion of the pointer +# record could be overwritten with the location of the new Subject: +# header on the heap. Later "append header" operations would then +# update old "append header" record and thus clobber part of the +# pointer to the new Subject: header value. +# +# - While saving the "append header" pointer record value on the +# heap, Postfix did not replace the still virgin "0" append header" +# pointer record value by the actual location of the message body +# content. + +upd_header 1 Subject hey! +add_header foo foobar +close |