Bug 114791 - Infinite loop in cmail with empty .res file
Summary: Infinite loop in cmail with empty .res file
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
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Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: xboard
Version: 1
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
medium
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Assignee: Karsten Hopp
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Reported: 2004-02-02 22:00 UTC by Michael Soulier
Modified: 2007-11-30 22:10 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2004-11-16 15:11:34 UTC
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Description Michael Soulier 2004-02-02 22:00:12 UTC 
A friend of mine was just bitten by this. 

Trying to invoke cmail caused it to never return, and chewed cpu on
his box like crazy. Walking through the perl debugger, it seems that
he had a zero-size .res file in his $CHESSDIR. Thus, this line in cmail...

 1271     shift (@tgames) while (!$tgames[0]) ;

...is an infinite loop.

Workaround: Delete the .res file.

Cheers.
Comment 1 Karsten Hopp 2004-11-16 15:11:34 UTC 
This report has been left open for way too long. I don't think I get
around to fix this, sorry
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