Bug 20062 - upgraded /bin/mail cannot be used as mailreader
Summary: upgraded /bin/mail cannot be used as mailreader
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Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: mailx
Version: 5.2
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
medium
medium
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Florian La Roche
QA Contact: David Lawrence
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2000-10-30 20:46 UTC by Need Real Name
Modified: 2007-04-18 16:29 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2000-10-30 20:46:54 UTC
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Description Need Real Name 2000-10-30 20:46:50 UTC 
/bin/mail which comes with the security upgraded mailx-8.1.1-16 for RH 5.2
seems to open the
/var/spool/mail/$USER readonly, and when it tries to delete or change the
flag on a message, 
it dumpes core.

Believe it or not, people still use /bin/mail as reader.
Comment 1 Derek Tattersall 2000-10-31 13:37:13 UTC 
I straced mailx on a 5.2 system with all applicable updates.  mailx was at
8.1.1-16.  /var/spool/mail/xxx was indeed opened O_RDONLY; however it was closed
and reopened O_WRONLY |  O_TRUNC.  Upon supplying d1 to the prompt the 1st and
only message was deleted.

Can't reproduce this bug.
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