tlug: debugging inetd servers

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull@example.com> writes:

    Stephen> CVS 1.10.7 and 1.10.8 are !"#$% segfaulting in server
    Stephen> mode on me.  They run from inetd.  Any suggestions on how
    Stephen> to catch such bugs?

Turns out CVS 1.10 supports a non-remote mode that uses the remote
protocol.  Even nicer, you can set an environment variable that causes
the child (quasi-server process) to sleep for a few seconds, so you
can get the process ID and do `gdb src/cvs $PID' on it.

Uninitialized local char*; the stack gomi contained 0x01 there, and
applying strlen(3) to it generated SIGSEGV (of course!)

baka-yarou!  mrmble, grrrmble.

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