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INN 1.6b3 Software Action Items

This list is the known defects in the "stock" 1.6b3 from the ISC. This is NOT a list of changes from 1.5.1. That list can be found at INN 1.5.1 Software Action Items INN1.6b3 also contained other feature enhancements which are inventoried in my message to inn-workers:
http://www.mibsoftware.com/userkt/inn/dev/inn-workers/vol9709/xcb.htm

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See Also
Defect lists for INN versions 1.5.1 and later
For an overview comparison of 1.5.1, 1.5.1sec2, 1.5.2pre1, 1.6b3, and 1.5.1corr, see inn1.5.1corr/1.7


Critical: Make sure newsfeeds has exactly one ME entry. (innd needs this
to run correctly, or may crash when reloading various files.)


Critical: Code changed in 1.6 and 1.5.1sec2 to handle string buffers in a safer manner is unnecessary and is actually less safe: causes crashes.


Critical: INN corrupts the active file if ctlinnd rmgroup/ctlinnd newgroup when throttled.
See INN FAQ 6.3


Critical: INN internal buffer copy of backlogged channel fails, leading to crashes


Critical: INN can crash when processing ctlinnd feedinfo when a site is sleeping.


Critical: The CheckIncludedText() routines in frontends/inews.c and nnrpd/post.c
can walk past the end of the article buffer (sometimes resulting in a core
dump) when CHECK_INCLUDED_TEXT is DO


Critical: IP_OPTIONS/RCfixoptions code in INN 1.7 on Linux 2.0.28 causes feeder connect problems.


Defect: Possible invalid compile if make clean is not run after config.data changes.
Missing crosspost dependencies: (all)
Missing actsync dependency: include/mydir.h


Defect: Possible invalid compile if make clean is not run after config.data changes.
Missing makehistory dependencies inndcomm.h, mydir.h


Defect: Possible invalid compile if make clean is not run after config.data changes.
Missing clientactive.o dependencies: macros.h nntp.h
Missing clientlib.o dependency: paths.h
Extra clientlib.o dependency: macros.h
Missing getmodaddr.o dependency: nntp.h
Missing perl.o dependencies


Defect: Possible invalid compile if make clean is not run after config.data changes.
Missing perl.o dependency: post.h
Missing post.o dependency: post.h


Defect: Possible invalid compile if make clean is not run after config.data changes.
Missing art.o dependency: art.h
Missing his.o dependency: dbz.h
Missing nc.o dependency: dbz.h
Missing perl.o dependency: art.h


Defect: make depend: rule does not include dbz.c


Defect: make depend: rule does not include decode.c encode.c getlist innconfval


Defect: make depend: rule does not include inndstart.c



Defect: Memory leak in OVERgen handling. Causes really large expireover mem usage.


Defect: expireover small memory leak when there are empty headers (very rare case)


Defect: Posting to moderated newsgroup through inews leaves temp file.


Defect: pstat() (for setproctitle) called incorrectly on HPUX systems.


Defect: inews imposes an undocumented limit on header lines. (Approximately 50)
and inaccurately reports exceeding the limit.



Defect: nnrpd crashes with long lines in corrupt overview files


Defect: innd connection can hang when processing the HEAD command


Defect: actsync -I does not work properly in many cases.
Reported to inn-bugs by pmb1@york.ac.uk, 6 Nov 1997.


Defect: .pl scripts fail when newsmaster e-mail address contains a '@'


Defect:A "hard-coded" path instead of ${UUSPOOL} is used for uucp.
Reported by Philippe Charnier <charnier@xp11.frmug.org> to inn-bugs 9 Nov 1997.


Defect: In the overchan backlog patch, INN doesn't reset channel error counts after a successful write. This can lead to premature shutdown of slow, backlogged channels.



Defect: INN can't receive multiple XBATCH batches on the same connection.


Defect: backends/batcher.c can enter an infinite loop if a signal is received during a
read loop.


Defect: nnrpd does not check permissions when listing newsgroups with the XGTITLE command


Defect: nnrpd does not always check permissions when listing newsgroups with the LIST ACTIVE command


Defect: nnrpd does not check IP address when checking USER/PASS combinations.



Defect: Compile time. Ownership of man pages is not set to news when run make install as root. This can prevent later updates.


Defect: Logs reporting pgp errors when processing control messages were going to the wrong place. Reported to inn-bugs by Mike Brudenell <pmb1@york.ac.uk>, 6 Nov 1997.



Annoyance: fastrm.c Formating of Error message if unlink fails in fastrm


Annoyance:Error handling after 10 attempts of actsync fail.
actsyncd.sh does not properly write an error message after 10 failed attempts (6 minutes apart) of actsync. Reported to inn-bugs by pmb1@york.ac.uk, 13 Nov 1997.


Annoyance: actsync does not report group names correctly when ctlinnd fails.
(Can leave out a space.)


Annoyance: Compile time. getrusage() is available but not declared in header files on Solaris < v2.6


Maintenance: innd connection can hang if the ARTICLE command code is used. (Normally this is disabled at compile time.)


Maintenance: ARTmakeoverview does not initialize the .Size member of a BUFFER. This is a benign bug: it could never cause invalid operation, but does violate BUFFER handling assumptions.


Maintenance: Dummy function for fchmod() in buffchan should return 0.


Maintenance: Comment changes inserted when string buffer patches were done.
These changes can lead to incompatibility with third party patches. (Tagged in the Unified Sources as INN160CC)


Maintenance: String buffer handling changes which operate on internal data. The changes do not actually "fix" the problem, instead the data is truncated without warning or error, trading what is usually a detectable error due to overly long configuration settings, to a truncation [LiteralOn Unified Sources]<A HREF=0038.htm>Unified Sources</A>
problem which can be much harder to find. (Tagged in the Unified Sources as INN160SL)


Maintenance: String buffer handling changes which were not necessary for correctness. These changes can lead to incompatibility with third party patches These require snprintf(), and [LiteralOn Unified Sources]<A HREF=0038.htm>Unified Sources</A>
arguably make the code easier to maintain. (Tagged in the Unified Sources as INN160BS)


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