The status of "rejected" may sound harsh, but please read on. The
changes in 0.92 and 0.93 were to allow a fix on Amavisd specifically.
The fixes in .92 and .93 were designed to allow for software like
Amavisd that are doing more extreme things with the STDIN and STDOUT.
There is a new configuration option that the maintainer of Amavisd
will need to use. It is the "no_close_stdout" option. It needs to be
set to 1. The maintainer of Amavisd on debian made the suggestion and
has mad the debian Amavisd work with any of the releases of
Net::Server.
Versions of Net::Server 0.90 and earlier are BROKEN. Their
implementation of aliasing STDOUT and STDIN to the client file handle
are wrong and break other software that tries to use STDOUT and STDIN
(anything that uses IO::Pipe).
Amavisd in ealier versions worked around this broken item in
Net::Server. Now that Net::Server is fixed (in 0.93) older versions
of Amavisd will be broken. Amavisd needs to be sure that it is
sending the "no_close_stdout" flag to Net::Server to tell it not to do
anything with STDOUT (or STDIN).
Net::Server will not be changed to revert to the old BROKEN behavior.
Please work with the maintainers of Amavisd to see that they are
updated (the change is very small). For more information you may want
to talk to the debian maintainer Mark Martinec <Mark.Martinec@ijs.si>.
Paul Seamons
Show quoted text> under Mandriva Cooker, releases 0.91-1mdk and 0.93-1mdk of
> perl-Net-Server are causing trouble to amavisd
> (amavisd-new-2.3.3-1mdk) making messages to be not delivered (can't
> say for 0.92 but probably the same).
>
> Messages from amavis in /var/log/mail/errors are :
> ----
> amavis[23703]: (23124-01) run_command: child process [23703]: Error
> closing
> main::stdin: Bad file descriptor at /usr/sbin/amavisd line 1872.\n
> amavis[23124]: (23124-01) TROUBLE in check_mail: parts_decode_ext
> FAILED:
> parsing file(1) results - missing last 1 results at (eval 43) line
> 154.
> ------
> The content of line 1872 in /usr/sbin/amavisd is :
> close(main::stdin) or die "Error closing main::stdin: $!";
>
> Reverting to perl-Net-Server-0.90-1mdk made amavis to be happy
again.
Show quoted text>
> (perl, v5.8.8 built for i386-linux, kernel 2.6.14-2mdk-i686-up-4GB)
>
> Thanks
> Cheers
> Berthy
