[guest - Thu Dec 5 09:08:08 2002]:
Show quoted text> If an alias points to itself expand() loops forever. On my linux
> 2.4.18 redhat AMD 1ghz box it eats most of the CPU. I use perl 5.6.1.
I'm looking at this currently; fixing it requires a bunch of changes
(basically a complete rewrite) to the expand method.
The next release will not only fix this but also function more like
sendmail, as described in Chapter 24 of the bat book.
I have included recursive expansions in the test suite, to avoid catch this.
Show quoted text> test.pl:
> $ma->expand("admin"); # never returns
"Doctor, it hurts when I do this."
"Then don't do that."
:)
As an aside, if you have this in a real aliases file (as opposed to
seeing if you can break my module ;), and mean for the admin alias to
really point to a local admin account, you can prevent loops using:
admin: \admin
You might want to do this in a case like:
admin: admin@box1, admin@box2, \admin
(darren)
