[Mimedefang] Embedded Perl now safe with FreeBSD and perl 5.8.7 (maybe Linux too) ?

[Martin Blapp]

Hi all,

Up to Perl 5.8.6 we had problems with 'reloading' mimedefang filters.
It could happen that the multiplexer just crashed. It happened, let's
say 5% of all reloads.

More important, it didn't work at all with Archive::Zip installed,
all reloads crashed in the past.

With perl 5.8.7 those problems are history. I've reloaded the filters
a lot and since two weeks we have not seen any crashes anymore.

This mail is just to tell you that reload is now definitily safe
on FreeBSD, if you use perl 5.8.7 (i386-freebsd-64int)

Martin

Martin Blapp, <mb at imp.ch> <mbr at FreeBSD.org>
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