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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] OverflowError reading get_sigs() response in ve


From: dean gaudet
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] OverflowError reading get_sigs() response in very large tree
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 21:05:14 -0800 (PST)

excellent, thanks for the update.

-dean

On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Charles Duffy wrote:

> Found the error: On the server side, stderr was being injected into stdin.
> This led to header_string containing arbitrary text; when some of that was
> interpreted as an integer value via C.str2long() and fed into read() as a size
> argument, that was what lead to the OverflowError (or, in Python 2.5, a
> MemoryError).
> 
> Fixed my wrapper scripts' fd handling and the issue has gone away.
> 
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