samba - May 2001 - Troubles: samba 2.2.0 dumps core on syslog (HP-UX 10.20)

Dear sambalovers,

I have a nasty problem with the latest samba suite. When I enable 
syslog debug output (--with-syslog), the code seems to loop at one 
particular place: lib/util_sock.c line 1084. This is on HP-UX 10.20, 
compiled with standard HP libc and HP ansi compiler (cc -Ae).

May  7 17:13:03 galletti smbd.debug[7727]: [2001/05/07 17:13:03, 0, 
pid=7727, effective(0, 0), real(0, 0)] lib/util_sock.c:(1084)
May  7 17:13:03 galletti last message repeated 39 times

Samba crashes in the shared library (libc.sl) on doprnt: a subroutine 
of sprintf, called in syslog. However, since I seem not to have any 
other problems with syslog, I suspected something in samba's code. I 
tried debugging things, but could not find anything. In fact as seen 
above, the header is really written to syslog. What seems strange to 
me though is that the message is repeated over and over again (in 
fact 1794 times during 46 seconds), as if samba is looping 
internally. After some seconds it gives up and crashes. Although I 
believe to have also found a HP-UX bug, it doesn't seem normal to me 
that Samba is repeating this message over and over, without even 
spitting out the actual debug text of util_sock.c (only the syslog 
header is printed).

Anyone that sees the light?

Best regards,

Dirk

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