From: Rob Hartill <robh@imdb.com>
Message-Id: <199605210405.WAA13795>
Subject: Re: WWW Form Bug Report: "Runaway processes when accessing directory
 listings" on BSDI
To: pete@neis.net
Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 22:05:38 -0600 (MDT)
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 May 20, 96 08:51:55 pm
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Thanks for the report. I think we've already fixed this for the
upcoming version 1.1
Hopefully we'll have that released sometime soon.

cheers,
rob

>Submitter: pete@neis.net
>Operating system: BSDI, version: 2.01
>Version of Apache Used: 1.0.5
>Extra Modules used: none
>URL exhibiting problem: 
>
>Symptoms:
>--
>When folks accessed our server looking for a  directory without "index.html", we would get runaway httpd's that were sucking down CPU.  In debugging, we noticed that there was an incorrectly allocated array which seg-faulted under gdb (compiled -g, no O2).  Upon fixing, the runaways seemed to go away...
>
>cc -v
>gcc version 1.42
>

>mod_dir.c line 620:
>
>	char buff[23]="                       ";
>
>should be
>
>	char buff[24]="                       ";