[Dovecot] re: ssl-build-param

[Jackie Hunt]

Hi all,

I posted a message last week about a problem with ssl-build-param,
shown below.  I may have a lead on this, and was hoping someone
can confirm my theory.

On AIX, a malloc of 0 bytes returns NULL, which is different 
than on Solaris and HP-UX (and probably Linux?)  I'm
guessing the NULL pointer returned is causing the abort of the
ssl-build-param, since that was an unexpected result.  Looking 
briefly at the code in ssl-init-openssl.c that seems reasonable.

Can anyone please confirm this?  And if so, any suggestions on
the best way to proceed?

Thanks much,
Jackie
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Jackie Hunt                                                       
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> I'm trying to get dovecot up and running on an AIX 5.2 system
> with openssl 0.9.8a.  Everything compiles fine, but when I start
> dovecot I find in the log:
> 
> dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Info: Dovecot v1.0.beta7 starting up
> dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Info: Generating Diffie-Hellman parameters for the firs
> t time. This may take a while..
> dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Error: ssl-build-param: Trying to allocate 0 bytes
> dovecot: May 08 13:39:14 Error: child 18998 (ssl-build-param) killed with signal
>  6

> I searched the archives of the mailing list and didn't have any luck.
> Any help would be created appreciated.  Please reply directly to me
> as well as the list.  Thanks much!
> 
> Jackie