Test for failure of the fork() when a root process creates a log file.

[exim.git] / doc / doc-txt / ChangeLog

diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
index 496ba5943b9a92ac6a46b8253bbda4271aed7c65..4cb08c1dc6b13208c46dce07769a1a1d5d153a52 100644 (file)
--- a/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.102 2005/03/29 11:01:32 ph10 Exp $
+$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/ChangeLog,v 1.105 2005/03/29 15:19:25 ph10 Exp $

 
 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
 -------------------------------------------
 
 Change log file for Exim from version 4.21
 -------------------------------------------


@@ -90,6 +90,24 @@ PH/15 Further to TK/02 and TK/03 above, tidied up the tables of what conditions
 
 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
 
 
 PH/16 Installed updated OS/os.c-cygwin from the Cygwin maintainer.
 

+PH/17 The API for radiusclient changed at release 0.4.0. Unfortunately, the
+      header file does not have a version number, so I've had to invent a new
+      value for RADIUS_LIB_TYPE, namely "RADIUSCLIENTNEW" to request the new
+      API. The code is untested by me (my Linux distribution still has 0.3.2 of
+      radiusclient), but it was contributed by a Radius user.
+
+PH/18 Installed Lars Mainka's patch for the support of CRL collections in
+      files or directories, for OpenSSL.
+
+PH/19 When an Exim process that is running as root has to create an Exim log
+      file, it does so in a subprocess that runs as exim:exim so as to get the
+      ownership right at creation (otherwise, other Exim processes might see
+      the file with the wrong ownership). There was no test for failure of this
+      fork() call, which would lead to the process getting stuck as it waited
+      for a non-existent subprocess. Forks do occasionally fail when resources
+      run out. I reviewed all the other calls to fork(); they all seem to check
+      for failure.
+

 
 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
 ----------------------------------------
 
 A note about Exim versions 4.44 and 4.50
 ----------------------------------------