Bug#415870: nscd -i hosts causes main nscd daemon to segfault

[Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>]

Package: nscd
Version: 2.3.6.ds1-13
Severity: important
File: /usr/sbin/nscd

Running "nscd -i hosts" while the main nscd daemon is running yields
# nscd -d
20662: handle_request: request received (Version = 2) from PID 20669
20662:  INVALIDATE (hosts)
Segmentation fault

nscd -i hosts is used by network-manager to invalidate the hosts cache
on DNS changes. Atm it effectively kills the running nscd instance.

Michael



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (300, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.21-rc4
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages nscd depends on:
ii  libc6                       2.3.6.ds1-13 GNU C Library: Shared libraries

nscd recommends no packages.

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