Re: Gnatsweb is locking up

[Yngve Svendsen]

At 16:34 13.05.2002 -0400, Brook Hurd wrote:
> We created a gnats report that contained multiple users in the cc: 
> field.  Aproximatly 11 e-mails at 240 charictors in total including 
> spaces.  When this list was added to or edited the following error occured:
>
> " not inderstood.
>
> Afterwords the Gnatsweb system was locked up by creating two files.
>
> gnats.lock
>
> 2060.lock
>
> Is it possible to increase the cc: field to allow for unlimited e-mails?

This is actually a known problem in GNATS itself, where parts of the mail 
headers gets fed back as output from GNATS to Gnatsweb. Gnatsweb naturally 
has no way to parse this output since it shouldn't occur in the first 
place. A patch exists, and I hope the current maintainer of GNATS will 
apply it soon.

Yngve Svendsen
Gnatsweb maintainer