[pkg-db-devel] Bug#652036: db: Salvaging db_dump triggers endless loop on certain broken databases since Berkeley DB 4.7

[Lionel Debroux]

Hi,

My tests show that the db_dump binaries produced by building libdb
6.1.26 and 6.2.23 correctly detect the loop when trying to salvage the
DB provided by Stephan Sürken in the first post and exit cleanly with
exit code 1, instead of consuming unbounded CPU time.
However, Berkeley DB 6.x versions are not packaged by Debian.


Regards,
Lionel Debroux.