Re: zeroseek and qmail

Jos Backus <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Aug 2002 10:19:36 -0700

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.djb.zeroseek
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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 10:36:43AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> As you say, he only talks about the seekability in terms of the fd provided to
> qmail-local, not /by/ qmail-local to other programs.
> 
> The only obvious way I can think of to keep the fd provided to programs
> seekable under zeroseek would involve copying the message to a temporary file
> and providing an fd to that; this could be done inside qmail-local when it
> invokes a command delivery.

That sounds kind of messy to me.

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