Re: zeroseek and qmail

Russell Nelson <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Aug 2002 14:28:26 -0400 (EDT)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.zeroseek
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Mark Delany writes:
 > Strictly speaking, it doesn't follow that the fd that qmail-local
 > gives to the delivery command has to likewise be seeakable, but in
 > practice that's the expectation the author has as we see in things
 > like condredirect.

Unless it's in the documentation, we must treat it as a detail of the
implementation.  Just because Dan feels free to use that detail in his 
set of programs, that doesn't mean that we should feel equally free.

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