Re: zeroseek and qmail

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 09:26:56AM -0701, Jos Backus allegedly wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 08:20:17AM -0600, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> > Someone (I think it was Russell?) noted that there's nothing in the 1.03
> > documentation that guarantees the fd supplied to qmail-command programs is
> > seekable -- in future versions, the fd could be a Unix-domain socket or
> > similar.
> 
> That would be a rather big loss of functionality; it's one of the things that
> make .qmail files so powerful/easy to use.

Really? You use the seekability of stdin in .qmail files on a regular
basis? I don't doubt you, just surprised.

That it's an fd arranged as stdin is one thing, that it's seekable is
quite another.


Regards.