Re: zeroseek and qmail

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Aug 2002 13:05:24 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.djb.zeroseek
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Russell Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> 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.

Exactly right.  The example of condredirect depending on the message fd being
seekable falls apart with a minimal recoding of condredirect to match the
(speculative) zeroseek semantics.

Charles
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