Re: zeroseek and qmail

Russell Nelson <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> No, it's even easier than that.  It's only if the "|" program delivery
> is not the final delivery instruction.  Otherwise, qmail can open a
> file for the file deliveries, and open a pipe to qmail-queue for the
> forwarding directives, and open a pipe to /bin/sh -c program, and
> deliver to them all in parallel.  read, write/write/write.

I was thinking qmail-local would just open multiple socket pairs (one pair for
each delivery instruction) and pass one end of a pair to a delivery
instruction as stdin.  No files at all.

> It's never been guaranteed not to be a socket, so yes, a helper
> program (ala preline) is appropriate.

And quite djb-ish.

Charles
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