Re: zeroseek and qmail

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.

> > Perhaps if people start contributing to the Bernstein Writing Fund zeroseek
> > (and qmail 2.0, for that matter) will arrive at some point. I certainly plan
> > to.
> 
> Writing fund?  Jokeski?

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Dan's software is among the most trouble-free and robust I have ever used.
There's plenty of shareware out there that is less useful. It's not like you
_have_ to contribute.

I do hope that qmail 2.0 will address at least some of the issues/deficiencies
that people have been working around using patches. The patch situation has
become very messy.
</off-topic>

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