Re: zeroseek and qmail

Jos Backus <[email protected]> Tue, 27 Aug 2002 09:34:50 -0701

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On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 04:27:03PM +0000, Mark Delany wrote:
> Check out the last sentence in the DESCRIPTION section of the
> qmail-local manpage. "The standard input for qmail-local must be a
> seekable file, so that qmail-local can read it more than once.".
> 
> 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.

Yes. I knew I'd seen this mentioned somewhere. Thanks Mark.

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