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Re: XCmail: 2.0.1devel-2

Jürgen Schmitz
Tue, 14 May 2002 07:32:25 -0700

---Reply to mail from Jürgen Schmitz about XCmail: 2.0.1devel-2
> 
> Another idea I just got:
> 
> gzip is started by fork(), what if the forked process is still running and
> the next mail is written - both processes (the new forked and the old one)
> write into the file. So maybe big mail causes gzip to take more time to
> finish and the main program (xcmail) starts with appending the next mail.
> 
> Hm, this sounds good (or better: not good).
> 

Ok, depending on this idea I've added a waitpid() call to wait until gzip
has finished. It's already on CVS. Maybe it works, maybe not....


Jürgen