On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Mitch \(WebCob\) wrote: > Makes sense to me... thanks for NOT staying out. > > I don't like special case code any more than the next guy, but when I think > the only alternative is running everything through cat!?!?
I guess I don't understand. What problem are you trying to solve? Why do you think you need to run everything through cat? > Well that's annoying - and not that it would really be that special case > nessecarily - just generally speaking if you are writing to a socket stream > or character device don't lock cause you can't. > > that is pretty general, and allows delivery to daemons (like spamd) without > having to call spamc first. > > I think that would be "a good thing". > > But not a special hack for "/dev/null" - you are right there. > > Thoughts on this other idea? What other idea? I'm lost. I was only saying that the ONE* TRUE PROPER way to say "I do not want this message delivered." is to set EXITCODE to 0 and then issue 'exit' (assuming the environment you are running in is maildrop). * there may be other exitcodes that work just as well. -- Ensign Walnut approaches Dr. Crusher with caution... Jon Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> C and Python Code Gardener ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Perforce Software. Perforce is the Fast Software Configuration Management System offering advanced branching capabilities and atomic changes on 50+ platforms. Free Eval! http://www.perforce.com/perforce/loadprog.html _______________________________________________ courier-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/courier-users
