Julian Mehnle wrote:
> 
> Alessandro Vesely wrote:
> > Ben Kennedy wrote:
> > > In this example, pureperlfilter is cleaning up its socket (though
> > > sometimes for whatever reason the socket stays around causing it to
> > > refuse to launch subsequently); perlfilter is not removing its.
> >
> > IMHO, the latter is correct. But again, I have no experience with
> > pureperlfilter. Shouldn't it work the same way?
> 
> pureperlfilter is the bootstrapping executable for Courier::Filter.  C:F
> cleans up its socket when shutting down (e.g. when told to by
> courierfilter), but refuses to start if the socket it wants to create
> already exists.

I see. It is different from Courier's libfilter: libfilter provides for
triggering 432 messages when filters are active but temporarily down.
Don't you want that functionality?

> 
> I have been thinking about an intelligent way for C:F to detect during
> startup if an existing socket is stale (then it may just be overwritten
> during restart) or belongs to an already running instance of C:F.  But I
> haven't invested enough time into this yet.

Shouldn't that be courierfilter's job?


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