On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:32:25AM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote: > This behaviour of MIME-tools (failing if an I/O operation fails) will > *not* be changed; I've had discussions about this before. > > Silently permittion I/O operations to fail can be a security risk. It's > up to users of MIME-tools to ensure that their underlying file handles > support the flush() method correctly.
We use variously IO::Scalar and IO::Lines, both of which have a flush() method (the latter via IO::ScalarArray), so I'm slightly puzzled. Bill, I don't suppose you could do me a favour and investigate with 'perl -d' to see exactly which MIME-tools call is failing? Thanks, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

