https://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=6081


Mark Martinec <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |INVALID




--- Comment #2 from Mark Martinec <[email protected]>  2009-08-24 10:30:22 
PST ---
> I use spamc integrated through a perl pipe, viz.:
>   $pid = open2( \*Reader, \*Writer, $spamc_command );
>   print Writer @header_lines, "\n", @dfile_lines;
> 
> If the combined size of the two arrays is > the "-s max_len" parameter, I just
> hang because spamc reads max_len+1 and then stops reading.
> 
> So, the enhancement is to have spamc quietly read the rest of the input 
> stream,
> and then not process the message.
> I believe it's the case that spamc reads the whole message anyway, as it
> parrots it back untouched to STDOUT.

spamc does read the entire message. Please check the man page of IPC::Open2.
What you are doing is problematic, you should be both reading and writing
at the same time (using select). The IPC::Open2 is very simpleminded
and can easily deadlock.

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