On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Marc Perkel wrote:

> > but that's rather long. Maybe smtp_count_at_connection_start might do.
> >
> > The *current* connection count is held only by the daemon process.
> >   
> 
> Phil, I see your concern. However I think that disclaimer should be in 
> the docs 

Ha! Whoever reads the docs? 

I agree that an approximation could well be useful, but I am sure that 
people would expect a variable called connection_count to be the real 
connection count. SMTP sessions can easily last for minutes, so the 
value could be very wrong by the time it is used. That's why I want to 
make sure the name indicates that there is something anomalous about 
this value.


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