On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Aaron Paetznick wrote: > Ok I have a silly question then. Why doesn't MIMEDefang have a runtime > option to use shared memory or some other more intrinsic method? Surely > a ram disk is a functional but inelegant solution.
Because all the add-ons (virus scanners, Perl modules, ...) expect to be handed a file. (At the very least, *everything* works if handed a file -- it's the least common denominator.) While MIME::tools itself is perfectly happy to store decoded parts into memory, you'd have to modify all the other tools to work together with it. A ramdisk is much simpler and more portable. (Creating a ramdisk is not portable, of course, but using one is.) Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
