[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on Apr 27, 2005: >On Wed, 27 Apr 2005 11:01:45 EDT, "Mike O'Dell" said:
>> if i were to hazzard a guess, the reason the code doesn't use >> mkstemp() is that [1] the code cited is likely well more than >> twice age of mkstemp() [2]and nobody has gone looking for >> things to fix that were still (apparently) working. (big grin) >For bonus points, note that even changing it to mkstemp() won't fix >all the issues, because what the code currently does is to generate >a filename, open it, then leak the file descriptor and pass the >filename back for re-opening... The real problem here is that recent nmh "development" has been in the form of creeping featurism. But the code base is rotten to the core, and badly needs revamping and modernizing. Some documenting would also be in order. -NWR _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
