Scott D. Yelich writes:
> > It's called a "pipe", and it happens quite often, in a UNIX environment.
> > The first situation that comes to mind is a sophisticated grep that simply
> > won't cut it by running it once. As a rough example, consider grepping for
> > E-mail messages that pass through a badly misconfigured Sendmail 8.6 relay,
> > unless the header includes something that looks like an IP address:
> > grep 'SMI-8.6' * | egrep -v '[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+\.[0-9]+'
>
> I would argue that the rblsmtpd calling itself is not a pipe.
>
> execvp(*argv,argv);
>
> doesn't look like a pipe to me.
How do you think the shell handles the pipe symbol, genius?
Go back and retake UNIX 101.
> Look, I'm not the first to point this out and I won't be
Yes you are.
> the last asking this. One poster said I'm just part of the
> problem unless I'm part of the solution. I can't modify your
> source,
Actually, you can.
Well, you really can't, just like I can't do anything useful right now with
something written in Java.
But, setting that aside, there is no legal reason why you can't modify
those specific sources, or the documentation. If you did, and unless you
copyrighted them without redistribution rights, I could modify your mods
further, then may or may not integrate them with the original code.
> Ya know.... I just got back from a new consulting job. This place paid
> someone several hundred dollars to install qmail and the person never
> did get it working -- after several WEEKs of work. I'm sure you'll be
> delighted to know that I have the job now.
I don't see why I would or wouldn't.
--
Sam
