Fred Lindberg writes:
It's obviously important or it wouldn't be there.
It's a variable that was used with the original qmail queue structure.
It's unused now, and can be removed safely.
---Dan
On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 14:42:15 -0600, Fred Lindberg wrote:
fd = open_write(fn.s);
if (fd == -1) break;
if (fstat(fd,st) == -1) { close(fd); break; }
if (seek_set(fd,pos) == -1) { close(fd); break; }
Ok, I get it. qmail-send doesn't trust qmailq. Without the fstat()
call, qmailq could
"Fred Lindberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
call, qmailq could (via symlink) cause qmail-send (root) to write to an
qmail-send runs as qmails, not root.
-Dave
On Wed, 15 Mar 2000 11:59:11 -0500 (EST), Dave Sill wrote:
qmail-send runs as qmails, not root.
Yes. And the file in question is owned by qmails not qmailq in a
directory writable only by qmails.
If open fails to report an error, this should become obvious in
write(). The fstat() info is not
It's obviously important or it wouldn't be there. Can anyone explain
why?
From qmail-send.c: markdone():
for (;;)
{
fd = open_write(fn.s);
if (fd == -1) break;
if (fstat(fd,st) == -1) { close(fd); break; }
if (seek_set(fd,pos) == -1) { close(fd); break; }
if (write(fd,"D",1)
"Fred Lindberg" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It's obviously important or it wouldn't be there. Can anyone explain
why?
Forgive my speculation--if I'm wrong, somebody correct me! My guess is
that fstat() follows open() because of system-specific open() bugs.
On NFS, for example, open() will
