http://issues.apache.org/SpamAssassin/show_bug.cgi?id=5193





------- Additional Comments From [EMAIL PROTECTED]  2006-12-01 03:37 -------
A rough strategy for making updates atomic, at least per rules directory, is:

(1) When SA is starting it chdirs to each rules directory and reads the rules
files using just their basenames. This might not be necessary if it doesn't
matter that SA loads some rules from the old set and some from the new set.

(2) Updates populate a new directory with rules then atomically move it into
place. This might not be portable to non-Unix filesystems.

The problem with sa-update at the moment is that SA might see only a partial
ruleset when it starts, which is worse than no ruleset (in which case it falls
back to the original rules distributed with the code) or a changing ruleset.



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