On Sat, 14 Apr 2007, Jack Bailey wrote: > The test I just finished has local_scan() create a process that catches > SIGIO before running any of its filter code. When SIGIO arrives, the > process stops whatever it's doing and silently abandons the message. > The advantage to using signals is their asynchronous nature and that > they're a form of interprocess communication. I like the idea of > select(), but I don't see a good way to make it work here. I'm > certainly open to ideas.
As Tony has pointed out, I screwed up a bit. It is legal, when PIPELINING is in use, for a client to send data after the dot. I suspect your use of SIGIO will go wrong in this situation. -- Philip Hazel University of Cambridge Computing Service Get the Exim 4 book: http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book -- ## List details at http://www.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/exim-users ## Exim details at http://www.exim.org/ ## Please use the Wiki with this list - http://www.exim.org/eximwiki/
