On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Chris Masters wrote: > Since upgrading to the latest MIMEDefang today I have > bad file descriptor errors - I assume this is an > embedded perl scope issue.
Possibly. > 1) I do *not* use filer_initialise You should probably use it. Any files opened at global scope outside any function are opened once upon initialization. When a slave is started, mimedefang-multiplexor calls fork(2) and essentially dup's the file descriptors. However, the multiplexor child process (the one that's about to morph into a slave) then calls close(2) on all open file descriptors. Perl doesn't know about this---it thinks the file descriptors are still open---so when you try to use them, you get error messages. > Can/Should I declare *slave* globals in > filter_initialise? Yes. (And it's ...ize rather than ...ise, because I'm in North America rather than the UK. :-)) Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
