zep:
> [..]   it seems that there
> isn't any validation being done for the contents of the pid file and it
> isn't being removed if things go awry (or exit status checked, a few
> places where things could be done differently).   if I make such
> changes/updates, is there a place I can submit my checks to be included
> in the next version/patch of postfix?   baring that, is there someone
> else who'd like to make such changes?    I may have hit a very odd edge
> case that may well never, ever happen to anyone again, but it still
> seems like a reasonable set of changes to make (at least to me).

You can post improvements to the mailing list. BTW the master.pid
file is writable only by root. If you want to make Postfix robust 
against file system corruption of all root-only writable files,
then you have a lot of work ahead.

        Wietse

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