Re: Important Bug Fix (Was Re: Truncation of Majordomo diges…

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Author: Robert Black
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To: Warner Losh, Philip Hazel
CC: Pete Ashdown, Exim Mailing List
Subject: Re: Important Bug Fix (Was Re: Truncation of Majordomo digest messages?)
On Jun 25, 9:54am, Warner Losh wrote:
> Subject: Re: Important Bug Fix (Was Re: Truncation of Majordomo digest mes
> In message <Pine.SOL.3.96.970625105253.6714I-100000@???>

Philip Hazel writes:
> : +       close(deliver_datafile);
> : +       sprintf(spoolname, "%s/input/%s-D", spool_directory, message_id);
> : +       deliver_datafile = open(spoolname, O_RDWR | O_APPEND);

>
> Wouldn't dup(2) do the trick here? Or is there something subtle that
> I'm missing about how dup(2) works?


No, dup(2) shares the file pointer.

Cheers

Rob