Re: [Exim] local scan API questions

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Jim Pazarena
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [Exim] local scan API questions
On Mon, 4 Nov 2002, Jim Pazarena wrote:

> Should the local_scan function "close" the fd which it has been passed
> when it is thru with it?


No. Definitely not. That would lose the lock. The documentation should
make this clear, but I see that it doesn't. Noted.

> If local_scan requests memory via store_get(), does it need to free it?


No. The reception process will end soon afterwards, so it doesn't
matter. Also noted for documenting.

Philip

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