Re: [Exim] Wishlist for "stat" expansion item

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Autor: Philip Hazel
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Para: Dean Brooks
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Assunto: Re: [Exim] Wishlist for "stat" expansion item
On Mon, 16 Dec 2002, Dean Brooks wrote:

> Sounds good to me... I also imagine it results in a lot less coding
> than the other method.


Damn. You noticed. :-)

> The only caveat would be that the extract will have to deal with the
> possible scenario of the file not existing or not being accessible.
>
> Would that condition cause the ${stat:} expansion to fail or to simply
> return an empty string?


Hadn't thought it through. Perhaps this needs to be a conditional think
like ${if that has yes/no substrings.

> It may be preferrable to have empty string rather than fail, as
> non-existing files may be "normal". The extract item could be
> used to force a fail if the key wasn't found anyway, right?


Yes, that's certainly true. Maybe just returning an empty string is
sufficient after all.

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