Autor: Chris Thompson Datum: To: exim-users Betreff: Re: [Exim] What to do about non-monitonic process ids
Philip Hazel <ph10@???> writes:
[...] > But for maildir deliveries, Exim insists on writing a new file (by using
> O_CREAT). So I don't see that it matters whether the name is
> predictable or not.
>
> > The use of unpredictable filenames would be an added level of protection
> > against programming mistakes.
>
> You mean like forgetting to use O_CREAT?
Do you mean O_CREAT+O_EXCL here? O_CREAT by itself doesn't guarantee the
file being new.
