Author: Philip Hazel Date: To: Nigel Metheringham CC: Marc Schiffbauer, exim-users Subject: Re: [exim] Why does exim4 stat /boot and /proc/<pid>/mounts very
often?
On Wed, 15 Dec 2004, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> > Is there any reason why exim4 tries to access
> >
> > /
> > /boot
> > /proc/<pid>/mounts
> > /dev/pts
> >
> > when running?
>
> I would guess its a side effect of the space checks done on receipt of
> message (although that doesn't explain /boot or /dev/pts).
I'm as amazed as you are. It must be a side effect of some system call,
because not all systems have /boot. Exim certainly doesn't look at those
directly.
> Run a SMTP message receive in debug mode and see if you can see how the
> accesses match up with exim operations.
Ultimately, I guess, you may have to strace it.
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