Re: [exim] exiwhat should display Exim version number

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Author: Philip Hazel
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To: Marc Haber
CC: exim-users
Subject: Re: [exim] exiwhat should display Exim version number
On Thu, 17 Feb 2005, Marc Haber wrote:

> Something like "exiwhat --show-version" which will revert exiwhat to
> the old behavior.


That would not be straightfoward to implement because exiwhat sends a
USR1 signal to every running Exim process to ask it to say what it is
doing. Signals don't have options... :-) Of course there are ways to
hack round this: use USR2, for instance, or get Exim always to output
the version and exiwhat to hack it off again... but I really do think I
can use my time more usefully. Sorry about that, but I might as well be
honest.

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