Re: [exim] exiwhat should display Exim version number

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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Subject: Re: [exim] exiwhat should display Exim version number
On Thu, 2005-02-17 at 19:41 +0000, Philip Hazel wrote:
> 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.


However, if anyone else would like to do this and send a patch I am sure
that it will be considered for inclusion. Its open source, we take
patches, and quite significant chunks of the existing code were
originally contributed in.

    Nigel.
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