Re: [exim] Lost connection during delay

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Author: Nigel Metheringham
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To: exim-users
CC: Sam Michaels
Subject: Re: [exim] Lost connection during delay
On Fri, 2005-05-06 at 09:22 +0100, Philip Hazel wrote:
> Exim implements "delay = 5m" in the most trivial possible way. It waits
> for 5 minutes. :-) I am not sure how easy it is to code "wait for 5
> minutes or until the connection goes away".


If you use a select on the appropriate file handle in the exceptions set
then you should notice a close. In the worst case it would do a full
time out as at present. You would need to check the FH status to make
sure something else hadn't happened.

    Nigel.


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