Re: [exim-dev] 4.53 Release candidate

Pàgina inicial
Delete this message
Reply to this message
Autor: Philip Hazel
Data:  
A: Michael Haardt
CC: exim-dev
Assumpte: Re: [exim-dev] 4.53 Release candidate
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005, Michael Haardt wrote:

> Evidence is a hard word. When I asked about making this patch initially,
> all I heard is: You don't need it, queue runs are not synchronised and
> there is nothing a random interval could do any better than the randomness
> introduced by life. Go fix your system. So obviously nobody answering
> ever checked the intervals really.


I fully understand that, and I see *your* need for the facility and I'm
prepared to put it in. Just not as the default.

> Are you willing to bet that somebody would still like to get the old
> behaviour back?


I am not a betting person, but I would not be surprised if there wasn't
somebody who wanted predictability. In fact, *I* do, for testing. :-)

-- 
Philip Hazel            University of Cambridge Computing Service,
ph10@???      Cambridge, England. Phone: +44 1223 334714.
Get the Exim 4 book:    http://www.uit.co.uk/exim-book