Re: [exim] Exim 4.88(9): failed to read pipe from transport

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Autor: Kurt Jaeger
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Hi!

> On 21/06/17 09:54, Kurt Jaeger wrote:
> >>> failed to read pipe from transport process 28932 for transport smtp: required size=2680 > remaining size=329 and unfinished=false


> > I have something similar now, too, sending from a FreeBSD exim site
> > to some external site, over TLS, with many recipients. But the error is:
> >
> > Failed writing transport result to pipe: Broken pipe


> Having the reader process get bitten by the bug will make it go away,
> and you'd expect that sort of error if the writer process had more to
> write. So yes, it's a good candidate.


Then, the next question that comes to my mind is:

What stops us to read/write in chunks smaller than 512 bytes from/to
that pipe ?

Do we need the writes to be atomic to preserve msg boundaries or such ?

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