Milter-greylist

manu@... wrote:
 > Eugene Filatov wrote:
 > 
 > > I have another simple idea - just replace "exit()" with "return" in this
 > > function. So greylist will just skip dumping and inform about it via
 > > syslog but it will continue to work.
 > > 
 > > Emmanuel, what do you think about it?
 > 
 > I'm not sure it's acceptable for the average administrator: if you don't
 > check the logs, you get toasted when milter-greylist restarts because it
 > never dumped its database.
 > 
 > Perhaps we could figure a way of booking a FILE *?

Sorry I don't remember exactly what the actual problem is,
but ...

Shouldn't it be sufficient to open() the dump file right
from the start and never close() it?  Only always write to
it, then fsync()+lseek(0).  (And fflush()+rewind() if stdio
functions are used to write the file.)

Best regards
   Oliver

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