Milter-greylist

At Sun, 8 Oct 2006 16:55:08 +0200,
manu@... wrote:
> 
> <attila.bruncsak@...> wrote:
> 
> > I would like to provide a solution for a long standing problem.
> > On many platforms the final_dump() is not executed after
> > the milter-greylist has received a TERM signal.
> > With this patch the problem goes away,
> > at least on the Linux platform where I tested it.
> > On the Tru64 UNIX platform it was working before
> > and continues to work.
> 
> There is a problem with that patch: it violates the libmilter API. This says
> that signals are to be handled by libmilter itself:
> http://www.sendmail.org/doc/sendmail-current/libmilter/docs/overview.html
> 
Anyway, libmilter blocks the signals in the smfi_main() thread. The
mask is inherited by all descendant threads. Libmilter does not catch
the signals but picks them by sigwait().