Milter-greylist

At Tue, 10 Oct 2006 13:52:40 +0200,
manu@... wrote:
> 
> <attila.bruncsak@...> wrote:
> 
> > Already first connection from the client at the connect phase
> > (first call back form mlfi_main) will start the sync listener.
> > All the other connections will be blocked on the new mutex
> > which got introduced. There is no any difference with the situation
> > before.
> > 
> > On the other hand it was neither guaranteed before the patch
> > that the sync listener did any kind of useful thing before client
> > connections came in, since it is not a high priority
> > real-time thread.
> 
> Perhaps we could introduce that after the 3.0 release, as we are not
> sure the cure won't introduce unexpected new problems...

I believe the first patch introduces no new problem. To be really
paranoid, we can unblock signals exactly before smfi_main() to allow
libmilter *catch* signals rather than probe by sigwait().