Milter-greylist

On Fri, Feb 23, 2007 at 10:24:57AM +0100, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> You are right, I've just had a look at the documentation.
> That's a serious design flaw in the milter API.  :-(
> Brain-damaged, if you ask me.

Well, I'd just say that there is a missing feature: libmilter
should call a handler in the milter when receiving kill -1 
(for reloading config), or kill -15 (for terminating)

> However, it seems like the xxfi_abort callback is called
> when the milter is about to terminate.  Is that correct?
> Can't it be used for dumping the DB?

Is it called? That'seasy to check, can you give it a try?

> After all, the dumping upon SIGTERM _is_ working fine on
> FreeBSD 6, so there must already be a way to do it.

I use an atexit() hook. It works on some systems, but not all. 
Feedbacks have been mixed.

> I just wonder why it doesn't work on some other operating
> systems ...  What's the problem with those OS?  Do they
> have a buggy POSIX threads implementation that doesn't
> handle signals correctly?

The question is: is the atexit hooks called when the process is killed
by a signal? I'm not sure POSIX says anything about it.

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Emmanuel Dreyfus
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