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Re: [milter-greylist] crash on db dump (FIX, MAYBE)

2007-09-05 by manu@netbsd.org

Jeff A. Earickson <jaearick@...> wrote:

> I have a feature suggestion too.  It would be nice if one could send
> a "kill" signal to milter-greylist (like HUP or SIGUSR1) to have the
> process dump the greylist.db file.  Then the startup/shutdown script
> could be modified so that the db file was dumped right before 
> milter-greylist was shut down, eg:

The problem is that the milter API says that libmilter shall catch
signals. So we cannot use signals.

A workaround would be to open a Unix socket and receive instructions
there.
-- 
Emmanuel Dreyfus
http://hcpnet.free.fr/pubz
manu@...

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