Re: soft updates and qmail (RE: qmail IO problems)

[Rik van Riel]

On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, Andre Oppermann wrote:

> Qmail depends on ordered-metadata updates (Terry! :-). That
> means if you issue a link() to the new place and a unlink() in
> the old place it should guarantee that the link() happens
> *BEFORE* the unlink().

> > As it is, I can only recommend people to go with something
> > like postfix, Exim or zmailer ...
> 
> Have a look at the qmail source and the facts before you spill
> out such a *bullshit*!

If qmail depends on a behaviour which isn't guaranteed by
some OSes ...

Rik
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