Victor Duchovni:
> On Mon, Sep 08, 2008 at 03:31:29PM -0400, Wietse Venema wrote:
> 
> > > The master daemon triggers qmgr and pickup regularly. That "trigger"
> > > write is non-blocking with a timeout of 1, so it cannot block the
> > > master daemon. Except of course when the kernel is messed up.
> > 
> > Hmm, except that write_buf() will retry the write() after en EAGAIN 
> > error. So to be really smart, write_buf() should watch the clock and
> > break the loop when the time expires.
> 
> Somewhat related question, if one removes all wakeup timers from
> master.cf, will master(8) croak with a watchdog timer if the remaining
> services are idle long enough?

I don't care. Postfix without queue manager makes no sense,
and having no wakeup on the queue manager is insane.

        Wietse

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