Bryan Hoover wrote:

BH> Craig R Hughes wrote:
BH>
BH> >  SA when it was
BH> > first built was not expecting to be used in a detached-daemon
BH> > environment where
BH> > its stderr was disconnected -- so when we disconnect it in spamd, it's
BH> > only
BH> > polite to let SA continue to communicate with the outside world
BH> > (unless the user
BH> > specifically tells it not to by modifying syslog to drop the
BH> > messages).
BH> >
BH>
BH> Ok, how 'bout, spamd, being a client of SA, ought to be able to control
BH> SA's output?  From this modular, decoupled design perspective, SA should
BH> provide a hook through which clients such as spamd could get reports -
BH> to do with them as they wish.  It's up to spamd whether it wants to be
BH> "polite," and use the reports (whether received by capturing stderr, or
BH> a hook), and spamd could have switches so the user could tell it what to
BH> do in this regard.

Spamd is not a client of SA, it's a client of spamd, through the well-define
SPAMD/SPAMC protocol.  Your web browser doesn't report the log messages of every
web server you visit, does it?

C


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