----- Original Message ----- From: "Dallas L. Engelken" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Mark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 21, 2003 6:02 PM Subject: RE: [SAtalk] Is spamc unbuffered?
> > This works flawlessly on not all that large files; but when I tried it > > on a file over 1M, the whole process hangs at "print WRITER $text;". > > I know the docs talk about unix buffering and all, but I thought the > > output of spamc is supposed to be unbuffered? > actually, 1M is not the level where this would bomb... try a 256k file, > since spamc runs with -s 256000 if no -s is specified. > > Does anyone have any idea why it would hang altogether? > spamd is expecting an EOF to terminate the input from WRITER, but never > gets it since it's buffer is 256k and you are sending > 256k. Thank you very much for your outstanding reply! The size parameter was exactly what solved it. :) > are you doing this to keep it in memory and prevent disk writes? Yes, I am. :) Since I already hold the entire message in a variable when I call spamc, I did not want to write it out again to disk, just so spamc could suck it in with a "<" redirection. Hence the Open2 call. > you should probably define a limit on the max file size you will pass to > spamc, and then check $length against that size, and if it's larger, > skip it. either that or recode the way spamc handles it's STDIN. That is true too: I probably should not even bother to check when it exceeds the -s size. Thanks again! - Mark ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: VM Ware With VMware you can run multiple operating systems on a single machine. WITHOUT REBOOTING! Mix Linux / Windows / Novell virtual machines at the same time. Free trial click here: http://www.vmware.com/wl/offer/345/0 _______________________________________________ Spamassassin-talk mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/spamassassin-talk
