Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]

From: H. Peter Anvin (hpa@zytor.com)
Date: Fri Nov 10 2000 - 17:19:45 EST


Followup to: <00111023290401.00203@linux1.home.bogus>
By author: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmail.virusscreen.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Claus Assmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > > Looks like your bug. As an FYI, sendmail.rpms in Suse, RedHat, and
> > > OpenLinux all exhibit this behavior, which means they're all broken.
> >
> > Sorry, this is plain wrong. sendmail does NOT read the entire
> > file into memory.
>
> Does sendmail use sendfile() ?
>

Or mmap()/write()?

        -hpa

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