Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!bfmny0!tneff From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Newsgroups: comp.mail.uucp Subject: Re: Using SMTP and smail Message-ID: <15892@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Date: 28 Sep 90 09:06:16 GMT References: <1990Sep26.202956.11734@chinet.chi.il.us> <15889@bfmny0.BFM.COM> Reply-To: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff) Lines: 15 In article <15889@bfmny0.BFM.COM> I wrote: >It's safe in the sense that the script will inherit the right addresses, >however quirky, since smail2 uses execvp() to start the deliverer. (If >it used execlp() and made the shell parse its own arguments, there would ^^^^^^^^ >be trouble.) I meant system(). After lecturing others to read their own postings before inflicting them on the world, I am hoist on my petard! :-) Thanks to R. for catching this. -- "The thought of being President frightens me and I @-@ Tom Neff do not think I want the job." -- Ronald Reagan, 1973 \_/ tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM