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From: paul@cgh.UUCP (Paul Homchick)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Replacing sendmail with IDA+
Keywords: sendmail, next, IDA
Message-ID: <1517@cgh.UUCP>
Date: 9 Mar 91 16:22:18 GMT
References: <1516@cgh.UUCP>
Organization: Chimitt Gilman Homchick, Inc.
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In article <1516@cgh.UUCP> paul@cgh.uucp (Paul Homchick) writes:
>Why doesn't the supplied sendmail support the frozen sendmail.cf file?

Because the sendmail sources use brk() to allocate memory for loading
the frozen .cf file copy.  The NeXT does not support brk() and sbrk().
Presumably, no one had enough energy (or courage) to recode this
portion of sendmail.

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