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From: rickert@mp.cs.niu.edu (Neil Rickert)
Newsgroups: comp.bugs.4bsd
Subject: Re: error handling bug in sendoff() of sendmail 5.65
Message-ID: <1991May7.114948.16201@mp.cs.niu.edu>
Date: 7 May 91 11:49:48 GMT
References: <DEMIZU.91May4162444@freezer.nff.ncl.omron.co.jp> <1225@nikhefh.nikhef.nl>
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In article <1225@nikhefh.nikhef.nl> e07@nikhefh.nikhef.nl (Eric Wassenaar) writes:
>However, openmailer() will already have stored a proper status
>in ExitStat because it calls syserr() before failing, and syserr()
>sets ExitStat to EX_OSERR or EX_SOFTWARE.
>It makes sense though, to override this by EX_TEMPFAIL in case of
>a failing fork().

 Why exactly does this make sense?  EX_OSERR already causes the message to
be requeued, so what is the benefit of changing toe EX_TEMPFAIL ?

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  Neil W. Rickert, Computer Science               <rickert@cs.niu.edu>
  Northern Illinois Univ.
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