Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 15:18:27 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: wollman@lcs.mit.edu (Garrett Wollman) Cc: terry@lambert.org, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: /var/mail default permissions?? Message-ID: <199604112218.PAA05168@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <9604112045.AA16355@halloran-eldar.lcs.mit.edu> from "Garrett Wollman" at Apr 11, 96 04:45:55 pm
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> > If it weren't for NFS mounts, I'd suggest devising a common mail > > API and making all mail programs use it. > > And I would suggest that we already have one, and it consists of the > following routines: > > open(2), > flock(2), > link(2), > unlink(2), > read(2), > write(2), > lseek(2), > and close(2) How does this API enforce RFC compliant message formats better than or equvalent to enforcement by any potential replacement API? By recoding (probably erroneously) the requirements in each and every application that deals with mail, you say? In code whose intent is to performs identical function but which is yet unshared between these applications, needlessly duplicating massive amounts of programming effort? Seems silly to me... Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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