In message <3.0.1.32.19990104013631.0092a770at_private>, Trev writes: >Pardon my comments here, I am no qmail expert (I don't even run the thing), >but surely you could get around this by applying a small patch to >qmail-queue to look for such zero-length files and remove any that are >found (ie: one of the first things it does). Naively it sounds like a good idea. In practice though, there is a race condition between one instance of qmail-queue creating a file (at which point it has zero length) and another instance finding and removing the same, in-use file. Additional tests would have to be performed such as testing time-since-creation. Holistically however, this kind of "cleanup" offends my sense of the tao of system programming. Processes should not leave crud to be cleaned up by later, unrelated processes. Nick.
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