Subj : Re: Argh..
To   : mark lewis
From : Wilfred van Velzen
Date : Thu Aug 10 2017 23:27:09

Hi mark,

On 2017-08-10 15:14:18, you wrote to me:

 WV>> I didn't do an extensive search in the source about this, but afaik
 WV>> fmail doesn't use the CWD. And the executable directory is used
 WV>> (mainly for the config files) if you don't specify a "working"
 WV>> directory through the FMAIL environment variable. But it doesn't use
 WV>> that for creating pkt files. They are created directly in the outbound
 WV>> directory...

 ml> i was wondering about that... with the .qqq extension, that should be OK
 ml> but then the question comes about if FMail supports fileboxes and if so,
 ml> where does it create the .qqq files? anything in a filebox is sent to the
 ml> system assigned to that box...

They are created in the regular outbound, as all the files are, and when they 
are finished, they are renamed/moved to the filebox directory.

 ml> back to the point, if something tries to create a temp file in the
 ml> filebox and then rename it to whatever its proper name should be,
 ml> binkd may have already sent it off since there's no semaphores to tell
 ml> binkd to not process that filebox at that point in time...

I'm aware of that, and the original author of FMail apparently too, because 
it's done in a correct way. ;)

Bye, Wilfred.

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