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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: sendmail fails to deliver mail with attachments in /var/spool/mqueue]
Date: 10 Nov 2000 14:19:45 -0800
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Followup to:  <00111023290401.00203@linux1.home.bogus>
By author:    Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmail.virusscreen.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Claus Assmann wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 10, 2000, Jeff V. Merkey wrote:
> > > Looks like your bug.  As an FYI, sendmail.rpms in Suse, RedHat, and
> > > OpenLinux all exhibit this behavior, which means they're all broken. 
> > 
> > Sorry, this is plain wrong. sendmail does NOT read the entire
> > file into memory.
> 
> Does sendmail use sendfile() ?
> 

Or mmap()/write()?

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