Sunil Shetye <shetye(_at_)bombay(_dot_)retortsoft(_dot_)com>:
Quoting from Eric S. Raymond's mail on Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 04:50:34AM -0400:
There are a few reasons why 'flush' should not be used to delete
oversized messages.
- 'limit' is a resource limit control option, 'flush' is not. Using
the two in combination is neither safe nor intuitive. 'flush' is
specifically for deleting old seen mails. Overloading it is
dangerous.
I agree with this argument, and have accepted the patch.
??? Which patch have you accepted? Benjamin Drieu's patch is in fact
in disagreement with my argument!
Aarrgghh. I don't have the stuff in my mailbox to reconstruct what
happened.
I'm going to ship 6.2.6 shortly. Take a look at that code, we'll
revisit this then.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>