Re: ssl:sst.c

["Gerrit P. Haase" <gerrit.haase@t-online.de>]

Matti Aarnio schrieb am 2001-05-16, 16:47:

> On Wed, May 16, 2001 at 03:17:53PM +0200, Gerrit P. Haase wrote:
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > I want to try to port zmailer to cygwin...
> 
>   Does  CYGWIN give you full UNIXish  fork() ??

Yes.

>   ZMailer uses that in couple places, unfortunately.
>   (smtpserver socket listening daemon, router queue manager,
>    some parts of scheduler where transport-agent argv[] is finalized
>    within the fork's child-side.  The scheduler has also   mytime()
>    thing which forks off a child-process.)

Hmm, don't know about mytime().
 
>   M$ windows supplies a   spawn()  (fork+exec) to my knowledge.

Cygwin added a 'real' fork.
 
>   All of those things I mention above can be solved without fork(),
>   but I haven't had any incentive for it.  ( spawn() a sub-router
>   with suitable parameters, let it start, and start interaction
>   with the scheduling master.  Scheduler's  mytime()  can be done
>   with threads.  The  smtpserver can - in theory - be rearranged
>   to be thread-friendly.   Router can't.)

Cygwin has threads implemented since a few weeks, maybe still buggy,
but it works.

> > But on win-filesystem NTFS i am not able to write files
> > containig ':' or '<', '>' and some more.
> > 
> > These two files (ssl:sst.c, ssl:sst.h) makes me headaches, 
> > i could not get the sources with them per cvs.
> > 
> > Maybe they could be renamed?
> > 
> > ssl:sst.c > ssl_sst.c
> > ssl:sst.h > ssl_sst.h
> 
>   Yes, definitely.  They are generated files.
>   (Although that is Bootstrap-Issue...)
> 
>   I just renamed them in the CVS.

Wow, thanks. 
There is also an #include statement in one of the files
in this directory.

gph

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