Sloppy error checking in MS code

Glenn Steen glenn.steen at gmail.com
Sun Dec 17 16:04:35 GMT 2006


On 17/12/06, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 16 Dec 2006, Mike Jakubik wrote:
>
> > The overhead of checking the errorlevel a function returns is almost
> > non-existent, and indeed some functions are checked properly in the sendmail
> > code, but not the in postfix code, why?
>
> Maybe the PF module is not written completely by Julian, much like the Qmail
> module, which is why Qmail is not officially supported by Julian.
> In fact a  post made recently by anoher list member seemed to indicate he
> was the one who wrote PF module, I might be wrong, as I recall it was late
> at night when I read it.
>
It's as with most of MailScanner... Mostly Jules, with only snippets
here and there that come from other people (and those are marked to
that effect AFAICS).... Perhaps a tad too much amber fluid?:-)

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