Re: [fetchmail-users] [BUG] fetchmail daemon does not resume fetching after a network outage

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

On Wed, 28 Jun 2006, Uli Zappe wrote:

> >"you'll have to" or "you may have to" sounds more polite than "you  
> >must" (no offense taken, don't worry).
> 
> Well, the force of the laws of logic isn't polite ... ;-)  (This was  
> not meant to be a social "must" but rather a logical one, as I indeed  
> see no other programming techniques to deal with that issue.)

Well, some options not yet mentioned are (without regard to their
usability):

 - dedicated resource tracking with a specific list

 - store the address list in one of the per-server or per-poll
   structures, rather than globally

 - avoid the crude longjmp() (which should've been siglongjmp anyways)
   but rely on EINTR or similar.

 - give up on SIGALRM and use non-blocking I/O and select() instead.

I haven't yet checked which way I'll go though.

-- 
Matthias Andree