[fetchmail-devel] [Bug #7858] -f - or --fetchmailrc - attempts to stat "-"

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Bug #7858, was updated on 2006-Jun-11 18:29
Here is a current snapshot of the bug.

Project: Community Fetchmail
Category: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Bug Group: None
Priority: 5
Submitted by: pauamma
Assigned to : none
Summary: -f - or --fetchmailrc - attempts to stat "-"

Details: When stdin is specified as the fetchmail run-control file
with -f - or --fetchmailrc -, fetchmail will attempt to
stat(2) "-" (so it can check later whether it was changed),
but even if there's a file by that name, it has nothing to
do with stdin anyway.

Suggested fix: I don't think it makes any sense to check for
updates when stdin is used, so skipping the stat altogether
is probably the right thing. Assuming that check is needed
for some reason, it should probably use fstat(2) instead,
assuming it's portable enough.

For detailed info, follow this link:
http://developer.berlios.de/bugs/?func=detailbug&bug_id=7858&group_id=1824