Date: Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:04:40 +0200 From: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@starjuice.net> To: Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: audit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mixing -l and -p in split(1) Message-ID: <70710.999799480@axl.seasidesoftware.co.za> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:51:08 %2B0300." <20010906205108.A72023@sunbay.com>
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On Thu, 06 Sep 2001 20:51:08 +0300, Ruslan Ermilov wrote: > > The specific problem was the need to split a 4GB SMTP transcript into > > 4 files of approximately 1GB in size, to be passed as input into SMTP > > socket connections. > > > Hmm, can't this be done by running -p first and then -l on the chunks? I don't think so, no. The point is that the input is a dialogue, made up of regular "paragraphs", e.g. HELO localhost MAIL FROM:foo@bar.com RCPT TO:baz@bat.com DATA [...] . NOOP HELO localhost [...] This _can_ be done with a perl script, of course, but... While I'm not a fan of feature-creep, I don't understand the need to impose this artificial limitation on the functionality available. The patch feels like it "unlocks" something. If it's just a safety catch, I say we document the danger involved (getting larger chunks than anticipated) and allow it. Ciao, Sheldon. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-audit" in the body of the message
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