Re: preferred way to read from from file descriptor 6 in ucspi

[Harald Hanche-Olsen <hanche@math.ntnu.no>]

+ conover@rahul.net (John Conover):

| Is there a preferred, (as in official,) way to read from file
| descriptor 6 in ucspi?
| 
| Something like:
| 
|     while ((cnt = read (6, buf, MAXBUF)) >= 0)
|     {
| 
| has some issues with network latency and EOT.

You could take a look at the qmail source code to find out how DJB
does it.  In qmail-smtpd, for example, he reads input one character at
a time until a newline arrives, then parses the result.  Even the body
of the mail is read a byte at a time.

- Harald