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author | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2005-03-22 15:02:34 +0000 |
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committer | Philip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk> | 2005-03-22 15:02:34 +0000 |
commit | 4754440d213e40463c4d3f4f75152825c5e702b0 (patch) | |
tree | 087bc8fa88247a69363a46cccb26f83a470f3d56 /doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | |
parent | 49c2d5ea04847f8f7f1344bfd73582e9a0d3b564 (diff) |
Further tidies to the ${dlfunc code (thanks, Tony): redirect options are
always available (but do nothing when the facility isn't compiled).
Improve the NewStuff text.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc/doc-txt/NewStuff')
-rw-r--r-- | doc/doc-txt/NewStuff | 16 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff index 383c0f6f4..e6e55c745 100644 --- a/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff +++ b/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.28 2005/03/22 14:11:54 ph10 Exp $ +$Cambridge: exim/doc/doc-txt/NewStuff,v 1.29 2005/03/22 15:02:34 ph10 Exp $ New Features in Exim -------------------- @@ -46,12 +46,20 @@ PH/02 A new expansion item for dynamically loading and calling a locally- set in Local/Makefile. The facility is not included by default (a suitable error is given if you try to use it when it is not there.) - You load and call the function like this: + + If you enable EXPAND_DLFUNC, you should also be aware of the new redirect + router option forbid_filter_dlfunc. If you have unprivileged users on + your system who are permitted to create filter files, you might want to + set forbid_filter_dlfunc=true in the appropriate router, to stop them + using ${dlfunc to run code within Exim. + + You load and call an external function like this: ${dlfunc{/some/file}{function}{arg1}{arg2}...} - Once loaded, Exim remembers it so that it doesn't reload it in the same - Exim process (but of course Exim does start new processes frequently). + Once loaded, Exim remembers the dynamically loaded object so that it + doesn't reload the same object file in the same Exim process (but of + course Exim does start new processes frequently). There may be from zero to eight arguments to the function. When compiling a local function that is to be called in this way, local_scan.h should be |