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authorPhilip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>2005-03-22 15:02:34 +0000
committerPhilip Hazel <ph10@hermes.cam.ac.uk>2005-03-22 15:02:34 +0000
commit4754440d213e40463c4d3f4f75152825c5e702b0 (patch)
tree087bc8fa88247a69363a46cccb26f83a470f3d56 /doc/doc-txt
parent49c2d5ea04847f8f7f1344bfd73582e9a0d3b564 (diff)
Further tidies to the ${dlfunc code (thanks, Tony): redirect options are
always available (but do nothing when the facility isn't compiled). Improve the NewStuff text.
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-$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