Bug#280600: libmime-perl: debbugs MIME handling no more work

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 09:32:25AM -0500, David F. Skoll wrote:
> This behaviour of MIME-tools (failing if an I/O operation fails) will
> *not* be changed; I've had discussions about this before.
> 
> Silently permittion I/O operations to fail can be a security risk.  It's
> up to users of MIME-tools to ensure that their underlying file handles
> support the flush() method correctly.

We use variously IO::Scalar and IO::Lines, both of which have a flush()
method (the latter via IO::ScalarArray), so I'm slightly puzzled. Bill,
I don't suppose you could do me a favour and investigate with 'perl -d'
to see exactly which MIME-tools call is failing?

Thanks,

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]