Re: [Nmh-workers] Minor Thing About the Welcome Message.

[Ken Hornstein]

>This uncommited fixes it.  This one case anyway.
>
>    diff --git uip/mhparse.c uip/mhparse.c
>    index 71405616..0fadf786 100644
>    --- uip/mhparse.c
>    +++ uip/mhparse.c
>    @@ -2897,7 +2897,7 @@ openURL (CT ct, char **file)
>     
>         fseeko(ce->ce_fp, 0, SEEK_SET);
>         *file = ce->ce_file;
>    -    return fd;
>    +    return fileno(ce->ce_fp);
>     }

I guess that's my fault, since I wrote openURL().

>I did notice earlier that openURL() was different from most of the other
>calls of openExternal() in handling its `OK' return value;  it returned
>fd instead of ce_fp's fileno().  Here fd is -1, but ce_fp is valid and
>returning its fileno instead gives the dictionary entry as part of the
>email.
>
>I don't know if this is the right fix.  Frankly, after staring at
>functions that take a pointer to a struct with an FILE pointer and a
>filename, and also a couple of pointers to return a filename and a file
>descriptor, I'm unclear if the duplicates are meant to always be in
>sync, whether the file descriptor is always the of the FILE pointer if
>that's not NULL, or if sometimes the two filenames should differ...
>There's other messes I was already in the middle of trying to sort out,
>so I'm giving up on this one.

Sigh.  I know, that code is a huge mess.  It all needs to be thrown out
and rewritten.  Some day ...

I think your fix is correct and I will apply it (and pull it up for 1.7).

--Ken