11-26-2005
If you remove a file called, say, fred, then the user "fred" will lose all of his mail. There should be no other consequence. If fred gets new mail, another file called fred will appear. I do stuff like that...usually because fred has some cron job sending him mail once an hour or something. So rather than repeatedly deal with it, I then create a ~fred/.forward containing "nobody".
But removing stuff in /var/spool/mail will not usually free space in /usr. With a really screwy symlink, it is possible...but are you sure that your system is set up like that?
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vf_get_prop_value_string
vf_get_prop_value_string(3) Library Functions Manual vf_get_prop_value_string(3)
NAME
vf_get_prop_value_string - vf_get_prop_value_string()
SYNOPSIS
#include <../vformat/vf_iface.h>
extern char *vf_get_prop_value_string
(
VF_PROP_T *p_prop,
uint32_t n_string
);
PARAMETERS
VF_PROP_T *p_prop
Property to locate string from.
uint32_t n_string
Index to string required.
DESCRIPTION
Obtain string pointer value from VF_PROP_T. For example a property may be defined as:
THING;THIS=STUFF;WITH-QUALIFIERS:fred-fred-fred;gogogo;baabaabaa
A call to vf_get_prop_value_string() specifying n_string=1 will return a pointer to the gogogo value.
Return NULL if out of range request, ie. N_string=3 for N:0;1;2.
RETURNS
Pointer to string value if value present, NULL if index too large.
SEE ALSO
vf_parse_init(3), vf_parse_text(3), vf_parse_end(3), vf_read_file(3), vf_write_file(3), vf_get_next_object(3), vf_create_object(3),
vf_get_object_type(3), vf_get_property(3), vf_get_property_ex(3), vf_get_next_property(3), vf_get_prop_value(3), vf_set_prop_value(3),
vf_get_prop_name_string(3), vf_set_prop_name_string(3), vf_get_prop_name(3), vf_get_prop_value_object(3), vf_set_prop_value_object(3),
vf_set_prop_value_string(3), vf_set_prop_value_base64(3), vf_get_prop_value_base64(3), vf_set_property_from_file(3), vf_delete_object(3),
vf_delete_prop(3), vf_find_prop_qual_index(3), vf_is_modified(3), vf_find_charset(3), vf_date_string_to_time(3),
vf_period_string_to_time(3), vf_period_time_to_string(3), vf_set_prop_value_time(3), vf_get_prop_value_time(3)
c2man vf_iface.h 30 April 2003 vf_get_prop_value_string(3)