Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh-1.1-RC4 post /tmp/,LCK.* problem

[pmaydell]

Joel Reicher wrote:
>> Perhaps we should make configure insist on the user specifying a
>> locking strategy, with no default :-)
>
>When I said "sensible" I meant something along the lines of "has a
>chance of working, if anything does". :)
>
>I think it's a reasonable assumption that nmh programs will be the only
>ones manipulating these files, because in the cases where this is not
>true, the user that has set other programs going probably knows what
>they're doing.

Um, the novice user presumably reads the manpage and starts out
using inc. (Heck, I *still* use inc :-)). If inc doesn't lock the
mailspool correctly then they might lose mail. In fact, for the
novice that's the only bit of locking they care about -- they're
not likely to be running multiple nmh programs simultaneously.

-- PMM