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Re: [Nmh-workers] dot locking broken?
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Ken Hornstein |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] dot locking broken? |
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Wed, 11 Feb 2015 21:37:48 -0500 |
>But I have to ask why someone would want to run things this way. BSD
>systems - by definition - use flock() in /var/mail. If you run MH with
>dot locking for /var/mail, you're eventually going to lose mail, since
>the MDA will still use flock(), even if you don't. Not to mention other
>tools in ports that will be assuming flock() for /var/mail.
I know the user was on FreeBSD, but a quick googling shows me that there
are a number of places that use dot-locking on the mail spool. Also,
it sounded like Martin was just testing things. Seems reasonable to
make it work.
--Ken
Re: [Nmh-workers] dot locking broken?, Marcin Cieslak, 2015/02/13
Re: [Nmh-workers] dot locking broken?, David Levine, 2015/02/11