> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:bug-mailutils- > Subject: Re: [bug-mailutils] Lock with external program question > > On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 06:46:06PM +0300, Kostas Zorbadelos wrote: > > Please discard this question. Our decision in not to use an external > program (as it will spawn an external process). Instead we would like > to implement another locking method or extend the ones found in > locker.c > > Will lets you know and send patches. >
Interesting, for mailbox locking, there are 2 types of locks that are recognized: - the dotlock: creating a known temporary file(with the PID as the content) - the fcntl/lockf: using the OS locking mechanism, with the caveat it may not work across distributed file system like NFS. This seems to cover most cases, so the locker_t object did not allow to overload its behaviour besides, providing the behaviour with the flags at creation locker_create(..., flags); I'm curious, what scenario did we not cover, with all the flags define in locker.h? _______________________________________________ Bug-mailutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils
