Kostas Zorbadelos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Please discard this question. Our decision in not to use an external
> program (as it will spawn an external process).
OK. Nevertheless, here are the answers:
> > program. I imagine I will do
> >
> > - mu_mailbox_create (&mbox,path)
> > - mu_mailbox_open (mbox, MU_STREAM_RDWR|MU_STREAM_CREAT)
> > - mu_mailbox_get_locker (mbox, &lock)
> > - mu_locker_lock (lock) (at this point my external program will spawn
> > and lock the file using its methods)
> > - do stuff with the mailbox...
> > - mu_locker_unlock (lock) (the external program spawns again)
> >
> > Am I correct and if so,
Basically you are right, except that you will have to specify default
locker flags before calling mu_mailbox_create using
mu_locker_set_default_flags as mail.local does.
> > where do I declare the external program and
This is done using mu_locker_set_default_external_program();
> > what arguments is it expected to have?
-f NUMBER If a lock already exists, break it if it is older than
NUMBER seconds
-r NUMBER Retry acquiring the lock NUMBER times
-u Unlock existing lock
Regards,
Sergey
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