On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 12:51:57PM -0400, Alain Magloire wrote: > > An interesting point, I guess it would be nice to do multiple locking in > general. > It is probably not possible to now when the mailbox is on a > distributed file system, doing the kernel locking __and__ the dot-locking > could be a good thing.
I was really wondering, I look in various places and I see that there are problems with fcntl locking over NFS. Is this because there are broken implementations of NFS servers/clients? In our setup we have a working fcntl locking mechanism over NFS... > Changing the code in locker.c to allow this may be > an option i.e. it is no longer exclusive. > This seems like a good idea. > You could temper with the options of sieve asking for a specific/multiple > lock types when it opens the mailbox or save the file in a different folder: > > I also vaguely remember extensions to RFC3028 for sieve asking for a new > flags extension for "fileinto" action. We could specify the implementation > dependent flag ... not sure if it is a good idea. > I don't know about the extension and whether it can be utilized either. Thanks, Kostas -- Kostas Zorbadelos Systems Designer/Developer, Otenet SA [EMAIL PROTECTED] contact: kzorba (at) otenet.gr Out there in the darkness, out there in the night out there in the starlight, one soul burns brighter than a thousand suns. _______________________________________________ Bug-mailutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-mailutils
