--Brian Candler wrote on 17.12.2002 13:10 +0000:

> Just a minor thought. I'm having a look through the maildrop package, and I
> see that mailbot has -d/-D options for suppressing repeated autoresponses
> (nice).
> 
> However, I also see that it uses gdbm. Is this going to be safe on NFS
> systems? (perhaps by use of dotlock files when updating it?)

take a look at mailbot.c:

strcat(strcpy(lockname, dbfile), ".lock");
lockfd=open(lockname, O_RDWR|O_CREAT, 0666);
if (lockfd < 0 || ll_lock_ex(lockfd))
{
        perror(lockname);
        exit(EX_TEMPFAIL);
}

Roland



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