Package: dovecot-common Version: 1:1.2.1-1 Severity: normal Hi,
dovecot currently defaults with: mbox_write_locks = dotlock fcntl according to policy 11.6 though: All Debian MUAs, MTAs, MDAs and other mailbox accessing programs (such as IMAP daemons) must lock the mailbox in an NFS-safe way. This means that fcntl() locking must be combined with dot locking. To avoid deadlocks, a program should use fcntl() first and dot locking after this, or alternatively implement the two locking methods in a non blocking way. Postfix does indeed lock in the opposite order to this, and Jaldhar noted the above policy in discussion about that in #d-d, so probably we should flip the order of these in the config supplied by the package. Cheers, Ron -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.30-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_AU.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_AU.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages dovecot-common depends on: ii adduser 3.110 add and remove users and groups ii libbz2-1.0 1.0.5-3 high-quality block-sorting file co ii libc6 2.9-20 GNU C Library: Shared libraries ii libcomerr2 1.41.8-1 common error description library ii libdb4.7 4.7.25-7 Berkeley v4.7 Database Libraries [ ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii libk5crypto3 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - C ii libkrb5-3 1.7dfsg~beta3-1 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries ii libldap-2.4-2 2.4.15-1.1 OpenLDAP libraries ii libmysqlclient15off 5.0.81-1 MySQL database client library ii libpam-runtime 1.0.1-9 Runtime support for the PAM librar ii libpam0g 1.0.1-9 Pluggable Authentication Modules l ii libpq5 8.4.0-2 PostgreSQL C client library ii libsqlite3-0 3.6.16-1 SQLite 3 shared library ii libssl0.9.8 0.9.8k-3 SSL shared libraries ii openssl 0.9.8k-3 Secure Socket Layer (SSL) binary a ii ucf 3.0018 Update Configuration File: preserv ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.3.dfsg-14 compression library - runtime -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
