In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Guy Maor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Sat, 12 Oct 1996, Loic Prylli wrote: > >> So what is the proper way to lock a user mailbox ? > >The proper way is with the <user>.lock file. Policy manual 4.3 >documents this. > >You should file bug reports against any programs that use a different >method.
I am about to file a lot of bugreports on programs that use the user.lock file. Only procmail gets it right; it creates a temp file and tries to lock by link(2)ing to the lockfile. Most other programs (deliver, elm etc) use O_EXCL which fails over NFS because NFS has no O_EXCL. And the main reason we use the dotlock convention is so that it works over NFS.. Mike. -- | Miquel van Smoorenburg \ The answer to Life, the Universe and Everything \ | [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ Just reinstall windows and try again, sir. \ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
