Re: fcntl: No locks available (errno = 37)

[Thomas Roessler]

On 1999-11-16 18:09:17 -0600, David DeSimone wrote:

> If you are *certain* that every mail-handling program at your site uses
> the same dot-locking mechanism, you can reconfigure Mutt with
> --disable-fcntl, and then you won't have this problem.  But if you're
> wrong, and there is some program that does try to perform fcntl-locks as
> the only method to prevent synchronization problems, then the two
> programs can collide and trash the folder if they access it at the same
> time.

When doing this, make sure you disable caching on the NFS client.

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