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Re: [bug-mailutils] Lock with external program question
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Kostas Zorbadelos |
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Re: [bug-mailutils] Lock with external program question |
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Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:14:36 +0300 |
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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
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