Re: [Nmh-workers] Locking In Scripts and nmh Locking

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On 2012-04-29, at 7:33 PM, Ken Hornstein wrote:

> But then you say (in another message) that you want nmh programs
> to not deadlock under our hypothetical nmhlock program ... so you
> want to run nmh programs under nmhlock?  Or you want the option to
> handle both nmh and non-nmh programs under nmhlock?  I am just
> trying to understand what you want.

There is no transaction locking under (n)mh, just like there is no transaction 
locking under general UNIX shell commands.

MH lets us play, and it lets us break things. C'est la vie. 

--lyndon