Re: [Nmh-workers] Locking (specifically, sequences)

[Ken Hornstein]

>The cheap hack way out of this is to set up a select() loop, create a 
>pipe(), set a timer, then do the lock.  If the alarm fires, write a byte 
>down the pipe from the signal handler which triggers a return from the 
>select(), and a lookup of the returned FD tells you "timeout!"

So you're calling select() and fcntl(LOCK...) at the same time?

--Ken