Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?

[Bill Wohler]

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> On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 15:30:55 -0700, Joel Uckelman said:
>
>> The second colon tells procmail to use a lockfile for this recipe, and
>> the path after that is the lockfile name. Messages can come in any
>> time; the lockfile ensures that two runs of rcvstore don't step on each
>> other's toes.
>
> And the exact gotcha involved, from 'nman rcvstore':
>
> BUGS
>        If you use the "Unseen-Sequence" profile entry, rcvstore could try to 
> update the context while another
>        nmh  process is also trying to do so.  This can cause the context to 
> become corrupted.  To avoid this,
>        do not use rcvstore if you use the "Unseen-Sequence" profile entry.
>
> What it doesn't mention is that the resulting train wreck can mangle other
> sequences in the .mh_seq file as well.  Also, should we change that text
> to say "do not use rcvstore without an external locking mechanism'?  It's
> perfectly save to use it from procmail with unseen sequences as long as
> procmail does the locking for you, so there's no need to scare off users.

Has anyone ever experienced this theoretical corruption? I haven't. I
use procmail's locking, but then other nmh programs don't use that same
locking mechanism.

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