Re: [Nmh-workers] dot locking broken?

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On Feb 10, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:

> Thanks, yeah, that is wrong.  Me (or someone else) will apply this fix,
> and the others.  I don't think many people use local spool files combined
> with dot locking, so this code path doesn't get much love.

But I have to ask why someone would want to run things this way.  BSD systems - 
by definition - use flock() in /var/mail.  If you run MH with dot locking for 
/var/mail, you're eventually going to lose mail, since the MDA will still use 
flock(), even if you don't.  Not to mention other tools in ports that will be 
assuming flock() for /var/mail.

This is why the incoming mail spool gets its own locking treatment, distinct 
from everything else.  I would prefer to see a much stronger use case made for 
this before accepting it into the code base.

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