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Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email.
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Lyndon Nerenberg |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email. |
Date: |
Sun, 6 Mar 2016 15:16:21 -0800 |
> On Mar 6, 2016, at 2:53 PM, Ralph Corderoy <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> To give them some credit, fcntl(3p) here says there were too many
> existing brain-damaged implementations around for POSIX.1‐2008 to
> deviate. I guess sometimes they're stuck documenting life.
They were (are) a disingenuous bunch of bastards, when it suits their needs ;-)
Witness utf8 creeping in at the last second. And I was part of the "Austin
Group" networking updates mob. There were shenanigans going on there that I
have thankfully long forgotten.
> Dot-locking FTW! flock(2) starts off sounding sane on Linux these days,
> but then you get into the NOTES with all the NFS exceptions, and it
> spirals down. https://manned.org/flock.2
That's not the fault of flock() or lockf(). They define sane interfaces; it's
NFS that's failing here. You *can* get network locking right – as 9P proved
ages ago.
--lyndon
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Ken Hornstein, 2016/03/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/03/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Ken Hornstein, 2016/03/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/03/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Ken Hornstein, 2016/03/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Robert Elz, 2016/03/07
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/03/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Ralph Corderoy, 2016/03/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email.,
Lyndon Nerenberg <=
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Robert Elz, 2016/03/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Lyndon Nerenberg, 2016/03/06
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email., Andy Bradford, 2016/03/06