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Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh should be more careful about when it unlinks draft


From: Ralph Corderoy
Subject: Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh should be more careful about when it unlinks draft files
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2017 15:17:08 +0000

Hi Ken,

> - The file is created with creat(), which as you know does get called
> with O_CREAT, but does not include O_EXCL.

Could that be considered a bug?  That's comp(1).  I UTSL this time and
repl(1) appears to fopen(..., "w") so it's no better off.

> Really, the safest thing to do for Laura's case is to use the MH
> environment variable to point to a new .mh_profile that has it's own
> Path that doesn't stomp all over your personal mail directory.

Yep.

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Cheers, Ralph.
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