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Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)



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On 20 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:

> > I think flock can fail across NFS in certain situations, but I'm no
> > locking expert.
> 
> Hmm, but why would that cause a problem with mailers/programs that use
> lockfile locking *and* flock/fcntl locking at the same time?

You create fun deadlocks when one program does it lockfile/flock and the
other does it flock/lockfile.

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|       Scott K. Ellis       |       Argue for your limitations and      |
|       storm@gate.net       |         sure enough, they're yours.       |
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