Re: qmail-src (was RFC: New source packaging format)
On Tue, 28 Oct 1997, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> On Oct 28, Juan Cespedes <cespedes@debian.org> wrote:
> > BTW: please apply patch from Bug#12565 (or better yet, use the
> >new `liblockfile'). Last version of qmail doesn't lock properly and
> >could cause data loss.
> Please make the lock tipe a compile time configurable option, I don't run
> NFS so I don't want slow dotlocking.
It's not that easy. Every program in a Debian GNU/Linux
distribution uses (or should use) dotlocking, so mail should use that
if you don't want data loss, even if you don't do NFS.
If, for example, qmail is locking your mailbox with flock
while you are reading it with elm, and elm uses dot-locking, it could
be a problem even with local filesystems.
And I think dotlocking is not that slow...
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Juan Cespedes
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