Re: problem with folder locking: procmail and pine

To: Santiago Vila Doncel <sanvila@unex.es>
Cc: Christian Schwarz <schwarz@monet.m.isar.de>, Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: problem with folder locking: procmail and pine
From: John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org>
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 1997 13:45:39 -0600
Message-id: <[🔎] 19970302134539.57923@complete.org>
In-reply-to: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.970302170147.5308A-100000@rosa>; from Santiago Vila Doncel on Mar 03, 1997 at 05:09:10PM
References: <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95q.970302155355.3373G-100000@klee> <[🔎] Pine.LNX.3.95.970302170147.5308A-100000@rosa>

   On Mar 2, Santiago Vila Doncel wrote:

> Debian procmail is patched to use *only* dot locking, as mandated by
> Debian policy manual, 4.3.

Hmm, is it just me or does that seem a little silly?

What's wrong with using dot-locking in conjunction with fcntl/flock?

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