Re: Bug#39005: Mail loss over NFS with Kernel 2.2.*
In article <cistron.19990823182624.A31043@spinnaker.rhein.de>,
Roland Rosenfeld <roland@debian.org> wrote:
>I sent a copy of this message to debian-devel, because I think, that
>this means, that all mail accessing programs should be changed to use
>fcntl() in addition to dotlock! Maybe I should file bug reports
>against all mail locking applications?
No, first have the policy changed, _then_ file bug reports.
Also make sure you specify in which order the different types of locking
and unlocking have to take place, to prevent deadlocks! That probably
means checking existing practice by reading a lot of source code.
Mike.
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