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Re: Locking - which to use?

by Valdis.Kletnieks :: Rate this Message:

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On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:25:13 EST, David Levine said:

> What if the user also uses an application that writes to the
> mail spool but uses a different locking scheme than /bin/mail?

Then the other app is busticated, pure and simple.  There's no really sane
choice for locking the mail spool than "exactly the same thing that the
system /bin/mail uses".


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