From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Sep 23 9: 0: 7 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9657F37B43C for ; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id JAA65540; Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:00:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 09:00:03 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200009231600.JAA65540@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Scott Blachowicz Subject: Re: ports/21465: nmh-1.0.4: multiple simultaneous "inc"s step on each other Reply-To: Scott Blachowicz Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR ports/21465; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Scott Blachowicz To: marka@drugs.dv.isc.org Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports/21465: nmh-1.0.4: multiple simultaneous "inc"s step on each other Date: Sat, 23 Sep 2000 08:49:53 -0700 On Fri, Sep 22, 2000 at 12:29:46PM +1100, marka@nominum.com wrote: > > Mail is lost if two "inc"s are running at the same time. > This is easy to do in a windowed evirionment specially when you > have multiple mailboxes. As far as I know, this isn't really a port problem, but a problem with the base software. I don't know if MH or nmh has ever done any sort of "folder" locking or atomic creation of new message files. I'm pretty sure that it's never done any locking on the .mh_sequences files. You might be able to get a response on the nmh-workers@mhost.com mailing list... -- Scott Blachowicz To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message