Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 09:10:07 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RELENG_2_2 Message-ID: <19970515091007.KD50309@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199705150526.XAA00025@rocky.mt.sri.com>; from Nate Williams on May 14, 1997 23:26:26 -0600 References: <199705141817.EAA01334@labs.usn.blaze.net.au> <17811.863652120@time.cdrom.com> <199705150526.XAA00025@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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As Nate Williams wrote: > Umm, so you are basically stating that *unless* you don't have a local > delivery agent, or you can guarantee that the delivery will never happen > when you're using dtmail it will work. No, Nate. As much as i'm against this change, the outcome of all this was that dtmail might be doing the correct maillocking already, but they need writability to /var/mail in order to abuse it for other purposes (like a local semaphore file, and the user's temp file). Jordan, we should: . Make sure Thomas tells us they do indeed the correct maillocking (if not, we should not risk shipping CDE CDs without a red warning label: ``CAUTION: YOU CAN LOSE ALL YOUR MAIL AND CATS BY USING THIS PRODUCT!'' :). . Urge Thomas to have the actual problem fixed (maybe by consultants) instead of being hacked up. I understand his desire to not spend much money into code that's not even his own, but as it seems, there are quite a number of FreeBSD hackers here who are capable and interested in fixing this problem, and willing to work as a consultant to XiG. Maybe he could sell his fix to the OSF then. :-/ -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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