Date: Wed, 12 Sep 2001 15:03:35 +0100 From: Fergus Cameron <cameron@argus-systems.com> To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> Cc: stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Local mail delivery & file locking? Message-ID: <20010912150334.D987@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200109121353.f8CDrQs58429@bunrab.catwhisker.org>; from david@catwhisker.org on Wed, Sep 12, 2001 at 06:53:26AM -0700 References: <20010912145145.B987@dedog.argus-systems.co.uk> <200109121353.f8CDrQs58429@bunrab.catwhisker.org>
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> But mail.local does try to lock the file, and the use of the spool mail > box is the default -- I certainly do the same, yet encounter no > problems. (Nor have I, ever since I started using "mail" as an MUA, > which was ca. 1986. Of course, various things have changed a bit since > then....) i'm really no expert here but a quick look at the 'mail' code would indicate that it doesn't try to obtain a file lock for the mbox only the spool box. therefore local.mail will never be blocked while getting the lock. i don't think that the spool mail box (/var/mail/user) is the default mbox. i'm pretty sure the default mbox is (/home/user/mbox). To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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