Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 21:32:40 -0700 From: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> To: Marc W <mwlist@lanfear.com> Cc: Gordon Tetlow <gordont@bluemtn.net>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Locking and Mail spool Files Message-ID: <200103260432.f2Q4We933140@harmony.village.org> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 25 Mar 2001 19:22:04 PST." <200103260322.TAA31887@akira.lanfear.com> References: <200103260322.TAA31887@akira.lanfear.com>
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In message <200103260322.TAA31887@akira.lanfear.com> Marc W writes: : Excellent, I will look for that. However, in the meantime, on : older systems (3.x, 4.x, etc ...), is the below assertion correct? I ran mail over NFS for a while, as well as using a mail program that didn't do locking to sort my mail. In both cases I'd lose mail when two messages arrived at the same time. They would both be written to the same place in the mail spool file, causing all kinds of fun corruption that took weeks to track down. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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