Sorry, this is silly. The maildir spec nowhere requires that the
PID be used.
People deserve what they get when they mix conventions for generating
the unique part of time.UNIQUE.host.
Wietse
Matthias Andree:
> Paul Jarc found a problem with the new/time.inode.hostname approach, he
> suggests tagging the inode, such as new/1234567890.i4321.hermes, read
> below.
>
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> Matthias Andree
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> Matthias Andree <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > It seems that Postfix, Courier and Maildrop will settle on using the
> > tmp/* file inode number for the <unique> part in new/, so these
> > applications will rename from tmp/time.pid_count.hostname to
> > new/time.inode.hostname.
>
> What I saw in the qmail archives was new/time.inode.pid.hostname.
> time.inode.hostname is extremely broken, and must not be used: there
> might be two delivery programs running at once. One might be an old
> one using pid and the other might be a new one using inode. If the
> old one's pid is the same as the new one's inode, you can get a
> collision. So it should be <time>.i<inode>.<hostname> instead, to
> ensure that it cannot be confused with the old format. Please pass
> this on to anyone who is planning to use <time>.<inode>.<hostname>.
>
>
> paul
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