On Tue, Mar 08, 2016 at 01:20:51PM -0500, Ben Boeckel wrote: > > Yeah, looked into this for a minute, and determined it's atrocious. > > Should lead to mail store corruption unless you're only using maildir. > > The fact that Mutt isn't multithreaded is not interesting; the fact > > that multiple processes (e.g. your MDA) may read and write the mail > > store files simultaneously IS. Locking is important, and this patch > > is misguided. > > Reading the manpages, it seems that these are about not using a > process-level mutex lock, not file-level locking mechanisms.
Hmm... Seems you are right. My bad, I did not read carefully enough. -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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