On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 06:18:41PM -0400, Patrick Shanahan wrote: > * Chris G <[email protected]> [08-09-10 18:11]: > > Can anyone point me at some code that shows how I should do mbox > > locking in a way that will work with mutt? > > > > This is on an Ubuntu 9.10 (probably soon 10.04) system. > > > > I need to know what locking calls I must make (fcntl, or lockf, or > > what), do I need to do dot-locking as well, what is the necessary > > order of the calls to avoid deadlock etc.? > > on cl "mutt -v" will tell you what locking is compiled in your version.
Yes, I've already done that:- ....+USE_DOTLOCK +DL_STANDALONE +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK.... but does that mean that to co-operate with mutt another process *has* to use dotlock and fcntl? ... and, if so, what order should one do things in? -- Chris Green
