On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 16:08:40 MST, Robert Tarrall said: > On a Linux system where I just upgraded from nmh-1.0.4 to nmh-1.1RC3, > sending takes a long, long time (circa 30 seconds) from the time you > type "send" at the whatnow prompt to the time you get a command prompt.
Yeah, I've noticed this one too.. :) > Support item 103005 (link above) includes a patch to sbr/lock_file.c > which simply skips locking if the file is /dev/null. OK, that idea I can live with - as long as we document that fact. > That's one > solution... a more general solution might be to skip locking if > permissions won't allow the lock file to be created. Gaak. No. In *general*, failure to create the lock file should be a *fatal* error, because silently continuing would allow the collision of two processes over whatever resource is being locked.
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