>Tell your vendor to rebuild the package with fcntl locking. nmh uses dot >locking by default, which is pretty brain dead. Here is the option they >should give configure: > >--with-locking=fcntl > >So the question becomes, is there a reason we shouldn't fix configure to >use fcntl locking by default, and only fall back to dot locking if fcntl >locking isn't available?
It does boggle the mind why /dev/null is being locked _at all_. I did try to track this down once, and it was a maze of functions ... I was running low on time and I just switched to fcntl locking, but seriously this probably should be fixed. --Ken _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list Nmh-workers@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
