Valdis wrote: > On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 15:41:11 EST, David Levine said: > > > What if the user doesn't want to/can't use fcntl, and that's what > > /bin/mail uses, and the user removes it in favor of something else? > > If /bin/mail uses fcnt, but the user *can't* use fcntl, both the user or > the system should be taken out back and shot. A system where the > system-provided mail facility uses a locking scheme not available to the > user is just too broken to live.
I agree. I never said that any of the locking schemes isn't available to the user. To try to save you a response (and I should know better by now): "can't use fcntl" could be for other reasons than "not available". I'm all for choosing more sensible defaults. David _______________________________________________ Nmh-workers mailing list [email protected] https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/nmh-workers
