Excerpts from mail: 20-Nov-01 Re: [OpenAFS] mail spool on.. Patrick [EMAIL PROTECTED] (1724*)
> Too bad you did not take one more step; you could have invented > maildirs and avoided the need for any locks at all. > See http://cr.yp.to/proto/maildir.html, but my quick summary is as > follows: > A maildir is a directory hierarchy that looks like this: > maildir > maildir/tmp > maildir/new > To deliver a message, the MTA writes it as a new file under tmp, syncs > it, and renames it to put it under new. Clients look for messages in > new, not tmp, so they never see any message until it has been fully > written. This obviates the need for locks. Not a bad idea. But our solution, with locks, also prevents collisions between multiple simultaneous mail deliveries, as well as the occasional multiple simultaneous mail readers, not just single-threaded mail delivery vs. single-threaded mail reading. Craig _______________________________________________ OpenAFS-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.openafs.org/mailman/listinfo/openafs-info
