Re: Changes in how keep-temp-drop works

[Randall Gellens]

At 8:14 AM -1000 6/11/01, Clifton Royston wrote:

>   > If so, this is a bug.  The .user.pop file is also used as a
>>  mutual-exclusion lock to prevent more than one POP session at the
>>  same time.
>
>    How does that work together with keeping it permanently around as a
>  zero-length file?

Qpopper locks it with flock() or fcntl().  The presence of the file 
doesn't mean a session is active, because it's possible for a 
Qpopper process to die (especially 2.x) or be killed, which would 
leave the .user.pop file behind in any case.