Bug#960358: exim4-base: spec.txt, NFS and file locking

2020-05-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-05-14 18:16:43 +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > On 2020-05-14 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > [...] > > Yes, but I don't know what to do. Even though my mail to exim-users > > was accepted [status=sent (250 OK id=1jYqvc-0001jm-6G)], I can't see > > it on

Bug#960358: exim4-base: spec.txt, NFS and file locking

2020-05-14 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-05-14 Vincent Lefevre wrote: [...] > Yes, but I don't know what to do. Even though my mail to exim-users > was accepted [status=sent (250 OK id=1jYqvc-0001jm-6G)], I can't see > it on . No worries, iirc exim-users is moderated for

Bug#960358: exim4-base: spec.txt, NFS and file locking

2020-05-14 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2020-05-14 07:40:17 +0200, Marc Haber wrote: > On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:51:24PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Well, the spec seems to be incorrect. So that's more than a question. > > But let's first see what will be said in the exim-users mailing-list. > > IMO, Debian is not in a

Bug#960358: exim4-base: spec.txt, NFS and file locking

2020-05-14 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, May 13, 2020 at 11:51:24PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Well, the spec seems to be incorrect. So that's more than a question. > But let's first see what will be said in the exim-users mailing-list. IMO, Debian is not in a position to change the upstream docs. That's a thing best done

Bug#960358: exim4-base: spec.txt, NFS and file locking

2020-05-13 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Hi Andreas, > Would you mind taking question upstream (exim-users mailing list)? Done 9 hours ago, but it seems that the mailing-list has some issues. > This does not seem to be a bug report but question that would best be > discussed directly. Well, the spec seems to be incorrect. So that's

Bug#960358: exim4-base: spec.txt, NFS and file locking

2020-05-12 Thread Andreas Metzler
On 2020-05-12 Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Package: exim4-base > Version: 4.93-15 > Severity: normal > In /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz : > > In order to append to an NFS file safely from more than one host, it is > necessary to take out a lock before opening the file, and the lock

Bug#960358: exim4-base: spec.txt, NFS and file locking

2020-05-11 Thread Vincent Lefevre
Package: exim4-base Version: 4.93-15 Severity: normal In /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/spec.txt.gz : In order to append to an NFS file safely from more than one host, it is necessary to take out a lock before opening the file, and the lock file achieves this. Otherwise, even with fcntl()