Re: Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-24 Thread Rob Browning
Philip Hands [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: libmailaccess should be something like PAM for mail delivery, providing access to a user's mailbox by use of either Maildir, or dot-locking (via libnfslock say), or whatever other method --- as selected by the user. Sounds good to me. -- Rob -- TO

Re: Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-24 Thread Bill Mitchell
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Philip Hands wrote: [...] I think we need to write two libraries: 1) libnfslock(or whatever) 2) libmailaccess (or whatever) libmailaccess should be something like PAM for mail delivery, providing access to a user's mailbox by use of either

Re: Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-24 Thread Christian Schwarz
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Philip Hands wrote: Hi, I noticed that during this discussion two issues that are not intrinsically related keep on getting tied together: 1) Reliable file locking, including over NFS 2) Reliable mail delivery to users' inboxes I cannot claim to be an expert

Summary: File locking discussion

1997-06-21 Thread Christian Schwarz
Hi folks! I'm glad that so many people are finally involved in our file locking discussion. However, we had lots of discussions about this topic in the past and we have no results, yet. That's why I want to try to bring more structure into the discussion. (Please complain if you don't agree