valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Apr 2012 08:55:00 -0700, n...@dad.org said:
>
> > Something like
> >
> > -before today -or -after today -or -after yesterday
>
> Those would rock. Extending it to "-before 7daysago" or "-after 1yearago" and
> similar would be even better (I'm often
>Out of interest, what form of locking does nmh use? It looks like hard
>links to ~/mail/inbox/.mh_sequences.lock for one of them. Is it
>consistent in the method used everywhere, or does it mix in lockf,
>flock, fcntl, etc., for other resources?
It's whatever you configure it to be (and essenti
Hi Ken,
> Well, it's just as complicated as it needs to be. The issue is that
> the sequences files and context files get modified a lot, so those
> need to be locked.
Out of interest, what form of locking does nmh use? It looks like hard
links to ~/mail/inbox/.mh_sequences.lock for one of them
>>But then you say (in another message) that you want nmh programs to not
>>deadlock under our hypothetical nmhlock program
>
>If I said something that amounted to that, it's not what I meant. I don't know
>what I might have said that led you to believe that's what I meant. Which is
>not
>to say t
Ken Hornstein writes:
>>Yes, I do. I it to lock EVERYTHING. Maybe you want to get fancy and give
>>mhlock
>>options for partial locking capabilities, but there ought to be a way to lock
>>EVERYTHING. Indeed I would vote for EVERYTHING to be the default. I want to
>>write scripts and be oblivious
