This has been discussed on tmda-users in the past, however, the outcome of those past discussions was the reminder that for an individual user those file may be getting accessed simultaneously anyway due to multiple emails arriving and being processed in parallel, so weather it's one person getting hit with a load of new mail (including confirmations) or several users sharing the same list file it should work fine.
The only caveat is with manually editing a list file which can potentially cause problems, though I believe those problems are limited to the loss of any confirmed addresses that were appended to the file after you opened it for editing but before you saved your changes. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Hoffman Sent: Wednesday, March 16, 2005 7:20 AM To: Michael; [email protected] Subject: Re: Shared confirmed file? --- Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But the problem is that I am concerned about multiple processes > writing to > the shared 'confirmed' file .... I'm not sure that is a problem. For one thing the only thing that is taking place when the file is written is a new address is appended to the end of the file. That can't take more than a few CPU cycles. The chances of two processes hitting it at the exact same time is going to be rare. Not to mention that if the entire file is not being re-written, then it's simply the same thing as doing: echo "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" >> confirmed.list And that again only takes milliseconds to complete. I don't think that is something that would present a problem. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site! http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([email protected]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users _____________________________________________ tmda-users mailing list ([email protected]) http://tmda.net/lists/listinfo/tmda-users
