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Re: rcvstore and .mh_sequences locking

1998-03-10 18:57:29

On Tue, 10 Mar 1998, "RC" == Richard Coleman wrote:

  RC> Currently that's the only way.  But you have to be careful, since
  RC> many MH/nmh commands call other MH/nmh commands (show calls mhn
  RC> -show).  So you can run into deadlock problems.

I've been using mailagent (I'm not sure what it does about locking) and
both exmh and command-line mh and nmh for years, and don't think I've ever
had a sequence file get hosed.  Have I just been getting lucky?  Do most
people have problems with 'em?

John


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