pmaydell@chiark.greenend.org.uk wrote:
"Jeffrey C Honig" wrote:
When running under mh-e, I set the MHCONTEXT environment variable to
/dev/null. This prevents my mh-e context from confusing my command line
context.
With 1.1 this breaks things.
We could allow MHCONTEXT=/dev/null with the following trivial patch.
Google reveals a script or two that uses this trick. I'm inclined to
apply it (although it seems a bit ugly) -- objections?
I believe that this is a fix for a symptom, not a problem.
There are (or may be) other files that MH opens in directories that are
not writable. The locking system needs to deal with this properly.
I can not remember any examples offhand, it has been a couple years
since I switched to lockf locking. But I can imaging one.
If you have a mail directory (either under ~Mail, or an external
directory) on read-only storage, dot locking will fail. Things like
this are assumed to be part of the flexibility of nmh and should
continue to work.
Thanks.
Jeff
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