Paul wrote:
i think locking inside of mh is nec'y,
Of course, it definitely is necessary.
I'm concerned about _outside_ poking around _inside_. Bad
idea. While it's always been easy to do with mh, I don't
see a need to encourage it any further. And I'm willing to
help make it less necessary.
i fought mh locking bugs for years
That's my point :-]
because my .forward went to a perl script that ultimately
ran rcvstore, while cron was capable of running "pick" at
any moment.)
Would a don't-modify-any-internal-nmh-state switch to pick
would have solved that problem? Assuming it was specified,
of course, but compared to locking that's not a disadvantage.
And if the machine crashes while it's executing pick with that
switch, no harm.
David
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