On Feb 10, 2015, at 9:46 PM, Ken Hornstein <kenh@pobox.com> wrote:
Thanks, yeah, that is wrong. Me (or someone else) will apply this fix, and the others. I don't think many people use local spool files combined with dot locking, so this code path doesn't get much love.
But I have to ask why someone would want to run things this way. BSD systems - by definition - use flock() in /var/mail. If you run MH with dot locking for /var/mail, you're eventually going to lose mail, since the MDA will still use flock(), even if you don't. Not to mention other tools in ports that will be assuming flock() for /var/mail. This is why the incoming mail spool gets its own locking treatment, distinct from everything else. I would prefer to see a much stronger use case made for this before accepting it into the code base.
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