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Re: procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored

1996-07-10 13:39:00
Zhiliang Hu <hu(_at_)map(_dot_)marc(_dot_)usda(_dot_)gov> writes:

procmail: Extraneous locallockfile ignored

-- What does this log line mean exactly? :-)
-- Any harm?

It means you tried to do something like this:


:0:
* some conditions
{
   # a nested block
}


Local lockfiles don't make sense on nested blocks**, and are ignored.

Any harm?  Possibly.  Are you assuming that some sort of locking is being
done here, cause it isn't.


Philip Guenther


** Actually, you can put a lockfile (whose name you must specify) on a
nested block that has the 'c'ontinue flag.  In which case the parent
procmail locks against multiple processes being inside the block.
However, you almost certainly don't want to/need to do this under
normal circumstances.  If you're not sure what this all means, just
ignore it.

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