Excerpts from mail: (19-Dec-96) procmail hangs under IRIX 6.2 by Steve Kelley
How does procmail handle file locks if no trailing ":" is specified for a
receipe?
It doesn't do any locking if no lock is specified (either by a trailing ":"
or via the global lockfile specified by the LOCKFILE variable).
What's the current release of procmail?
3.11pre4 is the most recent and totally solid. Since it fixes bugs in 3.10,
it is the version everyone should use.
Has anybody else experienced problems related to procmail on IRIX 6.2?
I use procmail 3.11pre4 with IRIX 6.2 constantly without problems, but my
home directory isn't NFS mounted.
We are trying to understand how these applications are doing file locking.
SGI has pretty much dismissed this as a procmail issue so I'm trying to
understand how locking is being done through procmail.
That's obviously bogus. The example procmail recipe you showed didn't exhibit
any file locking being done by procmail (unless a global lockfile was
specified earlier in the .procmailrc, but I'm sure that's highly unlikely).
Later,
Ed