On Thu, 2 Jan 1997, David W. Tamkin wrote:
Procmail usually gets along without locking the logfile. Writes to it are
short (in comparison to what gets written to a folder) and usually a lock
is not needed.
Yikes! Is that really the criteria you use to decide if locking is needed?!
In some places you would be flogged! Is it *possible* for two instances
of a process to open a file for writing at the same time? Then it is
*necessary*
to take measures to prevent this.
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