Suppose I have a recipe of the form
:0HBiw:$SGHOMEU/eeyore.lock
* ? $SGHOMEX/eeyore.pl
/dev/null
where eeyore.pl is a program which has lots of side effects and which
must run single-threaded, so I want eeyore.lock to be active during
the testing part of the recipe. I have three questions.
1. Does the lock take effect only during the action line of the
recipe, or is it active during the testing parts as well?
2. So that I can rely on the stability of the answer to question 1,
does that answer appear in the documentation somewhere?
3. Has the answer to question 1 changed in recent versions of
procmail?
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