On Thu, 15 May 1997 18:11:15 -0500, Philip Guenther
<guenther(_at_)gac(_dot_)edu> said:
procmail can *always* do dot-locking, so don't worry about or try to
disable it.
Beware, though, that if you've got a mode 775 group mail mail spool (which
I presume Solaris, being a SVR4, does) dot locking won't work with pre7 or
pre6 and maybe other (I don't know when the bug was introduced) without a
patch. Here's the one from Stephen.
Index: locking.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/lib/cvs/procmail/src/locking.c,v
retrieving revision 1.47
diff -u -r1.47 locking.c
--- locking.c 1997/04/03 01:58:44 1.47
+++ locking.c 1997/04/28 10:42:43
@@ -29,14 +29,14 @@
return;
if(!strcmp(name,defdeflock)) /* is it the system mailbox lockfile? */
{ locktype=doCHECK|doLOCK;
+ if(sgid!=gid&&setegid(sgid)) /* try and get some extra permissions */
#ifndef fdlock
- if(!accspooldir)
- { yell("Bypassed locking",name);
- return;
- }
- else
+ if(!accspooldir)
+ { yell("Bypassed locking",name);
+ return;
+ }
#endif
- setegid(sgid); /* try and get some extra permissions */
+ ;
}
name=tstrdup(name); /* allocate now, so we won't hang on memory *and* lock */
for(lcking|=lck_LOCKFILE;;)
--
Roderick Schertler
roderick(_at_)argon(_dot_)org