On Mon, 23 Jun 1997, Philip Guenther wrote:
Timothy J Luoma <luomat(_at_)peak(_dot_)org> writes:
NeXTStep uses a program called 'appnmail' that does its own locking, but I
still (being paranoid) want to make sure that it still waits until the
previous job is done....
all I need to do is add the "W" flag, right?
No, the 'W' flag would tell procmail that even if appnmail dies a horrible
death, it should act like it succeeded. Not what you want.
Well, I'm pretty sure that appnmail will tell me (via the log) if it dies
a horrible death (I've yet to see that in 2 years of pretty intense usage)
I'm not so concerned about the end result of appnmail as I don't want
them trying to grab from each other...
I've been using the "W" flag without incident so far...
Since if appnmail screws up, your entire mailbox will be hosed, I would
suggest not bothering. Multiple lockfiles are one of those things you
(almost) never do
Does the 'W' flag use a lockfile of some sort? If so I didn't realize
it....
TjL
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