On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 09:28:20AM +0200, era eriksson wrote:
>> That's probably not what you want actually. What you want is :0 w
>> or :0 W. This will cause procmail to let the program finish before
>> continuing. Placing a lock file probably won't prevent it from
>> runnng another instance of your perl script. Another option is to
>> add some sort of locking inside the script, so one invocation
>> doesn't stomp on another when they both try to write to the same
>> destination file.
If you want concurrent Procmail processes to wait in line for their
turn, a lock is definitely the way to go. But yes, it would probably
Yeah, I realized that after I sent it. Oops. :)
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