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Re: lockfile on >>!

2000-10-16 16:43:12
"David W. Tamkin" <dattier(_at_)ripco(_dot_)com> writes:
Dallman has a point: not everyone, despite strong advice, uses a non-csh
shell for procmailrc actions with shell metacharacters.  Maybe the implicit
local lockfile name code could deal with >>! by stripping the exclamation
point and adding $LOCKEXT.  Any chance that that would break existing recipes
that append to files whose names begin with exclamation points?  Would it be
necessary to check first whether $SHELL's antepenultimate character is `c'?

I've considered for a while changing procmail to always set SHELL to
/bin/sh and put the user's shell in USER_SHELL or some such variable.
That would seem to solve the underlying problem though it would break
anyone depending on procmail's use of their login shell.


Anyway, this is really a topic for the procmail-dev mailing list, so
I've cross-posted and directed followups there.


Philip Guenther

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