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Re: local lockfile colon in a variable

2002-04-09 13:49:19
On  9 Apr, David W. Tamkin wrote:
|| I can't think of a way to test this on my own ...
| 
| Yes, I can.  A verbose logfile will say whether procmail is trying to get a
| lock.  Nevermind.

But I can't nevermind. This stuff is fun. ;-)

$ touch bar
$ cat thisrc
DEFAULT = /dev/null
LOGABSTRACT = no
foo = bar

:0
* ! ? test -d $DEFAULT
{ locallock=: }

LOG="before recipe:
`ls -l $foo*`
"
LOG="during recipe:
"
:0 wi$locallock$foo$LOCKEXT
|ls -l bar* 1>&2

$ procmail ./thisrc </dev/null 
before recipe:
-rw-------   1 deh      users           0 Apr  9 16:32 bar
during recipe:
-rw-------   1 deh      users           0 Apr  9 16:32 bar
-r--------   1 deh      users           1 Apr  9 16:35 bar.lock

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