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Re: Executing external cmds via procmail

2003-05-06 17:14:31
On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 12:47:05AM +0200, Dallman Ross wrote:
Generally, sure.  But since he was cloning a new instance of
procmail and running the saved file as the argument of a program
piped from the next recipe, it does seem like a race condition
could ensue.

I was about to say that's what locks are for, but in this case, the lock
wouldn't stop the second recipe from READING the file...

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Andrew Edelstein        -       http://andrew.pure-chaos.com/resume.txt

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