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Re: locking

2006-10-28 19:29:22
Ruud told Erik,

See `man procmail`:

<quote>
When  delivering  to  directories,  MH folders, or maildir folders, you
don't need to use lockfiles to  prevent  several  concurrently  running
procmail programs from messing up.
</quote>

Years ago someone on this list insisted to me off-list that only 
maildirs were invulnerable to race condition problems and could be used 
safely without lockfiles, that classic procmail directories and MH 
folders could potentially have trouble.  None of his argument made 
sense, but that could be because I didn't understand it all.

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