* Bart Schaefer <barton(_dot_)schaefer(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com> wrote:
|
| MH directories can be vulnerable because there is a single "sequences"
| file that keeps track of some meta-data, including which number to use
| for the next file created (if there are 87 messages in the directory
| and you delete number 87, the next one is still supposed to be created
| as number 88). However, IIRC procmail doesn't bother to examine or
| maintain the sequences file, so you're unlikely to get any
| *additional* brokenness from lack of locking.
that's what I'm fearing...
But then the question raises : how can procmail handle this kind of
situation without locking ?
--
Eco
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