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Re: Determining a message's size in Procmail

2006-12-12 09:42:52
On Dec 12, 2006, at 4:29 AM, Rado S wrote:

Because I'm not sure that the logfile can't be corrupted by
concurrent writes despite printing just a single line: there is
always a race condition.

Line writes to the logfile are atomic.
I've never seen corruption (and I've seen a lotr of opportunity for it) 
when using the TRAP-based write.
Previously, even with just the abstract, there was corruption.

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