Log file interleaving, was: Determining a message's size in Procmail

* Ruud H.G. van Tol <rvtol(_at_)isolution(_dot_)nl> [12-12-06 17:52]:
> I was talking about a single assignment to LOG. If there are more
>   LOG = "blahblah"
> occurences, then they can get interleaved by other procmail processes.
> That is why I use a $ToLOG that I append to, and only at delivery I do
>    LOG = $ToLOG
Please explain this (in layman terms :^) ).  I frequently observe
mixing data in the $LOGFILE.

LOGFILE="$PMDIR/log"
LOGABSTRACT=all

LOG="$NL++++++++++++++$$+++++++++++++++++$NL"


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