Karl, thanks for the nice summary!
On 16 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
[snip]
> mis en place:
>
> I know that there are several stand-alone programs for handling
> file-locking, and that the `procmail' package has a fairly good setup
> for that. INND apparently does as well; as does `mgetty-fax'.
>
> `lockfile' --> procmail
> `shlock' --> innd
> `newslock' --> mgetty-fax
>
> There is also: publib-0.26/liw/lockfile/*
>
> ** Publib looks like it might already be the library needing to be
> created that was mentioned earlier... or at least a very good start.
Thanks for pointing that out! I just had a look at "publib" and the
"lockfile.c" is really very concrete. (There is no documentation, though
:-( )
If we choose to go with "publib", someone would have to change the static
lib into a shared one, but this is quite easy.
[snip]
> Q: Who will do the work?
This is really a good question. Don't we have a volunteer here on
debian-devel?
> I am doubtful of my own ability to be of much help... I'd like to see
> what gets done by the programmer though.
If you are intrested in doing it, we don't care if you have experience or
not :-)
I'd really like to have some people start working on this. I don't have
much experience on this but I would try to get a first version
running--unless noone else volunteers.
Someone pointed out that it would be good to maintain this library as a
new "upstream library" (non-debian specific) so that others can use it too
(on other distributions or systems). Of course, we'd need a good upstream
maintainer for that.
So, if someone is intrested to help, please contact me!
Thanks,
Chris
-- Christian Schwarz
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Don't know Perl? [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Visit PGP-fp: 8F 61 EB 6D CF 23 CA D7 34 05 14 5C C8 DC 22 BA
http://www.perl.com http://fatman.mathematik.tu-muenchen.de/~schwarz/
--
TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
