On 26 Jan 1998, Rob Browning wrote: > "Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > 1. Is the use of liblockfile mandatory or just A Good Thing? (or a bad > > thing?)
> > imapd has its own locking scheme which it shares with pine but no other > > apps afaik. Is that ok or shall I patch it to use liblockfile? > I'm in favor of always using liblockfile. That way, if something > changes, and we need to modify our locking strategy, only one package > needs to be updated to fix all the programs handling mailboxes. Yes, but is liblockfile relevant to MTAs and MUAs or also to any program that needs to lock a file? I'm having doubts about whether I can use it locking shared data files in addressbook package, since it seems to geared towards stuff from /var/spool/mail. After all, the only documented function in that library is maillock(3). So does anyone know if it's safe/kosher/policy-compliant to use maillock() for non-mail locking? .....A. P. [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
