In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Roland Rosenfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Please don't forget that liblockfile 1.01 (didn't see a newer version >yet) does not provide nfs-safe locking, which violates policy chapter >5.6. So I dissuade from using liblockfile for MUAs until this problem >is solved (see Bug #43491).
The locking *is* NFS safe. It is just that after getting the lock, the MUA needs to flush the attribute cache on the mailbox before continuing. The only way to do that is by using flock(): flushing is a side-effect of flock() - gotta love NFS. But that doesn't have anything to do with NFS safe locking. Mike.
