Re: Serious locking problem in CURRENT

[David Malone]

On Sun, Nov 07, 1999 at 02:01:02AM +0100, Ollivier Robert wrote:

> Right but in Postfix case this is not the case. The "master" process run to
> check whether Postfix is running or not is definitely NOT a child of the real
> "master" process.

But if the real master process forks and then it's child closes the fd
which the lock was on, then the master process will have lost it's lock.
Is this likely? Does the real master fork children to do stuff?

        David.


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