Re: Serious locking problem in CURRENT

[Ollivier Robert]

According to David Malone:
> 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?

All the time. "master" is an inetd-like daemon which spawn children according
to master.cf. Everything run by Postfix is a child of "master"...

I see your point and that's likely what happen. You're confirming what I
thought about locking brokeness. That's bad.
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