On 1999-09-02 13:11:07 -0400, Fairlight wrote:
> Actually, you bring up a good point on file locking...I installed
> under linux from tarball and compiled it --with-flock
> --without-fcntl ...and I can run 2 mutt sessions on the same
> mailbox and have one alter it, and then when you go back to the
> other, it says it's been modified. Something seem incorrect about
> the locking there? kernel 2.0.36.
Not at all. The folder is locked while mutt reads from or writes to
it. And, just as any local mail delivery agent can append messages
to a mail folder while you are reading your messages, another
instance of mutt can modify that folder. Mutt goes to some lengths
to merge the changes from different sessions gracefully, which works
quite well in most cases.
