On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 04:14:11PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Why broken? Do you mean that NFS is broken?
*grin* That's a different story.
What I meant is the fact that the use of differnet locking methods
depending on where a file resides brings additional complexity to a
system, and essentially is a desaster waiting to happen when the
locking methods and the selection between them have to be
implemented in multiple programs.
> > a simple delivery agent by Dave de Simmone (I think) is in the
> > contrib/ area of the FTP site. It should even be possible to write
> > one in your favorite shell scripting language, or even in perl.
> I said I prefer not to use an additional program, because of problems
> in the past, but if I can use procmail only, this is OK...
These problems where why I pointed out the interpreted language
variations to you, which should continue to work even when the
system is upgraded. ;-)
