Bug#684645: /usr/lib/sm.bin/mail.local: Order of fcntl and dotlock in maillock

2012-10-01 Thread Andreas Beckmann
In case someone wants to tackle this RC bug, the GIT repository I created for working on a fix for bug #681147 may be helpful: git://github.com/anbe42/sendmail.git branches: upstream, master, bug-681147 See also #689379 Andreas -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debia

Bug#684645: /usr/lib/sm.bin/mail.local: Order of fcntl and dotlock in maillock

2012-08-12 Thread paul . szabo
reassign 684645 sendmail-bin 8.14.4-2.1 thanks Hmm... comparing with an strace of /usr/bin/bsd-mailx, shows that mailx uses liblockfile and does: open("/var/mail/psz", O_RDWR) = 3 fcntl64(3, F_SETLKW, {type=F_WRLCK, whence=SEEK_CUR, start=0, len=0}) = 0 link("/var/mail/.lk128035p639", "/