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Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?
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David Levine |
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Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ? |
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Mon, 18 Feb 2013 21:28:50 -0500 |
> >I removed that notice from the man page after 1.5 went out.
> >However, I shouldn't have. Ken added locking to the context
> >and sequences files nearly a decade ago. That addresses
> >file mangling during write, but not possible interaction with
> >other nmh processes.
>
> I did? When I went back and looked it really looked like that was
> Richard Coleman.
Maybe, I found 82a21b6f3c but it's just the merge.
> But nevertheless ... what interactions are there with
> other nmh processes? Are we talking about possible message overwrites?
No, just this:
> (I can maybe believe that there might be a race condition somewhere with
> some of the new messages not making it on the unseen sequence).
The entire read/update/write progression of the sequences
file isn't protected. So if multiple processes do that
concurrently, only one can win the race.
David
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, (continued)
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Joel Uckelman, 2013/02/16
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Ronald F. Guilmette, 2013/02/17
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Valdis . Kletnieks, 2013/02/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Ken Hornstein, 2013/02/18
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Tethys, 2013/02/19
- Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, Ken Hornstein, 2013/02/19
Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, David Levine, 2013/02/15
Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, David Levine, 2013/02/15
Re: [Nmh-workers] Pasing stdin to "inc -file" ?, David Levine, 2013/02/18
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