rawhide report: 20040109 changes

[Florian La Roche]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:43:03PM -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Alexandre Oliva (aoliva at redhat.com) said: 
> > 0 select INBOX
> > imap(aoliva): Error: open(/var/spool/mail/aoliva.lock) failed: Permission deniedimap(aoliva): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/aoliva: Permission denied
> > imap(aoliva): Error: open(/var/spool/mail/aoliva.lock) failed: Permission deniedimap(aoliva): Error: file_lock_dotlock() failed with mbox file /var/spool/mail/aoliva: Permission denied
> > 0 NO Internal error [2004-01-12 17:06:26]
> > 
> > However, the regression may actually be a good thing.  To wit:
> 
> File a bug report. It should Not be dotlocking.

I think dotlocking adds a good additional locking and at least procmail
has always done so, too:

[laroche at dudweiler laroche]$ procmail -v
procmail v3.22 2001/09/10
Locking strategies:     dotlocking, fcntl()

greetings,

Florian La Roche