On 28/11/99 Marek Habersack wrote:
[...] fail. It turns out that Mailman uses hard links in /tmp to files in the /var/lib/mailman/lists/listname/* files and also to lock some other files. The problem is that those files are owned by root.list with mode 664 [...]
it makes hard links in /tmp? this seems like bad design in general as many people have /var and / (and/or /tmp) on separate partitions in which case hard links won't work anyway, patch or not.
Ethan