Re: policy Q's WRT imapd
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <jaldhar@braincells.com> writes:
> 1. Is the use of liblockfile mandatory or just A Good Thing? (or a bad
> thing?)
>
> imapd has its own locking scheme which it shares with pine but no other
> apps afaik. Is that ok or shall I patch it to use liblockfile?
I'm in favor of always using liblockfile. That way, if something
changes, and we need to modify our locking strategy, only one package
needs to be updated to fix all the programs handling mailboxes.
Furthermore, with liblockfile, you don't have to wonder if a
particular program got all the weird cases right (NFS being the main
one I can think of).
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Rob Browning <rlb@cs.utexas.edu>
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