Re: [Nmh-workers] MHCONTEXT buglet - send, post slow with dot_lock

[Paul Fox]

 > > On a Linux system where I just upgraded from nmh-1.0.4 to nmh-1.1RC3,
 > > sending takes a long, long time (circa 30 seconds) from the time you
 > > type "send" at the whatnow prompt to the time you get a command prompt.
 > 
 > Yeah, I've noticed this one too.. :)
 > 
 > > Support item 103005 (link above) includes a patch to sbr/lock_file.c
 > > which simply skips locking if the file is /dev/null.
 > 
 > OK, that idea I can live with - as long as we document that fact.

can someone tell me under what conditions mh would be trying to set
a lock on /dev/null?

paul
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