Re: [Nmh-workers] Lock gone mad

[Ken Hornstein]

>Tell your vendor to rebuild the package with fcntl locking.  nmh uses dot
>locking by default, which is pretty brain dead.  Here is the option they
>should give configure:
>
>--with-locking=fcntl
>
>So the question becomes, is there a reason we shouldn't fix configure to
>use fcntl locking by default, and only fall back to dot locking if fcntl
>locking isn't available?

It does boggle the mind why /dev/null is being locked _at all_.  I did
try to track this down once, and it was a maze of functions ... I was
running low on time and I just switched to fcntl locking, but seriously
this probably should be fixed.

--Ken