Re: [Nmh-workers] Locking. Horrible, horrible, locking ...

[Lyndon Nerenberg]

On 2013-06-30, at 4:30 PM, Ken Hornstein <address@hidden> wrote:

> Given those things I felt the best solution was to make the locking
> run-time selectable.

So how and when do you change this at run time?  I.e., what software is nmh not 
getting along with that requires it to change its locking behaviour.  And how, 
practically, do you change it on the fly? This seems to require wrapper scripts 
that set alternative  MH profiles with different locking settings.  Does anyone 
actually do this?  A concrete example would help everyone understand the 
problem.

And just as we must comply with the locking scheme the system mail spool uses, 
anything that pokes around in ~/Mail/ needs to comply with our choice of 
locking.

This whole runtime adaption business seems like an invented problem.  And 
again, I make the case that no other MUA I've come across needs this to 
function properly.  If there is a counter-example that proves the need, I'm all 
ears and eyes.  But in the absence of one, I don't see the need.