Re: [Nmh-workers] Truncated Email.

[Ralph Corderoy]

Hi Lyndon,

> Is this an instance of fcntl's completely braindead locking behaviour?

Yep.  :-)

> >      This interface follows the completely stupid semantics of
> >      System V and IEEE Std 1003.1-1988 (``POSIX.1'')

To give them some credit, fcntl(3p) here says there were too many
existing brain-damaged implementations around for POSIX.1‐2008 to
deviate.  I guess sometimes they're stuck documenting life.

> This is why I wanted to outlaw the use of fcntl() locking altogether.
> Unfortunately, sometimes even that isn't good enough.  Solaris'
> flock(3) calls fcntl(2) internally.  (I should see if Illumos has
> finally fixed this.)
> 
> You can't make this stuff up.

Dot-locking FTW!  flock(2) starts off sounding sane on Linux these days,
but then you get into the NOTES with all the NFS exceptions, and it
spirals down.  https://manned.org/flock.2

Cheers, Ralph.