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Re: POP3d locking


From: Sergey Poznyakoff
Subject: Re: POP3d locking
Date: Tue, 24 Apr 2001 20:56:09 +0300

> So my proposition:
> - lock the mailbox the entire session: i.e the lock
>   is only advisory %.lock not fcntl (F_LCK )
> - Check in the TRANSACTION stage for corruption
>   some program may not respect the lock.
> - update the lock (touchlock) .. touch the file %.lock
> - unlock the mailbox rm %.lock at the end of the session.
> 
> Thoughts?
Sounds very good. Would you mind if I try to implement this?

-Sergey



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