Re: [Nmh-workers] nmh-1.1-RC4 post /tmp/,LCK.* problem

[Jeffrey C Honig]

address@hidden wrote:

> "Jeffrey C Honig" wrote:
> >When running under mh-e, I set the MHCONTEXT environment variable to
> >/dev/null.  This prevents my mh-e context from confusing my command line
> >context.
> >
> >With 1.1 this breaks things.
> 
> We could allow MHCONTEXT=/dev/null with the following trivial patch.
> Google reveals a script or two that uses this trick. I'm inclined to
> apply it (although it seems a bit ugly) -- objections?

I believe that this is a fix for a symptom, not a problem.

There are (or may be) other files that MH opens in directories that are
not writable.  The locking system needs to deal with this properly.

I can not remember any examples offhand, it has been a couple years
since I switched to lockf locking.  But I can imaging one.

If you have a mail directory (either under ~Mail, or an external
directory) on read-only storage, dot locking will fail.  Things like
this are assumed to be part of the flexibility of nmh and should
continue to work.

Thanks.

Jeff

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