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Re: [Nmh-workers] Lock gone mad
From: |
Josh Bressers |
Subject: |
Re: [Nmh-workers] Lock gone mad |
Date: |
Fri, 06 Apr 2007 13:32:37 -0400 |
> I recently installed nmh from a vendor package, on my home system. This
> is SuSE 10.1.
>
> % scan -version
> scan -- nmh-1.1-RC4 [compiled on e52 at Tue May 2 07:43:00 UTC 2006]
>
> Certain commands have long pauses before they do anything. In
> particular, I notice this for "send" and for "whom".
>
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?
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JB