Axel Thimm (Axel.Thimm@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > > a) Does every MDA and MUA need to do both locking mechanisms or is > > > dotlocking the fallback to fcntl? The latter would be an issue, so > > > it should probably be both for every MDA/MUA. > > > > Short answer is use fcntl or die. > > OK, then we should remove current dotlock functionality from MTA/MDAs? > I'm fine with that, it just needs to be a global and wide known policy > so that MTA1 doesn't dotlock while MDA5 fcntl-locks and both think > they own the mbox. The long-standing policy in Core was to unly use fcntl - it's the one thing that should be supported by all clients, stands a chance of working over NFS, etc. So, explicitly codifying this makes sense. Bill -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
