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Subject: RE: maildir handling (was Re: Need for a general purpose databas
From: Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date: 1999-07-20 6:41:51
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On Sun, 18 Jul 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> On 19-Jul-99 Stefan Taferner wrote:
> > On Thu, 15 Jul 1999, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > [...]
> >> Here's a description of how to write to Maildir from man 5 maildir:
> >>
> >> The tmp directory is used to ensure reliable delivery, as
> >> discussed here.
> >>
> >> A program delivers a mail message in six steps. First, it
> >> chdir()s to the maildir directory. Second, it stat()s the
> >> name tmp/time.pid.host, where time is the number of sec-
> >> onds since the beginning of 1970 GMT, pid is the program's
> >> process ID, and host is the host name.
> >
> > I do not understand what this is for.
> > Can you please enlighten me?
>
> Which bit don't you understand ?
Why the file is created. It seems to be a lock file, but it is only unique
to the one process at the current second. So it will only block multiple
accesses from the same app.
Usually I would expect to lock the whole folder somehow, but this does
not seem to be done ... at least not from the explanation in the manpage.
--Stefan
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