From kmail-devel  Mon Jul 21 23:41:04 2003
From: Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2003 23:41:04 +0000
To: kmail-devel
Subject: Re: CIA proposal (was: ClientInterface)
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On Monday 21 July 2003 13:31, Marc Mutz wrote:
> Step 4: Define a protocol by which a given Kmail instance can obtain
> write access to a given folder/index file.
>
> Sketch of the CIA/4 protocol:
>
> KMail instance A wants to obtain write access to folder F from B:
>
> 1. A tries to create folder-lockfile L_F
>    Success: Write own DCOP id into the lock file.
>             A has now (exclusive) write access to F.
> 2. A tries to read a DCOP ID of B from L_F
>    Success: A sends B the message
>             "Please release folder F"
>             Wait a random amount of time, then goto 1.
>    Failure: Wait a random amount of time, then goto 1.
>    Repeated failure: Tell user.

This doesn't work if A and B are running on different machines accessing=20
the same shared ~/Mail directory.

Regards,
Ingo


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