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Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian.
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Richard Stallman |
Subject: |
Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian. |
Date: |
Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:21:07 -0500 |
In addition to the thread-safe, lower-level locking functions like
lockfile_create, liblockfile also provides maillock and touchlock
convenience functions, so if we're on a system that has both libmail
and liblockfile, which do we choose? Unless we were going to do
something like runtime dynamic linking, we'll have to link against one
lib or the other at build time.
This seems to mean that we have to decide at build time. If it has to
be decided at build time, the best thing to do is let configure choose
which library to use.
Is there any reason that movemail has to be one executable? Why not
make movemail into a wrapper around three programs that implement
(each implementing one strategy)?
I have nothing against this in principle, but it is full of pitfalls.
Many things can go wrong, and fixing them would require further
attention. For instance, movemail needs to be able to find the other
executables, and that won't be trivial. (We're talking about
installing movemail in /usr/bin.)
So we should avoid this unless it is absolutely necessary.
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., (continued)
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Alan Shutko, 2003/02/17
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Rob Browning, 2003/02/17
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Rob Browning, 2003/02/18
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Richard Stallman, 2003/02/18
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Rob Browning, 2003/02/18
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Richard Stallman, 2003/02/19
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Rob Browning, 2003/02/19
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., David Masterson, 2003/02/19
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian.,
Richard Stallman <=
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Rob Browning, 2003/02/20
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Richard Stallman, 2003/02/21
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Rob Browning, 2003/02/23
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor], 2003/02/28