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Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian.
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Rob Browning |
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Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian. |
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Thu, 20 Feb 2003 13:22:26 -0600 |
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Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> 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.
Given the discussion so far, it seems like we could:
- provide a run-time choice between the flock/lockf and maillock
approaches on systems that support both, along with a
configure-time choice between the liblockfile and libmail
implementations of maillock when relevant.
- provide a run-time choice between flock/lockf, maillock via
libmail, and the liblockfile algorithm. With this approach, we
wouldn't use liblockfile itself (because its maillock would
conflict with libmail's), just the code. Though direct use of the
code definitely has potential maintenance issues, at least as far
as Debian policy is concerned, I believe that just implementing
the algorithm is acceptable. Of course, if we did use the code
directly, we'd need copyright assignments.
- build-time choice only -- similar to what we have now, but perhaps
with an added --with-mail-locking=FOO which would require a
specific approach.
--
Rob Browning
rlb @defaultvalue.org, @linuxdevel.com, and @debian.org
Previously @cs.utexas.edu
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- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian., (continued)
- 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, 2003/02/20
- Re: MAIL_USE_FLOCK and Debian.,
Rob Browning <=
- 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