Re: [Evolution] Movemail, why?

[NotZed <notzed helixcode com>]

Yes but locking isn't the only prob lem, with some systems you
need to do the locking as root, or setuid a particular user.
Mail systems generally use .locks anyway.  Its the setuid/setgid
locking/maildrop access that is the bigger problem, but still,
its not that  big if you just move your mail to another database ...

>  I am not an expert at this. The only I worried about
> file locking, I discovered under python that there was
> a posix way of doing this. Now all unix's and even
> windows nt are posix compliant.
>
>  Python always provide a layer to make things
> portable. Anyway, as far as I know the module is
> called fcntl and is an interface to UNIX fcntl and
> ioctl routines.
>  The locking is done via FCNTL.F_SETLK/FCNTL.F_SETLKW.
>
>  That is the most I could get. You'd have to look at
> code to see how they make this portable. 
>
> --- Giao Nguyen <grail cafebabe org> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 19, 2000 at 03:00:41PM -0700, Hassan
> > Aurag wrote:
> > > --- Giao Nguyen <grail cafebabe org> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Because portable file locking is hard to do.
> > >
> > >  Ok, so how does python do it in a portable
> > fashion?
> >
> > Erm. I didn't say it was impossible. I said it was
> > "hard to do". Which
> > file locking mechanism do you suggest we use for
> > mail? I'm largely
> > unfamiliar with Python so I have no idea how they do
> > it in a portable
> > fashion.
> >
> > Giao
> >
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