Re: [Evolution] Evo 0.8 & NFS

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

"Downgrading" lock types is a bad idea I think. If fcntl doesn't work,
then you don't know if it's because the system doesn't support it or if
there's something else wrong...so switching to flock (which is broken on
90% of the systems anyway) is not a good idea.

Having a user-setting isn't exactly a good idea either because the
average user will not know the difference.

This is why it's compile-time meant for the system admin to decide.

Jeff

On 11 Jan 2001 10:07:19 -0500, John Affleck wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 02:50:44PM +0000, James Ogley wrote:
> > Since most people using Linux in an NFS environment are likely to be NFS
> > mounting from a Linux box, might it not make sense to compile with this
> > option by default for the RPMs?
>
>       I'd like to humbly suggest that Evolution does a fall-back to
> flock if fcntl doesn't work, and maybe to no-lock/dot-lock if there
> are problems with that.  I'm assuming there's an advantage to the
> fctnl locks, so they should be used where possible, but it seems that
> having to recompile depending on the type of a user's mail directory
> is a little inconvienient. Even having it as a per-user run-time config
> would be better.
>
>       I realise this is probably not a high-priority item, but maybe
> could it be considered before 1.0 ?
>
>       Thanks,
>
>       John A.
>
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