Re: [Evolution] mbox locking scheme ?

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Tue, 2002-07-02 at 12:15, Antonio Bemfica wrote:
> I have my mail filtered with procmail and delivered to mbox files located
> at the directory $HOME/incoming-mail/ - I know I can have Evolution
> pick-up mail from spool files, but am a bit concerned with how it will
> interact with the procmail delivery.
>
> How does Evolution lock the spool files? 

yes

> Does it use lockfiles (if so, what is the convention?)? 

it can, depends on how you ./configure'd it.

by default, evolution uses dot-locking and fcntl. dot-locking is where
it creates /path/to/file.lock (I assume that's what you were asking?)

> Does it use kernel locks (with flock and lockf
> under FreeBSD, which is the OS I use)?

it can, depends on how you ./configured it. Well, actually I don't think
we support lockf, just flock. Never even heard of lockf.