Re: ipop3d (x2) / pine (x2) / ...

[roessler () GUUG DE (Thomas Roessler)]

On 1999-04-11 16:13:21 +0400, GvS wrote:

>  MC> The locks are 666 for a reason.

> The lock mode MUST be selectable. I can't see almost any reason for
> world-writable locks for me and my systems. If somebody wants to,
> he can set them 0666 by hand. In any case I would require truly
> shared mailboxes, it's enough for me to have the lock mode
> group-writable (0660) and permit access for the specified group.
> And only!

If you really have to use global locks, and can't use well-defined
mechanisms like mail spool dot locking, flock, or fcntl to achieve
what you want to do, just use the mail folder's mode for the lock
file, and open a folder read-only if you can't lock it.

(Not that I find global lock files for a MUA very clever - after
all, there are more mail clients on the net than just Pine.)

tlr
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