From: Paul Franklin <paul@cs.washington.edu>
Subject: Re: TODO idea:
Date: 25 Jun 1997 13:26:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <r9qpvtaa0oi.fsf@edison.cs.washington.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: anonymous@sunsite.auc.dk's message of 25 Jun 1997 08:34:10 -0000
>>>>> Arne Elofsson <arne@rune.biokemi.su.se> writes:
> I think the best solution is the one I use, and I would really like
> more people to use it. I use mh for mailsplitting, and creation of
> active and .overview files. Then I use nnml for reading mails.
Hmm. But nnml doesn't do any locking of active or .overview files, so
you're probably introucing a really nasty race condition by doing
this.
This idea gests proposed reasonably frequently, but has never gained
widespread acceptance because of the potential for bad things
happening.
--Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1997-06-25 20:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1997-06-06 7:00 Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-06 9:29 ` Lars Balker Rasmussen
1997-06-06 11:28 ` Kai Grossjohann
1997-06-06 17:36 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-09 8:39 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-10 2:58 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-06-10 6:58 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-11 3:49 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-06-11 6:49 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-16 18:10 ` Paul Graham
1997-06-17 15:34 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-18 6:58 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-18 12:09 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-18 14:55 ` David S. Goldberg
1997-06-19 8:47 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-19 17:37 ` Paul Franklin
1997-06-20 3:58 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1997-06-19 18:32 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-06-20 9:12 ` Wesley Hardaker
1997-06-20 18:16 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-06-20 21:32 ` Richard Coleman
1997-06-20 22:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-21 0:08 ` Richard Coleman
1997-06-21 20:29 ` Scott Blachowicz
1997-06-22 13:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-22 22:24 ` Richard Coleman
1997-06-24 21:11 ` Jason R Mastaler
1997-06-22 23:35 ` Darren/Torin/Who Ever...
1997-06-17 15:33 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1997-06-25 8:34 ` anonymous
1997-06-25 20:26 ` Paul Franklin [this message]
1997-06-26 9:38 ` anonymous
[not found] ` <1997 <19970626093841.17915.qmail@sunsite.auc.dk>
1997-06-26 19:27 ` Paul Graham
1997-06-26 20:40 ` Paul Franklin
1997-06-10 17:52 ` Paul Franklin
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