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From: "Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: fetchmail as cronjob + gnus -- safe?
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:42:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87d5oce4eb.fsf@MagnumOpus.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fyt8skhg.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de>

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On 17 Aug 2005, bronger@physik.rwth-aachen.de wrote:

> Theoretically it is possible that both actions happen at the same
> time.  Is this dangerous, or is some locking mechanism used to do it
> safely?

I have been doing this for many years with no problems at all. After all
this is what fetchmail was designed for.

Charles

-- 
"Linux: the operating system with a CLUE...
Command Line User Environment".
(seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)

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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-17 19:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-17 14:31 Torsten Bronger
2005-08-17 19:42 ` Charles philip Chan [this message]
2005-08-17 20:21   ` Torsten Bronger
2005-08-18  2:19     ` Johan Bockgård

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