From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5551
Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail
From: "Charles philip Chan" <cpchan@sympatico.ca>
Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.user
Subject: Re: fetchmail as cronjob + gnus -- safe?
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:42:52 -0400
Organization: Bell Sympatico
Message-ID: <87d5oce4eb.fsf@MagnumOpus.local>
References: <87fyt8skhg.fsf@wilson.rwth-aachen.de>
NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-=";
	micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"
X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1138671244 27859 80.91.229.2 (31 Jan 2006 01:34:04 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org
NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 01:34:04 +0000 (UTC)
Original-X-From: nobody Tue Jan 17 17:35:28 2006
Original-Path: quimby.gnus.org!newsfeed.gazeta.pl!newsfeed.pionier.net.pl!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!nx01.iad01.newshosting.com!newshosting.com!novia!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.gnus
X-Face: G;Z,`sm>)4t4LB/GUrgH$W`!AmfHMj,LG)Z}X0ax@s9:0>0)B&@vcm{v-le)wng)?|o]D<V6&ay<F=H{M5?$T%p!dPdJeF,au\E@TA"v22K!Zl\\mzpU4]6$ZnAI3_L)h;fpd}mn2py/7gv^|*85-D_f:07cT>\Z}0:6X
Original-Sender: cpchan@sympatico.ca
User-Agent: Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)
Cancel-Lock: sha1:w80+R+DDowPY5CnhZ6sA2rEs8PE=
Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 65.95.119.162
Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca
Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1124307651 65.95.119.162 (Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:40:51 EDT)
Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 15:40:51 EDT
Original-Xref: bridgekeeper.physik.uni-ulm.de gnus-emacs-gnus:5693
Original-Lines: 31
X-Gnus-Article-Number: 5693   Tue Jan 17 17:35:28 2006
Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.user:5551
Archived-At: <http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.user/5551>

--=-=-=
Content-Type: text/plain
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

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

=2D-=20
"Linux: the operating system with a CLUE...
Command Line User Environment".
(seen in a posting in comp.software.testing)

--=-=-=
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQBDA5ND3epPyyKbwPYRAnL0AJ9OxwuQC2V0idXg5/uxjYattd6F7wCgoY37
8HsO24J+SxEUSCtdtJNMypU=
=K/O5
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
--=-=-=--