On Mon, 1 May 2000 13:43:04 -0400 (EDT) Barry Warsaw <bwarsaw@python.org> wrote:
The one questionable aspect of the new LockFile.py is that it uses the mtime of the file as the lock's lifetime. This works great for avoiding race conditions but means that Mailman is setting mtime's of the files to some time in the future. Is anybody aware of OSes where this will be a problem? Linux and Solaris both seem to stay happy.
Aside: Tripwire, Aide, and other filesystem based attack sensors will tend to have fits over this. Further, depending on how you reply on them and their magnitude, interaction with time daemons ala NTP could cause unexpected results.
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