26 Aug
2004
26 Aug
'04
3:12 p.m.
At 5:16 PM -0400 2004-08-26, J C Lawrence wrote:
I've spent some time mucking about in this area and it is a minefield. Very simply, throwing out all of the messy details, there is only one operation which is atomic under the network filesystems: creat (2).
Which is why Nick Christensen built the Earthlink mail system around this feature. See http://www.jetcafe.org/~npc/doc/mail_arch.html.
But I don't see how we can build all of Mailman around the same feature.-- Brad Knowles, brad@stop.mail-abuse.org
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