At 02:49 PM 5/1/00 -0400, bwarsaw@python.org wrote:

    RJ> 2) Setting mtime in the future will probably piss off fsck;
    RJ> which in environments with multiple systadmins, or the mailman
    RJ> person isn't a sysadmin, could be horribly confusing.

Hmm, hadn't though of that. Hopefully, I've made the termination
cases sufficiently robust so that those lock files won't hang around
long enough to get fsck'd.

Unless the machine crashed, which is why you're fscking the file
system :-).