May 1, 2000
6:49 p.m.
"RJ" == Ron Jarrell <jarrell@vt.edu> writes:
RJ> 1) This makes mailman very sensitive to time synchonization
RJ> problems in environments with NFS mounted directories
RJ> (possibly more a problem with mailman than many others since
RJ> it's so easy to just run it out of ~mailman as a regular
RJ> user).True, but I think in the face of lock breakage, you're going to be sensitive to time sync anyway. I've also added a CLOCK_SLOP variable which can be tweaked if necessary.
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.
RJ> Both can probably be addressed by adding warnings to the
RJ> readme and/or install files.Good points both; I'll do this. Thanks. -Barry