Mercurial > emacs
changeset 351:5729b1cc3942
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| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
|---|---|
| date | Thu, 25 Jul 1991 05:31:52 +0000 |
| parents | 80a890dbbeb5 |
| children | cd7ffb1fcb45 |
| files | lib-src/movemail.c |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 22 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lib-src/movemail.c Wed Jul 24 23:47:06 1991 +0000 +++ b/lib-src/movemail.c Thu Jul 25 05:31:52 1991 +0000 @@ -144,6 +144,27 @@ #ifndef MAIL_USE_FLOCK /* Use a lock file named /usr/spool/mail/$USER.lock: If it exists, the mail file is locked. */ + /* Note: this locking mechanism is *required* by the mailer + (on systems which use it) to prevent loss of mail. + + On systems that use a lock file, extracting the mail without locking + WILL occasionally cause loss of mail due to timing errors! + + So, if creation of the lock file fails + due to access permission on /usr/spool/mail, + you simply MUST change the permission + and/or make movemail a setgid program + so it can create lock files properly. + + You might also wish to verify that your system is one + which uses lock files for this purpose. Some systems use other methods. + + If your system uses the `flock' system call for mail locking, + define MAIL_USE_FLOCK in config.h or the s-*.h file + and recompile movemail. If the s- file for your system + should define MAIL_USE_FLOCK but does not, send a bug report + to bug-gnu-emacs@prep.ai.mit.edu so we can fix it. */ + lockname = concat (inname, ".lock", ""); strcpy (tempname, inname); p = tempname + strlen (tempname); @@ -160,7 +181,7 @@ /* Give up if cannot do that. */ desc = open (tempname, O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0666); if (desc < 0) - pfatal_with_name (concat ("temporary file \"", tempname, "\"")); + pfatal_with_name ("lock file--see source file etc/movemail.c"); close (desc); tem = link (tempname, lockname);