Mercurial > emacs
changeset 51109:cf8a7f2ef2c3
(MAIL_USE_FLOCK): Make it conditional.
| author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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| date | Tue, 20 May 2003 16:27:57 +0000 |
| parents | db532d1e8b7f |
| children | fca623d011f5 |
| files | src/s/gnu-linux.h |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/src/s/gnu-linux.h Mon May 19 22:26:09 2003 +0000 +++ b/src/s/gnu-linux.h Tue May 20 16:27:57 2003 +0000 @@ -130,8 +130,18 @@ /* On GNU/Linux systems, both methods are used by various mail programs. I assume that most people are using newer mailers that have heard of flock. Change this if you need to. */ +/* Debian contains a patch which says: ``On Debian/GNU/Linux systems, + configure gets the right answers, and that means *NOT* using flock. + Using flock is guaranteed to be the wrong thing. See Debian Policy + for details.'' and then uses `#ifdef DEBIAN'. Unfortunately the + Debian maintainer hasn't provided a clean fix for Emacs. + movemail.c will use `maillock' when MAILDIR, HAVE_LIBMAIL and + HAVE_MAILLOCK_H are defined, so the following appears to be the + correct logic. -- fx */ +#if !(defined (HAVE_LIBMAIL) && defined (HAVE_MAILLOCK_H)) #define MAIL_USE_FLOCK +#endif /* Define CLASH_DETECTION if you want lock files to be written so that Emacs can tell instantly when you try to modify