On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Piercarlo Grandi wrote:
> I have appended a patch file for Exim 0.54; it contains four
> enhancements:
Thanks, Piercarlo. As you will know, I have just released 0.55 and am
about to go on holiday for 2 weeks. When I get back I'll work through
your patches in detail.
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Neal Becker wrote:
> I don't know if this is correct, especially the comment about the
> "latest Linux systems". I am 99% sure that Debian-Linux has patched
> db to use fcntl. I have written to the db maintainer about this. I
> think we have to support both flock and fcntl for now, but I suspect
> that fcntl should be the default.
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Nigel Metheringham wrote:
> Give flock a decent burial - dig deep and pile the crap high over it!
>
> fcntl is the Linux locking mechanism of choice. Flock is emulated
> (badly) by libc.
On Wed, 7 Aug 1996, Neal Becker wrote:
> I think we need to support both for now.
I am hearing conflicting opinions about flock, and it seems to be only
in connection with Linux with one particular set of DBM functions.
Consequently I am not very keen to complicate Exim by supporting it.
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