The following patch finally did the trick for me. I dont think this is
clean. Linux seems to cache the inode information locally and so the field
statbuf.st_nlink
never reaches the value 2 which is required for the successful completion
of the lock.
--- exim-1.59.orig/src/transports/appendfile.c
+++ exim-1.59/src/transports/appendfile.c
@@ -916,8 +916,10 @@
fstat(hd, &statbuf);
close(hd);
unlink(hitchname);
+/* The following code does not work under Linux statbuf.st_nlink is always 1 !
if (statbuf.st_nlink != 2)
{
+ DEBUG(2) debug_printf("statbuf.st_nlink = %d\n",statbuf.st_nlink);
if (ob->lockfile_timeout > 0 && stat(lockname, &statbuf) == 0
&&
now - statbuf.st_ctime > ob->lockfile_timeout)
{
@@ -925,7 +927,7 @@
unlink(lockname);
}
continue;
- }
+ } */
}
}
--- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ --- +++ ---
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