On Wed, 19 Feb 2003, David Simmons wrote:
> Does Exim provide any sort of read-locking on DB files that
> are queried via the lookup mechanism?
No. The original idea when I implemented this was that updates would be
infrequent (typically alias files), and usually performed by file
renaming.
> I'm wondering about the possibility that Exim might read corrupted
> data from a "pop before smtp" db file that will be frequently
> updated.
Depending on the DB library, that sounds theoretically possible if you
update in place.
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