Re: [Nmh-workers] MHCONTEXT buglet - send, post slow with dot_lock

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2004 10:21:13 MST, Robert Tarrall said:

> Maybe I'm missing something, but I *think* the general assumption when
> you're locking these files is that you're going to change them and want
> to ensure that someone else doesn't make changes at the same time.  If
> you don't have sufficient permissions to modify the file, locking is
> irrelevant because you're not going to be changing it anyway.

The problem is that it's possible for the *file* to be writeable, but
the directory to *not* be writeable.

[~] mkdir foo-bar
[~] touch foo-bar/baz
[~] chmod 555 foo-bar
[~] touch foo-bar/.baz.lock
touch: cannot touch `foo-bar/.baz.lock': Permission denied
[~] echo quux >| foo-bar/baz
{~]

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