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Bug with dot locking in 1.1? |
Date: |
Wed, 22 Oct 2003 17:46:49 -0400 |
When running under mh-e, I set the MHCONTEXT environment variable to
/dev/null. This prevents my mh-e context from confusing my command line
context.
With 1.1 this breaks things. With the default dot locking, this causes
lkopen_dot() to call lockit() which tries to mkstemp() a file in /dev
which I'm sure fails due to permission problems. This results in
lkopen_dot() sleeping and looping.
I understand why this was done, but I think that the ability to set the
context to /dev/null is a useful and not unknown feature. Any ideas on
how we can insure this continues to work?
Thanks.
Jeff
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