Rob Browning <rlb@defaultvalue.org> writes: > This is an unfinished patch to handle Dovecot locking, which is useful > if we'd like to support running notmuch directly on a Dovecot Maildir: > > http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir#Locking > > For now, I'm interested in general comments, i.e. is this desirable, is > it a reasonable approach, etc. As you can see, there's no config > handling yet, so -llockfile is added unconditionally. Oh, and as Austin reminded me, I forgot to mention that liblockfile may or may not be appropriate (algorithmically). I'm planning to check and see how Dovecot handles stale files -- lockfile_create() assumes that any file older than five minutes is stale. -- Rob Browning rlb @defaultvalue.org and @debian.org GPG as of 2002-11-03 14DD 432F AE39 534D B592 F9A0 25C8 D377 8C7E 73A4