[Dovecot] mbox locking

[Thomas Hummel]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 03:19:23PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> The idea is to override dotlock files that have been left around by
> proceses 

I see. 

> > So don't we risk to end up in a situation where the dotlock is ours
> > but the mailbox is still fcntl-locked by another process ?
> 
> Actually not with Dovecot. When Dovecot is about to override the stale
> dotlock, it first tries to do the fcntl locking. If it succeeds, then
> the dotlock is overridden

And then, I guess it fcntl the mbox again (in the case of an "dotlock
fcntl" order), otherwise it would break the order specified, right ?

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