Frank Cusack wrote:
On September 13, 2006 12:39:39 AM +0200 Magnus Stenman stone@hkust.se wrote:
Ian Mortimer wrote:
On Tue, 2006-09-12 at 19:40 +0200, Magnus Stenman wrote:
I usually just delete the extra line in vi.
That sounds slightly dangerous. Do you lock the Inbox while your doing that?
no. vi will warn me if the file has changed since reading it, that is good enough for me
So "almost no protection" against corruption is "good enough" for you, then?
yes.
Since this happens on low volume mailboxes maybe every 2 months I don't worry about that tiny window.
If I feel paranoid, I run a tail|grep on the maillog and make sure no mail is being recieved for that user.
Assuming no NFS (in which case the problem is worse), the vim warning is only useful if mail is delivered while you edit. You can still be writing out the file and then have a new mail be delivered before your vim write is complete. (or if vim uses a tmp file and does an atomic rename, you can lose mail instead of corrupting the mbox)
-frank