[Dovecot] mbox locking

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2006-06-27 at 14:46 +0200, Thomas Hummel wrote:
> > > 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 ?

Right. After testing the fcntl lock is dropped always.

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