Re: procmail locking problem warning (was Re: procmail on cygwin)

[Greg Matheson <lang@ms.chinmin.edu.tw>]

On Fri, 22 Mar 2002, Jason Tishler wrote:

> I found an issue with my procmail build recipe that causes a mbox file
> locking problem.  

> Occasionally, I would get errors such as the following in my procmail.log
> file:

>     procmail: Error while writing to "/var/spool/mail/jt"
>     procmail: Truncated file to former size

Mmh. I see one such error in my procmail log.

> I have temporarily "fixed" the problem by commented out the "#define
> NOfcntl_lock" in autoconf.h while I wade through the obfuscated procmail
> coding style.

An alternative would be not to look at your mail while
downloading it. 

Is there any reason for not crossposting your message to a
procmail list, eg procmail-dev@procmail.org or
procmail@lists.RWTH-Aachen.DE? The number of people on both
procmail and cygwin lists must be very small, but the procmail
developers (ie Philip Guenther) should be made aware of the
autoconf problem.

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