> I thought I'd sent out a note about this before, but I didn't see
> it come by, so perhaps it didn't make it out the first time.
> 
> Procmail can't seem to use flock. (I'm using 3.11pre4, but this is
> true of 3.10 as well.) It's never able to get a lock on the file.
> This is bad, because flock() is the sole locking method of
> /usr/libexec/mail.local, unless the -l flag is specified.
> 
> I'm having a great deal of trouble decoding the code in procmail,
> but I can't see anything terribly unusual about its locking so
> far.
> 
> Has anyone else run into this? Is this a problem with NetBSD or
> with procmail?

Procmail will use flock if you tell it not to use fcntl. Default choice
is OK because fcntl manpage says:

 Note that flock(2) and fcntl(2) locks may be safely used concurrently.


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Zdenek Salvet                                              salvet@ics.muni.cz 
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