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Subject: Re: Possible race condition in Majordomo 1.94.1 causing bounces
From: Petter Nilsen <pettern @ thule . no>
Organization: Ultima Thule Software (The THOR Team)
Date: 03 May 97 10:52:13 +0100
To: Dave Wolfe <majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com>
In-reply-to: <199705021341.IAA14412@miaow.risc.sps.mot.com>

In article <199705021341.IAA14412@miaow.risc.sps.mot.com>,
dwolfe@risc.sps.mot.com (Dave Wolfe) wrote:

> moment the MTA tries to access it. If the MTA doesn't check locks, then
> it doesn't matter what MJ does about locking because it'll still be
> accessing the file even when Mj has it locked.

My point was that Mj shouldn't start the MTA if the lock was set, but wait
until it was cleared again.  But it doesn't matter, if it works now, I
certainly won't make an issue out of it.  Thanks again for the patch.

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