From: devet@adv.win.tue.nl (Arjan de Vet) Subject: SERIOUS Smail v3.1.28.1 locking problems! Date: 1 May 1993 00:24:59 +0200
In article <1993Apr23.022843.1930@rgm2.rgm.com> ray@rgm2.rgm.com (Ray
Mendonsa) writes:
>If I receive two mails in the same uucp batch and uuxqt executes two
>or more "rmail user"'s back to back, a locking problem seems to
>occur.
>
>The two messages get written at the same time, scrambling the two
>messages together, and truncating parts. I'm using Taylor v1.04
>uuxqt and smail v3.1.28.1 #28.6 for rmail . Any tips, fixes, or
>workarounds are most appreciated.
I noticed this behaviour when INN 1.4 mailed (at the same time) 3 checkgroup
messages which were received and processed as three separate mails
(according to the log files) but showed up as ONE mail-message containing
these messages (partially scrambled).
My uuxqt executes rmail commands sequentially so I hadn't seen it earlier.
>BTW, the smail was included in the SLS release as of mid-March.
I compiled smail myself but will try again with some different lock settings.
This is a *serious* problem.
Arjan