Re: [BUG] corruption when reopening mailbox
On 2005-04-13 18:40:05 -0700, Bo Adler wrote:
> The bug seems to be in mutt_reopen_mailbox() in mbox.c. That
> function does not actually reopen the mailbox (in version
> 1.5.6i), but only does an fseek() to the beginning of the file.
> It looks like my stdio library is caching the file, so that when
> the mailbox is resynced, it gets all the wrong message offsets.
> This manifests as a problem when two people are editing the same
> mailbox, and we've been able to repeatedly have it destroy the
> entire mailobox.
Two questions here: Is NFS involved, and are you sure that locking
works on your machines?
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