Re: another silly question
On 2005-04-26 15:56:17 -0400, Derek Martin wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 10:45:23AM +0200, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> > The point behind having the external dotlock helper is to make sure
> > that we can do the dotlocking with the necessary privileges.
>
> I think there's no need for dotlocking at all... FCNTL should
> suffice. I'm on Linux, accessing the files via AFS. I never use more
> than one session at a time...
And on one of my accounts, Mutt wants dotlocking, even though
I'm using either IMAP or maildir (which doesn't need any locking
mechanism).
> I tried this too. Whenever I start mutt, I get an error message:
>
> fcntl: Invalid argument (errno = 22)
I got this too in the past (when I was using the mbox format).
This was due to a recurrent problem with the NFS server.
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