locking problems with 2.1.9

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Wed, 06 Nov 2002, John Wade wrote:
> I assume you are using flat seen files.   If so, I ran into this problem on
> 2.0.16 and came up with a workaround which others ported to 2.1.3.   This
> was based on flock, but you might be able to use the same basic
> technique.   see http://servercc.oakton.edu/~jwade/cyrus/

Yeah, Debian has that patch applied (and forward ported to 2.1.9, both fcntl
and flock), files lib/lock*...  It works wonderfully.  I have never received
any reports of seen file lock troubles in the Debian packages.

I believe it is also in the CMU Bugzilla.

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