(dead)locking ...

[Igor Brezac]

On Fri, 12 Nov 2004, Jure [ISO-8859-2] Pe_ar wrote:

> On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:12:10 -0500 (EST)
> Igor Brezac <igor at ipass.net> wrote:
>
>> Use lsof.
>
> Maybe my question wasnt clear enough. When fuser somefile shows ~20
> processess, how do I figure out which one is the first that caused all
> others to block? Or first two that are fighting for a lock?

Sure.  lsof /path/to/filename
will give you what you want.

>> This problem has been around for awhile (including 2.1).  I run into this
>> issue when mua (ms outlook and pine) saves outgoing messages to another
>> imap folder.  I took a brief look at the code, but nothing jumps out.
>> There is an issue somewhere.
>
> I found it strange that it happened with mailboxes that were very near
> eachother namespace-wise. And that I've never seen it before ...
>
>
>

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Igor
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