(dead)locking ...

[Jure Pe_ar]

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?

> 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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