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- Path: sparky!uunet!nih-csl!weisen
- From: weisen@alw.nih.gov (Neil Weisenfeld)
- Subject: 2.4PL20 filter locking problem w/OW Mailtool
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.154258.17904@alw.nih.gov>
- Sender: postman@alw.nih.gov (AMDS Postmaster)
- Organization: National Inst. of Health, DCRT, CSL
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 15:42:58 GMT
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-
- Since I'm looking for a good X based mailer to use in conjunction with elm
- (for those days that you just *want* to point and click), I decided to try
- the OpenWindows 3.0 Mailtool.
-
- Anyway, here's the problem: while in the mailtool I sent a message to
- myself. Filter barfed with the following:
-
- filter (weisen): Couldn't create lockfile ******
- filter (weisen): Can't open mailbox /usr/spool/mail/weisen!
- filter (weisen): Using /afs/alw.nih.gov/dcrt/weisen/EMERGENCY_MBOX as
- emergency mailbox
-
- where the ****** is a bunch of international characters. Now the fact that
- it didn't report the name of the lockfile seems to be a bug in the filter
- code in actions.c (it uses this array called lockfile but doesn't seem to
- place anything in it -- lock() uses a different pointer called lockfile;
- maybe I missed something there).
-
- Disregarding the fact that the error message is hosed, does anyone know what
- the locking conflict between the OW Mailtool and Elm is?
-
-
- Thanks,
- Neil
-
-
- here's some diagnostic bugaboo:
-
- /afs/alw.nih.gov/dcrt/weisen/.sun4/bin/filter:
- $Id: actions.c,v 5.3 1992/12/24 19:22:05 syd Exp $
- $Id: buffer.c,v 5.1 1992/10/03 22:18:09 syd Exp $
- $Id: filter.c,v 5.3 1992/11/15 01:40:43 syd Exp $
- $Id: lock.c,v 5.5 1992/12/07 03:49:49 syd Exp $
- $Id: parse.c,v 5.6 1992/12/11 01:45:04 syd Exp $
- $Id: rules.c,v 5.5 1992/12/11 01:45:04 syd Exp $
- $Id: summarize.c,v 5.6 1992/12/11 01:45:04 syd Exp $
- $Id: utils.c,v 5.2 1992/11/15 01:40:43 syd Exp $
- $Id: mk_lockname.c,v 5.1 1992/10/03 22:41:36 syd Exp $
- $Id: istrcmp.c,v 5.1 1992/10/03 22:41:36 syd Exp $
-
- and from elm -v:
-
- Following mail spool locking protocols will be used:
- USE_DOTLOCK_LOCKING (.lock) USE_FLOCK_LOCKING USE_FCNTL_LOCKING
-
-
- --
- Neil I. Weisenfeld National Institutes of Health
- Computer Engineer Building 12A, Room 2033
- weisen@alw.nih.gov Bethesda, MD 20892
- uunet!nih-csl!weisen phone: (301) 402-2788
-