On Wed, 30 Apr 2014 10:06:12 -0600 Charles Cazabon <search-web-for-addr...@pyropus.ca> wrote:
> Celejar <cele...@gmail.com> wrote: ... > > The Debian maintainer wonders: > > > > > Do you know why getmail has change locking method? If there's good > > > reasons > > > maybe Sylpheed upstream can be convinced of changing this too. > > getmail added a configuration option for locking, and changed the default from > flock() to fcntl-type lockf(), in January 2007, with the release of getmail > v.4.7.0. At that time, I looked around and it seemed that fcntl locking was > the more common choice on Unix, but it was by no means universal. > > Sorry, I don't recall anything more specifically than that, but it was more > than seven years ago. > > Charles Celejar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
