sperber(a)informatik.uni-tuebingen.de (Michael Sperber [Mr. Preprocessor]) writes:
Jan> I propose that it should (by default) always use dotlocking
(even
Jan> together with any other method).
I don't believe that's a good idea: Locking would no longer be atomic,
and you can get deadlocks that way.
Not if everybody acquires the locks in the same order. Which is indeed
the case.
Note that for instance mutt uses the combination .lock+fcntl() by
default.
Jan