[10184] in bugtraq
Re: ipop3d (x2) / pine (x2) / ...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Roessler)
Tue Apr 13 12:44:13 1999
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 22:32:44 +0200
Reply-To: Thomas Roessler <roessler@GUUG.DE>
From: Thomas Roessler <roessler@GUUG.DE>
To: BUGTRAQ@NETSPACE.ORG
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9904111609011.14945-100000@relay.rinet.ru>
On 1999-04-11 16:13:21 +0400, GvS wrote:
> MC> The locks are 666 for a reason.
> The lock mode MUST be selectable. I can't see almost any reason for
> world-writable locks for me and my systems. If somebody wants to,
> he can set them 0666 by hand. In any case I would require truly
> shared mailboxes, it's enough for me to have the lock mode
> group-writable (0660) and permit access for the specified group.
> And only!
If you really have to use global locks, and can't use well-defined
mechanisms like mail spool dot locking, flock, or fcntl to achieve
what you want to do, just use the mail folder's mode for the lock
file, and open a folder read-only if you can't lock it.
(Not that I find global lock files for a MUA very clever - after
all, there are more mail clients on the net than just Pine.)
tlr
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