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bug #14738: Reassigned item: nmh 1.1rc3 tries to lock with /dev/null.lock

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Submitted:  Thu 06 Oct 2005 04:41:47 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  None Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  * 5 - Normal Status:  Duplicate
Assigned to:  None Open/Closed:  Closed
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Sun 13 Nov 2005 11:36:59 PM UTC, comment #2: 

This is a duplicate of bug 7917.

Peter Maydell <pm215>
Group administrator
Thu 06 Oct 2005 04:41:47 PM UTC, comment #1: 

This item has been reassigned from the project The nmh Mail Handling System support tracker to your tracker.

The original report is still available at support #103005

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[field #0]                  Item ID: 103005
[field #1]                 Group ID: 2166
[field #2]              Open/Closed: Open
[field #3]                 Severity: 3 - Normal
[field #4]                  Privacy: Public
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[field #7]             Submitted by: None
[field #8]              Assigned to: None
[field #9]             Submitted on: Tue 04/13/04 at 20:02
[field #10]                  Summary: nmh 1.1rc3 tries to lock  with /dev/null.lock
[field #11]      Original Submission: I see a long (30 second) delay while using "w" or "s" from
"comp".  "strace" reveals that "whom" and "post" are trying
to dot-lock "/dev/null", and of course they cannot write
to the /dev directory, nor does it make any sense to try
to lock "/dev/null".

I ve found the spot that does this; I append a patch to
sbr/lock_file.c to prevent the use of a ".lock" file in
that case.  I don t know if it s the best possible patch,
but it seems to work.

Anne Bennett
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Oliver Kiddle <opk>
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Thu 06 Oct 2005 04:41:47 PM UTC, original submission:  

I see a long (30 second) delay while using "w" or "s" from
"comp".  "strace" reveals that "whom" and "post" are trying
to dot-lock "/dev/null", and of course they cannot write
to the /dev directory, nor does it make any sense to try
to lock "/dev/null".

I've found the spot that does this; I append a patch to
sbr/lock_file.c to prevent the use of a ".lock" file in
that case.  I don't know if it's the best possible patch,
but it seems to work.

Anne Bennett

Anonymous

 

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Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
2005-11-13 pm215 Reassign ItemFrom group The nmh Mail Handling System, bugs tracker To group The nmh Mail Handling System, patch tracker
2005-11-13 pm215 StatusNone Duplicate
    Open/ClosedOpen Closed
2005-11-09 bress Dependencies- bugs #14940 is dependent
2005-10-06 opk Reassign itemFrom group The nmh Mail Handling System, support tracker To group The nmh Mail Handling System, bugs tracker

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